Sentences with phrase «large package of reforms»

A New York deputy mayor, Richard R. Buery Jr., said, however, that there were examples of successful Community Schools around the country, and that they were an important part of a larger package of reforms.

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The May package of reforms provides a simpler measure of the allowable surcharge, which is already in force for large merchants and will take effect for other merchants from September next year.

In addition, the report from the Hedge Clippers says that last year, as part of Cuomo's tax reform package, lawmakers ended the «corporate minimum tax,» which might «result in some very large corporations paying a minuscule amount of tax relative to the volume of business they conduct in New York.»

The senator said yesterday that he does not support a full ban on outside income, which has been floated — though not formally proposed — by the governor, and endorsed by the IDC as part of a larger legislative reform package.

They blasted him for continuing to embrace the broken windows policing method that targets smaller crimes to prevent larger ones as well as his refusal to back the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform bills.

In the two most recent general elections, seeking a consensus package on party funding reform was listed in the manifestos of the (then) three largest parties.

In response, the governor lashed out at Collins, even threatening to name a new property tax after him, and also pledged to sue if the amendment became part of a larger health care reform package in D.C.

Governor Cuomo, who was already planning on pushing for campaign finance reform in the second half of the legislative session, says he now plans a larger «more robust» package that could also look at strengthening the State's Board of Elections investigatory powers, and perhaps ending party cross endorsements in elections.

The vote is just the first step in negotiations with the European Commission and member states over the large package of fisheries reforms.

The recommendations are part of a larger package of proposed reforms included in the final draft of the commission's report, which is scheduled for public release in April.

Last spring, as part of an education - reform package, the South Dakota legislature approved a «family option» measure allowing parents in districts with high - school enrollments of fewer than 45 students the option of sending children to larger schools in neighboring districts.

Schwarzenegger had built consensus in a fractured legislature on such difficult issues as workers» compensation, prison reform, and the largest package of public - works bonds in the nation's history.

With Abbott's election as governor, the proposal headed toward legislation as part of a larger reform package, including an A — F grade for individual school campuses and a new teacher evaluation system.

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.

In 2010 and 2012, Greece agreed with its Eurozone partners and the IMF to accept two large bailout packages conditioned on the fulfilment of far - reaching, austerity - oriented reforms.