Sentences with phrase «reform efforts take»

Later, as the reform effort took hold, New Orleans also became the nation's epicenter of school reform, an ideal place for aspiring reform - minded educators.

Not exact matches

It will be a long week in Washington with a lot of moving parts that could overshadow the tax reform effort, which Republicans hope will be the first major legislative win since Trump took office.

Building on prior years» tax reform efforts, including rate reductions implemented this year, the North Carolina legislature adopted further reductions to both individual and corporate income tax rates, to take effect next year.

With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

If the product of their work is not taken seriously» as, for instance, an invaluable reference in a synod of bishops dedicated to a program of comprehensive reform» it may be a very, very long time before people of their quality will make a comparable effort to help the bishops with much of anything.

The same week the first issue of Christianity Today came off the press, Hungarians took to the streets in an effort to reform — or even throw off — Russian domination.

Silver said he believes there will be changes in the way redistricting takes place after the 2010 Census numbers come in, but he stressed this reform effort might be easier said than done, adding: «There are a whole bunch of things that are recognized either by law, federal law or the Supreme Court that go into this.»

After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.

ICYMI: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver took some verbal jabs at Ed Koch yesterday over the former mayor's latest reform - Albany effort.

UPDATE: Padavan took issue with my characterization of his efforts in office in service to the reform cause.

Cuomo on Monday will take part in a telephone town hall meeting with Citizen Action as he starts to gear up for a campaign finance reform effort.

Democrats have also been resistant to substantive ethics reform efforts in recent years, passing a weak law last year that barely limits who politicians can take money from.

The former governor recently took a pass on running against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to start a national effort to repeal the new health care reform law — a move widely interpreted to mean that he is eyeing another White House run.

WASHINGTON — President Obama could jump - start the immigration - reform effort in Congress by tapping Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to take over the Homeland Security Department, the chairman of the House Homeland...

Norman Seabrook — the outspoken president of the Correction Officer Benevolent Association who has been critical of many reform efforts underway — took issue with the inmates who participate earning $ 15 a week.

Now, Koch's effort is going to take a darker turn, with the PAC poised to highlight so - called «enemies» of reform who had rebuffed his pledge forms.

Abramoff, Grover Norquist (Am Tax Reform) Reed, Indian Money ($ 82M), money laundering, Grover taking 10 - 15 % for his efforts off top...

Pawlenty will take Obama to task for his approach to reforming the nation's health care system as well as the president's efforts to revive the ailing economy, a source close to the governor told CNN.

Washington Post: GOP lawmakers, candidates pledge to repeal health - care legislation Even as House Democrats search for the votes to send a health - care reform bill to President Obama, dozens of Republican lawmakers and candidates have signed a pledge to back an effort to repeal the measure, should the GOP take control of either chamber of Congress after this fall's elections.

Some years ago, when AAAS launched an effort to reform science education, it said that true reform will take about as long as Halley's Comet's orbital period [of about 76 years]-- that's why they labeled their initiative Project 2061.

In a long piece in the Winter 2017 issue of Education Next, Stephen Eide took a close look at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to roll back the education reforms of his predecessor and pursue an education agenda of his own.

If we expand the scope of reform efforts «to include the social, economic, racial, and political contexts of students» lives, we'll surely be more successful,» she writes, taking care not to be dismissive of those goals, but noting how «their collective impact leaves me limp and rudderless, rather than inspired.

The publicity efforts surrounding XQ «reflect a view that has been disproved over time — that the reason these reforms haven't taken hold is that people are not aware of them,» said Annenberg Institute senior fellow Simmons.

In the New York Times, Natasha Singer takes a skeptical look at the involvement of tech entrepreneurs in school reform efforts.

Beyond identifying the conception that educators should «take responsibility for the psychological adjustment of children» as a «barrier» to the success of current reform efforts, Mr. Cohen implies that this outlook is also the primary cause of the problems schools face.

Cities look for a savior to transform their school systems, lasting reform takes a sustained, community - wide effort

Universities leaders should take care to listen to the concerns and wishes of individual faculty in deciding where to concentrate their reform efforts.

Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for Californians for Retirement Security, said this rate of return «takes the wind out of the sails» of pension reform efforts.

A common perception in education circles is that there is no need to take any particular reform effort too seriously, if only because in short order it will be supplanted by something else.

Gold and Burkett take different tacks, focusing less on what's wrong with the schools and more on what's wrong with efforts to reform them.

There is another parallel to the 1993 education reform effort: In both cases, it was an outside force that put pressure on elected officials to take action.

For a final assignment, Merseth asked students to design a project of their own choosing to demonstrate an understanding of the various stakeholders in school reform, the variety of efforts currently being used to improve schools, and specific leadership acts taken to implement these reforms.

Let's start with a big picture question... Briefly, Michael: Why haven't efforts to reform the senior year taken hold?

Superintendent Cami Anderson's recent letter goes a long way toward countering the narrative of failure that has taken hold about the Newark school reform effort.

Insight in action As part of community - engagement work that accompanied district reform efforts, teacher leaders worked on district mathematics committees, facilitated grade - level meetings, presented at school board meetings, led professional development sessions and took on many other leadership roles.

Council of State Governments Justice Center released a school discipline publication that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

Over the last half century, three major movements have dominated efforts to reform education in the United States: equity - based reforms, which were a product of the 1960s and 1970s; the school choice movement, which arose in the late 1980s and took hold in the 1990s; and standards - based reform, which came about in the 1990s and the 2000s.

But it is a tad difficult to take the president seriously on his commitment to systemic reform in light of his effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions that have helped spur a decade of systemic reforms.

As part of the reform effort, Florida stopped paying for the Stanford Test, the only norm - referenced test Florida's children took.

The move to ditch AYP and the underlying goal of forcing states and districts to take responsibility for how they educate poor and minority kids, the administration weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher — including the very initiatives Obama and Duncan have pushed under their watch.

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

Save for a few instances, such as the initial efforts of Southern governors (including Alexander during his tenure as Tennessee's governor) and chambers of commerce during the 1970s that spurred what became the modern school reform movement, it has been the federal government that has been the driving force in coaxing states to take full responsibility for the districts they control as part of their constitutional provisions requiring them to provide education.

In this Voices of the Dropout Nation, Sandy Kress, who as adviser to Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, helped craft No Child (and helped mastermind the first waive of reforms in Texas), offers his thoughts on the Obama administration's waiver gambit — and how both President Obama and Secretary Duncan will have to take responsibility for the consequences of their counterproductive effort.

It will take a collection of men and women with entrepreneurial drive, operational savvy and passion for overhauling education so that all children can succeed in order to take on the challenges of transforming a system that has poorly served so many kids for far too long.After all, reform efforts are wasted if they fail because of bad strategic, tactical and operational decisions.

While I generally agree that Betsy DeVos is bad for education because of her inexperience in education and overt efforts to use education reform «to advance God's kingdom,» I take offense with your position that charters and choice are not what Latino families need, and here's why:

L.A. Parent Group Applies Lessons From Compton, Adelanto Efforts to Take Over School The 24th Street Elementary School Parent Union has received eight letters of interest from groups wanting a chance to reform the school.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

Pennsylvania can easily start by embracing the approach taken by Louisiana and its so - far successful reform effort in New Orleans, handing over control of traditional schools to an array of Parent Power groups, community organizations, and charter school operators.

Union acquiescence may have taken the wind out of the sails of the reform effort, but it is now rejuvenated by the targeting of tenure itself through the courts in California.