Sentences with phrase «on recent reform efforts»

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On that note, recent efforts to convene two pilot Citizens» Assemblies by the Electoral Reform Society with civic partners, in the Solent and Sheffield, are worth supporting and studying.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a recent speech, Hillary Clinton embraced the Obama administration's efforts to reform school discipline policies that rely heavily on suspension and expulsion, noting that these policies disproportionately affect black students.

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.

Trump's recent proposal to eliminate Title II, which was advanced last month by a House Committee on Appropriations, 16 entirely puts at risk these evidence - based reform efforts, which are up to states to implement.17 Advocates must work to minimize cuts to Title II and other federal programs to ensure that states and districts have operating funds and the ability to implement innovative policies and programs with fidelity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This post will focus on three recent developments aimed at reforming our patent system: (1) the USPTO's efforts ad crowd - sourcing the search for prior art, (2) heavyweight technology industry players» newfound interest in lobbying Congress to take action on software patent reform, and (3) a recent conference at a Silicon Valley law school seeking solutions to problems surrounding software patents.