Sentences with phrase «political reform agenda»

«They need to make them feel comfortable with, even proud of, what the coalition is doing across a wider range of policy areas than just the civil liberties and the political reform agenda.»

Of course there is no formal link between those different elements of the constitutional and political reform agenda that this Government are pursuing.

Not exact matches

Surprisingly, many progressive Reform Rabbis have expressed public support for the Christian Zionists and the Christian right, knowing full well that the Christian right's theological and political agendas are contrary to the Reform Jewish community's longstanding progressive stance on civil liberties and human rights.

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).

In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.

Electoral reform is favoured, but their political agenda seems a somewhat piecemeal one.

released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

Under the banner of «Advancing the Democracy Agenda,» the governor's 14 - point plan lays out a familiar suite of reforms, including ethics proposals that «close the LLC loophole» in political spending, procurement reform that would more closely monitor how state contracts are awarded and voting reforms like same - day voter registration and early voting.

If voting reform especially through the advocates of PR is now going to be taken forward it has to form part of the agenda of political parties, or even one party's manifesto which would not necessarily require recourse to another referendum to take it forward.

Like the title of his recent book, My Scotland, Our Britain, and his post-referendum agenda for further devolution to Scotland and broader constitutional reform, Brown's vision has offered no place for or political recognition for England as a nation.

In the State of the State policy book released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

The big agenda should be the reform of capitalism or it won't be long before some kind of tables - upender like Trump or Corbyn does hold some political power.

It is a painful process for Cabinet secretary admired throughout government for being able to rush through a radical reform agenda with a minimum of press hostility or political interference.

There are various bits that make up the mosaic of this Government's political and constitutional reform agenda.

Leading from the front — on phone - hacking, banking reform, putting the crisis of the «squeezed middle» on the political agenda before anyone else.

On Wednesday, with only four days remaining of this year's legislative session, Cuomo announced a new prong to his ethics reform agenda: an ambitious plan to better regulate the activities of political action committees and limit the impact of shadowy independent expenditures that he says are all too often not actually independent from the candidate they are supporting.

In March, he created a political - action committee that will not only monitor the voting records of Albany legislators on good - government issues but also, he hopes, shame them into supporting a reform agenda.

There are certainly reform - minded legislators who are sympathetic to Cuomo's agenda, but Albany is a complex, temperamental political organism.

On further inspection this division has existed within the Labour Party since its inception and when electoral reform has appeared on the political agenda in the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, it has prompted debate within the party.

However, our campaigning pushed the role of the Bishops onto the political agenda, raising hopes that the Government's plan for reform could be changed and more recently, we supported amendments which would have led to the removal of the Bishops.

«While no longer a candidate, I will continue to passionately and relentlessly pursue a reform education agenda as an education activist, a columnist and blogger, and as the co-owner of the influential political news organization,» Allon said in a statement.

Answering a question from ITV News Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship the Prime Minister said «I think the Conservative party is delighted that we've got a renegotiation reform and referendum agenda, there's complete unity about that.»

Universal Credit, the brainchild of Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is the centrepiece of the Government's welfare reform agenda and is vital to David Cameron's political and economic strategy.

Clegg says he won't compromise on his four key priorities, the ones on the front of the manifesto: the pupil premium, taking the low - paid out of tax, the green agenda and political reform.

Gordon Brown yesterday endorsed radical measures to put a revived parliament back at the centre of British political life, in a reform package designed to revive his flagging constitutional agenda and restore MPs» lost credibility.

With the general election approaching, large - scale Lords reform is again on the political agenda.

Ofsted was not set up to push through education reforms against resistance from unions, nor was it established to push any particular party political agenda.

School reform, as formulated by the summit, moved so forcefully onto the nation's political agenda that, in the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton had to promise to outtough Bush on education.

While there has been a clear schism between reform's free market enthusiasts and its social justice wing, there can be little doubt that the movement's center of gravity has shifted sharply to the left, even though political progressives mostly regard the standard reform agenda — choice, charters, testing, anti-union policies — with contempt.

Political failures like Common Core, Portfolio Management in New Orleans, electoral defeats (like those recently in Tennessee), and repudiations of the entire ed reform agenda by Black Lives Matter, the NAACP, and the DNC despite extensive courting by left - leaning ed reformers suggest that ed reform might benefit from learning a thing or two about how politics works.

Is this a bold call for real social justice or a case of successful, bipartisan reform being overrun by identity politics and left - wing political agendas?

Unless major steps are taken immediately — and nothing on the horizon suggests strong gubernatorial or other high - level political leadership on education — the reform agenda will be buried.

The President's America 2000 plan has been alternately characterized as a political agenda, a strategy for reforming public schools, a call to involve the private sector, an attempt to bring choice into the educational arena, and a crusade.

Thus, while the analyses upon which the report is based have some technical merits, the narrative seems more of an attempt to advance a political agenda opposed to the reform studied than to improve understanding of complex policy issues.

«History has shown that political parties and reform agendas succeed when they appeal to middle class, suburban families,» said Hess.

«For the sake of the children, commit to get it right,» said Patrick, who has called education reform one of the cornerstones of his political agenda.

Make no mistake, the political school «reform» agenda intends to destroy public schools.

Like the situation in Bridgeport, Special Master Adamowski has pushed his extremist corporate reform political agenda over the interests of the people of Windham.

Just the same old same old blatant hypocrisy, anti-education reform agenda and leftist political bent.

«People can call themselves Democrats for Education Reform — it's a free country — but if your agenda is to shut teachers and school employees out of the political process and not lift a finger to prevent cuts in education, in my book you're not a reformer, you're not helping education, and you're sure not much of a Democrat,» said state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, a registered Democrat whose office is nonpartisan.

TRENTON — A new political action group started by two New Jersey hedge - fund financiers aims to put money — a lot of money — behind an education reform agenda shared by Gov. Chris Christie and reviled by the state's largest teachers union.

To Devos, the failure of her favored reform agenda in a political playground where she has wielded unchallenged influence is simply that it has not gone far enough.

Rather than requiring that any candidate seeking political support from teachers have a solid progressive record on public education and articulate clear - cut policies and positions that are diametrically opposed to the corporate education reform industry, there is a growing acceptance of candidates who have thrown their support behind the charter school industry and the broader education reform agenda.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

The Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) purports to be a non-partisan, 501 (c)(3)(non-profit) organization, but their agenda is extremely political and their funds are being used to undermine Connecticut's public schools and unfairly label Connecticut's public school students and teachers.

Day after day, week after week, month after month, Dannel «Dan» Malloy and his political appointees have pushed their corporate education reform agenda.

The nation's leading public education advocate, Diane Ravitch, along with a host of teachers, parents, academics and public education advocates have been heroic in their efforts to push back the Corporate Education Reform Industry and its truly un-American political agenda.

Unfortunately, corporate education reform is incredibly complicated and has sadly been rife with misinformation, conflicting viewpoints, and hardened political agendas.

Considering the financial and political resources that are being utilized by the corporate education reform industry to push their agenda, I truly believe that Diane Ravitch is a hero and her actions on behalf of our nation's children, teachers, schools and parents is heroic.

But this ideological think tank is a disturbing example of all that is wrong with the current education reform movement that has allowed people without experience or expertise as educators to perpetuate an education reform agenda through the weight of money, political influence, and media compliance.