Sentences with phrase «reform is high on the agenda»

Tax reform is high on the agenda of the new administration, leading to speculation about what changes could mean for the outlook for tax - exempt municipal bonds.

Not exact matches

McConnell did say repealing Obamacare is a «pretty high item on our agenda» along with comprehensive tax reform and achieving border security «in whatever way is the most effective.»

But if the government truly wants to tear down interprovincial trade barriers, support consumers and strengthen Canada's international reputation, reforming supply management has to be high on the agenda.

Next week, Canada's finance ministers will meet in Vancouver and pension reform will be high on the agenda.

Although tackling Islamist extremism has never been particularly high on her agenda — she regards police reform and cleaning up the immigration system as her legacy issues — she has nonetheless performed the role allotted to her like a trouper.

During the short lived passage of the House of Lords Reform Bill before it was abandoned, thousands of people wrote to their MPs through the Holy Redundant site and ensured that the issue of Bishops was high on the agenda.

Because of these necessary and appropriate reforms, a number of highly vocal politicians, egged on by business groups with their own agenda, have been railing about the high costs of pensions.

And electoral reform would be high on that government's agenda — especially if the Lib Dems have the most votes but the fewest seats of the three main parties.

Education is high on the agenda of societies, governments and international development organizations and there is an urgency for innovation and reform that can help all people improve their circumstances.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

One of the most notable «laboratories of democracy» was Texas, where governors on both sides of the aisle pursued a reform agenda, starting in the early 1980s, centered on higher academic standards, standardized testing, school accountability, competition, and choice.

Unless major steps are taken immediately — and nothing on the horizon suggests strong gubernatorial or other high - level political leadership on education — the reform agenda will be buried.

Clearly the US has much to learn about education from this, for it is concluded that the research on these high success countries includes no evidence that any of them have gotten there «by implementing any of the major agenda items that dominate the education reform agenda in the United States, with the exception of the Common Core State Standards» (p, 209).

Given the shameful differences in the academic outcomes and graduation rates of students of color compared to many Asian and white students, one would expect policies and practices related to students» race and ethnicity to be high on the reform agenda.

There were some victories, we laid the groundwork for further work, and our reform coalition is well armed to continue with our agenda, but as much as I would like to put a positive spin on the overall outcome for our priorities, it is difficult to find a basis for a grade higher than a D.

readers know Commissioner Pryor has been on an unrelenting campaign to remove, undermine and destroy the professional staff and professional capabilities of the Connecticut Department of Education and replace experienced and dedicated professionals with high - cost, out - of - state consultants and staff who have little to no educational experience except for their loyalty to the corporate education reform agenda.

From North to South, from national governments to the Commission: EU Institutions and Member States are in agreement that a reform of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is high on the political agenda.

Good for them.I doubt that reform of that section will be high on Prime Minister Trudeau's legislative agenda.

At the highest level, sitting atop the myriad of specific issues with which I and my team engage, there are four key inter-related national issues: Constitutional reform, the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [2], progress towards Closing the Gap on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inequality, and the status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in this country, an issue at the forefront of my agenda.

Advocacy issues like homeownership, affordability and tax reform will be high on the agenda, and we're also the main voice for property ownership, making sure America is the place where you can own property — we've been seeing housing numbers decline, and we need to change that.

High on the agenda will be advocacy issues like prohibitive mortgage fees, national disaster and flood insurance, property investments, and ensuring that 95 percent of households don't lose their homeownership tax benefits under recently proposed tax reform plans.

The former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee's Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief, whose panel would play a major role in writing reform legislation, was one of the few lawmakers who placed RESPA reform high on the agenda.