Sentences with phrase «reform measures adopted»

In light of the land tenure reform measures adopted in the Northern Territory Intervention legislation, such a commitment is a welcome one.

protect campaign finance reform measures adopted by initiative from being gutted by the sitting Legislature, as has happened in Massachusetts, Missouri, and South Dakota.

Instead, much of the reform measures adopted appeared not to curb corruption at the Capitol, but aimed at humiliating de Blasio and his political activities.

Not exact matches

HSBC fully welcomes and supports these reforms, including the move to Common Reporting in 2016 - 2018, and is already in the process of adopting all necessary measures to fulfil its obligations.

We expect that additional U.S. federal healthcare reform measures will be adopted in the future, any of which could limit the amounts that the U.S. federal government will pay for healthcare products and services, which could result in reduced demand for our product candidates or additional pricing pressures.

Connecticut and its taxpayers would see some benefits and some challenges if Congress adopted tax reform measures — including cuts for wealthy families, business owners and wage earners — that President Donald Trump is likely to propose Wednesday.

-- In 2004, I was a Co-Chairman of the Senate Task Force on Government Reform that proposed many measures that were adopted in terms of government and budget reforms;

«By adopting key tax reform measures — including modernizing and restructuring the corporate franchise tax, reforming bank taxation, reducing the corporate franchise tax rate to 6.5 percent, adopting the 20 percent real property tax credit for manufacturers, and others — New York will provide employers with approximately $ 560 million in tax relief that can be reinvested in the economy.

To date, his efforts have resulted in voters adopting measures to reform government in 3 counties, 6 towns, and 1 village, saving taxpayers $ 5.2 million dollars per year.

One of the most significant measures of the French reforms is the law called Freedom and Responsibilities of the Universities (also known as the Autonomization Law), which was adopted three months after Sarkozy's election.

Had these states really believed in reform, they would have adopted these measures ages ago.

In 2013, Alabama adopted the Alabama Accountability Act, an education reform measure that includes two new school choice programs that extend a lifeline to Alabama students trapped in failing public schools.

Most states adopted only modest measures to improve charter schools as a result of the «Race to the Top» competition and no new substantive charter school laws were passed, said Jeanne Allen, president and founder of the Center for Education Reform, a school choice advocate based in Washington, D.C.

The real «reforms,» here, pertained to the extent to which value - added model (VAM) or other growth output were combined with these observational measures, and the extent to which districts adopted state - level observational models as per the centralized educational policies put into place at the same time.

They shouldn't be: the tests, which measure math and English skills, are an essential part of rigorous education reforms known as Common Core that seek to improve reasoning skills and have been adopted by 45 states....

We successfully advocated for four major reforms: measuring effectiveness through better teacher evaluations, adopting world - class standards for our schools and students, empowering superstar principals through improved certification paths and ensuring that money follows the child — no matter where they choose to learn.

He describes the nation's main education law as an «impediment to reform,» citing ESEA's outdated testing regimen, accountability measures, and teacher quality determinations, all of which fail to align with the widely adopted Common Core State Standards as well as recent state efforts to overhaul their teacher evaluation systems.

This is not a time to tinker around the edges of reform or rush to adopt measures designed to just meet, or worse, avoid, constitutional requirements....