Sentences with phrase «of reform efforts in»

Critics of reform efforts in Chicago say many of the well - funded initiatives to fix CPS involve opening more privately run charter schools and closing down the district's traditional neighborhood schools.

Michelle Rhee Group Donates $ 250,000 to Candidates in LAUSD Races A group led by former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee donated $ 250,000 Wednesday to contests for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education, adding further political fuel to a battle over the direction of reform efforts in the nation's second - largest school system...

It provides a summary of research and emerging practices in other states and districts designed to provide state lawmakers, legislative staff, State Board of Education members, Department of Education officials, and other key stakeholders information they need to ensure the effectiveness of their reform efforts in Pennsylvania.

Many of the reform efforts in the SDCS district were started by Superintendent Cohn's predecessor Alan Bersin, current California Secretary of Education.

NCPW: You've painted a complex portrait of reform efforts in urban districts, especially those plagued for years with high poverty and low achievement.

Todd Hathaway, a teacher who sat on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Common Core Implementation Panel and who has been critical of reform efforts in the state, said King «wasn't the most accessible commissioner.»

tells a gripping, and mostly depressing, tale of the reform efforts in woebegone Newark,

In many ways professional development is the link between the design and implementation of education reforms and the ultimate success of reform efforts in schools.

This report provides an overview of state teacher tenure reform in the United States as well as case studies of reform efforts in a sample of six states — Georgia, California, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, and Ohio — and the District of Columbia.

Blair Horner with the New York Public Interest Research Group is a veteran of the fits and starts of reform efforts in New York.

Finally, the draft «Statement to the Commissioner» raises extremely serious concerns about the pace of the reform effort in Connecticut.

CRSS published Leaving No Child Behind after commissioning nationally known researchers to write papers about different aspects of the reform effort in Houston Independent School District.

Not exact matches

It will be a long week in Washington with a lot of moving parts that could overshadow the tax reform effort, which Republicans hope will be the first major legislative win since Trump took office.

Ailes» legal team includes high - profile litigators such as John Quinn, the general counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Susan Estrich, the former campaign manager for Michael Dukakis and a notable voice in efforts to reform rape laws in the U.S.

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Without comprehensive immigration reform, which President Barack Obama estimates could lead to an expansion of up to $ 250 billion in economic output, this effort marks the latest in a patchwork of initiatives proffered by the administration.

In this context, we can not afford to turn our backs on the efforts of some Senators on reform.

Recently, Bloomberg reported that Jamie Dimon was a key player in an industry - wide effort to roll back a provision of the Dodd - Frank financial reform bill that would have required banks to split their derivative trading units from the rest of the bank.

Beijing's staunch resistance to democratic reforms in the former British colony reconfirms a long - standing pattern of rejecting any effort that could remotely undermine its power.

Martin Schulz, leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), has doubled down on social reform policies in a last - ditch effort to boost his election polls during a public television town hall - style exchange.

A couple of days ago, I participated in the «On Point» radio show about this (sort of) bispartisan effort to significantly rollback the Dodd - Frank financial reform bill that passed back in 2010.

Andy Brenner, head of international fixed income securities at National Alliance Securities, said in a note that the hiring of a special prosecutor «and talk about obstruction of justice being an impeachable offense» could push back efforts to enact Trump's tax reform and fiscal stimulus proposals for months.

The promised reforms, which include stripping Kalanick of some of his power when he returns and hiring an independent board chairman to rein him in, represent the company's most dramatic effort yet to move past the sexual harassment allegations and other scandals that have plagued Uber.

This news release contains forward - looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding: BlackBerry's expectations regarding new product initiatives and timing, including the BlackBerry 10 platform; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding new service offerings, and assumptions regarding its service revenue model; BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives, and the anticipated opportunities and challenges in fiscal 2014; anticipated demand for, and BlackBerry's plans and expectations relating to, programs to drive sell - through of the company's BlackBerry 10 smartphones; BlackBerry's expectations regarding financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014; BlackBerry's expectations with respect to the sufficiency of its financial resources; BlackBerry's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and its expectations relating to the benefits of its Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency («CORE») program and similar strategies; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding marketing and promotional programs; and BlackBerry's estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.

Ten years later, in another bipartisan effort, this time led by President Ronald Reagan and Senator Russell Long, the Tax Reform Act of 1984 altered the tax incentives to make ESOPs with modest levels of generally 5 - 20 % of employee stock ownership attractive to publicly traded stock market corporations.

