Sentences with phrase «need substantial reform»

«No matter how much we reform our family law and criminal justice systems — and heaven knows they need substantial reform — the government can't expect LSS to switch from a staff lawyer service model to a private lawyer service model without substantially incentivizing the private bar to take on legal aid files.»

Silver's arrest is simply the latest indicator we need substantial reform in Albany.»

«He has now claimed that we need substantial reform of Cap but it was his government that negotiated a ten - year agreement only two years ago.

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But significant changes in policies since then — not least, lower primary surpluses and a weak reform effort that will weigh on growth and privatization — are leading to substantial new financing needs.

Toward that end the Oversight Board, which has substantial moral authority, needs to provide real leadership by stressing that reform and support are mutually reinforcing.

It's all very well acknowledging the need to get public spending under control, but it requires substantial reform.

«We have been clear that rapid and real implementation of substantial reforms, addressing the legitimate demands of peaceful Syrian protesters, is what is urgently needed,» he commented.

Small says the ethics reforms needed to clean up Albany politics need to be substantial and not, in her words, putting a band aid on a heart attack.

If he genuinely wants to return to when Labour was a mass party with substantial roots in working class communities, he needs to recognise that this situation existed primarily because Labour was then a social democratic party which aimed to reform the capitalist system.

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

If we agree that educational administration programs don't provide the leaders we need, and if three decades of reform haven't made much difference, why is Thomas Lasley so confident that minor adjustments in courses or programs will produce substantial change?

And a 2014 study of Massachusetts school districts found that school finance reforms that increased state funding and directed more of it to the highest - need districts «led to a substantial increase in student performance across all districts.»

Importantly, these are the skills that standardized tests are least effective in assessing, rendering our state accountability system outdated and in need of substantial reform.

To comply with the principles behind these reforms, schools and colleges need to put in a substantial amount of work and changes.

It is clear that standardized testing can never close the achievement gap, that the Common Core Standards are not good learning and do not give students the skills they need for their future, and that the education «reform» effort is not reform at all but a way to remove public education as a right for all while it provides substantial financial profit for the investors.

The Rudd Government has yet to deliver on the substantial reforms promised to tackle the prevention and better management of chronic diseases, to provide the outreach, team work and coordination that is needed to ensure physical and mental health and wellbeing, and to address the inequalities and inequities that are inherent in the current system.