Sentences with phrase «key reforms designed»

Grant Callen, Clarion Ledger Guest Columnist, January 10, 2016 Over the past four years, our state Legislature has adopted a handful of key reforms designed to strengthen our education system by providing students with new education options and taxpayers with more accountability and transparency.

Callen: Poll shows Mississippians want school choice Grant Callen, Guest Columnist, January 10, 2016 Over the past four years, our state Legislature has adopted a handful of key reforms designed to strengthen our education system by providing students with new education options and taxpayers with more accountability and transparency.

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Under Weaver, the Green Party has already made some key demands, many of them, like proportional representation and campaign finance reform, are designed to keep them politically relevant for years to come.

But public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government, he said Wednesday at a daylong symposium on ethics and government at Albany Law School.

Term limits and outside income bans for lawmakers are silly ideas, according to former LG Richard Ravitch, but public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government.

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a key Medicare payment reform component of the Affordable Care Act, are designed to improve patient experience and quality of care and to reduce health care spending.

And although such an approach is promising, as with any instructional reform strategy designed to bolster at - risk students» skills, the key in implementation will be accommodating differences, not only between linguistic and racial groups but also within them, while maintaining relentless attention to quality.

The measure for this reform is testing — tests designed by the states, keyed to standards of what children ought to know.

Key members of the House education committee are drafting legislation that would fold 11 federal education programs, including major initiatives such as Goals 2000, into a $ 1.4 billion block grant designed to spur reforms.

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

A discussion of the design and administration of the poll, along with an interpretation of the key results, is available in «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Public thinking on testing, opt out, Common Core, unions and more» by Henderson, Peterson and West.

Professional development for science teachers is widely recognized as a key element for successful standards - based systemic reform, yet there is little empirical evidence to justify design decisions

The trip was designed to provide participants with an understanding of the state's overall high school reform strategy, the key players at the state - level involved in its creation and evolution, and an appreciation for the lessons learned as the state has progressed.

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.

Amidst pressure for schools to adopt off - the - shelf reform programs as a way of improving student achievement (Herman, 1999), it is interesting to note that, by and large, the schools in the studies summarized by Taylor, Pressley, and Pearson (2002) did not necessarily view packaged reforms as the key ingredient for improving student achievement (Charles A. Dana Center, 1999; Designs for Change, 1998; Taylor et al., 2000).1 The common denominators seem to be commitment and hard work focused on research - based practices at both the classroom level and the school level.

While Associate Superintendent with the KDE, she was instrumental in the design and implementation of key aspects of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990, a groundbreaking initiative known as KERA.

A Civil Justice Council report has made 45 recommendations designed to increase the uptake of damages - based agreements, a key part of the Jackson reforms but whose use has been limited.

The Immigration Skills Charge (ISC) was one of the key reforms within the Immigration Act 2016, designed to reduce Britain's reliance on migrant workers.

The ValueCash Ecosystem is designed to contribute its Distinct Protocol as a key component of the growing Crypto - Economy and a market driving catalyst to reform the existing status quo of the Commerce, Exchange, Escrow Sector and Blockchain Technology as a whole.