Sentences with phrase «real need of reform»

«Our extensive investigation uncovered policies in real need of reform by the Buffalo Police Department and the Erie County Medical Examiner.

Its report identified policies of the Buffalo Police Department and the Erie County Medical Examiner's Office that the AG's Office said were in «real need of reform,» however.

Not exact matches

We remain cautious and selective in Japan, where our main concern is that reform could stop shy of the real structural changes needed for corporate Japan to gain competitiveness, improve profitability, and overcome the country's daunting debt and demographic challenges.

The real plight of one of the guys around the table showed the kind of reform we need.

We would still need major entitlement reform and related health care reforms (among a whole lot else), but the above policies would give Republicans something real to say about the concerns of many Americans who spent the election just hearing about how the Republicans plan to cut marginal tax rates for high earners.

The stock market's roller - coaster ride (as illustrated, uh, ably by The New York Post yesterday) shows there's a real need for pension reform, writes EJ McMahon of the fiscally conservative Empire Center.

We need a plan for social security reform, stronger protection for workers and a repeal of the trade union act, and a wide review on workers rights, a real living wage, investment in local services, and reversing Tory cuts to policing.

«New Yorkers are barely hanging on after years of economic turmoil,» Mermel said, «We need a new team to tackle economic issues head on without conflicts of interest or ethical baggage that would hinder or prevent real reform.»

«Something must be done to drain the venality from the swamp of corruption that is consuming Albany and Democrats are committed to using the lessons of the Bruno affair to implement real ethics reforms that are needed to make government work again.»

In central ways, public support for the media remains stuck in the twentieth century, and some parts of these support systems are in need of real reform to be brought into the twenty - first we live in.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

I look forward to working with the governor to institute real fiscal and governmental reforms in Albany while ensuring that the needs of Westchester County are met.»

In a meandering first - person meditation on the urgency of ethics reform, Cuomo framed the need for real change as a reflection of the national mood.

«The Working Families Party is a out - of - touch group that opposes a hard property tax cap, real pension reform, and a spending cap that New York families and businesses desperately need.»

«There's been a steep decline in the public's faith in government, and the willingness of Congressional candidates to sign this pledge would show an understanding of the need to take real steps to bring reform and restore public faith in government,» Koch said in a press release.

• Continuing to promote education reform - ensuring that high school graduates are fully prepared for college and careers, and making sure that workforce - training programs address real - world needs of New York employers.

Flanagan pointed specifically to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's unique attempt to help Democrats raise money in 2014, which has been the subject of a criminal referral and a legislative response, as something that would need to be addressed in order to «achieve real campaign finance reform and target corruption.»

«We need to be talking about real solutions, and we need to pass common sense gun reforms that the majority of Americans support.»

Our education system needs real change... fundamental reform... the kind of reform that Governor Cuomo outlined last month in his State of the State presentation.

Taxpayers in New York will get the two things they need most — lower taxes and the continuation of essential and high quality municipal services — only if Albany finally demonstrates the will to reform state mandates, giving local officials the tools and flexibility to implement real and sustainable property tax relief.

Here's how this election reform plan would work: Instead of needing large corporate contributions or immense personal wealth to run for office, candidates who gather enough modest grassroots donations from real New Yorkers would get matching funds from the state so they can compete on Election Day.

Instead of using immigration reform as a wedge issue, like many leaders in Washington, Utah passed legislation to help manage immigration based on our real economic needs.

«We have been clear that rapid and real implementation of substantial reforms, addressing the legitimate demands of peaceful Syrian protesters, is what is urgently needed,» he commented.

«David Cameron's negotiations are a missed opportunity to make the case for the real reforms the EU needs: democratisation, stronger workers» rights, an end to austerity and a halt to the enforced privatisation of public services.»

Also at 2 p.m., Assemblyman Mark Johns will be joined by local elected officials, including Town of Penfield Supervisor Tony LaFountain and Town of Webster Supervisor Ron Nesbitt, to discuss a constitutional convention and the need for real reform in Albany at a press conference, Penfield Town Hall, 3100 Atlantic Avenue, Penfield.

And in her Tory conference speech, she said: «To make Britain a great meritocracy, we must move beyond this agenda and deliver real social reform across every layer of society so that those whom the system would currently miss — those just above the threshold for help today yet those who are by no means rich or well off — are given the help they need.

