Her next book, The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945 - 80, trained a withering eye on what she saw as a history
of failed reforms ranging from Lyndon Johnson - era anti-poverty programs to utopian promises of computer - assisted learning.
Not exact matches
«The collapse
of the Senate's healthcare strategy is a near - term negative for the GOP's broader legislative agenda, but we contend that
failing to pass health care legislation dramatically increases the sense
of urgency surrounding the tax
reform conversation,» Boltansky wrote.
But the lawsuit «utterly
failed» to
reform the culture inside the company, Lockette alleges, where a «campaign
of harassment» against minorities persisted, Bloomberg reports.
Tax
reform is one
of the core pillars
of the Trump administration's attempt to stimulate economic growth in the U.S., and market watchers expect corporate tax
reform to drive the market rally further — with some expecting a «tantrum» if tax
reforms fail to be passed.
American officials have been raising their concerns about China's IP practices since Bill Clinton was president, and Beijing has repeatedly
failed to deliver on promises to
reform, said the official, adding the administration is still open to discussing the issue with the government
of President Xi Jinping.
Republicans, you see, have been attacking the Democratic leadership for
failing to
reform the gluttonous practice
of so - called Congressionally directed spending.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, one
of the architects
of the tax
reform bill, warned in October that stock markets may see a significant reversal should the tax bill
fail to pass.
The President - elect bashed Big Pharma, and
failed to provide clarity on the details or timing
of policies like infrastructure spending, tax
reform and other measures dear to traders» hearts.
The White House has
failed to find traction on a middle ground that would allow meaningful
reform to thrive while protecting the constitutional right to bear arms — a compromise that would enjoy broad public support and still represent a practical way
of regulating the firearms industry.
It's also worth recalling that, even though he
failed to
reform health care during his eight years in office, President Bill Clinton still managed to tackle tax
reform with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
of 1993.
While these may at first seem unrelated, in fact financial market disruptions are tightly tied into the self - reinforcing processes
of rising debt, capital flight and slowing growth that recent
reforms were supposed to untangle and address — and for which they have clearly
failed.
Now, my understanding
of your position is that you made that original prediction based on the belief that the PRC would be instituting
reforms to deleverage aggressively and transfer wealth to the consumer (such that the incorrect prediction was more that you were overly optimistic about the PRC's willingness to head off these systematic risks) and that your current prognosis
of ~ 3 % GDP growth has an entirely separate causative element; that is to say, your previous prediction was based on the idea the PRC would be enacting
reforms to ward off systematic risks, whereas your current estimation
of GDP growth is instead based on the drag produced by these very systematic risks the PRC has
failed to deal with.
However, Varufakis» strategy already
failed in previous negotiations with the Eurogroup, as the agreements signed with Eurozone countries stipulate that Greece will not be granted any further payments before the end
of April, and they would be conditioned by a successful evaluation
of the implementations
of reforms announced by the Tsiprasled Greek government.
Tax
reform has become a «pass /
fail» exercise under which any legislation would signal a win for the Trump administration, but a bill will come by the end
of the year, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
Last Thursday, the Office
of Financial Research (OFR), part
of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial
reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels
of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to -
fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.
Companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft spend many millions
of dollars lobbying government each year, but their cries for immigration
reform long have
failed to penetrate the partisan divide on Capitol Hill.
It's a near certainty with the island likely to record its first default on August 1st (the commonwealth
failed to make the necessary deposit to cover debt
of its Public Finance Corporation due August 1st), and with the governor's Economic Recovery Working Group expected to make
reform recommendations by August 30th.
As an alternative, House Republicans have floated the possibility
of adopting a Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget resolution early next year (since Congress
failed to adopt a FY 2017 budget resolution last year) to include reconciliation instructions for repealing (and possibly replacing) much
of the ACA, while adopting a FY 2018 budget resolution later next year that includes reconciliation instructions for tax
reform (and possibly some mandatory spending changes, perhaps from Medicare
reform, other mandatory savings assumed in the budget resolution, and / or some ACA replacement).
With the advent
of Fed tapering and a reversal in global capital flows to the emerging nations, the countries that
failed to
reform are now paying the price, as are investors in these countries.
I could say I have
failed, am in need
of repair,
reform and change.
A
failed attempt to
reform that religion — the account
of which was transformed into the strange foundational myth
of a variant
of that religion.
Advocates
of a mass amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, under the banner
of «comprehensive immigration
reform,» seldom
fail to mention «church leaders» and «faith groups» as part
of their «coalition.»
