Sentences with phrase «reform agendas over»

Despite significant reform agendas over the past decade, no real progress in outcomes has been achieved.

None of the Big Four countries will be in a position to push forward a pan-European growth and reform agenda over the coming 15 months.

And a relatively clean way for the Liberals to abort an electoral reform agenda over which they lost control.

Thoughtful arguments can be made about the efficacy of these and other elements of the reform agenda over the last several decades.

Not exact matches

Italians will go to the polls in October over a constitutional reform that PM Matteo Renzi has made the centerpiece of his agenda to jump start an economy that hasn't grown meaningfully since 2000.

The only near - certainty is that until the election is over, France will not be a leader in pushing forward a growth and reform agenda at the European level.

It was the speech of a guy running for President and who is serious about enacting center - right reforms (and that includes being serious about winning over swing - voters to a responsible center - right agenda.)

The vote, which took place as the Commons debates Lords amendments to the electoral registration and administration bill, will deepen already intense bitterness on the government backbenches over the coalition's stalled constitutional reform agenda.

This is bad news for China as it has long valued global economic stability within which to pursue its own reform agenda, but is particularly worrisome now as the country grapples with difficult choices over how to develop «new engines of economic growth».

Over the weekend and in an address on Monday, Cuomo had announced that election reforms such as early voting and automatic registration, which he proposed last year, would be part of his agenda again in 2017.

Now that the election is over and the new administration is taking place, there is the chance to re-position foreign policy centre stage on the UK's policy agenda, ensuring it helps drive his «one nation» economic growth and reform agenda by showing the UK is open for business.

Kallos says he recognizes that the mayor hasn't been able to prioritize election reform over other items on his agenda.

In January 2012, in a speech in Strasburg, Prime Minister David Cameron set out an agenda for reforming the ECtHR which would reduce the number of admissible cases, and thus the backlog, by ensuring that the Court did not act as a small claims court or Court of Fourth Instance and did not go over national decisions where it did not need to.

After Falkirk and the reform proposals — not to mention continuing tensions over a perceived lack of Labour support for the unions» anti-austerity agenda — it is shaping up to be an unforgettable conference season for us all.

But Mr. Malatras has been particularly visible in pushing Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, authoring a long and public letter to the state's Board of Regents and liaising with various interests in Albany as all sides gear up for a post-budget fight over the specifics of teacher evaluations.

After a failure to reach an agreement over an immigration bill, 30 Republicans joined all the chamber's Democrats to vote down the law 198 - 213 in what Politico called «a huge setback to the farm lobby and House Speaker Paul Ryan's welfare reform agenda.»

Mindful of the fact that the conservative grassroots is still smarting from the same - sex marriage vote two years ago, and steaming over the SAFE Act passage, the Senate Republicans drew a line in the sand over the abortion plank of the governor's Women's Equality Agenda and also refused to budget on campaign finance reform.

Coalition parties feuding over constitutional reforms or public policy tinkering is one thing: being seen to be falling out over its international agenda is quite another.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

ProgCon has now reformed as the Centre for Progressive Conservatism to both support David Cameron's progressive agenda during the inevitable knock - backs over the next few years, and to encourage him to come even closer to our progressive conservative values and approach.

In an email, a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, «The Governor is committed to enacting an aggressive reform agenda to fix New York's broken education system that spends more per pupil that any other state in the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.»

The text of the budget bill relating to school aid, the groups say, suggests that «no district would receive an increase in aid over what it received in 2014 - 15» if Cuomo's education reform agenda isn't included.

The party's agenda in making reform of the welfare system the centrepiece of its autumn conference in Manchester is being overshadowed by apparent uncertainty over whether a retrospective referendum on the Lisbon treaty should take place if it is ratified.

Mayor Bill de Blasio — who has in recent months faced anger from police union officials and some rank - and - file cops over his NYPD reform agenda — touted the murder - free stretch this evening.

As Ferreras - Copeland noted, the de Blasio administration has consistently increased funding «over multiple financial plans for the DOC's contract with McKinsey Group to accelerate and sustain the department's anti-violence reform agenda.»

While the party endorsed Mr. Cuomo in 2010, members have been growing increasingly frustrated by what many see as his shift to the right, including a recent budget agreement that stressed tax cuts over more progressive agenda items, and a campaign finance reform deal that many see as watered down.

«Advocates for police reform have every right to expect a seat at the table... but no advocate should ever have veto power over the legislative agenda of the New York City Council,» Torres continued.

State lawmakers from Western New York reiterated this week their strong support for Cash's reform agenda, but they remain cautious about over promising this early in the budget process.

The governor has spent the past week rolling out pieces of his agenda, including events and announcements over the weekend, largely focused on infrastructure, but also criminal justice reform, the minimum wage, economic development, and more.

No one has played a more important role in framing Massachusetts» education reform agenda and in maintaining support for its successful implementation over the last two decades than Paul Reville.

Despite federal officials» emphasis on state and local reforms, the program at the heart of the Administration's education agenda has become a battleground in the war over the federal role in education.

In a belated response to the National Education Association's criticism of the Center for Education Reform (Letters, Jan. 31, 1996), I would like to express my resentment over the suggestion that I, and thousands of other charter school proponents across the country, are pursuing an «agenda» to erode public education.

readers know from earlier posts, Governor Malloy, Democratic Party Chair Nancy DiNardo and the Democratic State Central Committee syphoned over more than $ 37,000 in a failed attempt to beat back a Democratic challenge slate in Bridgeport that did not support Paul Vallas or Governor Malloy and Mayor Bill Finch's corporate education reform agenda.

In his effort to «win» over (aka snow) teachers, parents and public school advocates, Malloy's plan appears to be to push off a couple of elements of his corporate education reform industry agenda until he can make it past November's election for governor.

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

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

This DOE - dubbed «Agenda of Reform Initiatives» has disaster written all over it.

But despite teacher unions giving more than $ 10 million dollars to the DGA over the past decade, the organization whose role it is to elect Democratic governors has remained committed to an education reform agenda that is actively and intentionally undermining teachers, the teaching profession and the nation's public education system.

Mr. Pryor's tenure has been steeped in controversy, due in part to his commitment to the corporate education reform agenda, his leadership style and his relationship with charter schools, most directly with Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that has been the largest single financial beneficiary of state funds to charter schools over the past four years.

The winners of the Race would be those states that submitted the best blueprints for fulfilling the reform agenda, which includes allowing school districts to take over failing schools, improving curriculum standards and encouraging school innovation (which means, in part, allowing charter schools to flourish).

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.

The briefing, Agenda for Reform 2012, highlights concerns over how Congo's mining, hydrocarbons and logging sectors are managed and provides recommendations that would help ensure the resources are used for the benefit of the people, rather than being lost to corruption or mismanagement.

Given this focus on reducing costs at the pre-trial stage and the criticisms that have been advanced over many years, the obvious next candidate for the procedural reform agenda must be witness statements.

Whilst managers have been working hard to get their implementation projects over the line, further regulatory reform looms large on the horizon but perhaps the key agenda item in the board room remains Brexit particularly the discussions regarding a transitional period..

To further liberalize the FDI policy over the next five years, the current government will continue its economic reform agenda.

Over many years Mary has contributed to Australia's national health and social care reform agenda through her work with state and commonwealth agencies.

The PM's chief Indigenous advisor Warren Mundine did warn us that the reform agenda would produce «winners» and «losers», and certainly from the coverage over the past few weeks, many Indigenous communities are feeling as though they are on the losing side.