Sentences with phrase «of substantial reforms»

This submission considered a number of substantial reforms proposed by the Reform Bill which aim to address the inequities in the Native Title Act.

«We have been clear that rapid and real implementation of substantial reforms, addressing the legitimate demands of peaceful Syrian protesters, is what is urgently needed,» he commented.

Importantly, these are the skills that standardized tests are least effective in assessing, rendering our state accountability system outdated and in need of substantial reform.

Not exact matches

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Garden City, New York, and San Francisco, California, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of investors and achieved substantial corporate governance reforms in numerous cases nationwide, including federal securities fraud actions, shareholder class actions, and shareholder derivative actions.

Assessing the impact of tax reform requires a substantial amount of data.

Tax reform did introduce substantial additional complexity to tax equity finance, however not all of the changes have been negative for solar companies.

Various countries in your favourite punching bag of Southern Europe have undergone very substantial and painful reforms.

With the GFC close to 10 years ago now and a substantial amount of regulatory reform having been undertaken, the focus is turning to implementation and taking stock of the effectiveness of the reforms.

Modifying these parameters could have substantial effects on the ultimate costs or savings of a reform plan.

The transition to private savings accounts would involve substantial financial costs, but so would any of the potential reforms of the Social Security system.

Lifting the wretched of the earth out of their misery will require a combination of thoroughgoing economic and political reforms in the poor countries and substantial aid from the developed countries.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder's substantial water entitlements and allocations have been acquired through the Australian Government's investment in water - saving infrastructure and water buybacks throughout the irrigation districts of the Murray - Darling Basin, as part of national water reforms (as per the Water Act 2007 and the Murray - Darling Basin Plan).

The Australian Law Reform Commission recently recommended substantial reworking of the Copyright Act and specifically recommended including similar exemptions to the «fair dealing» laws in America.

The bill implements a substantial number of the competition law reforms recommended by the independent Harper Competition policy review and agreed to by the government in its response to the review.

Neoliberal institutional and economic reforms have attracted substantial scholarly attention in recent decades, but the role of law in the neoliberal story has been relatively neglected.

Both advocate the 16 - year - old vote, a constitutional convention, House of Lords reform, and an in / out referendum on EU membership when a proposed treaty change would transfer (substantial) powers to Europe.

The substantial financial earnings made by individual Church of England Bishops from their privileged place within the House of Lords have come under scrutiny, leading to further calls from the British Humanist Association (BHA) for their removal as a part of the impending reforms to the upper chamber.

Foley points out that the information age and the emergence of a younger, educated elite are factors that have forced substantial developments in the GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) and have resulted in political and economic reforms.

Any substantial increase in the number of states with legal recreational cannabis for adult consumption would represent an important milestone for US drug policy reform.

ALBANY — Good - government advocates are pinning their hopes for passage of substantial ethics and campaign finance reforms on very public examinations of alleged corruption set to take place over the next six months.

In the 2014 State of State handbook which accompanied the speech, the governor detailed these as well as other reform initiatives, emphasizing that matching small donations with public funds would give «voice to small donors» and «help enable a diverse pool of candidates with substantial grassroots support, but little access to large donors, to run competitive campaigns.»

[1] Even if it were the case, the advisable reform of Articles 2 and 3 would require special procedures for a total or substantial reform (Article 168), which first require a 2/3 majority in the Congress and the Senate.

«He has now claimed that we need substantial reform of Cap but it was his government that negotiated a ten - year agreement only two years ago.

[6] Others claim that at that point in time Blair preferred short - term ideas to anything more substantial, [4] and it was another decade before the inception of Blair's major reform to welfare — the replacement of Incapacity Benefit by Employment and Support Allowance.

Both hospitals fall under the umbrella of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System, which announced the cuts on Monday due to substantial reductions in reimbursement from the federal and state governments and decreases in revenue caused by healthcare reform.

What is emerging is the outline of a left Keynesian policy, based on substantial public investment, a national investment bank and regional banks, the reform of company law to secure pensions and prevent dividend abuse, a proactive industrial strategy, the promotion of co-operatives and industrial democracy.

