Sentences with phrase «reform commission work»

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While organisations such as the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors take the lead in setting global standards, we contribute to global regulatory initiatives by participating in their task forces and committees to work on implementing financial regulatory reforms, enhancing standards and facilitating market development.

In 1968, at Uppsala — in a time of great social, political and theological confusion — a commission was authorized to work on a reform of WCC structures.

When they were removed, FIFA investigators Hans - Joachim Eckert and Cornel Borbely said that their exit would «greatly set back the work of the ethics commission and means the de facto end of FIFA's reform efforts,» adding, «this will inevitably lead to a renewed loss of trust and further hurt the already tarnished image of FIFA.»

Silver has also taken issue with Cuomo's call for a new education reform commission, saying the Board of Regents — which the Legislature, not the governor, appoints — is already working to address myriad problems in the public school system.

The new compliance unit was created as part of the ethics reform package passed along with this year's budget, which Cuomo has attributed, at least in part, to the work of the Moreland Commission.

Replacing a 1950's bureaucracy with a 2020 performance organization, we formed the new New York education reform Commission headed by Dick Parsons, they have done extraordinary work; they have called for a full day Pre-K, extending school days and for performance pay.

Governor Cuomo, in a statement, was non-committal about the commission's specific ideas, but says he wants to work toward «systematic reform.»

He has served as a senior advisor to the Federal Trade Commission, Chair of Media reform group Free Press, and fellow at Google, and worked for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry.

The legislature is currently working on their own ethics reform package, and Silver says they are unlikely to support an overall commission to enforce all ethics violations.

A central player in California's redistricting reform movement, Feng's work paid off with the creation of the Citizens Redistricting Commission.

«I want to thank the Commission members and staff for their dedication and public service, and look forward to reviewing the Commission's findings in detail and continuing to work with the Legislature to enact systemic reform.»

The 2011 ethics reforms mandated that this commission be created by June 2014 and have its work completed by March 1, 2015.

A spokesman for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he «looks forward to working with the commission» to come up with reforms to reduce the influence of money in elections.

«Whether the three are impeached or they are cleared, this should lead to a better and reformed commission handling national tasks without fear or favour,» Mr Agyei - Mensah Korsah, who had a very long working relationship with the three commissioners, said on Oman FM in Accra yesterday.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

He said Labour MP Tony Wright, chair of the public administration committee, would work with a cross-party Parliamentary commission to discuss constitutional reform.

«Much more needs to be done to restore the public's faith and I am working closely with several of my colleagues to push for additional reforms, including tougher campaign finance laws and the establishment of an independent nonpartisan redistricting commission.»

The two legislative leaders declined to attend any of the six State of the State events, expressing their displeasure at the governor for interfering in the work of an independent commission that would have given lawmakers pay raises for the first time in years and then leveraging ethics reform to consider a special legislative session in December.

In the face of reports that Cuomo might have meddled in the Moreland Commission's dealings, possibly to quash legal probes into his own finances, or that Cuomo was using the threat of the commission to force closed - door negotiations for an elusive ethics - reform package, Fitzpatrick has vowed that the commission's reporting will be straight, and its work inCommission's dealings, possibly to quash legal probes into his own finances, or that Cuomo was using the threat of the commission to force closed - door negotiations for an elusive ethics - reform package, Fitzpatrick has vowed that the commission's reporting will be straight, and its work incommission to force closed - door negotiations for an elusive ethics - reform package, Fitzpatrick has vowed that the commission's reporting will be straight, and its work incommission's reporting will be straight, and its work independent.

At the same time, Cuomo and legislative leaders have been in talks about a legislative package of reforms that could obviate the commission's work.

Emblematic of this commission's hesitancy is its incomplete approach to election reform - which may, besides term limits, be the single most important fix to the way democracy works in New York City.

When he ended the commission's work, Cuomo said he did so because the legislature had agreed to ethics reforms.

In his State of the Union speech last night, President Obama praised the work of his bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration, emphasizing that it «has offered reforms so that no one has to wait more than a half hour to vote.»

«As the Stevens commission made clear, we need new reforms to keep raising standards in policing, to make sure there is swift action when policing goes wrong, to ensure that unethical or criminal behaviour by individual officers is caught and stopped — and to make sure it doesn't taint the vital work the rest of the police do each day.»

