Sentences with phrase «of recent reform efforts»

All of the recent reform efforts, from the diploma project to the Common Corpse, have been unfunded mandates.

For supporters of recent reform efforts like the Common Core, an improvement in reading and math scores would likely be seen as a validation.

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Despite recent efforts at regulatory reform, our supply chains still suffer from the «tyranny of small differences.»

Once the state's political leaders got past the congratulatory «atta - boys» and backslapping on their most recent effort to reform Albany, the public was left to dig through the details of the legislative agreement.

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.

ALBANY — The two long - serving members of the state Board of Regents ousted by lawmakers on Tuesday were brave soldiers for the Common Core standards and other recent education reform efforts, board chancellor Merryl Tisch said.

The NYPD is expanding its pilot program for body cameras, a central part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's police reform effort, by seeking companies to provide another 5,000 devices, according to a recent solicitation published in the City Record.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

The authors of a recent Yale Law Journal article agree: «While OCR has dramatically improved its efforts to reform structural Title IX compliance across universities... it has done relatively little to promote complainants» immediate access to education.»

More recent trends in philanthropic investment rely more on a change - oriented and data - driven approach, with increased focus on disrupting traditional institutions and structures and research and advocacy efforts to create policy environments supportive of reform.

Teacher evaluation policy has undergone a lot of upheaval, but the ESSA transition can provide an opportunity to consider teacher evaluation as part of a larger effort to attract, retain, and leverage teacher talent in a way that may have been overlooked in recent reforms.

According to Ravitch, writing in a recent New York Times op - ed essay, titled, of course, Waiting for a School Miracle, all these high - powered education reformers, from President Obama to Arne Duncan to Jeb Bush to Michael Bloomberg, are claiming «miracles» for their reform efforts; and Ravitch is there, a one - woman Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Devil's Advocate, to throw some almighty holy water on the hype fires.

Superintendent Cami Anderson's recent letter goes a long way toward countering the narrative of failure that has taken hold about the Newark school reform effort.

As I wrote into a recent post: ``... it seems that the residual effects of the federal governments» former [teacher evaluation reform policies and] efforts are still dominating states» actions with regards to educational accountability.»

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

They discuss their recent protest efforts in the districts of state legislators who, at the behest of National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates, have all but eviscerated Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform plans.

Last week, Eduflack wrote about recent efforts by Congress to provide some needed funding for teachers» jobs by cutting funding for many of the education reforms, like Race to the Top, just enacted or increased last year.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered featured remarks, highlighting recent progress on education reform, the difficult work still ahead, and the need for innovation to help advance reform efforts.

The most recent reforms have further expanded the role of the states and built federal reforms on top of these state efforts.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will give featured remarks, highlighting recent progress on education reform, the difficult work still ahead, and the need for innovation to help advance reform efforts.

He describes the nation's main education law as an «impediment to reform,» citing ESEA's outdated testing regimen, accountability measures, and teacher quality determinations, all of which fail to align with the widely adopted Common Core State Standards as well as recent state efforts to overhaul their teacher evaluation systems.

Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efReform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efreform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efforts.

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.

Nonetheless, I believe the recent nationally inspired education reform efforts from No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top to the most recent iteration of them − the Common Core State Standards − are leading American schools down the wrong path.

She also backed Australia's recent introduction of a price for the emission of carbon and proposals to reform Australia's electricity market in an effort to tackle rising prices.

In an effort to provide guidance for APEC economies to implement subsidy reform further, this report provides an updated status of fossil fuel subsidies in APEC economies, tracking major recent subsidy reforms made in APEC economies, estimating value of fossil fuel subsidies in the region to identify where the challenge remains to further reform subsidies.

Recent ideas for reform have drawn on diverse sources, including the Carnegie Report, 6 as well as newly proposed recommendations for «best practices» in legal education7 and highly publicized accounts of changes in law school curricula at elite schools like Harvard.8 Like several earlier proposals, 9 these reform efforts concentrate on law schools» failure to deal systematically with training for legal practice, as well as on these schools» haphazard approach to teaching legal ethics.

Minow chaired the law school's curricular reform efforts of recent years and was recognized with the School's Sacks - Freund Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005.

Last week, CC partners voted through another round of lockstep reform expected to increase pay for the firm's top billers, as it pushes on with recent efforts to boost profitability and attract star performers.

Despite recent efforts to make the draconian UK Family Court system more compatible with the ECHR — in both domains of private and public law — it still remains an aberration long overdue root and branch reform.

With many of the worst patent suits clustering in Texas, recent reform efforts have focused on requiring that patent suits be brought in forums that have meaningful ties to the dispute.

Although it would seem that Johnson is eminently qualified as a patent expert, many of his views lie contrary to recent reform efforts — including reforms proposed by the White House itself.