This news release contains forward - looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding: BlackBerry's expectations regarding new product initiatives and timing, including the BlackBerry 10 platform; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding new service offerings, and assumptions regarding its service revenue model; BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives, and the anticipated opportunities and challenges in fiscal 2014; anticipated demand for, and BlackBerry's plans and expectations relating to, programs to drive sell - through of the Company's BlackBerry 7 and 10 smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets; BlackBerry's expectations regarding financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014; BlackBerry's expectations with respect to the sufficiency of its financial resources; BlackBerry's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and its expectations relating to the benefits of its Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency («CORE») program and similar strategies; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding marketing and promotional programs; and BlackBerry's estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.

The ambitious effort to shrink federal assistance has been dubbed «Welfare Reform 2.0», after Bill Clinton's overhaul of the welfare system in 1996.

They are reflected in the growing internationalisation of the Australian economy, with a sharper focus on Asia; in greater competitiveness, including in manufactured exports; in genuine efforts to raise productivity through co-operative workplace negotiations; and in a general clamour for speedier micro-economic reforms.

In light of the issues around the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other benchmarks that have arisen over the past decade, there has been an ongoing global reform effort to improve the functioning of interest rate benchmarks.

Kevin Burch, outgoing chairman of the American Trucking Associations Such efforts were on national display last week when President Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of fleet executives, drivers and other industry personnel — organized by ATA — on the merits of his tax reform plan at a stump speech in Harrisburg, Pa..

Although «structures of deceit» do exist in the church (if not as pervasively as Wills asserts), all efforts to expose them and reform the church will founder if they lack love.

It is certainly an effort at reforming current practice in almost every aspect of worship.

No reform of worship will progress far until much more effort is invested in teaching seminarians and clergy to think through the functions of Christian worship.

Perhaps Francis, who had a singular (and singularly intense) personality, experienced the temptation to think of reform, as some of our contemporaries do, in essentially Pelagian terms: as something we effect by our own efforts and our own lights.

Presidential debates, increased public affairs, innovations in news coverage, fewer commercials on children «s programs, more female and minority on - air employment, greater minority ownership of stations, «free speech messages» in many cities, greater responsiveness to viewer «s letters, and a temporary reduction in violent programs — all were brought about through the efforts of the broadcast reform groups.9.

With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

If the product of their work is not taken seriously» as, for instance, an invaluable reference in a synod of bishops dedicated to a program of comprehensive reform» it may be a very, very long time before people of their quality will make a comparable effort to help the bishops with much of anything.

In «The Grammar of Baptism» (December 1991) the Rev. Alvin F. Kimel, Jr. argues with considerable ingenuity against the efforts of feminists to «reform» the name of the Holy Trinity, from its current benighted state of «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,» in the direction of «non-gender-specific terms.&raquIn «The Grammar of Baptism» (December 1991) the Rev. Alvin F. Kimel, Jr. argues with considerable ingenuity against the efforts of feminists to «reform» the name of the Holy Trinity, from its current benighted state of «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,» in the direction of «non-gender-specific terms.&raquin the direction of «non-gender-specific terms.»

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

Unfortunately spirituality itself has been elaborated within the later Christian tradition very much in an individualistic manner: seeking inner purification and saving one's soul or advancing towards personal liberation, without an effort at a reform of the unjust social relationships and structures.

Nevertheless, all can acknowledge it was a genuine effort to reform the churches in the service of the church catholic.

After all, he had gone to a lot of effort learning his whole Sermon on the Mount in reformed Egyptian so these weird Jews from Jerusalem could understand.

The fatalism of the Orient and social despair such as that voiced by Ecclesiastes in a later age did not preclude efforts at reform.

Urukagina in Sumer had sought reform through legislation many centuries before, and six hundred years after his time Hammurabi of Babylon had renewed the effort.

Meanwhile, going hand in hand with the increased tempo of revivalism and the redoubled efforts at foreign missions was a fresh impetus to reform.

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

What began as an effort to reform the institutional Catholic Church has become its own institution in need of reform.

This rising tide of cultural domination can be turned back in two ways: through the support of efforts in the third world to achieve local communication that reflects local needs; and through reform of the media in the first world — which we will consider in some detail in Chapter 11, «What We Can Do.»

Such thinking would appear to eliminate organized religion from any concerted effort to deal with world hunger, poverty and illiteracy, public health and sanitation, and prison reform, despite the disturbing implications of Christ's warning:»... for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me....

Bonhoeffer's consistent effort for a non-religious interpretation of Christianity was to reform the church in such a way that it could truly be a prophet and servant to the contemporary man.