Sentences with phrase «of reform efforts aimed»

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

Not exact matches

So, while I wish the sponsors of the present legislation good luck with their efforts so far, I hope they'll follow them up with some reforms specifically aimed at replacing the present, unreliable, and inefficient monetary control system with a more old - fashioned, but nonetheless better, alternative.

We aim to assess the effects of successive efforts to reform the executive government (the «state machine») of the UK over the past thirty years.

The aim of our political efforts he believes, should therefore be to work towards enduring structural reform that effectively symbolizes the idea that all human lives are of equal value.

The new commissioner of the city's child welfare agency expressed «significant concerns» about a NYC Council legislation package aimed at tightening scrutiny over his embattled department — saying it could «inhibit our efforts toward reform.»

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.

Although the portfolio strategy aims to improve schools for historically disadvantaged groups, any effort to reform schools can be interpreted through the lens of racial politics.

Parents, initially skeptical about school reform efforts, or accustomed to thinking of them as concessions aimed largely at luring parochial and private school students back into a low - income, black - majority system, flocked to the new schools, even lining up in pre-dawn hours to assure a child's admission.

I spent the next seven years pressing for reform from the outside — most of my reform efforts were aimed at getting a curriculum, stopping the disproportionate disciplining of African - American students, and the over-identification of special ed students (almost a quarter of the student body).

If the aim of education reform is that all students should experience «gifted teaching,» then the expertise and support of educators of the gifted should be a part of those efforts.

Few literacy researchers have conducted research aimed directly at either state or national English language arts and, as we have noted previously, policy researchers interested in standards often analyze them in terms of larger reforms efforts, without specific regard for subject area.

Reform efforts aimed at solving the problems of students failing classes, repeating grades, or dropping out altogether have focused on instruction, testing, and class size.

That ambitious plan is key to her broader aim of establishing Success as what the network describes as a «catalyst and national model for education reform efforts,» and a legitimate citywide competitor to the incumbent public school system.

A component of the NY - Sun program and the Governor's comprehensive Reforming the Energy Vision strategy, the «Solarize» campaigns are geared towards locally - organized community outreach efforts aimed at getting more homes and businesses to install solar.

In spite of EPW's focus on Vitter's billionaire's club and political spending by environmental groups, Senator Vitter has refused to support campaign finance reform, or efforts aimed at reducing the wealthy's influence in politics, like the DISCLOSE Act.

There she oversaw the implementation of K - 12 reform efforts, supervised or presented workshops aimed at retooling teachers to address student behavior, promoting literacy instruction through strategies based on evidence - based practices, and engaging parents in their children's education.