Sentences with phrase «reforms part of his agenda»

Educators 4 Excellence NY (E4E - NY) wants the Governor to make specific education reforms part of his agenda.

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Bob Crandall, former American Airlines CEO; and CNBC's Eamon Javers and Phil LeBeau discuss President Trump's air traffic control reform initiatives as part of his infrastructure agenda.

THE National Competition Council this week released a comprehensive stocktake of reforms undertaken by various State governments, as part of their yearly review of progress by States in implementing reform under the Hilmer competition policy agenda.

State governments have agreed taxes they control, such as payroll and stamp duty, could be targets as part of the federal government's tax reform agenda next year, which many tip will involve an increase in the GST.

Today's economic risks can be minimized only with reforms that must form part of a long - term policy agenda.

On April 25, Cuomo, who made public campaign finance part of his 2010 campaign reform agenda and highlighted it in his 2012 State of the State address, had this to say on whether action might be taken this year:

Over the weekend and in an address on Monday, Cuomo had announced that election reforms such as early voting and automatic registration, which he proposed last year, would be part of his agenda again in 2017.

If voting reform especially through the advocates of PR is now going to be taken forward it has to form part of the agenda of political parties, or even one party's manifesto which would not necessarily require recourse to another referendum to take it forward.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced a five - pronged package in January that included these reforms as part of his 2018 State of the State agenda, and the organizations were led to believe they would be part of the state's finalized budget after months of discussions with elected officials, a spokesman for the Legal Aid Society said.

City Council Member Ben Kallos, who chairs the committee on governmental operations, said in a phone interview that «All of these [reforms] should've happened before Election Day and if there's an Albany special session it should be part of that agenda.

Delivering his first significant speech since the corruption scandal that took down soon - to - be-former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Gov. Andrew Cuomo today laid out a reform agenda and delivered an ultimatum to the Legislature: Pass what he has proposed as part of the 2015 - 16 budget, or risk a government shutdown.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D - NY, is introducing a comprehensive election reform package as part of his 2018 State of the State agenda.

Another part of Clegg's constitutional reform agenda has bitten the dust.

It is clear that overhaul of these entities must be part of a reform agenda.

Cuomo pledged that more reforms will be pursued as part of his legislative agenda.

Those groups would like to scrap the Common Core as part of a reform agenda that would also target teacher tenure and boost charter schools and voucher systems.

The governor, who spoke at an unrelated event at JFK airport to announce renovation plans, did not mention any ethics reforms as part of a session agenda.

Transparency and comparison of performance against local plans, strategies for support and intervention for struggling areas, and mechanisms for patients to achieve change both in their own care and in local services more widely would all need to be part of a progressive reform agenda.

Part of DiNapoli's reform agenda would require lawmakers to receive an update «so that the differences between the budget that's going to be voted on and what was presented [by the Governor] would be understood by the Legislature.»

Reform advocates insist Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo will have the power to push through parts of his agenda without the approval of the legislature.

Cuomo has pledged as part of his broader Albany - reform agenda to wrest the power to redraw legislative - and congressional - district lines from legislative leaders in Albany, who currently exercise control of the process through a redistricting task force whose members they appoint.

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Here's hoping that the apparent rhetorical reluctance to put ethics reform at the top of the governor's legislative agenda does not reflect a lack of interest on his part to advance meaningful measures to reform Albany.

Sunday retail alcohol sales, workforce development, fighting opioids, reforming civil forfeiture laws and increasing funding for schools are all part of the the Indiana Senate Republican legislative agenda for 2018.

Voting and Other Reforms Leading up to his speech Cuomo unveiled parts of his «Democracy Agenda,» which aims to protect the integrity of elections, requires transparency for digital advertisements, and enact voting rReforms Leading up to his speech Cuomo unveiled parts of his «Democracy Agenda,» which aims to protect the integrity of elections, requires transparency for digital advertisements, and enact voting reformsreforms.

The Goals 2000 Educate America Act, passed in 1994 to set the school - reform agenda of the Clinton and Bush administrations, declared art to be part of what all schools should teach.

