Sentences with phrase «number of reform efforts»

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

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Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

Silver said he believes there will be changes in the way redistricting takes place after the 2010 Census numbers come in, but he stressed this reform effort might be easier said than done, adding: «There are a whole bunch of things that are recognized either by law, federal law or the Supreme Court that go into this.»

Other school - reform advocates accused bureaucrats of caving to political pressure as union - aligned Assembly Democrats vowed to block efforts to raise or repeal the cap on the number of charters the state allows.

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

WASHINGTON - New York's Junior Senator in Washington is continuing to push for prescription drug reform in an effort to reduce the number of people getting addicted to Opioids and other pain killers.

Mayor Bloomberg just announced during his State of the City address that pension reform will be his «number one priority in Albany» this year — a lobbying effort that will be led by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

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.

Tessa Jowell was among a number of cabinet ministers who today mounted a last - ditch effort to include a referendum on electoral reform in the Queen's speech next week.

Cuomo's stance has a number of advocates concerned that he has abandoned reform efforts because the public has grown numb to the cloud of scandal that hangs around the state capitol - a cloud voters appear to be attaching to the governor in public opinion polls.

The need for some sort of effort to reform the academic system in France became apparent in 2003, when the government announced a reduction in the number of permanent research positions and the creation of more short - term contracts.

They resolved that their article would not be just another well - meaning declaration gathering dust on some forgotten shelf, and they have undertaken a number of efforts to galvanize the scientific community around real reform.

Spurred by rapid globalization and a shift toward an increasingly information - driven economy, nations throughout the world are reforming their schools in an effort to educate greater numbers of students to a higher skill level.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

That effort was similar to RTT in that it involved states making reforms across a number of areas, with evaluation systems being only one component.

We also share a number of disappointments and frustrations arising from reform efforts that have been mounted to solve that problem.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

Mr. Klein has since overseen a number of aggressive reform efforts, including a stringent evaluation effort for each of the system's 1,400 public schools and the introduction of value - added assessment of the city's...

There are a number of reforms — ranging from relatively low - effort to completely reforming their teacher retirement systems — that states should consider.

In an effort to meet these challenges, a number of policy reforms have focused on raising student achievement.

Recently, however, there has been a great deal of political pushback against them; a number of states, including Oklahoma, recently abandoned the reform effort.

A jurisdiction - level reform effort to reduce the number of youth in correctional facilities and other out - of - home placements.

During a time when large numbers of low - income children are continuing to fall behind academically, however, an innovative approach to educating them with both academics and enrichment such as sports and arts has emerged: expanded learning time as part of school - reform efforts.

Since change takes time, our ability to analyze the impact of the reform effort has thus far been limited by the small number of schools which have been in the project for at least 2 years.

Denver: In 2005 Michael Bennet outlined a plan to right size the district financially while setting forth a number of instructional reform efforts including the approach to early childhood education, types of literacy programs, and providing college level courses.

is the corporate funded education reform group that is has been at the forefront of the effort to expand the number of charter schools in Hartford, while implementing other aspects of the education reform agenda in the Capital city.

At the present time, a small number of studies describes how superintendents and their staffs work with state policies and regulations to ensure authentic reflection of such reform efforts while, at the same time, doing justice to local district and school priorities.

Despite the best efforts of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's administration, the underhanded work of a number of school superintendents and the on - going lies being spewed by the corporate education reform industry to mislead and harass parents, Connecticut's Common Core SBAC Opt Out Movement made important progress this past week.

Allen said that despite those «top down» reform efforts, in the early 1990s similar numbers of children and college students still needed remedial education assistance.

He describes a number of successful programs and models that support students at risk of dropping out, and calls on school leaders to use this knowledge to guide reform efforts.

Her lobbying efforts have led the German government to stop or modify a number of such projects and have led to increased public awareness on the need to reform German aid policies.

The fact sheet further lists ongoing efforts in capacity building, technical assistance and financial support for a number of enabling activities, such as improving data collection systems, institutional reforms and national monitoring systems.

An ugly PR effort and some public maneuvering by the opposition could easily cut into those numbers — just look at how support for health care reform has dwindled thanks largely to the spread of misinformation and hardline tactics.

I'm involved in a number of the present efforts to reform family justice.

, the speaker's message seems to overlook that unclogging courts is goal number one of any respectable justice reform effort.

Whilst acknowledging the efforts made in this area to date, the Report goes on to identify a number of areas in which significant reform is still required.

The Action Committee reports have sparked, and had a profound impact upon, a number of justice reform efforts that are presently underway across Canada, including, and this is the second development, Alberta's Reforming Family Justice Initiative.