Sentences with phrase «reform federal efforts»

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While last week's budget vote cleared the way to begin the tax reform effort, 20 Republicans voted against it, citing issues with the elimination of state and local tax deductions and a massive expansion of the federal deficit.

As part of this reform effort, Ottawa originally proposed a national value - added tax that would merge the new federal sales tax and the provincial retail sales taxes.

The ambitious effort to shrink federal assistance has been dubbed «Welfare Reform 2.0», after Bill Clinton's overhaul of the welfare system in 1996.

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.»

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 education.

DES MOINES — Former New York governor George Pataki brought his effort to repeal the newly passed federal health care reforms to Iowa Tuesday, saying politicians did not listen to Americans who did not want those reforms.

Though they have criticized the federal health care reform effort, de Blasio and Cuomo have teamed up to deliver a big taxpayer gift to Aetna, a major health insurer hat has given big money to Democratic political groups.

This year, in a speech that included applause for Cuomo's criminal justice reform efforts such as strengthening state oversight of jail and his plan to fight the federal government on the tax law, Cuomo sought to give shootouts to individual members of the Legislature and praise Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as well as DiNapoli.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that if Rep. John Faso truly opposed the federal tax reform effort that passed the House on Thursday, he would have resigned in protest.

The effects of forthcoming federal tax reform efforts — such as limitations on the deductibility for state and local taxes and the exemption for municipal bonds — could hit the state hard, the duo said, and have «significant implications» for the revenues of both New York City (the state's main economic engine) and the state.

As New York nears the midpoint of its five - year, $ 8 billion project to reform Medicaid, hundreds of millions of dollars awarded from the federal government have yet to be spent, and that could negatively impact the Cuomo administration's effort to overhaul the system.

After several years where Cuomo's reform pushes always ended with lackluster, half - loaf settlements, nobody expects a serious effort — unless the pending federal case against his political allies demands it.

And the governor said he is not concerned at this point about some claims that President Trump's efforts to reform the federal Affordable Care Act will blast a major hole in the state's budget because of a change in federal reimbursement formulas.

She was set Tuesday to file a legal declaration with the U.S. District Court, hoping to block Bloomberg's effort to put on hold a judge's recommended reforms to stop - and - frisk, including a federal monitor.

She said that on Tuesday, she'll to file a legal declaration with the federal court, hoping to block Bloomberg's effort to put on hold a judge's recommended reforms to stop - and - frisk, including a federal monitor.

Information about efforts to reform federal fiscal policy, statements, letters, and other materials are in this section.

Following in the not - so - proud footprints of Comprehensive School Reform and NCLB school restructuring, it was only the latest in a long series of failed federal efforts to boost outcomes in struggling schools.

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

Nationwide, school administrators identify only a tiny fraction of their teachers as ineffective, despite major evaluation - reform efforts by state and federal governments.

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

President Obama and Education Reform was written when there was really only half a presidential term to evaluate: after the midterm elections of 2010, there was nothing the administration could do that was in any way dependent on Congress, and even the long - delayed effort to reauthorize the primary basis of the federal role in education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next administration.

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

The good news is that, in large part because of NCLB and the accountability measures that federal law has encouraged at all levels of school reform — not to mention the dogged efforts of Diane Ravitch and Sol Stern to keep Bloomberg and Klein on their toes — these arguments are smarter and more refined — and, yes, despite public relations — more transparent.

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

In general, Jennings is less informative in assessing the effectiveness of federal reform efforts than in describing their origins and political struggles.

First, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reform effort.

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

NEA Launches NCLB Reform Effort Many educators have expressed concerns about the requirements and sanctions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and the National Education Association has adopted a plan to reform the law, which it wants Congress toReform Effort Many educators have expressed concerns about the requirements and sanctions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and the National Education Association has adopted a plan to reform the law, which it wants Congress toreform the law, which it wants Congress to hear.

Meanwhile, support for the most far - reaching federal effort to reform public schools — the No Child Left Behind Act — has slipped.

The success or failure of the turnaround has national as well as local implications, since U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made the strategy a centerpiece of federal reform efforts.

In this policy proposal Nora Gordon suggests (1) reforms to ensure that the Title I formula gets enough resources to the neediest areas, and (2) improvements in federal guidance and fiscal compliance outreach efforts so that local districts understand the flexibility they have to spend effectively.

As education leaders who have implemented successful education reforms around the country, we believe that Title II - A, the largest Federal resource dedicated specifically for the development of teachers and school leaders, is vital to our efforts.

Reform efforts went into overdrive after federal education officials added T.C. Williams to a list of «persistently lowest achieving» schools in March 2010.

But will pulling way back on federal efforts to reform education — most likely by putting the money on a stump and letting states do whatever they like with it — benefit the other 49?

Substantively, an aggressive federal role has been discredited — and threatens to discredit the entire reform effort along with it.

It argues that SEAs generally think about these activities through a lens provided by federal law; it discusses how today's reform - minded state chiefs prioritize this line of work; it highlights how SEAs need to alter how they interact with LEAs if these schools are to improve; it details how some departments have reorganized themselves to do this work; it discusses the challenges associated with launching new school - improvement efforts in an era of austerity; and it offers a three - category framework for comparing SEAs.

Instead, it builds on at least a decade's worth of federal reform efforts.

Rubinstein and McCarthy write in the Working Paper that «over the past 16 years, federal efforts to improve public education have focused on market reforms like charter schools and voucher programs.

Peterson's union model would include efforts to raise the minimum wage, expand healthcare coverage and voter rights, implement incarceration reform, and stop «unfair hiring practices at a major federal housing project.»

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

Essentially it is another white flag declaring an unwillingness to pursue strong vigorous school reform efforts from the federal level.

Race to the Top is a $ 4.35 billion effort to reward reforms, such as friendly charter school laws and tying pay to student performance, with cash, and in these tough economic times 41 states applied for the federal dollars.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

To state the association's opposition to «parent trigger laws» and to offer recommendations to federal, state, district, and school leaders about how to ensure meaningful parent and family engagement in school reform efforts for the success of all students.

Today, our nation's education system continues to face stagnating achievement gains, despite nearly 10 years of federal education reform efforts.

Hence, while it seems that the residual effects of the federal governments» former efforts are still dominating states» actions with regards to educational accountability, hopefully some states can at least begin to lead the way to what will likely yield the educational reform... still desired...

As I wrote into a recent post: ``... it seems that the residual effects of the federal governments» former [teacher evaluation reform policies and] efforts are still dominating states» actions with regards to educational accountability.»

Perhaps (or perhaps likely) this is because for the past decade or so states invested so much time, effort, and money to «reforming» their prior teacher evaluations systems as formerly required by the federal government.