Sentences with phrase «reform efforts more»

The new merit pay language mirrors the evaluation policy: both seem to align the union with education reform efforts more than ever before, but come with major caveats.

Students have unique knowledge and perspectives that can make reform efforts more successful and improve implementation;

Not exact matches

The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

But upping the ante on Keystone and trying to present a united Democratic front opposed to a compact Republican front wouldn't fit very well with President Obama's current effort to strike a more conciliatory tone and promote across - the - aisle cooperation on tax reforms and deficit reduction.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

In an effort to promote a more open economy and accelerate reforms, China established pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) that provide lower thresholds for setting up new companies, have fewer restrictions on capital flows, and offer more market access to foreign investors.

Macron has said these reforms are an effort to make the EU more competitive, which he believes has long been too weak, too slow and too inefficient in finding solutions to solve global issues.

So, while I wish the sponsors of the present legislation good luck with their efforts so far, I hope they'll follow them up with some reforms specifically aimed at replacing the present, unreliable, and inefficient monetary control system with a more old - fashioned, but nonetheless better, alternative.

No reform of worship will progress far until much more effort is invested in teaching seminarians and clergy to think through the functions of Christian worship.

The Lutheran pietists were pleased with Luther's efforts to reform church teaching and subsequently wanted to see ministers and laypeople reform their actual lives toward a more biblical vision of piety.

Presidential debates, increased public affairs, innovations in news coverage, fewer commercials on children «s programs, more female and minority on - air employment, greater minority ownership of stations, «free speech messages» in many cities, greater responsiveness to viewer «s letters, and a temporary reduction in violent programs — all were brought about through the efforts of the broadcast reform groups.9.

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

More often, efforts to deal with fragmentation and pluralism focus on reforming the curriculum of a school.

That reform effort has dragged on for more than six years now.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Challenge Success has since worked with almost 800,000 students, faculty, administrators and parents throughout the United States and across the world on efforts like changing bell schedules, reforming homework policies, shifting to alternative assessments and encouraging project - based learning with the goal of creating «healthier and more productive pathways to success.»

But my approach on this blog (and in my own school food reform efforts here in Houston) is to be more pragmatic.

Lunch Money is Adamick's effort to dispel «the myth that school food reform is cost prohibitive» by providing «effective money - saving and revenue - generating tools for use in any school kitchen or cafeteria... [including] examples, diagrams, charts, and worksheets that unlock the financial secrets to scratch - cooking in the school food environment and prove that a penny saved is much more than a penny earned.»

In support of these efforts, Katherine founded and manages various online and social - networking communities devoted to maternity care reform, which together have a combined membership of more than 15,000 activists nationwide.

She has spent more than 15 years leading education reform efforts as a social entrepreneur and education policy and philanthropy advisor.

The Erie County Legislature unanimously approved wide - ranging ethics reform legislation yesterday, which has been in the works for more than a year, and is the result of a joint effort between the county executive's office and the Democratic and Republican conferences.

His efforts at collectivisation and agrarian reform were generally a failure and better results were achieved by more moderate leaders like Lula da Silva in Brazil, primarily due to higher administrative standards and the absence of a distracting rhetorical war with Washington.

Greece needs to become more proactive, leading the rescue effort, pushing multiple growth - targeted reforms and evade the current passivity of awaiting dictums from abroad.

The Volodin reforms are top - down, bureaucratic - administrative reforms, which appear to be motivated more by efforts to consolidate the speaker's power vertikal, rather than to foster parliamentarians as champions of constituents» concerns and influential political actors in their own right.

For the most part, however, what the first minister served up as part of a long - trailed effort to «refresh» her administration after more than ten years in office sounded familiar: educational reform («most radical change»), more cash to boost economic growth («raising our ambition») and the creation of a Scottish National Investment Bank.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday rejected remarks from Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Kim Jong Un surprises with savvy power plays Tax reform postmortem reveals lethal dose of crony capitalism MORE (R - Tenn.)

These indicators showed that successive reform efforts have not made people more satisfied with government or more likely to trust politicians, but neither has there been the collapse in satisfaction and trust that is sometimes assumed.

The White House seemed to have recognized it as a lost battle and put in less effort, according to Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Kim Jong Un surprises with savvy power plays Tax reform postmortem reveals lethal dose of crony capitalism MORE (R - Tenn.)

«We will keep looking hard at corruption in our legislative branch as we have been, but not just there, but in the executive branch, too — both in city and state government,» Bharara said on April 12 at a gala hosted by the good - government group Common Cause, where he suggested there should be more efforts at government reform.

«I support the tax reform effort because overburdened families deserve tax relief so they can keep more of their hard - earned money, but I can't support legislation that forces my constituents to pay for tax cuts elsewhere in the country,» Donovan said.

Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.

Reform party candidate John Mangelli and independent candidate Jonathan Clarke said last week they thought they had more time because of challenges to their successful efforts to get on the ballot but would file their disclosures soon.

Reform groups including Citizen Action New York gathered in Albany on Monday to protest the outsized influence of the natural gas industry on the state legislature's approach to hydrofracking, noting that the industry has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to state legislators in an effort to buy support for the controversial practice.

She has led crucial reform efforts to make our judicial system both more effective and more efficient, and I am confident that she would continue this leadership on the Court of Appeals.

New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a super PAC backed by supporters of education reform and charter school efforts, is spending more money in potentially pivotal races for the state Senate.

At 11:30 a.m., good government groups unveil an effort to pressure Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Flanagan, and Assembly Speake Heastie to «more openly engage» in addressing ethics reform, outside Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Cuomo has said he intends to launch a new effort for campaign finance reform, and Samuels says he could hold public hearings and create an open process to develop legislation, as well as setting a good example on his own, by saying he won't accept any more corporate donations.

Woolwich — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assemblyman John Burzichelli and Assemblyman Adam Taliaferro joined with local officials, educators and others today in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Kingsway Regional School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

Nowhere is that effort more lacking than in the realm of reform, a decades - long need in New York exacerbated by the embarrassing fall from power of two of the three men in the room with Cuomo only a few years ago and now magnified by the conviction of a one - time gubernatorial buddy in a blistering corruption trial.

Bridgeton — Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assemblyman John Burzichelli joined with local officials, educators and others in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

There needs to be a more concerted effort to not only promote Main Street, but to push for high impact legislative reforms to the cost drivers that already hamper job creators.

Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Kim Jong Un surprises with savvy power plays Tax reform postmortem reveals lethal dose of crony capitalism MORE (R - Tenn.)

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We also know that despite the best efforts of the joint committees on Lords reform, that bill is currently being re-drafted to try and make it more acceptable — the question is for whom?

Rep. Tim Ackert is among those who will be more closely scrutinizing school reform efforts when the next legislative session convenes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to hold the attention of the people of New York and its lawmakers continued into its second week on Monday with two more detailed presentations on elements of his «Opportunity Agenda»: reforms to the juvenile justice system and the proposed creation of a commission to decide on salary increases for lawmakers and top state officials.

More power to outgoing state Senate Republican Leader John McKinney, who wants to help lead a bipartisan effort to fix Connecticut's once - heralded 2005 campaign finance reform law.

Maybe before we reform the House of Lords we should make more of an effort to understand it in its current form.

Asked if Tuesday's elections showed the need for a «course correction,» Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Kim Jong Un surprises with savvy power plays Tax reform postmortem reveals lethal dose of crony capitalism MORE (R - Tenn.)

«To compromise a source is something you just don't do,» Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Kim Jong Un surprises with savvy power plays Tax reform postmortem reveals lethal dose of crony capitalism MORE (R - Tenn.)