Those reforms have helped to generate record rates of employment and in particular a substantial reduction in workless households.

Liberal Democrats should press the government to propose substantial reforms in Europe: a smaller European commission whose members are individually accountable to the European parliament for their conduct of their office; a council that meets openly whenever it debates legislative matters; a core of human and social rights embodied in the next amended treaty.

This agreement with a company that has substantial business before New York State was announced a day before Cuomo announced that the outside financial interests of domestic partners would not be disclosed under a two - way ethics reform agreement he has made with the Assembly.

«We understand the government's determination to deliver a substantial programme of reforms across the public sector, but we can not afford to get policing wrong, and unless greater clarity emerges in the very near future I fear that we run the risk of compromising the safety of citizens for reasons of expediency,» he will say.

This agreement with a company that has substantial business before the state came a day before Cuomo and the Assembly struck their two - way reform deal, which doesn't require outside income disclosure for spouses of significant others.

In reality, a convention represents the one chance we have to free ourselves from the corruption of Albany and work outside the normal legislative process to enact meaningful and substantial reforms.

In a joint letter, education reform groups thanked Governor Cuomo, Senate Leaders Skelos and Klein, and Assembly Speaker Silver for the substantial improvements you made to New York State's teacher evaluation law as part of this year's budget.

Reform also recommended a substantial increase in social housing stock in an effort to reduce the housing benefit bill, which increased from the equivalent of # 16.6 billion in 2004/5 to # 24.4 billion in 2014/15.

They've talked a big game on deregulation, Nick Clegg's Freedom Bill was supposedly going to be the most substantial recalibration of the relationship between the individual and the state since the 1832 Reform Act.

«However, the central lesson that future governments must learn from the experience of these reforms is that never again should such substantial changes to qualifications that are critical to the life chances of young people be handled in such an incoherent and ill - considered way.»

Ukip's victory in the European elections has prompted many politicians to begin questioning the pace of change, however - potentially boosting the chances of more substantial reform packages.

Tellingly, he punctuated his speech this week by drawing the attention of his audience to the fact that the «most important thing he would say» was that the link between growth and rising prosperity for working people had been broken, and that only substantial economic reform could restore it.

While the analysis did not examine secondary effects of subsidies, Gaspar said the results are «qualitatively robust» and allow experts to «safely conclude that energy subsidies are very large and their reform will generate substantial benefits» for both governments and the people they represent.

Over the past several years Florida has attempted substantial reforms of its struggling public school system, the fourth - largest in the country and one that consistently ranks close to the bottom on academic indicators, including high - school graduation rates and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

In an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout rate.

Solidly placing all the money in the child's backpack, varying the amount according to her circumstances, giving families substantial say over what schools (or other vendors) will receive it, then empowering the school to spend it in the manner that does that child the most good — this may turn out to be the most liberating reform of all.

For alongside the reforms he implemented, Klein provides a second list just as long of the reforms that just died: less binding teacher tenure, serious increases in teaching time, a streamlined disciplinary process for teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pay.

The superintendent, who had envisioned radical districtwide reform, now plans to seek substantial changes next school year in only a fourth of the city's public schools.

Sen. John Kerry appears headed for a fall presidential campaign in which education will be playing a supporting role, with the Democratic nominee offering the politically popular blend of «reform» and substantial spending increases for schools.

«This apparently minor change masks the most substantial reform in a quarter of a century to the key general qualification offered to learners in England.

If we agree that educational administration programs don't provide the leaders we need, and if three decades of reform haven't made much difference, why is Thomas Lasley so confident that minor adjustments in courses or programs will produce substantial change?

For example, the Gates Foundation's small school reforms were widely panned as a flop in early reviews relying on student test scores, but a number of later rigorous studies showed (sometimes substantial) positive effects on outcomes such as graduation and college enrollment.

If CCSS were to enhance public knowledge of the performance of local schools as compared to schools elsewhere in the state and nation, the impact on the school reform debate could be substantial, especially (but not exclusively) in those districts that are ranked below average nationally.