If there's one takeaway from this election, it is that we need real campaign finance reform in this country, and we need to elect leaders who have dedicated themselves to getting corporate money out of our electoral process.»

«Such a scheme violates the fundamental checks - and - balances principle that underlies our state constitution, as it does not establish the independence required of a procurement watchdog and therefore will not achieve the real accountability and reform our State desperately needs.

New Yorkers deserve more than rhetoric and hand wringing from our elected officials, they need real reforms to respond to what the US attorney has called a «culture of corruption.»

There's been a lot of head fakes, misdirection but we need to get real reform in Albany or this is going to continue.»

Even though Foley did not receive the CEA board's endorsement, he «remains committed to real education reform, including addressing the needs of the 100,000 children who are in under - performing schools and closing Connecticut's achievement gap, which remains the worst in the nation,» spokesman Chris Cooper said.

Real electoral reform at Westminster is long overdue, but we first need a General Election so that we have a House of Commons that commands trust.

We need real ethics reforms: eliminating pension benefits for convicted corrupt officials, a ban on personal use of campaign funds, a full - time legislature with sharp limits on conflicts of interest, and full - disclosure requirements for personal finances.

We need real voting reforms: automatic and pre-voter registration, early voting, a constitutional amendment to allow same - day voter registration and mail - in voting, and enough funding, training and reforms to the state and county boards of elections to stop screw - ups like the massive Brooklyn voter purge.

Mike McKee of the Real Rent Reform campaign group said he was optimistic rent regulations would be renewed, but warned that more work needs to be done strengthening them.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

«Once again this highlights the need for real ethics reforms, something the Senate Democrats have been calling on for years, and really shows the absurdity that there has been no talk in this budget process of cleaning up Albany and passing the strong ethics reforms,» said Mike Murphy, a spokesman for the Senate Democratic Conference, a 23 - member group which is in the minority.

The only way to end the abuse of stop - and - frisk in New York City is with real reform, and I am the only candidate committed to enacting the changes we urgently need.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

The party when embraced market reforms, you know, these media outlets realized that they needed to deliver something that people wanted to watch and so real journalism was part of that and so when this man was able to stand up to the government and the word got out in the international media, it quickly made its way onto the Internet, so people in China could see it and then it spread very quickly on text messages on cell phones and on instant messaging, and e-mail.

At the level of disciplinary experts, there needs to be continuous involvement of real - world users of the disciplines, in addition to reform - minded academics.

If the Common Core's architects are done explaining its virtues — if they think that eighteen months of explaining its merits to a moderately attentive audience of self - selected elites amidst tumultuous debates over health care reform and the stimulus is sufficient — and that everyone needs to just sit down and get with the program, then I feel comfortable predicting that this whole exercise will end real poorly.

Marking three years since the review into school funding was released Haythorpe said that needs - based funding for schools is the most important issue in the education sector and the Gonski reforms are the best chance it has had in a generation of getting real change and equity.

Almost every presentation or speech or conversation about educational reform inevitably includes some reference to the amount of support and training teachers and administrators will need in order to make key reforms real and effective in classrooms.

The attempt to blame the shooting on the discipline reforms advocated in the Obama - era guidance is another in a long line of attempted distractions from the real issue: the need to strengthen our nation's gun laws to help reduce the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

Real reform can only begin when we deepen the conversation of teacher and leader practice from a focus on evaluation checklists and labels to what is needed to affect change: time and resources to focus on what truly matters higher levels of student achievement.

Cosmo Garvin's piece «Time for Action on Sac High» is out of touch with the need for real education reform not just in Sacramento, but across the state.

These arguments are arranged around a set of themes: Federally mandated test - score abuse; ineffective and misleading; educationaly harmful; hurts children who most need help; bad tools for the wrong job; pushes school reform in the wrong direction; and real improvement needed and possible.

At the center of this reform was a set of goals for students that addressed the needs of a democracy for preparing well - educated citizens, including focuses on thinking and problem solving, real - life applications, self - sufficiency, team membership, and interdisciplinary integration.

Ohio Auditor Dave Yost said earlier this month that Ohio had a «broken system» of charter sponsorship and that the state needed «real reform.»