Sentences with phrase «reform measures implemented»

The leading reason why the overall default rate has decreased since FY 2009 is federal student loan reform measures implemented since the onset of the Great Recession.

Not exact matches

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

Actual reform measures affecting drug pricing would likely take years to legislate and implement.

Their dilemma is over whether to implement further structural reform in the frame of the Eurozone, knowing that these measures could take longer to take effect than what is politically acceptable, or exit the Euro in order to regain competitiveness through a sharp currency devaluation and face huge upfront costs and an uncertain future.

«During my tenure as Governor, I have held the line on the rate of cost escalation for health care providers and managed care plans; implemented reimbursement reforms to right - size hospital inpatient reimbursement; made investments in critically needed, less costly outpatient and primary care services; and implemented measures to make New York Medicaid a smarter purchaser of prescription drugs and transportation services for patients.

George Wiafe on the sidelines of the IMF / World Bank spring meetings in Washington DC, Mr. Ofori - Atta said these tough measures and reforms would have to be implemented even if the country was not under a fund program.

In February 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague confirmed that the EU had decided to continue the «Zimbabwe Restrictive and Appropriate Measures» in light of the fact that essential reforms to promote the rule of law, human rights and democracy, as agreed under the Global Political Agreement, had not yet been implemented.

FSP reforms will take 18 months to fully implement, but there are key milestones within the period to measure compliance.

«The government needs to begin to measure itself on speed as it begins to implement its reforms,» he said.

«The reforms in this Budget build upon measures implemented last year to create an educational system that ensures every child has an opportunity to succeed, and holds schools and teachers accountable for the results they achieve.»

Many of the executive proposals will likely overlap with those offered in the senate report, MacEntee said, including measures that implement reforms of each of the four - prongs of the issue: prevention, treatment, recovery and law enforcement.

Since the axe started fall in the wake of the financial crisis, councils have implemented various demand management measures, cuts, restructurings, efficiency reforms, and all manner of other changes that were meant to ensure care services were sustainable in the long term.

Earlier this year, state lawmakers, as part of an ethics reform package, implemented a swipe - card system and other measures intended to prevent abuses of travel vouchers.

Indeed, we share the same reform goals — and I look forward following the election of Andrew Cuomo as Governor to implementing the necessary reform measures our state so clearly needs.

However, using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and from New York's state exams, Dr. Aaron Pallas of Teachers College demonstrated that between 2003, just before Mayor Bloomberg's reforms had been implemented, and 2011, the achievement gap demonstrated by the NAEP actually rose and the gap measured by state exams closed by a mere 1 %.

Testifying to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in 2007, Ramanathan said of cutting black carbon emissions that «at best, it is a short - term measure to probably buy a decade or two, time for implementing CO2 emission reduction strategies.»

In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.

The $ 700 million federal RttT grant that the state received covered only a fraction of the cost of implementing the required reform measures, putting financial strain on districts just after the 2008 recession.

Why is it important to consider both local practices, «top - down» knowledge, and their relationship when implementing reform measures?

Dr. Marzano will be on hand to discuss next - generation evaluation models, the most up - to - date research on evaluation and value - added measures of student achievement, and what has been learned as states implement federal and local directives to reform K - 12 teaching and learning.

Upon receiving a copy of a petition signed by the parents of at least 51 % of the students in a low - performing school, requires the school board to implement the reform measures requested in the petition.

In an era where teachers are suffering «initiative fatigue,» a condition caused by requiring a staff to implement too many reform initiatives in a short period of time, the Career Readiness Institute is attempting to spread the word for a small scale reform measure.

Again, had the judge examined the evidence, he would have also learned that the actual major factor in Massachusetts» improvement was the very measure he refused to order Connecticut to implement: school finance reform that dramatically increased the amount of school funding statewide.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

According to his resume, Vallas says he was responsible for «developing, implementing and managing reform measures» for post-Katrina New Orleans.

During the early to mid 1990s, Peru implemented important market - oriented reforms, including privatisation of key industries, trade deregulation and measures to attract foreign investment.

From these three country experiences, we find that fostering public support to implement lasting reform may depend on four measures: (1) forming a public engagement plan and a comprehensive reform policy that are then clearly communicated to the public in advance of price increases; (2) phasing in price adjustments over a period of time to ease absorption; (3) providing a targeted compensatory cash transfer to alleviate financial impacts on low - to middle - income households; and (4) capitalizing on favorable global macroeconomic conditions.

«We have more work to do in our reform agenda, but at this point we believe the strengthened safety measures we have implemented, along with improved spill response and blowout containment capabilities, have reduced risks to a point where operators who play by the rules and clear the higher bar can be allowed to resume.

The nonpartisan branch of government is getting its job done, by implementing commonsense reforms and measuring performance, by implementing new technology and working smarter, and by re-engineering courts and increasing efficiency — all to serve the public better and at less cost.

On December 10, 2015, the Ontario government passed Bill 109, the Employment and Labour Statute Law Amendment Act, 2015 and Bill 144, the Budget Measures Act, 2015, two pieces of legislation that implement a number of reforms to various workplace laws.

President Obama proposed to implement measures to limit the legal rights of severely injured persons as part of the healthcare discussion, apparently as a bargaining chip to reduce Republican opposition to his healthcare reform plan.

The analysis should have clear acceptability thresholds, and the reforms implemented should be «limited to those that pass such thresholds or are being implemented with a commensurate economic offset measure,» she says.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study evaluated the effectiveness of a system - wide reform effort to implement trauma - informed care, Trauma Systems Therapy (TST), across a large, private child welfare system.