Sentences with phrase «last federal reform»

«Wherever you stand on the Common Core,» he declared, «it can't be good news for the program that it has begun to so resemble the disastrous process and rollout of this administration's last federal reform, ObamaCare.

Not exact matches

While last week's budget vote cleared the way to begin the tax reform effort, 20 Republicans voted against it, citing issues with the elimination of state and local tax deductions and a massive expansion of the federal deficit.

Last week, the House narrowly approved a Senate version of the 2018 federal budget, clearing the path for the Republican - controlled Senate to pass its tax reform plan later this year.

Last April, facing a Federal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing CanadiaFederal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadiafederal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadian wage.

Tax reform enacted late last year may encourage businesses to invest in more profit - maximizing opportunities which would lead to higher tax receipts (revenue) for the Federal government.

Over the last few months, merchant lobbying groups have stormed Capitol Hill requesting two things: that lawmakers sink federal tax reform by opposing border adjustability and that they support federal price controls on debit interchange fees.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

But CPP / QPP reform ran into a federal brick wall last December, after years of work building a reform consensus among Canada's ten provinces and three territories.

The welfare reform that Congress passed last year ends unlimited federal aid to poor families and limits families to five years on the welfare rolls.

Malpass hit Gillibrand for supporting health care reform and for voting last September in favor of continuing federal funding to one of the conservatives» favorite targets, ACORN, which was something even her mentor, Sen. Chuck Schumer, declined to do.

Last week, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stood before a crowd of New Yorkers gathered at Federal Hall and announced the introduction of a comprehensive reform bill aimed at expanding voting rights in New York.

Speaking on the activities for last year, the CAB said, «In 2017, the Nigerian Army Finance Corps conducted its training in line with the COAS Training Directives while also adopting the current realities of the federal government's financial reforms.

That includes 58 percent support statewide for suing the federal government over the tax reform law signed late last year.

As part of the federal tax reform late last year, Congress approved paying out the credits over a five - year period instead of one year as it has previously been.

A major priority of the governor's — a workaround for the $ 10,000 federal cap on state and local tax deductions in response to congressional tax reform approved late last year — was also include in the agreement.

The announcement comes after many weeks of silence from the Legislature and Gov. Cuomo on ethics reform despite the fact that the leaders of both legislative houses were indicted and convicted on multiple federal counts of corruption last year.

More federal dollars being available to make upgrades to ports and waterways in upstate New York is closer to reality as the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, or WRRDA, passed the House of Representatives last night.

(ABC / AP) President Donald Trump has called for bold action to improve school safety after last month's Parkland shooting, but a set of proposals the White House formally plans to endorse on Monday leaves most authority for reform up to the states and for consideration by a new federal commission...

Democrats demand for reform began with the indictment and subsequent conviction last year of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Rockville Centre Republican, on federal corruption charges that included influencing the award of a $ 12 million county contract to AbTech Industries, a firm that employed his son, Adam.

The Federal Government's Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group report Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers released last month has been hailed a blueprint for «critical and lasting reform» of teacher education.

Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne released the Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group report Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers earlier this month as a blueprint for «critical and lasting reform» of teacher education.

The Federal Government's Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group report Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers released earlier this year was hailed a blueprint for «critical and lasting reform» of teacher education.

Findings from the study of four districts that have undertaken systemic change were presented to the House Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education Subcommittee last week during a hearing on the federal role in systemic reform.

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

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.

As my colleague Mike McShane and I noted last fall in our book Common Core Meets Education Reform, support for Common Core was always a mile wide and an inch deep (and that «mile wide» was greatly aided by federal inducements that encouraged folks to embrace Common Core no matter how lukewarm their enthusiasm).

While the nearly $ 100 billion in federal economic - stimulus aid set aside for education has challenged school districts to turn one - time money into lasting reform, this historic influx of funding has also set the stage for long - term — and not necessarily positive — consequences.

San Diego — Federal Education and Interior department officials warned Indian educators meeting here last week that plans to reform Indian education must be implemented soon while policymakers» interest in the topic remains high.

Senate Republican leaders indicated last week that they may not include provisions in their welfare - reform bill that would convert the federal school - meals and child - nutrition programs into block grants, as its House counterpart would do.

The House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight approved a bill last week that would give local governments more flexibility in using federal dollars.

According to a study released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) last year, federal stimulus funds were being used for «retaining staff and current education programs» rather than advancing reforms.

Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Education is the antithesis of public education and what it represents; it is the antithesis of the bipartisan educational consensus forged by last year's federal education reform.

Two years ago last month, a federal document decrying the mediocrity of American public schools set off a nationwide reform movement that has generated hundreds of new state laws and regulations governing precollegiate education.

On a day when party labels had the other chamber in turmoil, a surprisingly unified House overwhelmingly passed a version of President Bush's education reform plan last week that would for the first time tie federal aid to school performance on annual math and reading tests.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

Trump's recent proposal to eliminate Title II, which was advanced last month by a House Committee on Appropriations, 16 entirely puts at risk these evidence - based reform efforts, which are up to states to implement.17 Advocates must work to minimize cuts to Title II and other federal programs to ensure that states and districts have operating funds and the ability to implement innovative policies and programs with fidelity.

The Problem of the School Inspector Concept: Give the Education Sector credit for offering a new approach to systemic reform with last week's report on how states and the federal government could embrace the school inspection concept based on the model used in Great Britain.

In 2001, No Child Left Behind, the last major federal education reform, mandated yearly testing in the basics of reading and math for children in third through eighth grades.

The eight districts that have formed the nonprofit organization California Office to Reform Education, or CORE, are preparing their own application for a waiver from the penalties of the No Child Left Behind law, undeterred by the federal government's rejection last month of a waiver for California.

The California Office to Reform Education, a group of nine California school districts, including LAUSD, met with federal officials this week to make a last pitch for a No Child Left Behind waiver, which would exempt those districts from meeting certain requirements.

Last year the House passed the Student Success Act, a broad based reform of federal education policy that would maintain the high standards the President called for while giving state and local school districts back the money and authority they need to meet those standards.

And the changes were unpopular, helping generate a backlash against much of the reform playbook for the last few decades - as well as a strong federal role in education policy writ large.

Finally, Race to the Top, last year's federal competition for $ 3.4 billion in grants to support education reform, emphasized improving the training and evaluation of principals as much as it did the training and evaluation of teachers.

Last month, the department released «Supporting School Reform by Leveraging Federal Funds in a Schoolwide Program.»

Rather than applying for and accepting a waiver from some of the more onerous provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in exchange for adopting a series of education reforms as 33 other states have done, Texas submitted a notice of intent to apply for a waiver via a different mechanism on the last day of the most recent application period, Sept. 13, 2012.

Last year, Edwards put her organization's federal tax - exempt status at risk by partnering with Stand for Children, which has become a radical reform group, in failed efforts to upend local school board elections.

The HSUS is gaining ground in the fight against puppy mills, and over the last few years we've secured some notable reforms passed at the federal, state, and local levels that chip away at the menace of puppy mills.

The Federal Government last week released, with little fanfare, the Issues Paper on Health to inform the White Paper on the Reform of the Federation.

Last week the Federal Government announced it would ask the Australian Law Reform Commission to examine the factors leading to the over representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islande... Read more