Sentences with phrase «other policy changes»

This, along with other policy changes, helped put the FHA back into the black and restored the agency's capital reserves to the required level.

«We've got to look at other policy changes that will help us do that.

[7] But the former secretary of education for the state of Massachusetts, David Driscoll, during whose tenure the policy was introduced, attributes much of the state's success to the introduction of the exam requirement (even though he implemented numerous other policy changes as well).

The question of how much Rhode Island's pension reforms saved taxpayers by moving to a hybrid system (and putting in place other policy changes) is an important one.

When pushing to lift caps on the number of charter schools or to make other policy changes, they have frequently agreed to prohibitions on for - profit operators as the requisite pound of flesh.

He doubted there would be any big jolts to the wine market from shifts in free trade policies and other policy changes.

New York could be facing its first major shortfall in several years, partly due to falling tax collections and federal health care and other policy changes.

We also think that Budgets should return to being principally a vehicle to announce revenue measures, rather than spending or other policy changes.»

Under a practice begun by his predecessor, former Governor David Paterson, Cuomo can offer lawmakers the choice of accepting his spending plan, with all the other policy changes included, or reject it and shut down the government.

They look for a strong economy, for their own rising living standards, and for other policy changes that go in a direction they like.»

As important, the analysis does not consider any measures of state policies except for exit exams, implying that any other policy changes for the three decades between 1971 and 2004 are either irrelevant for student performance or are not correlated with the introduction and use of exit exams.

For instance, first - wave reforms were sometimes part of omnibus education bills that included other policy changes, such as increased spending on K — 12 education.

Such issues, together with subsidy cuts and other policy changes, last year led to a 32 % decline in investment in solar power, says Hisayo Takada, Japan energy project leader for Greenpeace Japan in Tokyo.

After 2013's record breaking $ 3.2 Billion in severe weather related losses across Canada, many insurance companies are having to resort to rate increases and other policy changes to continue providing property insurance in our province.