Sentences with phrase «key reform areas»

Early childhood experts from across the country will evaluate the state applications according to five key reform areas:

As part of their applications, the states had to demonstrate a continued commitment to the four key reform areas emphasized in the previous Race to the Top competitions — establishing college - and career - ready standards and assessments, building data systems that measure student growth, improving educator effectiveness, and turning around low - performing schools.

Just as the original Race to the Top competition was organized around four assurances, this competition will evaluate state applications according to five key reform areas on a 300 - point scale:

At Tuesday's meeting, Pryor and his staff reported on progress made in key reform areas, including a new teacher evaluation system and a new set of academic goals called the Common Core State Standards.

Not exact matches

«There's a clear risk that the reforms, which already fell short in a number of key areas, will be watered down even further.»

If key areas of reform were implemented in Western Australia then the state's economy could double in size in the next 20 years, according to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA's latest report.

«The difficulty the Republican majority is having addressing a key political priority suggests that lawmakers might ultimately need to scale back their ambitions in other areas as well, such as tax reform.»

In his speech, Yifei emphasized the importance of 2018 for China's long - term economic strategy, and discussed how the central bank's gold and silver department used problem - oriented, market - oriented, and livelihood - oriented «philosophy, style and methods» to promote reform and innovation in «key areas» of «currency bullion» as well as «currency gold and silver business.»

In addition to this general statement, the Party also provides a detailed summary of its policies in key areas, including health care, the economy, democratic reform, education, the environment, and social justice and issues.

Thus a view could be taken that quite simply, no, it is not the greatest challenge in world football, providing the the club decides to reform itself in key areas such as its transfer strategy and buys the right players, so Klopp can build a team that can really challenge for the title and in Europe — which he is capable of doing, with the right assets at his command.

Louise also has a special interest in succession and health law and has worked with key government departments, judicial stakeholders as well as the legal and the medical profession in furthering policy law reform in these areas.

The government in Chisinau, which has proclaimed itself to be «pro-European» has shown no desire to push for necessary reforms in key areas, such as the justice sector.

In the last months, the EU has not only delayed the decision on a 100 million Euro macro-financial assistance programme for Chisinau, but has also decided to cut a budget support programme for justice reforms and to postpone support programs in other four key areas, specifically citing Chisinau's «insufficient commitment» to necessary reforms.

The Government has targeted small business growth as a key area for the new Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

Home secretary John Reid is expected to outline a major overhaul of the criminal justice system next month, but today the prime minister outlined the key areas in which he believed reform was most urgent.

«I think that as parliament gets to grips with the reform treaty that comes out from December, as they look line by line, they will see first that it is good for Britain; second that it is very different from the constitution in absolute essence, and third that the red lines, the key national interest of the United Kingdom in foreign policy and other areas, have been protected.»

The budget is expected to focus on about 10 key areas including infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, job creation, agriculture, entrepreneurship, business growth, creating a Ghana beyond aid, debt management, corruption, public sector reforms among others, and a continuation of the 2017 budget initiatives.

The constitutional reform pledges within in the Programme for Government map onto six key areas: parliamentary reform; electoral reform; Europe; decentralisation; transparency and freedom of information; and, a written constitution.

«These macroeconomic vulnerabilities and the option to tackle those weaknesses hinged on two key areas: mobilise domestic resources to finance social spending and infrastructural development and the ability to embark on reforms that will stimulate private sector for investment in order to accelerate growth and job creation,» Dr Bawumia said.

Greening the Recovery identifies innovation, infrastructure and information as the key areas in which policies are needed to support a green economy, in addition to arguing for environmental fiscal reform and specific policies at UK and EU level to support resource efficiency.

This video has pinpointed three key areas in need of reform to create a legitimate political community for the EU: political engagement, common public identity and the EU's ability to problem solve.

With these strengths and challenges in mind, the OECD sets out an ambitious reform agenda covering three key areas: promoting equity; building capacity for teaching and learning; and policy steering, accountability and school improvement.

A flexible approach The second key priority area for reform relates to allowing a more flexible approach to the design of new school buildings.

She advised the secretary and assistant secretary on the Obama Administration's major education reform initiative, ESEA flexibility, which grants waivers of key provisions of the ESEA in exchange for state - led reforms in the areas of standards and assessments, accountability, and educator evaluations.

We have engaged in key areas of reform, including Innovation schools, enrollment...

KnowledgeWorks believes the federal government should accelerate four key areas of reform to accomplish this: competency based education, turnaround of struggling K - 12 schools, community and collective impact and strengthening the capacity of states to respond to educational challenges.

One of the key areas of interest in this report is the call for leveraging everyday technologies and social networking to support positive reform initiatives.

