Sentences with phrase «reform are at the center»

Ethics reform is at the center of the budget deal that was drafted over the weekend.

MANHATTAN, N.Y. — Criminal justice reforms were at the center of a sweeping agenda presented by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito on Wednesday that divided Staten Island's own members.

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We've been watching the latter play out on the national stage with the release of HealthCare.gov, the website at the center of President Obama's health care reform.

Of the 6500 available jobs at the time, only 268 Americans applied and just seven of the 245 people who had been offered jobs completed the growing season, according to a report by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a bipartisan pro-immigration reform group, and the Center for Global Development.

«When we interviewed the insurers for our report, it was in late 2017, so we were not able to fully capture how insurers currently would feel about these market stabilization proposals that are in the news this week,» said Sabrina Corlette, research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and one of the authors of the study.

«Backdating tax reform is a really poor idea,» said Steven Rosenthal, senior fellow at the Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center.

In Timothy, «sound» and «healthy» define the kind of teaching and speaking that is going to be at the center of the work of reforming the Ephesian church.

For all that, I'm surprised at how many (not all of course) young people I've met who have strong center - right instincts on issues like abortion, taxes, and entitlement reform.

I think it should be tort reform at the federal level that mandates CNMs / CMs be licensed in all fifty states and that home birth and birth center services along with in hospital services be offered to consumers.

«This kind of reform is never easy, it's the Legislature imposing new restrictions on itself, but we're as close as we've ever been in New York,» Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center, said.

Following Ulrich, Larry Norden and Ian Vandewalker at the Brennan Center for Justice informed the Commission that comprehensive campaign finance reform was necessary to address the scale of corruption in Albany.

That might be why Cuomo was so insistent about getting the WFP to accept his platform of reform, enabling him to accept the labor - backed party's nod and providing left - of - center Democrats a place to go — assuming they come out at all and aren't turned off completely by his message of fiscal conservatism — in the November election.

Now, Paladino's campaign manager Michael Caputo is taking Cuomo to task for celebrating with a lawmakers at the center of an ethics probe while running on a platform of reforming Albany.

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

So, in 2005, Silver awarded Taub's research center a $ 250,000 research grant from an $ 8.5 million pool of taxpayer money established by the state Health Care Reform Act — which was disbursed at the speaker's sole discretion with no public disclosure, court papers state.

Also at 11 a.m., a new report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community schools need at least five years or more to create lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.

Senator Daniel Squadron also took the opportunity to point the finger at Senate Republicans on rent reform, saying the conference of mostly upstate and suburban members shouldn't be calling the shots for an issue centered around residents in New York City.

Good government groups are organizing a grassroots effort to advance the push for nonpartisan redistricting reform a concept at the center of a several statewide platforms, including one advanced by Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo and another by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, center, at a news conference in Washington, where he is best known as a collegial, next - generation Democrat with a keen interest in criminal justice reform.

Anthonine Pierre, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform and lead organizer at Brooklyn Movement Center said Tuesday the speaker's announcement was «beyond disappointing,» given the state of police brutality and movements to reform policing around the coReform and lead organizer at Brooklyn Movement Center said Tuesday the speaker's announcement was «beyond disappointing,» given the state of police brutality and movements to reform policing around the coreform policing around the country.

Also at 11 a.m., Republican Assembly candidate Colin Schmitt will hold a press conference regarding Democrat Assemblyman James Skoufis and demand full disclosure about his connections to CPV Valley Power plant and the massive statewide Percoco / Howe corruption scandal that is centered in the 99th Assembly District, along with other reform issues.

In 2014, more than a year after Bridgegate and on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year's, Christie and Cuomo issued a press release unveiling their plan to reform the Port Authority, which controls the George Washington Bridge and is at the center of the Bridgegate scandal.

Patricia Spencer - Cisek of Queensbury, executive director of oncology services at Glens Falls Hospital's C.R. Wood Cancer Center, said her service on the jury made her feel that there is an urgency for reform.

Increased transparency and oversight are at the center of the reforms being proposed.

Eleven prisoners died of cancer from 2010 through 2013, and six others have been diagnosed with cancer at the State Correctional Institution Fayette, said the report, released by the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Pittsburgh, and the Human Rights Coalition, a national prison reform group.

