Sentences with phrase «radical reform by»

The market - oriented charter advocates expected that students drawn to charters would spur radical reform by district leaders and unions experiencing the losses.

The Washington and Lee University School of Law has implemented perhaps the most radical reforms by making third year entirely experiential learning with strategies such as clinics, externships, and simulations.

Not exact matches

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

Polarization took over, and by the time the Democratic Party (with the almost unanimous support of mainline liberal churchpeople) had reformed itself enough to take the presidential nomination from traditional liberals and bestow it on a more radical candidate, the crusade's tactics had doomed the movement to minority status.

In that radical commitment to real dialogue across theological and creedal divides, he was faithful to the teaching of two of his masters: Arthur Carl Piepkorn, who helped plant the seed of Richard's ecumenical work by teaching him to think of Lutheranism as a reform movement within the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of Christ; and Abraham Joshua Heschel, who inspired Richard to enter into the divinely mandated entanglement of Jews and Christians of which St. Paul wrote to the Romans.

And thank God there are a growing number of feminists who are campaigning for a radical reform in this matter - not through getting men to wash an equal number of dishes, but by reviving in them the sense of what their man's role as a father calls for.

We also know that, by dismantling large parts of the Welfare State, radical reforms in the United Kingdom and the United States have eroded the necessary solidarity between rich and the poor.

The eleventh - hour attempt by Republicans in the U.S. Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act once seemed like the longest of long shots, but now appears to have a chance — albeit slim — at passage, even though it has been deemed the most «radical» of all the Obamacare reform efforts the GOP has debated thus far.

Spain, where republican theory was explicitly used as a guide by the Zapatero government in 2004 - 2011, has provided practical insight in this field, while in the Republic of Ireland, Fintan O'Toole has argued for radical reform to implement genuine republicanism.

Indeed, interest in «the Great Charter of Liberties» of 1215 had grown over the previous quarter of a century, fuelled by an explosion of radical reform publishing during the Regency years.

Professionals working in the public services, battered by constant upheavals, find the rhetoric of apparently endless «radical reform» even less appealing.

If you are going to have radical reform of the education system you HAVE to dismantle the embedded ability of veto held by local education authorities.

[52] Becoming active in the politics of the London Borough of Camden, Livingstone was elected Chair of Camden's Housing Committee; putting forward radical reforms, he democratised council housing meetings by welcoming local people, froze rents for a year, reformed the rate collection system, changed rent arrears procedures and implemented further compulsory purchase orders to increase council housing.

By the way, I was actually surprised at how radical the 2015 manifesto was on reforming democracy.

Baroness Henig argued that incremental change was more likely to be successful than very radical reforms, as demonstrated by former home secretary Ken Clarke's reforms of the early 1990s.

And Unlock Democracy hailed Mr Brown's words as «the most radical speech on democratic reform given by any serving government minister since Lloyd George».

Tessa Jowell produced Labour's woeful response: effectively, that these reforms were not as radical as those begun by New Labour.

Eighteen years of Tory power characterised by an aggressive programme of privatisation, contracting out of public services, radical reform of employment law and the taming of the trade unions had been swept away.

However, some radical policies were supported by both Conservative voters and the general public — radical reform of public services «including privatisation» was supported by 47 % of the public, and opposed by 30 %, while threatening to withdraw from the European Union was supported by 49 % of the public and opposed by 29 %.

I left soon after — not because Labour weren't left wing enough but because Blair was having his radical and neccessary public service reforms stifled by Brown et al..

Sure, there have been outriders floating radical ideas about policy and party reform, yet despite the fears among MPs that there would be a period of blood - letting following Owen Smith's emphatic defeat in the second leadership election last summer, there has been no abuse of the party's internal processes by Corbyn, evidenced by the failure of his supporters to secure berths in the pre-election carve - up of safe seats.

One party insider said there has been a fierce debate within the Miliband circle between those who believe that the reforms are a key test of his leadership and that a failure to introduce radical change would substantially damage his credibility - and those who feel he risks putting the party's financial viability at risk by allowing union members to opt out of their so - called political levy contributions to the party.

Although some of his proposals have been dismissed as too radical and unrealistic, his plans for welfare reform are understood to be highly respected by the Prime Minister.

This radical programme, which began in 1987, seeks to bring about fundamental changes in the way in which science is taught in American schools, not by «top down» reform — restructuring the curriculum and then expecting teachers to adopt the new improved version wholesale — but by establishing partnerships between science teachers and professional scientists working in universities and industry.

After all, this is a book written by a Pulitzer Prize — winning columnist for the world's most influential newspaper, guaranteed a wide and careful reading by millions, including the rich and powerful, and he is about to make a compelling case for urgent and radical school reform.

To that end, the authors endorse the radical reforms proposed by the school's most progressive elements.

With the premise that radical reform is needed, the 4.0 Schools team has been working since late 2010 to «rethink everything» and transform the future of schooling, in part by examining revolutions in other industries.

Last year, Edwards put her organization's federal tax - exempt status at risk by partnering with Stand for Children, which has become a radical reform group, in failed efforts to upend local school board elections.

Unless you were living under a rock as 2017 came to an end (and maybe you would have preferred it), you likely caught wind of the radical tax reforms proposed by the new administration.

offers an artistic and cultural survey of The Young Lords Organization — a radical social activist group founded by Puerto Rican youth in the 1960s that demanded reform in health care, education, housing, employment, and policing.

As was observed by Henry James MP, at another time of unprecedented radical change some 140 years ago, «those who had to frame and introduce a measure of legal reform had sometimes to contend with -LSB-...] with members of the legal profession, who might think that their interests would be affected by any change in the existing system.»

Ever since early nineties, starting with the well - known article by Jacqué and Weiler, much has been written on the various solutions, more radical suggestions for reform of the «judicial architecture» included.

Being unwilling to reform for fear of revolution fails to achieve attainable advantages but also ultimately risks radical change imposed by others.

In austerity Britain, it's unlikely that the OPG will be given the resources to take on some of the more radical measures advocated by supporters of law reforms.