Sentences with phrase «of effective reform»

Low class size is one demonstrated component of effective reform, but so too is the necessity of having an experienced teacher to work with the class.

The policy paper reports that A + places high on Shields and Knapp's scale of six national dimensions of effective reform practice: 1.

The study found that A + places high on Shields and Knapp's scale of six national dimensions of effective reform practice.

Looking at these literatures together provides some insights into the characteristics of effective reform programs.

Marc also cites David Kirp's account of Union City, New Jersey, as an example of effective reform wrought by the system itself.

In most cases, he argues, claims of effective reforms are based on either a misanalysis of test scores or the selection of advantaged students into reform programs.

Not exact matches

The Company's effective income tax rate and comparable effective income tax rate (a non-GAAP measure) from continuing operations for the first quarter of 2018 decreased to 29.5 % and 25.6 %, reflecting a lower federal tax rate related to the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Reform).

Italy's borrowing costs have come down in recent months, helped by the promise of European Central Bank support but the election result confirmed fears that it would not produce a government strong enough to implement effective reforms.

Goldman executives said on conference call that its effective tax rate will be 24 percent, higher than some on Wall Street had assumed would be the case in the wake of the tax reform bill.

We suspect that much of the projected growth benefit from corporate tax reform comes from enacting expensing of equipment, which reduces the entity - level effective tax rate to zero on equity - financed investment and makes it negative if financed in part with debt.

Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

While the content of the bill and the successful vote comports with our base case that the Republicans» tax reform plan will become law effective 2018, the Senate acted faster than expected, improving odds of a 2017 passage.

If the new set of reforms are to be truly effective, in other words, they must be designed directly to eliminate the balance sheet constraints on the economy.

A 30 - year rewind also is informative: The dispersion of effective tax rates of Russell 1000 companies peaked in 1986, just before the Tax Reform Act came into effect, and was followed by a decade long convergence, our analysis shows.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) CEO Brian Moynihan reckoned that the reforms would be positive for clients, but he told analysts that he didn't envisage running the company any differently with a lower effective tax rate.

Europe's stability and unity are at stake and the best response would be the immediate implementation of an effective growth strategy and a thorough reform of EU governance.

Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of «zombie» firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a competitive market), capital misallocation and stalling technological diffusion... As the zombie firm problem may partly stem from bank forbearance, complementary reforms to insolvency regimes are essential to ensure that a more aggressive policy to resolve non-performing loans is effective.

They work with corporations to increase the availability of animal product alternatives and have developed a «restaurant report card» to score the top 100 chain restaurants according to their plant - based options.22 In general, we think that corporate outreach is a relatively effective animal advocacy intervention, though we are less certain of the effects of promoting plant - based options in restaurants than we are of the effects of working with corporations to implement welfare reforms.

Today, most participants in the debate about welfare reform» at least those outside the realms of the ACLU and the Children's Defense Fund» agree with Olasky that the government has not and can not offer this kind of effective compassion, and that consequently we must enlarge the role private charities play in the lives of the underclass.

It is true that he never possessed much notion of effective social reform; in «Bartleby» the urban social order is as fixed and determined as the order of Nature.

We are still waiting for an obvious and effective reform of the curia, and brotherly collegiality in the Church is not much more than a fine word.

He contends, first, that liberation theology should free its social analysis from a preoccupation with global «dependent capitalism» and move toward more specific analyses of land reform and of other pressing needs which would help popular Christian movements be «more politically effective at a national level.»

An effective broadcast reform movement in the future will need a number of member groups which are affiliated with large, national organizations.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Phillips argues that meaningful economic reform (such as that which occurred in the 1830s under Andrew Jackson's leadership, in the progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt and in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal) is the only effective means of combating such cynicism.

Whatever the specific reforms — and we would expect a period of experiment to see what forms are most effective — the major benefit in the democratization of the economy would be to limit the harshness of the labor market, to give everyone who works a stake in the enterprise he or she works in and even in the economy at large, thus reducing both the anxiety and the cynicism that are rampant in our present economic life.

«Implementation of these reforms, along with ongoing evaluation of export processes and identification of further opportunities for improvement may assist the Department of Agriculture to develop a more efficient and cost effective system for ensuring welfare of exported livestock,» the report said.

That disruption is an effective tactic for reform was demonstrated in the weeks after the 4 Corners program when online grocery delivery service, Aussie Farmers Direct, dumped one of its chicken suppliers although, according to the Weekly Times, it is retaining another chicken supplier implicated in the labour market scandal.

Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual fall conference at Stanford University where they hear the latest research on best practices in education and learn from each other how to create effective school reform.

Breastfeeding Center of Pittsburgh (IBCLC) Comprehensive lactation support to mothers and infants through clinical excellence, effective education, policy reform, and political advocacy.

Evidence is emerging that the combination of law reform and public education is more effective than either strategy alone in changing parental attitudes and behaviours.54

From shaping pensions reform to managing climate change; reforming personal injury compensation to effective regulation of financial services, the ABI's 2007 national conference will tackle all the key issues facing the industry and wider society.

Here's a cautionary tale lawmakers will likely forget all about in 10 years when the next round of redistricting comes up — unless Cuomo's constitutional amendment on redistricting reform passes and turns out to be effective.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

None of us within the Lib Dems, even the socialist ones like me, ever call for effective welfare reforms like, say, raising the income tax threshold to help the poorest by taxing the rich.

The Empire Center is dedicated to making New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free - market principles, personal responsibility, and the ideals of effective and accountable government.

Our mission: Make New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free - market principles, personal responsibility, and the ideals of effective and accountable government.

Enforcement is a necessary component of any effective campaign finance reform proposal.

But linking voting reform to the unfinished business of Lords reform can combine effective government with greater parliamentary proportionality.

Key reforms include fostering more effective charter schools, merit pay for teachers, more aid to parochial schools and the elimination of stultifying laws such as «Last in first out» for teacher layoffs.

You may change your mind about where you have put the Next Left logo if you were to read some of Next Left's recent coverage of civil liberties and of constitutional reform as well as our consistent focus on an effective politics of equality.

Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union, said: «Public leaders» meetings on ethics reform are so necessary to ensure that big effective solutions are considered, negotiated, and agreed to, as New Yorkers wait to see how our state's political leaders propose preventing the growing problem of corruption.»

A reformed institution will give a proper voice to the whole of the UK and act as an effective complement to a House of Commons which — because of the first - past - the - post voting procedure — does not fairly represent our citizens politically.

The Reform Party SUPPORTS legislation and rules across all branches of government that enforce the highest ethical standards and effective oversight.

«Eric Schneiderman has worked to reform our criminal justice system with «smart on crime» policies, like changing the Rockefeller Drug Laws and taking effective steps to stem the flow of illegal guns,» Koch said.

State of the State: Gov. Cuomo Once Again Calls for Public Financing In his 2013 State of the State Address on Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reemphasized his support for comprehensive reform of the state's campaign finance laws including effective disclosure, lower contribution limits, and public financing.

A more thoughtful, more effective version of 421a, a reformed version for today's reality,» Mr. de Blasio told the NYSAFAH gathering today.

«For those of us who care deeply about reform, rooting out public corruption, and holding Wall Street accountable, Sean Coffey provides a fresh perspective and effective leadership.»

Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government, Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon attempt to answer a basic question about these processes of constant change and reinvention: did the changes, reshuffles and new approaches do what they promised, and produce a cheaper yet more effective machine?