«This continuing gap is disappointing because improving racial and ethnic disparities in access was a key objective of the reform,» said Amresh Hanchate, PhD, of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, and a study co-author.

At the same time, the findings from the study, by the Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, show that health centers working in restrictive states are hampered in their outreach and enrollment efforts and are significantly less optimistic about the impact of health reform in their communitieAt the same time, the findings from the study, by the Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, show that health centers working in restrictive states are hampered in their outreach and enrollment efforts and are significantly less optimistic about the impact of health reform in their communitieat the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, show that health centers working in restrictive states are hampered in their outreach and enrollment efforts and are significantly less optimistic about the impact of health reform in their communities.

In October, Smith was seated front and center at an event where Pruitt announced that he would reform the advisory panels to bar researchers who take government funding.

Many new academic centers launched across China, he adds, are becoming testing grounds for reforms aimed at connecting universities and students through a global network of partnerships.

Universities in south China are taking the lead in an array of reforms aimed at making academic centers and scientific collaboration more international and more dynamic.

«Coverage of those services can't be changed without a change to the statute» that created the health law, said Dania Palanker, an assistant research professor at Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

Allen runs the Center for Education Reform; Smarick is affiliated with Bellwether Education Partners and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and served in the George W. Bush administration; Cody is a former Oakland teacher who blogs at edweek.org; and Klonsky is a former Students for a Democratic Society leader and an activist in the Chicago small - schools movement.

Andrew Kelly is the director of the Center on Higher Education Reform and a resident scholar in education policy studies at American Enterprise Institute.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

Robert Slavin is director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University, a part - time professor at the Institute for Effective Education at the University of York (England), and chairman of the Success for All Foundation.

«Dean Murphy has been at the center of the national debate on school reform, and he has encouraged active engagement by faculty and students with critical issues in the field of education.

This is exactly what Mehta is trying to do for education reform through his various research projects, including The Chastened Dream, a book - in - progress that has him on leave for the next year to be a fellow at Harvard's Charles Warren Center...

The commissioner of education at the time (now executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals), Gerry Tirozzi, insisted that «the teacher is the center of educational reform.»

The Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have joined together to publish Education Governance for the Twenty - First Century, a new book that looks at how America's fragmented and decentralized system of education governance impedes school reform and how governing arrangements might be further altered to produce better educational outcomes for children.

In a new forum for Education Next, Lindsey Burke, director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, and Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform, debate how Trump's policies his first year as president stack up, and whether the impact of his administration on the nation's schools and colleges has been for better or for worse.

Competency - based education needs to earn external validation if it is to endure, pronounced a landmark paper from the Center on Higher Education Reform at the conservative - leaning American Enterprise Institute.

Fortunately, there are resources to help principals learn how to structure «looking at student work» sessions, such as those provided by the Education Trust (see «Front End Alignment» and «Learning in Overdrive») or the Looking at Student Work: A Window into the Classroom from the Annenberg Center for School Reform.

This is exactly what Mehta is trying to do for education reform through his various research projects, including The Chastened Dream, a book - in - progress that has him on leave for the next year to be a fellow at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.

At the center of reform is the idea of students as proactive learners — readers, writers, and mathematicians — rather than simply recipients of learning from a teacher.

At issue is $ 102,000 earned by Mrs. Clinton in 1991 as a consultant for the National Center on Education and the Economy, a not - for - profit education - reform and policymaking group based in Rochester, N.Y.

Before joining Education Northwest, Fleischman was a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where he created and led a number of U.S. Department of Education - funded school improvement projects such as the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, the Supplemental Educational Services Quality Center, and the Scientific Evidence in Education Forums.

The studies should be at the center of any discussion of educational reform, because they offer by far the clearest evidence about which parts of it are working and which are not.

None of this is occurring in a vacuum, says Samuel Casey Carter, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Center for Education Reform.

«Pence's record in defending and advancing educational opportunity and access is strong, and his record on improving Indy's schools is strong,» Michelle Tigani, the communications director at the Center of Education Reform, told Business Insider.

Before your editor tears apart the problematic thinking behind the latest version of the Center for Education Reform's so - called Parent Power Index, let's give the organization credit for at least providing a measure of which states are expanding opportunities for high - quality education.