Sentences with phrase «larger call for reform»

The proposals were part of a larger call for reform of «systemic issues» in criminal justice, human rights and civil justice.

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The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for airport policy reform to align Canada with global best practices, and for our international airports to be factored into transit infrastructure planning by all levels of government.

So large swathes of the government benches were never going to do anything other than rubbish Mann's calls for reform.

Call for gun reform U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) urges «common - sense» weapons bans, including military - style weapons and large ammo clips.

Conference regrets that some of the proposed reforms have never been Liberal Democrat policy, did not feature in our manifesto or in the Coalition agreement, which instead called for an end to large - scale top - down reorganisations.

The organizations — who have successfully worked together on the «Millionaires Tax» and personal income tax reform — are calling on Governor Cuomo and the Legislature to close a series of specific unfair corporate tax loopholes, raising nearly $ 1billion for this year's state budget and leveling the playing field between large out - of - state multinational corporations and New York based small and medium - sized businesses.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of the world's largest philanthropy, last week called on President - elect Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to expand support for education and make the federal government «a dynamic agent of school reform,» even as the nation struggles through grim economic times.

By and large, organizations such as the... American Association of School Administrators and the Council of Chief State School Officers were cool, and in some cases openly hostile, to the calls for education reform.

Over the past 18 months, Stefan Pryor, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. (the large charter school Management Company) and corporate education reform aficionado, has moved out all the professional expertise from the State Department of Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance Districts.

Rather, it was the large - scale reform efforts of the 1980s described previously in this chapter that brought together literacy researchers and curriculum and measurement specialists to effect the types of changes being called for by the research community, policymakers, and the public at large.

On the other hand, the call for these reforms would be a lot more persuasive if it were shown to be a piece of something larger.

Oklahoma's two largest school districts have been closed for nearly two weeks because of a teacher strike and Kentucky educators called in sick to protest pension reform.

Here in Connecticut, the call for «education reform» is based on closing Connecticut's «largest in the nation achievement gap.»

Ten urban districts in California — including the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest — collectively called CORE (California Office to Reform Education) districts, have designed a system to make schools answerable for improving students» social and emotional skills by using data from student, parent, and teacher surveys, among other factors, to assess whether students are improving in these areas.

A PAC called Democrats for Education Reform, whose board is composed largely of hedge fund managers who seem to regard privatizing education through charters schools as a way to turn a small amount of capital into a large amount of capital, are engaged in fierce opposition to the NAACP resolution.

Sadly, the ultimate destination for unbridled so - called market based reform is provision through large units, with the risk which this creates of fusion of the solicitor and barrister branches of the legal profession.