Key impact areas include: Early Learning, K - 12 Reform, College and Career Readiness, and Family and Community Supports.

Provide considerable knowledge and expertise about education reform, research findings, policies and effective practices in key education reform areas

In addition to exam reforms, South Koreans has redone its curriculum to focus on creativity and character building along with «key competencies» across all subject areas.

Key examples include Cawelti and Protheroe's (2001) study of change in six school districts in four states; Snipes, Dolittle and Herlihy's (2002) case studies of improvement in four urban school systems and states; Massell and Goertz's (2002) investigation of standards - based reform in 23 school districts across eight states; McLaughlin and Talbert's (2002) analysis of three urban or metropolitan area California districts; Togneri and Anderson's (2003) investigation of five high poverty districts (four urban, one rural) from five states; and several single - site case studies of district success (e.g., Hightower, 2002; Snyder, 2002).

ERIN, which is currently in beta mode, provides user - friendly information in five key areas, including: education research, education policy, reform organizations, education technology, and philanthropic support across 13 key topics ranging from issues such as blended learning to teacher evaluations.

I've thought about the issue for a while, and I want to summarize what the key areas for bank reform are, so that you all can know why legislation like the Dodd Bill won't achieve much.

Proceedings: Friday 4 May Opening remarks Welcome by Mr, Sefa Sadık AYTEKIN, Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkey Keynote address by H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Workplan of WEO - 2012 Iraq Energy Outlook by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA Session 1: Energy in Iraq — fuelling Iraq's reconstruction and development Chair: Mr. Simon STOLP, World Bank Introductory interventions: H.E. Martin KOBLER, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq Dr. Usama KARIM, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Iraq Dr. Kamal AL - BASRI, Chairman of the Iraq Institute for Economic Reform Open discussion Session 2: Iraq's electricity sector — short term needs and long - term interests Chair: Mr. Hamish MCNINCH, International Expert Introductory interventions: Dr. Majeed ABDUL - HUSSAIN, Parsons Brinckerhoff Dr. Abdul Qader AHMED, Mass Global Open discussion Special address: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Session 3: Iraq's oil and gas supply — managing the development of a huge resource Chair: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Dr. Ali AL - MASHAT, Advisor, Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Ms. Ruba HUSARI, Managing Director, Iraq Insight Open discussion Session 4: Iraq and international markets — impacts on regional and global balances Chair: H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Introductory interventions: Dr. Mussab AL - DUJAYLI, former Director General, State Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA

Key areas of focus include getting more waste to treatment, and improving treatment effectiveness where needed; improving the testing to target hormonally active substances in waste waters; and agricultural and chemical policy reform.

Another key element the CCC identifies in bringing emissions down at the required rate is reforming the electricity market, an area where the government is expected to publish firm proposals within the next few weeks, following a recent consultation.

This way we could identify the key areas of reform.

The recent Queen's Speech contained a number of key family law reforms for various areas of the law.

This is a stakeholders group, which endeavours to build a consensus on key areas of tenancy law in the agricultural sector that need reform / change.

The key changes over that time include the wide reforms recently enacted in 2015 that involved almost all areas of employment law in Italy, and in particular the protection of employees in case of unfair dismissal and the industrial relations systems.

This is will be particularly important in areas where, for example, tenure reform will be required to achieve key opportunities from carbon markets on Indigenous lands.

The success of the interaction would be totally reliant upon reforming State and Territory heritage protection legislation (92) to achieve minimum standards of State and Territory heritage protection in key areas (93) and ensure that the mechanism for determining the significance of an area or object is both independent and based upon views, laws and customs of Indigenous people.

Key current areas of focus for the Greens in health include: primary health care reform; a tax on sugary drinks; reform of the mental health system; and closing the gap between the health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

The Department held a public consultation from 12 October 2015 to mid-December 2015 on key areas of reform.

In Chapter 3, I focus on several key areas for reform that have attracted attention during the reporting period.

There are six key areas where reform is needed to modernise Australia's human rights system and provide more comprehensive protection of Indigenous human rights.

Key legislators, such as Senator Grassley (R - Iowa) and Congressman Goodlatte (R - Virginia), have been advocating for reforms that would encourage more EB - 5 investment in rural areas.

Thanks to our members» engagement, REALTORS have helped positively influence tax reform in some key areas.

They will share their perspectives on the likely winners in November and the impact of a new president and new Congress on key areas of public policy, such as tax reform, health care, housing, and entitlement programs.

NAHREP's analysis, found at www.nahrep.org/taxreform, includes an outline of the anticipated overall impact of tax reform and pays special attention to how the changes affect Hispanics in four key areas: the standard deduction, tax rate changes, itemized deductions, and special provisions, which will have a significant effect on Puerto Rico.