Sentences with phrase «recent issue of reform»

The most recent issue of Reform, the journal of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), is devoted to Native Title.

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Rather than add to the mass of coverage that the recent market events in China have generated, or to continue expressing my concern about the intractable arithmetic of global demand imbalances, I plan to discuss the process of Chinese reform and adjustment in this issue of my blog.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»

Hawkins is an advocate for campaign finance reform and said the recent trial of Joe Percoco, a former aide to Cuomo and a longtime friend who was convicted on corruption charges earlier this month, displays issues apparent in the state's campaign finance structure.

In anticipation of the governor's proposal, which has not yet been publicly revealed, here are a few observations on Andrew Cuomo 2014, Inc.'s most recent campaign finance disclosure statement and the campaign finance reform issues which it frames.

«Of course the two parties have their differences and (in common with all recent governments) we have so far failed to resolve the issue of House of Lords reform,» wrote CameroOf course the two parties have their differences and (in common with all recent governments) we have so far failed to resolve the issue of House of Lords reform,» wrote Cameroof House of Lords reform,» wrote Cameroof Lords reform,» wrote Cameron.

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.

«With the recent spate of arrests and polls showing keen public interest in reform issues, members of the public ought to at least be able to observe and listen to the proceedings, in accordance with the law,» Mahoney wrote in the complaint.

Cuomo himself in recent days has called for a series of criminal justice reforms as well as new police training following a Staten Island grand jury not issuing an indictment against Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Although Nixon's recent comments mark her most direct criticism of the mayor on police reform issues to date, she has spoken out against the mayor on other issues.

The recent release of these two reports and the ongoing corruption trials of two legislative leaders have put the spotlight on New York's dire need for state action on ethics reform, yet as Bob Hardt wrote in a recent NY1 column on the issue, «Never aggressively pushing campaign finance reform or transparency, Governor Cuomo seems content to play the master of Albany's current political game rather than rewriting its rules.

That philosophy has led Cecilia Muñoz to the role of point woman, as domestic policy council director, for President Obama's dramatic recent executive initiatives for immigration reform (among many other policy issues).

«The national reforms since the mid-2000s were designed to address many of these persistent issues,» they write in a recent article published in The Conversation.

The recent furor over District of Columbia high schools issuing dubious diplomas has prompted pundits to declare a decade's worth of school reform in the nation's capital a failure.

Recent years have also brought a principled critique by influential scholars — E.D. Hirsch, Grover Whitehurst, and Diane Ravitch come immediately to mind — of both standards - based reform and school choice, on the grounds that these changes neglect crucial issues of curriculum and instruction (and so neglect what actually goes on in classrooms between teachers and students).

Regarded as competent, somewhat un-ideological and willing to listen on a range of issues such as reforms to qualified teacher status, the former secretary of state warmed herself to teachers and commentators alike — even if hers was one of the shorter stints of recent times.

Recent consensus reports concur in highlighting issues related to the identification and treatment of students with learning disabilities as a central component of education reform in general education and special education.

Phil Berger, president pro tempore of the N.C. Senate and a chief architect of the recent education reforms, issued a joint statement on Tuesday with Tim Moore, speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives.

And, at a recent education reform summit he convened earlier this month, as he began to get to the crux of his speech on how he plans to tackle the highly controversial teacher evaluation issue, the sound equipment cut out.

Over recent weeks the focus of this blog has been on parental right and the importance of opting out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test, but that issue is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the unprecedented activities of the Corporate Education Reform Industry and their supporters like Governor Dannel Malloy.

At the most recent Sun Valley conference — an annual gathering of the country's most influential CEOs and financiers — Moskowitz described herself as a «single - issue» voter, focused on the issue of education reform.

The issue is also concerning a number of Conservative MPs who fear the speed at which the reforms, which were announced in the recent budget, are likely to be implemented.

Her recent books include: The Growing Out - of - School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future (Information Age Publishing, 2018); The Future Directions of Educational Change: Social Justice, Professional Capital, and Systems Change (Routledge, 2018); «Empowering Teachers: The Role of School - Community Partnerships» (book chapter with IEL's Reuben Jacobson in Flip the System: Changing Education from the Ground Up, 2015); Leading Educational Change: Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole - System Reform (Teachers College Press, 2013), The Futures of School Reform (Harvard Education Press, 2012, co-authored chapter with Jeffrey Henig and Paul Reville).

«Over a year ago, we began issuing reports to contrast CPS's approaches to school reform with the research,» noted Kevin Kumashiro at a recent news conference on the University of Illinois - Chicago campus, where he is a professor.

Within recent years various Protestant denominations have issued policy statements in support of the reform of abortion statutes.

You might not have the time bomb alot of uneducated folks may or may not have led you to believe.Value is a big big issue but there are some recent movements that may allow you soon to get some assistance... I am interested to see if all the reform continues to be smoke and mirror politics or real solutions for real families.

In light of recent events in which the demand for societal reform has become an urgent issue both abroad and at home — from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement — Ezawa's portrait of democracy could not be more timely.

Estimate of Swedish tax shifting based on Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck, «Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 243.

It is in this context that the recent reform of the European Emissions Trading scheme (EU - ETS)-- and in particular the introduction of the new mechanism for modulating supply, known as the Market Stability Reserve (MSR)-- is so interesting: it has thrust the issue of carbon pricing back into the headlines, not least owing to the 200 % increase in EU carbon prices since May last year.

While such process reforms could address some of the issues raised by these recent decisions, it is worth noting that Manitoba does have a unified family court and mandatory case management processes are already in place in the Family Division.

In response to the letter issued by Lord Keen Of Elie QC to his fellow lords following the recent reading of the Civil Liability Bill, Vidisha Joshi, managing partner, London law firm Hodge Jones & Allen, says: «This concession is just a small step to tackling the injustice that people will face following the reforms..Of Elie QC to his fellow lords following the recent reading of the Civil Liability Bill, Vidisha Joshi, managing partner, London law firm Hodge Jones & Allen, says: «This concession is just a small step to tackling the injustice that people will face following the reforms..of the Civil Liability Bill, Vidisha Joshi, managing partner, London law firm Hodge Jones & Allen, says: «This concession is just a small step to tackling the injustice that people will face following the reforms....

The recent IIA Issue Note by UNCTAD, «Reform of Investor - State Dispute Settlement: In Search of a Roadmap», summarizes five paths for reforming investment law:

«The focus on high profile or political figures arising from the recent publicity maybe actually be distracting attention from the main issue, which is whether the rules concerning the tax domicile and attribution of profits by multinational corporations needs to be reformed,» he said.

Munby P had thought of that already: «As I explained in my recent View from the President's Chambers: The process of reform: an update [2014] September Fam Law 1259, 1262, Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service is, with my active support, proceeding to centralise the handing of divorce petitions, concentrating this work in a limited number of locations where petitions will be issued and all special procedure divorces will be processed.

In recent years, the USPTO has come under increasing scrutiny over the quality of its patent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public domain.