But the governor shut the commission down abruptly, saying its work was done when lawmakers agreed to ethics reforms.

And so last July, Cuomo convened a news conference with the two dozen members of his newborn Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, a group made up disproportionately of district attorneys, plus a handful of reform advocates who had put in years of work on ways to boost official integrity.

Gov. Cuomo created the commission in 2013, but abruptly ended its work last year when the Legislature agreed to ethics reforms.

However, its request for about $ 120 million over 5 years for conceptual design work on the CEPC failed to win approval earlier this year from China's National Development and Reform Commission; instead, the project received some $ 5 million for preliminary study.

He has testified before both the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Senate Working Group on Health Care Reform on Functional Medicine.

Toward the end of its review of the commission's work, the task force states, «Education reform will only come about in the United States when the delivery system itself is reconstructed around clear principles, sound ideas and learning - centered rules, incentives and power relationships.»

Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.

Over protests from the public and concerns from one of its members, the School Reform Commission awarded a contract Thursday to prepare 20 new teachers to work in the Philadelphia School District.

The system of a state imposed School Reform Commission hasn't, doesn't, and will never work for this district.

«That's why the education secretary recently commissioned the highly respected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to provide support and challenge to the Welsh Government's work on education reforms to make sure they are on track.»

Philadelphia's state - appointed school board (called the School Reform Commission) recently suspended the expired contract that city's local of Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has been working under for two years.

Based on its work, the Commission will submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature by January 10, 2017 that includes findings and recommendations for action to reform public education funding and improve student performance in the State.

«What happened this morning at the School Reform Commission meeting was a perfect example of the total, total disrespect for the teachers and other school employees who work in the School District of Philadelphia,» said union president Jerry Jordan.

They include Kai - ming Cheng, a professor at Hong Kong University who has been a member of the Hong Kong Education Commission, is intimately familiar with the Shanghai reforms and was recently appointed to the China State Advisory Committee on Curriculum Reform; Tom Corcoran, Co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Columbia University and an early observer of the work of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Ben Jensen, a principal at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, whose research on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education Commission.

Voters in school districts controlled by the state's School Reform Commission, such as Philadelphia and Chester, are particularly angry because they have seen that «state control doesn't work,» according to Sipp.

Before her association with George W. Bush, Spellings worked on an education reform commission under Texas Governor William P. Clements and as associate executive director for the Texas Association of School Boards.

In his platform of the National Governors Association, he chaired the Education Commission of the States, and worked to further the agenda of education reform.

Three issues are unresolved because they can be worked out only at the ministerial level, said Mr. Li, a deputy director general for energy research at the powerful National Development and Reform Commission.

Since launching EDF's China Program in 1995, he has worked with China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to develop effective and efficient pollution control programs for both conventional and greenhouse gases.

Lord Justice Carnwath's range of experience as a senior judge is complemented by his chairmanship of the Law Commission, his work reforming the tribunals system, and his service as the first senior president of tribunals.

The Law Reform Commission notes that the law relating to commercial tenancies requires legislative reform on a much wider scope and that the Uniform Law Conference of Canada is currently working at drafting a Uniform Commercial TenancieReform Commission notes that the law relating to commercial tenancies requires legislative reform on a much wider scope and that the Uniform Law Conference of Canada is currently working at drafting a Uniform Commercial Tenanciereform on a much wider scope and that the Uniform Law Conference of Canada is currently working at drafting a Uniform Commercial Tenancies Act.

During her tenure at the Commission, she worked on numerous groundbreaking initiatives, including execution quality disclosure rules, implementation of equities decimal pricing, short sale reforms and modernization of the national market system rules.

He has also chaired the cross-industry working group that has submitted proposals this Autumn to the Law Commission on Reform to the 1954 Landlord and Tenant Act.

As vocal critics of the government, the commissioners worked consistently to reform and improve the code on which the commission was based.

His reform plan would require insurance companies to work in good faith with consumers, to get approval of rate increases before implementing them and establish a consumer advocate on the state's Insurance Commission or within the office of the Insurance Commissioner.

Members of the Sentencing Commission Working Group, set up in the wake of Lord Carter's proposals for prison and sentencing reform, were named last week.