Sentences with phrase «pace of reform»

This proposed pace of reform is simply breath - taking.

«Labour's pace of reform in the public services has been frenetic, legislative - driven, very top - down, and often contradictory,» he told The Guardian.

We're about to give you a change of address come next election day,» said Kirsten John Foy, the northeast regional director of the National Action Network and a critic of what he sees as the slow pace of reform at the Police Department.

The Los Angeles Times is one of three papers to be «strongly supportive» of charter schools, which makes sense considering the frustrating pace of reform within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the exciting development of L.A. - based charter management organizations such as Green Dot.

However, there are doubts over the proposed breakneck pace of reform, given that the future of Scottish MPs at Westminster once power is devolved — the West Lothian question — has been posed but unanswered for decades.

But while local groups like Mastery Charter Schools have seized the opportunity to expand their reach, the dizzying pace of reform — as well as complaints about backroom deals, skyrocketing costs, and a lack of transparency — have led to protests.

Back in April, the Senate sent a loud and clear message about its impatience with the slow pace of reform by passing, 99 - 0, the NAR - backed Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act, S. 350.

However, there is a long way to go and the raft of recent announcements from the teacher unions over their spring conference season are testament to increasing dissatisfaction in the profession about the scale and pace of reform in the sector.

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators led by Shiite leader Muqtada al - Sadr gathered in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on Feb. 26 to protest government corruption and the slow pace of reform, Rudaw Continue Reading

Al - Jadaan said the pace of reforms was good and growth in the private sector was robust.

Porsche also said he expected new VW boss Herbert Diess to step up the pace of reform at the group, which is still struggling to emerge from under the cloud of its 2015 emissions scandal.

And, as I've written before, though the pace of reform has slowed lately due to cyclical pressures, the reforms that have been implemented are ones that are supportive to growth.

But we need to keep up the pace of reform, including modernizing the public sector.

Whether citizens accept a diminution of the social compact that provides a cradle - to - grave safety net will undoubtedly affect the pace of reforms.

Only as the pace of reform quickened did he discover why.

For the last eight years, Cuomo has used the IDC to carefully calibrate the pace of reform in New York, a mechanism that allows him to build a resume that is ostensibly appealing to voters in both his home state and more conservative areas of the country.

Warnings were voiced by staff and unions at the time about the scale and pace of the reforms, but they were not heeded.

Speaking to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust conference, the prime minister accepted that «sometimes the pace of reform has been hard, even confusing».

Some want to damage the Lib Dems, others are wary of the pace of reform while others simply object to the idea of a mainly elected second chamber.

On a legislative level, the coalition between the GOP and the renegade Democrats — known as the Independent Democratic Conference — allows Cuomo to control the pace of the reform coming out of Albany.

«I believe the pace of these reforms is too hard and too fast... Something must give.

But Mr Johnson was dismissive of those who insisted the pace of reform was too fast, or the changes - which will see the creation of self - governing trust schools - were untested.

Delegates at the Labour conference in Manchester dismissed health secretary Patricia Hewitt's appeal to disregard Unison's motion, which warns the government's pace of reform is causing «immense damage» to many NHS services.

Michael Gove said they were «accelerating the pace of reform» and the review was needed because of the growth in academies.

Mr Gove told the BBC some Labour local authorities were «a bit unhappy» about the pace of reform, but «the truth is at the moment we're actually providing funding to local authorities and to schools for the same service».

It will mean not a slowing down of reform but only a stepping up in the pace of reform.»

It upends the stasis that pervades so many urban districts: the veto power that teachers unions and other adult interests hold over all decisions; the culture of low expectations that blames social factors (and the parents themselves) for poor student achievement; the slow pace of reform that subjects yet another generation of students to failure while the system struggles to get its act together.

It's not ideological; it has more to do with sequencing and the pace of reform.

The pace of reform was greatly accelerated with the release in 1983 of the blue - ribbon report A Nation at Risk.

Frustrated with the pace of reform, this person asks the great philosopher of progressive education how to bring about real change in American schools.

Should the pace of reform hinge on whether politicians give a fiddler's fart about the futures of low income kids?

And NASUWT General Secretary Chris Keates said huge questions remained about the scope and pace of reform.

It said: «The pace of reform has been high and lacks a long - term vision, an adequate school improvement infrastructure and a clear implementation strategy all stakeholders share.»

The pace of reform was greatly accelerated with the release in 1983 of the blue - ribbon report A Nation at Rist.

But the pace of reform has slowed, while transmission bottlenecks exacerbate reliability problems and local market power.

However, the reforms have not yet been completed and the pace of reform has slowed in recent years; the target date for full retail competition has slipped to 2002 or even later.

In a bid to maintain the pace of reforms that have seen New York City's foster care population plummet, the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) is seeking local nonprofit agencies to...