Sentences with phrase «modeled after these reforms»

The announcement says, «As you know, Georgia's Opportunity School District is modeled after these reforms.

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Twenty - five years after turning her Princeton senior thesis into a national education reform program called Teach for America, Kopp is taking her model global.

Other policies related to federalism include working to remove inter-provincial trade barriers, establishing an Alberta police force to end provincial reliance on the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); reforming the Canadian Senate after the Triple - E model; and recognizing that all Canadians have equal status under the Canadian Constitution.

On changes to the state's campaign finance laws, Skelos indicated he would be open to reforms that did not include a public financing system that is modeled after the New York City system.

To support public financing of election campaigns in the state of New York, modeled after New York City's system, and to join coalitions, including Citizens Action of New York, to support this reform.

At the Electoral Reform Society our Women in Westminster report looked into how many women might be elected after the election, by modelling likely results.

The campaign, titled Protect Our Democracy, is modeled after the successful strategy that led to marriage equality for New Yorkers and will inject itself into the upcoming state elections to put pressure on state senators that failed to support reform this past legislative session.

Some of the proposals and the timing of their likely passage have raised concerns, though, that the Council is weakening the city's model campaign finance system, pushing some reforms through after too long a wait and rushing other, newer bills through just in time for the next

After all, Success for All, the reform model the Johns Hopkins University researcher had helped develop, had accumulated a long record of studies pointing to its effectiveness.

For years, that has been the national narrative about the long - troubled school district in the nation's capital: After decades of low performance and stagnation, the system was moving forward with a «reform» program that was a model for the nation.

But for young people caught in the middle, and for an education system caught up in a whirlwind of reform, this feels like something that should only be introduced after careful planning and modelling and widespread consultation with schools, colleges and the young people it will affect.

Obama's education reform blueprint brings us full circle, as it itself is an innovation built upon knowledge gained during NCLB (in fact, growth - model testing was piloted during NCLB after the Bush administration observed the negative effects of over-emphasis on standardized testing).

As the evidence of urban school reforms based on the Superman model accumulates, it is becoming clear that most have been unable to turn a single superintendency into a continuing regime: a lasting organization that continues after the high profile superintendent leaves.

Teachers started becoming very leery of this stuff, it was one reform model after the next.

After receiving a $ 2.9 million School Improvement Grant over three years, Oak Hill enforced drastic reforms under the turnaround model, which required the district to replace the principal and at least half of the school's staff.

The district has been under a «School Reform Commission» modeled after Chicago's «School Reform Board of Trustees» of the 1990s since 2002.

«After a dark period in our state's history, Connecticut became a role model for the nation with... our campaign finance reform.

After Ohio's first - term Republican Gov. John Kasich announced he was including a trigger law in his budget proposal, Oestreich, Heartland's legislative analyst, enthused: «It is clear that the traditional union model of reform — more money, more teachers — has failed Ohio.

In fact, six years after Vallas began to promote his «Vallas Turnaround Model,» a Louisiana Education Research Group called Research on Reforms, determined that 79 % of the charter schools in the Recovery School District were graded D or F by the state.

The bills are modeled after California's Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, which enables parents to force one of five types of major reforms on a low - performing public school if a simple majority of parents sign a petition seeking the change.

And recently, a light of optimism appeared: CSCU's lawsuit against the board was settled, after the school signed a consent decree As applications fell in response to the tuition decision and institutional morale licked its wounds, accepting a leadership position at Cooper was not an easy decision.promising to forge a path back to its tuition - free model, among other reforms.

Claimant law firms could be forced to rethink their business models after the Government saw off a challenge to reform its forthcoming overhaul of the low - value claims system — changes that could cost personal injury (PI) lawyers an estimated # 200m a year.

After two decades of procedural development, it is now apparent that reform of the Australian class action model is required to ensure that it continues to meet its goals.

Maryland's 24 Local Councils, located in each county and Baltimore City and modeled after the State Early Childhood Advisory Council, were formed under the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant in 2011 to reform and improve school readiness.