Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's campaign is responding to Republican Harry Wilson's 5 -
point plan for reforming the office he's trying to hold onto this November.
The plan — Leading the Profession: NEA's Three -
Point Plan for Reform — had a clear message: Teachers must take the lead, and they must take responsibility for their profession.
Not exact matches
But as Congress moves toward repealing the mandate as part of tax
reform, voters, legislators and industry experts have flocked to its defense,
pointing out that doing away with it would cause already high premiums
for individual health
plans to rise by 10 percent.
The 14 -
point reform plan included discounted premiums
for young adults, the creation of easily understood categories of cover, and cover upgrades that remove waiting periods
for mental health services.
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Making many hard choices, as this
plan does, is praiseworthy, and the draft represents a starting
point for a bipartisan tax
reform deal.
In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term
planning, educational
reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the
point of access
for new groups and a public realm
for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).
As the DP notes, Cuomo today sent an e-mail to supporters, asking them to sign on to his five -
point reform plan and informing them that the needs of «ordinary New Yorkers» are being «ignored in Albany, and government officials have forgotten they work
for you.»
Howie Hawkins, the recent Green Party candidate
for Governor, issued the following statement today in response to the announcement that Governor Cuomo would require state lawmakers to adopt a 5
point ethics
reform plan as part of the state budget process.
The remarks came after Wilson listed a broad three -
point plan for righting the state that includes restructuring government; focusing on workforce development in a region - by - region, industry - specific way; and
reforming Albany's lax ethical standards.
Cuomo
pointed to the failed effort to achieve juvenile justice
reform, as well as a
plan he proposed at the start of the year — providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools
for families earning less than $ 125,000.
Another candidate, the former superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department Eric Dinallo, who is also credited with dusting off the Martin Act
for Spitzer, has a six -
point plan for getting the job of
reform done.
The six -
point plan, which also called
for reducing incarceration rates and investing in schools to close what King termed the «school to prison pipeline,» is the broadest package yet proposed by Democratic gubernatorial candidates, though they all have pushed various justice
reform issues, particularly Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.
The group's two chairs have given Gotham Gazette and other media outlets conflicting timelines
for the release of what they said is a 49 -
point reform plan.
He suggested that it hewed closely to a five -
point plan he unveiled last month, which included enhanced disclosure requirements, per diem
reform, a ban on personal use of campaign funds, and stiffer penalties
for ethics violations.
The pair's three -
point plan seeks to expedite the 10 - year timeline
for closure pledged by the Mayor by implementing aggressive prison population reductions through the siting of new jails citywide and
reforming city detention and incarceration practices.
A judge ruled in favor of the resident, which prompted Governor Andrew Cuomo to issue a statement, commending the ruling and
pointing to what the Democrat calls the centerpiece of his criminal justice
reform package — a
plan to eliminate monetary bail all together
for those facing misdemeanor or nonviolent felony charges.
As his campaign's education «talking
points» read, «Governor Romney's
plan reforms [NCLB] by emphasizing transparency and responsibility
for results.
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for Comprehensive School
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The three -
point plan calls
for raising the bar on teacher quality before new educators reach the classroom; making sure that teachers remain at the top of their game throughout their careers; and helping teachers lead
reform Giving Teachers a Voice
Those
reforms point to the larger project Bobb has undertaken in the district — one that resembles Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's
plan for education
reform on a national scale.
Such a
point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the
plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process
for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard
for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without
pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed
for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in
reforming American public education).
Retaining Section 1031 was one of the talking
points for the Spring 2015 and 2016 Hill visits, and NAR joined a letter to the Clinton and Trump presidential campaigns stressing the importance of retaining this provision in any future tax
reform plans.