He also makes, at the end
of his lengthy account
of the papacy's
failings, an appealing, if brief, case for
reform within — not apart from — the church: «I prefer the company
of Ignatius
of Loyola to that
of Luther, or Charles Borromeo to Calvin, Philip Neri to Melanchthon,» he writes.
While he maintains hope for its future as a
reform movement within the church, he
fails to observe that evangelicalism has taken on a life
of its own outside the church.
The Wahhabi movement in Arabia was a reaction against the worship
of saints, but it made use
of force rather than arguments, and
failed to establish a general
reform.
Sharp says
reforming drug laws and ending the
failed policies
of the War on Drugs should be a Christian imperative.
When psychological approaches and cosmetic
reforms fail to pacify people and guarantee the privileges
of the empire, then the appropriate measure
of violence is applied through bombings or repression.
Apparently the vigorous
reform of Zoroaster himself had
failed to sustain itself after his death, and the whole pantheon crowded back into the picture.
Then, when the later bill
failed in the House
of Representatives and the conservative backlash became too severe, Rubio said he would have voted against the
reform bill if he had to do it over again.
Drawing on the large numbers
of studies undertaken by people in the aid world and by independent researchers (few
of these studies are cited in Lancaster's volume), he points out that the structural
reforms have largely
failed and the situation continues to deteriorate.
Dreihaus, part
of a group
of Democrats that supported a ban on taxpayer funding
of abortion yet — when this provision
failed to pass — still voted in favor
of the final health care
reform bill, argued that, given his pro-life beliefs, the ad amounted to defamation.
Commentators, including cardinals, who have called for
reform have, as far as I have seen, offered not one example where the Church's machinery
of government while carrying out the directions
of the Holy Father has
failed.
While my efforts to persuade the Board
of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion
of the «power
of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role
of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one
of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety
of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «
reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use
of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that
fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes
of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
Bettina, to me this is the heart
of it: «But when it comes to school food
reform, it often feels that J.O. isn't playing fair with the viewer — and that
failing was never more apparent than in this latest episode
of Food Revolution.»
But when it comes to school food
reform, it often feels that J.O. isn't playing fair with the viewer — and that
failing was never more apparent than in this latest episode
of Food Revolution.
Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl
of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all
of our best efforts at
reform are doomed to
fail.
Labour's attempts to
reform libel
failed to reach the statute book at the end
of the last parliament after they became victims
of the wash - up period.
Therefore, it is absolutely clear that any
reform of Islam started by secular French state would inevitably
fail.
The Low Incomes Tax
Reform Group (LITRG) believe that many thousands
of people who claim working tax credits are losing out on money they are legally entitled to because HMRC is excluding them from its automatic backdating regime and
failing to inform them they have a right to claim backdated tax credits.
The state Supreme Court and Appellate Division Court had previously rejected the challenge brought by the
Reform Party on the grounds the suit «had
failed to name a necessary party» — in this case the executive board
of the Working Families Party.
Cuomo is backing an effort in his education
reform push that would put a monitor in charge
of a school deemed to be
failing.
«This is perhaps one
of the greatest indicators
of a state's health, but Governor Cuomo — whose administration is embroiled in scandal — has been consumed with generating good headlines with grand political statements, while
failing to deliver on any meaningful
reforms.
Senate Democrats unveiled a package
of measures designed to
reform campaign finance laws and how lobbying is done — measures that have
failed to gain much traction in their chamber.
After
failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package
of ethics
reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.
My old friend Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour peer as well as distinguished historian, thought we needed «action as well as conversation», and chided me for
failing to put forward a shopping list
of concrete proposals akin to the shopping list
of global
reforms proposed by Thomas Piketty in his Capital in the Twenty - first Century.
«The vulnerabilities in Nassau County government exposed by our review remain substantially unaddressed, the Board
of Ethics is conflicted and lacks a quorum, and the taxpayers are ill - served every day that our elected leaders
fail to enact the
reforms to prevent the corruption that continues to compromise public confidence in our government.»
Tunisia, reeling from internal strife,
fails to stand - up as the local model
of democratic
reform that it briefly embodied in 2011.
started his push for
reform of finance with a telling question: «Why does the Fed deserve more authority when institutionally it seems to have
failed to prevent the current crisis?»
That will take a generation and will require a large - scale and sustainable
reform of the
failing Spanish educational system, a marked reduction in business regulations and a long - term commitment to innovation.
Despite post-independence
reform that attempted to roll back such impositions on Islamic jurisprudence, successive attempts at constitutional overhaul in 1979, 1989, 1995, and 1999 all
failed to resolve the conflict over the nature and scope
of Islamic law.