Sentences with phrase «major reform effort»

Nonpartisan thanks to a major reform effort in 1994 Nonpartisan Judicial Elections Act (Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Circuit, Chancery, County)

She now has taken the lead on the latest major reform effort in the city.

For me, having done this for a while, this all brings to mind the advice offered by a thoughtful pundit a few years ago on another major reform effort, No Child Left Behind.

While the research didn't show huge jumps in any particular area of health, care, or access, the overall pattern is consistent with a positive impact from increased health insurance and other reforms, compared with states that didn't embark on major reform efforts.

It is a place where several major reform efforts are going on at once, making it a good prism for viewing school choice.

The paper then reviews major reform efforts in the areas of accountability, the middle school concept, and cooperative learning.

In July, due to major reform efforts in statehouses all over the country, the Wall Street Journal proclaimed 2011 The Year of School Choice.

Not exact matches

It will be a long week in Washington with a lot of moving parts that could overshadow the tax reform effort, which Republicans hope will be the first major legislative win since Trump took office.

But since Hoover died and Watergate was exposed in the early 1970s, major efforts have been made to reform the Bureau and DOJ to keep them from infringing civil liberties and intervening in politics.

NEC Director Gary Cohn, who played a major role in the tax reform effort, and National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster will discuss the trip and answer questions specific to that topic.

The U.S. dollar rose slightly against a basket of major currencies helped by optimism about progress on tax reform legislation and lawmakers» efforts to avert a U.S. government shutdown on Saturday.

Though they have criticized the federal health care reform effort, de Blasio and Cuomo have teamed up to deliver a big taxpayer gift to Aetna, a major health insurer hat has given big money to Democratic political groups.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that he is about to «launch a major effort» to see voting and election reforms passed in Albany by the end of the legislative session, which runs until the middle of June.

Gangi's defining campaign issue is criminal justice reform, and he is highly critical of de Blasio's failure to comprehensively reform NYPD practices, especially so - called broken windows policing, which relies on intensive enforcement of low - level offenses in the effort to prevent major crimes.

Today Mr Hutton acknowledged that all efforts to reform the agency, including a major shake - up in 2000, had failed.

And the governor said he is not concerned at this point about some claims that President Trump's efforts to reform the federal Affordable Care Act will blast a major hole in the state's budget because of a change in federal reimbursement formulas.

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

Krane said the most encouraging example of reform efforts is that of Iran, the first country in the world to replace major subsidies with a universal cash transfer program for households.

In Poland, Buzek was the architect of major reforms of the health care, pensions, and education systems, as well as an effort to decentralize government.

Nationwide, school administrators identify only a tiny fraction of their teachers as ineffective, despite major evaluation - reform efforts by state and federal governments.

Today's advocates for better schools are insurgent groups that challenge the establishment by encouraging parents to engage actively in K - 12 reform efforts, demanding major changes in school choice and teacher policies, as well as school governance.

The improvement effort began more than 20 years ago when state legislators passed a major reform law that put rigorous academic goals and well - designed assessments front and center.

She's worked for some of the most influential ed - reform organizations, and she's currently leading a major effort in one of America's most prominent ed - reform cities.

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

A major new school - reform effort in Maryland ignores the needs of teachers and denigrates their efforts, the head of the state's largest teachers» union charged last week.

Investment in educational hardware and software, while «a major component in educational restructuring and reform initiatives,» has not been matched by coordinated efforts to train teachers to use the equipment effectively, a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board concludes.

Gov. Evan Bayh, who plans to unveil a major education - reform proposal next year, recently hired Don Ernst to direct efforts to plan and win public support for the new program.

A leading national effort to reform science education suffered a major setback last week when the National Science Foundation withdrew its financial support.

At first, it may seem counterintuitive to suggest that a massive, well - intentioned education - reform effort — supported on both sides of the political aisle, by major philanthropic foundations, and by some prominent voices in the civil - rights community — could be anything other than a blessing for American education.

Some of the biggest funders on the scene remain devoted to a reform strategy that has so far failed to yield transformative change, while a range of other funder - backed efforts aren't yet operating at a scale likely to produce major breakthroughs.

Weingarten has launched major efforts to place real education reform high on the nation's and her union's agendas.

In the months immediately following her election, Weingarten launched major efforts to place education reform and innovation high on the nation's agenda.

The Mississippi Senate last week handed a setback to Gov. Ray Mabus's efforts to fund a major new education - reform program in the state without a tax increase.

Absent a major reform bill from a Legislature just weeks from adjourning, Pawlenty said there would be no further effort to secure the funding.

Peterson's union model would include efforts to raise the minimum wage, expand healthcare coverage and voter rights, implement incarceration reform, and stop «unfair hiring practices at a major federal housing project.»

It would be a serious mistake at this point to «harness» any major school reform effort cart to the distributed leadership «horse.»

Over the last half century, three major movements have dominated efforts to reform education in the United States: equity - based reforms, which were a product of the 1960s and 1970s; the school choice movement, which arose in the late 1980s and took hold in the 1990s; and standards - based reform, which came about in the 1990s and the 2000s.

Independent public charter schools remained the norm as the public charter school movement grew from a fledgling reform effort into a major force in public education, now affecting 2.7 million students and families nationwide.

The No Child Left Behind law, the major education reform effort of the last decade, is overlaid by a gloss of civil rights rhetoric, but it has done nothing to address the concentration of black and Latino students in the same schools, and the lack of resources they face.

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

Current Reform Strategies by Pass / Reason for Fail — Ranked by Percent Placing Major Effort

Our policy reform efforts coupled with strategic litigation support led to a major systemic overhaul.

In 2014, Ohio undertook a major education reform effort to transform the way that students in the state receive high school education.

Knowing that along with the Gates Foundation, both the Broad Foundation and the Walton Foundation constitute the «big three» in major philanthropic funding for the corporate education reform effort, I decided to dig just a little more.

Broad has become a major target of teacher unions for his efforts nationwide to reform public schools through charters and an academy that trains executives to run them.

The District has made a good faith effort to implement the 2007 law that placed public schools under mayoral control, but there is no evidence that the change in governance has been a factor in improved standardized test scores, according to the first major independent study of D.C. school reform.

The news story began with «State Board of Education members angrily criticized lawmakers» attempts to scale back a major education reform bill, saying Wednesday that the watered - down bill could stall the effort to fix the state's worst schools.»

Put in place principals specially trained to turn around failing schools and help ensure that major education reform efforts around teacher effectiveness, innovation and common core are carried out effectively

State Board of Education members angrily criticized lawmakers» attempts to scale back a major education reform bill, saying Wednesday that the watered - down bill could stall the effort to fix the state's worst schools.