Sentences with phrase «key reform efforts»

For the best development I chose Race to the Top, because the initiative, the key reform effort of the Obama Administration, demonstrated broad political support for charters, merit pay and data - driven education reform.

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Recently, Bloomberg reported that Jamie Dimon was a key player in an industry - wide effort to roll back a provision of the Dodd - Frank financial reform bill that would have required banks to split their derivative trading units from the rest of the bank.

b) We have a do - nothing, fractured Congress that won't address key issues like immigration or tax reform, but has wasted time and taxpayer money 65 + times in a futile effort to repeal Obamacare.

Fink argues that a key reason for the limited payoff to reform efforts was insufficient attention to forcing through corporate governance changes and implementing capital market reforms that could provide alternative channels for funding and competitive pressure on lagging firms in the services sectors to improve their performance.

The reform effort is focusing on two key priorities: Enacting Kavanagh's bill to repealing the «vacancy bonus» landlords receive in increased rents when tenants leave, and reforming the so - called «preferential rent» (AKA «bait - and - switch») provisions that allow landlords to raise rents dramatically after tenants are occupying an apartment.

The attorney recalled the legislator talking with him ahead of a 2012 meeting with Mr. Ross and Mr. Beal at Porter House Restaurant on Columbus Circle — a meeting where the three were to discuss key races and the effort to block Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign finance reform proposals — where Mr. Skelos impressed upon him his son's urgent financial needs.

But pension reform has angered labor unions, a key Democratic constituency when it comes to funding and get - out - the - vote efforts.

At 2 p.m., key elected officials representing all levels of state government join reform advocates in calling on their colleagues to support efforts to end political corruption, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

One key figure in the ongoing efforts to reform the city's Department of Correction amid several high - profile deaths and lawsuits, Correction Officers Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, is not on the panel.

Still, the overwhelming majority of the endorsements, money and door - to - door organizing efforts in the contest have gone to Ms. Niou, whose focus on reform and Asian heritage may help draw out the well - educated professionals and Chinatown residents who make up two key constituencies in the district.

A former teacher, Kira has always believed that teachers are the key to any school reform effort.

Data systems, which are ways of collecting and tracking information about school, student, and teacher performance, are key elements in driving the Obama administration's reform effort.

«Yet somehow, despite hard - fought political battles and reforms, and the daily efforts of system leaders, teachers, parents and students across the nation, we continue to replicate a system in which key indicators of impact and equity are stagnating or going backwards,» they said.

Whereas past reform efforts generally targeted one element, Race to the Top asked states to build comprehensive and coherent education agendas across four key pillars or «assurances.»

California's new school funding system is driving districts in diverse regions of the state to shift their resources to achieve one of the key goals laid out in the sweeping financial reform effort — graduating students so they are ready for college or careers.

Establishing more stringent academic standards has been a key part of school reform efforts that began in the 1980s.

Teacher leaders — current or former classroom teachers who work with other teachers and educators in their schools or districts to help improve instruction — are a key feature of many school reform efforts.

By using these five key strategies, a healthy relationship with the different education reform efforts becomes possible.

Developing a successful relationship between education reform efforts and gifted education is linked to five key strategies:

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

Moreover, with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan making the replication of successful charter schools a key component of his school - reform plan, the District's efforts could well serve as a model for the nation.

ProgressNow, by the way, was one of the key players in ousting school reform - minded Michigan legislator Paul Scott from his statehouse seat earlier this month and has decried Gov. Rick Snyder's efforts to allow for the expansion of charter schools and school choice....»

But preschool, and the idea that achievement gaps can be closed before they start, is key to reform efforts nationwide.

It provides a summary of research and emerging practices in other states and districts designed to provide state lawmakers, legislative staff, State Board of Education members, Department of Education officials, and other key stakeholders information they need to ensure the effectiveness of their reform efforts in Pennsylvania.

Congressman Bishop spent his career as a public school teacher in Box Elder County and Senator Stephenson led the effort to pass Utah's initial charter school legislation and continues to play a key role in Utah's education reform movement.

Check back for much more on the key issues surrounding student data and privacy, the Corporate Education Reform Industry's efforts and the failure of public officials to address this growing problem.

That ambitious plan is key to her broader aim of establishing Success as what the network describes as a «catalyst and national model for education reform efforts,» and a legitimate citywide competitor to the incumbent public school system.

Through Carranza's innovative efforts and leadership, the SFUSD has become a key player with the California Office to Reform Education, which is a seven - district collaborative that combines resources and shares learning to implement practices and programs that improve opportunities for students district - wide.

At the same time, ending the Obama Administration's counterproductive effort to eviscerate No Child is also key to stemming the damage it has caused to reform efforts on the ground.

Martinez's education secretary, Hanna Skandera, has been a key player in New Mexico's aggressive reform efforts.

«The real key is this is different than most of the reform efforts that I've actually been involved with and seen,» said Siart, who is also chairman of ExED, a nonprofit that provides business and support services to charter schools.

«Key among these challenges are the announced nuclear phase - out, reform efforts in electricity and natural gas markets, and overall climate changes policies.»

Empowering families to take leadership roles and contribute to decision - making and program planning is key to ensuring that child welfare system reform efforts will ultimately improve outcomes for the children and families being served.

NAR continues to watch the proposals very carefully and meets regularly with key lawmakers to discuss reform efforts.

NAR is redoubling its efforts to win loan limit increases and other FHA reforms after a key committee failed to include them in legislation working its way through the U.S. Senate.