De Blasio should be wise enough to leave those parts of the reform agenda in place while he works to construct a sturdy educational foundation for the city's youngest children.

But test - based outcomes, merit pay for teachers, rewards and sanctions, and voucher and charter alternatives have been part of the reform agenda of most states for years.

It explains reformers» enthusiasm for test - based accountability; for «college and career - ready standards»; for teacher evaluations based, in significant part, on student outcomes; for «data - based instruction»; and for much of the rest of the modern - day reform agenda.

As part of the campaign, MBAE and Brightlines are working with business, education and policy leaders across the state to finalize a new education agenda designed to overcome lingering challenges that have yet to be addressed by education reform.

And yet, I find myself troubled by a core part of the current reform agenda.

The fundamental legacy question will be: How much of the Obama - Duncan reform agenda has become part of the consensus reform agenda?

The Republican governor supports the teacher - tenure initiative as part of a broader «reform agenda» that calls for revamping...

But consider the overall pattern of responses across major parts of the school reform agenda (see Figure 4):

If you think about it, we made significant changes to public policy in education in 2010 as a part of our First to the Top agenda proposed by Gov Bredesen — a Democrat, followed by nightmarish changes to the teachers» environment in 2011 by eliminating collective bargaining, tenure, and removing TEA from their seat at the table, all in the name of «reform.»

Florida public education has been subjected to a long list of unproven and unfair model «reforms» that are part of a national agenda to privatize district schools.

The bonuses mark Miami - Dade's foray into performance pay, a controversial policy that is part of the Obama Administration's education reform agenda.

This tends to be the rationale behind state efforts rather than district reforms, and it is often part of a larger reform agenda that claims to trade school autonomy for accountability to the state.

Florida's revamped teacher - evaluation system is all part of the education reform agenda pushed by the Obama Administration, which is giving states $ 4.3 billion in its Race to the Top grant program to come up with new ways to grade teachers and tie student performance to their paychecks.

The organized CEOs would play a major role throughout the 1980s lobbying for K - 12 reform, as part of a broader agenda to limit taxes and state spending.

«The idea of laying off all the teachers and privatizing as many public schools as possible seems to be part of the corporate reform agenda to transform public education into a free market entrepreneurial activity,» Ravitch said.

Since the corporate education reform industry began ramping up their lobbying efforts as part of Governor Malloy's education reform initiative of 2012, the various charter school advocates and education reform groups have spent a record breaking $ 8.4 million on behalf of their pro-charter school, pro-Common Core, pro-Common Core testing, anti-teacher agenda.

The programs you mention are not dramatically new, but are you saying they have not been an integral part of the reform agenda?

When it comes to pushing their pro corporate education reform industry agenda, there has been no doubt where Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor stand, but this latest move to ensure their agenda becomes part of Connecticut's five year comprehensive education plan is perhaps their most offensive move yet.

Mr. Pryor's tenure has been steeped in controversy, due in part to his commitment to the corporate education reform agenda, his leadership style and his relationship with charter schools, most directly with Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that has been the largest single financial beneficiary of state funds to charter schools over the past four years.

But then, in a bizarre move that appears to be yet another attempt to acquiesce to Governor Dannel Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman's ongoing education reform and anti-teacher agenda, the leader of the CEA claims that although the state should not use the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test as part of the state's teacher evaluation program, it is okay to use the NWEA's MAP standardized test as a teacher evaluation tool.

Instead, the new «mandate» is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is successfully diverting scarce public funds away from teacher - student instruction to private companies.

But it was the unscripted part of the annual «State of the Schools» presentation — where city and district leaders gathered to welcome back educators and lay out the year's agenda — that highlighted a hitch in the district's reforms.

This package of emails is yet another reminder of just how committed the Malloy administration has become in their effort to silence parents, teachers and public school advocates as part of their ongoing effort to push through their corporate education reform industry agenda.

This new «mandate» is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is crippling public education in Connecticut and across the nation.