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The reports sit until the next round of reform efforts which takes the same approach.

Dropout Nation has long argued that the Obama administration's waiver gambit, as much driven by a desire to put its mark on federal education policy (and stamp out that of predecessor George W. Bush, upon which the administration's own reforms have been built) as by the lack of movement within Congress on reauthorizing the law, weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher.

By effectively ditching No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, the administration weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher — including the very reforms Obama and Duncan have pushed under their watch.

As Dropout Nation has argued for the past year, the waiver gambit weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which No Child's accountability provisions have helped usher (including Obama's own initiatives).

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.

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.

One of the criticisms of Newark's school reform has been the lack of input from the community, according to The New Yorker, which examined the city's efforts.

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Without comprehensive immigration reform, which President Barack Obama estimates could lead to an expansion of up to $ 250 billion in economic output, this effort marks the latest in a patchwork of initiatives proffered by the administration.

Prior to the elections, business leaders thought immigration reform would only happen in a piecemeal fashion, so they limited their efforts to their own needs, which is for highly skilled workers.

Part spokesperson, part negotiator, Ivanka has led the White House's effort to promote the effort, using the small but important piece of tax reform as an opportunity to translate her campaign promises, which centered on helping women and working families, into policy.

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.

The promised reforms, which include stripping Kalanick of some of his power when he returns and hiring an independent board chairman to rein him in, represent the company's most dramatic effort yet to move past the sexual harassment allegations and other scandals that have plagued Uber.

As efforts for tax reform continue, there will be plenty of discussion about which tax breaks should be retained and which should be reduced or eliminated.

I also endorse the most immediately doable reform effort of all, which is for adults to themselves form and promote book - groups dedicated to the study of such texts.

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

But such reform movements, as efforts to recover the genuine and liberative orientations of the modern experience of reason, were either ignored by the dominant modern cultures or, when they succeeded, they did so only because they adapted the dominative power techniques of manipulation and control typical of the social orders and cultures against which they initially protested.

This rising tide of cultural domination can be turned back in two ways: through the support of efforts in the third world to achieve local communication that reflects local needs; and through reform of the media in the first world — which we will consider in some detail in Chapter 11, «What We Can Do.»

Seeking to reform the Affordable Care Act is not a betrayal of populism but an effort to keep faith with the particular populist coalition Trump assembled, with which the law is very unpopular.

As such, he led efforts in the 1780s for British constitutional reforms which eventually limited the prerogative of the Crown, thereby consolidating parliamentary sovereignty.

Crucially important to winning support for these reforms has been a grass - roots group on «faith and learning» which meets regularly to reflect on the college's religious character and to support efforts to strengthen it.

When so many reforms proved abortive, the very zeal by which they had been engendered kindled a new effort for the correction of abuses.

It aligns with Kaepernick's commitment to helping fund reform in the criminal justice arena, which is one of many efforts he supports.

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.

Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all of our best efforts at reform are doomed to fail.

But it would be highly irresponsible of me, as a provider of information regarding school food reform to my readership, to not point out that Chef Ann's remarkable efforts (which you've chronicled so well, btw) require funding.

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.

Trump's infrastructure agenda has foundered amid setbacks for other efforts, such as health care changes and tax reform, which have struggled to gain traction.

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.

His fundraiser comes on the same week his former top aide, Steve Cohen, and Democratic donor / activist Sean Eldridge and his fiance, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, launched a new coordinated effort to push for campaign finance reform in Albany — something for which Cuomo has repeatedly voiced support, but so far not done much to achieve.

Even Theresa May's efforts to reform of the police's power to stop - and - search, which disgracefully has become something of a rite of passage for black kids, have been held up by Downing Street.

«In that spirit, I am writing to you today to open a dialogue that I hope will help us work together to enact much - needed reforms on which the NFIB and the WFP now stand united: Enactment of a property tax and a spending cap, reducing state spending and our job - killing cost of doing business and fighting efforts to increase taxes even further in New York.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that he is about to «launch a major effort» to see voting and election reforms passed in Albany by the end of the legislative session, which runs until the middle of June.

Gangi's defining campaign issue is criminal justice reform, and he is highly critical of de Blasio's failure to comprehensively reform NYPD practices, especially so - called broken windows policing, which relies on intensive enforcement of low - level offenses in the effort to prevent major crimes.

He believes the efforts can tap into lingering frustrations over the term - limits extension and other issues, including stop - and - frisk, which Quinn has pushed to reform but not end.

The Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club, which includes Democratic Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, passed the resolution applauding the efforts of the protesters for bringing to light «the severe and growing economic disparities in this country.»

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

In a speech to the British Confederation of Industry, which is usually critical of efforts to regulate industry, Chuka Umunna will tell business leaders that reform of the economy was necessary to modernise the British economy.

Graham Allen, now chair of the Commons» political and constitutional reform committee, recalls: «As we know from efforts to recall parliament before the Iraq war (which started this whole bloody story) MPs can not recall parliament, neither can the Speaker.

What's noteworthy is that Cuomo has not used his political capital in an effort to reform the redistricting and budgeting processes and campaign finance laws, all of which are cited in the study as serious problems.

Tom Stebbins, executive director of the Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York, which advocates for tort reform, said Silver held up efforts to rein in New York's medical liability payouts, which are by far the highest in the nation — even higher than CalifReform Alliance of New York, which advocates for tort reform, said Silver held up efforts to rein in New York's medical liability payouts, which are by far the highest in the nation — even higher than Califreform, said Silver held up efforts to rein in New York's medical liability payouts, which are by far the highest in the nation — even higher than California.

Reform also recommended a substantial increase in social housing stock in an effort to reduce the housing benefit bill, which increased from the equivalent of # 16.6 billion in 2004/5 to # 24.4 billion in 2014/15.

That argument appears to have faded for now with the death of the Republican health care reform effort, but the congressman has found a new issue with which to needle the governor.

Chalfen also blasted former communications director David Bookstaver — who was fired from his $ 166,000 - a-year job hours after The Post revealed his accidental confession — for disrespecting Chief Judge Janet DiFiore and her reform efforts, which included speeding up the legal process and beautifying courthouses.

An effort in 2016 to make smart changes to the bail bond system and gradually increase the age at which youths are considered adults did not meet with success, but Mr. Coleman's continued support of those reforms will be relied on when the legislature reconvenes.

Is this investigation motivated by a much bigger political game in which Governor Cuomo encouraged / spurred / initiated Sugarman's investigation to achieve a number of goals: (a) torpedo the efforts of democrats to regain the state senate by scaring off potential big democratic donors (it is widely reported that the governor prefers working with a GOP controlled senate); (b) distract the press from Albany's complete failure to pass meaningful ethics reforms; (c) hurt his political foe, Mayor de Blasio.

He said Trump will try to divide the Democrats to force through a draconian anti-immigration reform plan that includes funding for a wall at the Mexican border, an end to a diversity visa lottery that brings in people from around the world and a curtailing of family reunification efforts, which Trump calls «chain migration.»

Even when the researchers excluded data from Vermont and Maine, which launched smaller - scale reform efforts, Massachusetts showed greater improvements.

The $ 5.2 million cost of Lynch's federally funded project, which included extensive use of classroom observers, may push it beyond the reach of most efforts to monitor school reform.

And that came up actually in another session I went to which was basically looking at the Massachusetts health care reform effort, which has been fairly successful in terms of delivering health care but has done nothing to address costs.