Sentences with phrase «much bigger reform»

A much bigger reform involving this idea would be for the NBA to have a separate draft with high school players only and require them to play half a year in the D - League.

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While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen does call for reforms to data privacy and gig economy labor laws, and for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.

When asked how much money would be spent on immigration advocacy, Lima declined to give a monetary figure, but said the advocacy efforts would be «as big of a deal» as tax reform.

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) is a unique credit card issuer with an impressive profit margin, Bank of America is a much - improved bank that's consistently getting better, and Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) is a well - run airline that could be a big beneficiary of tax reform.

Some big ones are: (a) whether the draft PROMESA legislation raises retroactivity issues that make it unfair to bondholders (including mutual funds and their investors) who may be subject to restructuring ex post without having had notice of that possibility ex ante; (b) relatedly, whether creating a bankruptcy - like restructuring process for Puerto Rico is bad for bondholders because it prevents holdout creditors from holding up restructuring negotiations, (c) how much oversight and sovereignty Puerto Rico should cede (for example, different stakeholders feel differently about the installation of an oversight board); (d) the extent to which austerity measures are feasible and should be imposed [fn1], and (d) and what substantive reforms should be put enacted going forward.

So when much - needed reforms were instituted two years ago, one of the first complaints from the political right was that big, strapping football players were going hungry due to Mrs. Obama's Nanny State school meal calorie limits.

Nevertheless, the NY Post deems the final budget deal a «big win» for the governor, noting he «got his way on pretty much everything except ethics reform.»

Besides the fact that AV doesn't do much to stop this (in the safest seats, MPs tend to get big percentages of the vote anyway), it's another continuation of the idea that we can get reforms passed on the back of public anger towards MPs over the expenses scandal.

He needs a much stronger foreign policy but in recognising the importance of social reform (the biggest idea on the centre right), the environment, being vindicated on fiscal responsibility and as a stalwart defender of free trade he is, indeed, well - placed to become a leader of global conservatism.

When I say Cameron will play the long game he will avoid any major electoral reform, because that will mean that the tories would find it impossible to form a govt without a much bigger share of the vote.

His staunch support for the coalition's welfare reforms, which the rebellious Lords continued to systematically take apart this week in two big defeats for the government, underlined the fact that much of the coalition's policy book is straight out of the Tory party manifesto.

Leaving aside the whole redistricting reform question for a moment (and yes, I realize it's a great big wrench in the works), let's consider how much of a factor the Conservative Party was in the 2010 elections, when the GOP successfully wrested the majority back from the Democrats.

The Times drives him crazy; he thinks its editorial board is obsessed with public financing of campaigns, a reform Cuomo says he supports, even though he's dubious that it has much relevance in the age of big - money independent - expenditure committees.

While there are «a couple of issues» that separate them — including stop - and - frisk, which Liu wants to end and not reform as his challengers do — he said that, on the «big issues,» they're pretty much the same.

The Electoral Reform Society concludes that big donors have too much influence over political parties and that the current funding system is corrupt.

The final state budget deal was a big win for Gov. Cuomo, who got his way on pretty much everything except ethics reform.

Much of Miliband's rhetoric in the last three years has centred around challenging some of the biggest scandals to have emerged, including Libor and phone - hacking, by calling for major reforms.

Also, having a second chamber too big to be effective might give the government an easier ride (and in general governments are much less interested in constitutional reforms to strengthen democratic accountability than oppositions).

Is this investigation motivated by a much bigger political game in which Governor Cuomo encouraged / spurred / initiated Sugarman's investigation to achieve a number of goals: (a) torpedo the efforts of democrats to regain the state senate by scaring off potential big democratic donors (it is widely reported that the governor prefers working with a GOP controlled senate); (b) distract the press from Albany's complete failure to pass meaningful ethics reforms; (c) hurt his political foe, Mayor de Blasio.

A senior ministerial source said the concessions will be «much bigger than expected» and leave Mr Lansley «isolated» as the PM axes reforms he spent years drawing up.

A statewide public financing system to elevate average New Yorkers» voices in our elections, buttressed by other comprehensive reforms — like lower limits on how much one person can contribute to a political candidate (now at an outrageous $ 60,800 for statewide candidates per election cycle) and strong independent enforcement of campaign finance laws — will reduce the power of big money special interests.

As I observed last year in Letters, three decades as an education roustabout have taught me at least one thing: The passion that so many bring to school reform fuels a confidence that the next big idea will be the one that works, and leaves reformers loath to spend much time asking why the last big idea (and the one before that) didn't.

First, they confirm that the modest effects of the initial 1998 reform paved the way for much bigger changes in 2006 and 2012.

«As a huge advocate of social and emotional learning, Raymond is much more thoughtful and a big - picture kind of guy in ways that run counter to the tenets of the corporate reform movement,» such as merit pay, said Carl Cohn, a member of the State Board of Education, director of the Urban Leadership Program in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and retired superintendent of Long Beach Unified.

And so while some people see, in highly publicized departures like Deasy's, or that of Michelle Rhee from the Washington, D.C., schools in 2010, a sign of a backlash against «reform,» the bigger picture is much more complicated.

Rather, much disagreement and debate, in fact, still exist regarding whether inducing teacher turnover will get «us» really anywhere in terms of school reform, as also related to how big (or small) teachers» effects on students» measurable performance actually are as discussed prior.

But we are now learning that the Bridgeport Education Reform Fund was only the stalking horse for a much bigger and more impressive effort.

School reformers often spend so much time looking at the details of various proposals that they forget to remind the public of the bigger idea behind the reform.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

Given the presence of these groups, along with the presence of Alliance for Educational Justice (another group backed by AFT), it is little wonder why so much of the «manifesto» focuses on opposing choice and Parent Power, as well as calling for districts to stop hiring recruits trained by Teach For America, the teacher quality reform outfit that has long been the bane of the Big Two's existence.

Those who are watching the education reform industry's massive effort to «transform» public education in the United States won't be surprised to learn that the influx of SFER, DFER money into the Denver Board of Education election was just the tip of a much bigger attempt by the Corporate Education Reform Industry to control the outcome of recent Colorado elecreform industry's massive effort to «transform» public education in the United States won't be surprised to learn that the influx of SFER, DFER money into the Denver Board of Education election was just the tip of a much bigger attempt by the Corporate Education Reform Industry to control the outcome of recent Colorado elecReform Industry to control the outcome of recent Colorado elections.

If Bush, Jr., got smacked over his all - too - cautious attempt at Social Security reform (it would have done almost nothing, but listen to the squeals), can you imagine what true reform of a much bigger problem might entail?

One of the biggest benefits of the much heralded Student Loan Reform Act of 2010 was the creation of the Income - Based Repayment Plan, or the «Pay As You Earn» program.

But despite this need for individual planning, our collective increased longevity as women makes real wage reform in the USA a much bigger priority than most women realize.

The biggest victory was the passage of the Innovation Act in the House of Representatives, an extremely promising bill that provides a number of fixes to the patent troll problem — from fee - shifting provisions to much - needed transparency reforms.

«If you didn't attend, you missed some big discussions on tax reform, 1031s, economic outlook, and much more.

With QM and BASEL III released, there's much less of the regulatory uncertainty that lenders have been concerned about since the big Wall Street reform bill, Dodd - Frank, was enacted a few years ago.