Sentences with phrase «reforms said the goal»

Proponents of the reforms said the goal was not just to refine the grades, but also to improve teaching through more detailed and regular feedback.

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«Tax reform does not change our capital return goals as we remain committed to returning at least $ 60 billion of capital in the current and next two CCAR cycles, subject to regulatory approval,» CEO Michael Corbat said in a press release on Tuesday.

One White House official said the goal for the Springfield speech is to sell the «why» of tax reform.

«It doesn't spell out exactly how the United States will pursue these goals, but it is quite a clear and ambitious agenda for reform of the WTO,» said Edward Alden, a trade expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Since this goal must be achieved through the very political process that is so much in need of reform, some may say we are dreaming.

The group said the Duterte administration's goal of poverty eradication can be achieved through genuine land reform and providing safe, sustainable agricultural production that can be managed by farmers and local producers.

In his message to the WFP convention — delivered via pre-taped video and a brief phone call — Cuomo embraced the cause of a Democratic senate, signed on to increasing the minimum wage and giving cities a say in setting it and vowed to pursue campaign - finance reform, the DREAM Act, marijuana decriminalization and other goals.

«I very much would like to see the state of New York be the progressive leader when it comes to campaign - finance reform, transparency, disclosure, public finance, limits — that's going to be our goal,» he said in an interview with Public Radio's Karen DeWitt this afternoon.

The commissioner has said, pointedly, that some lawmakers are self - serving grandstanders and interfere with his ability to run the department and keep the public safe; some lawmakers have cast him as an outlier in an administration whose stated goals are to reform NYPD culture and improve the department's relationship with communities of color.

Instead, officials said, the bills, known collectively as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, seek to balance the goal of fairer punishment, laid out by Melissa Mark - Viverito, a Democrat who is the Council speaker, with the Police Department's desire to maintain the discretion that officers use in making arrests, for even seemingly trivial offenses, when they deem it necessary.

Wagner said the «matrix» model might not achieve Cuomo and education reform groups» stated goal of further differentiating teacher performance.

He says Cuomo listed three major reform goals during his campaign for governor, ethics reform, redistricting reform and campaign finance reform.

Cuomo said last week that public - pension reform will be his top goal for next year.

He's expected to help bring LIPA and PSEG in line with state goals for increased renewable energy in line with Cuomo's Reforming the Energy Vision, the official said.

The State Journal reports Macco says the goal for reform will be to keep it revenue neutral by lowering taxes in one area and raising taxes elsewhere.

«Those elected as Democrats should respect voters» clearly expressed intent and sit with the Democratic Conference to implement important progressive goals like standing up for women's health, passing real campaign finance reform, raising the minimum wage and enacting common sense gun laws,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

Speaking at the Lagos House in Ikeja, while inaugurating the new board of the Lagos State Law Reform Commission (LSLRC), Ambode said such periodic review was important to him in achieving the goal of creating an enabling environment for investors, entrepreneurs and making Lagos globally competitive.

Governor Cuomo says he has some goals for the rest of the legislative session, including reforming the campaign finance system and possibly raising the state's minimum wage.

«The goal of tax reform is simplification and lower rates,» said Rep. John Faso, R - Kinderhook.

Skelos and his GOP conference have opposed several of legislative goals that Klein, the IDC and Gov. Andrew Cuomo for that matter say they want to get done in 2013: a minimum wage increase and marijuana reform among them.

When it comes to policy, Klein has said he wants to accomplish a host of progressive goals, such as increasing the state's minimum wage, stop and frisk reform and overhauling campaign - finance laws.

«The governor moving the goal post doesn't make it any easier for meaningful, comprehensive reform to pass,» said Horner.

Melissa DeRosa, spokeswoman for Cuomo, said he proposed a series of grand jury reforms last month aimed at ensuring perceived and actual justice, and they'll work with everyone who shares those goals.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says he has some goals for the rest of the legislative session, including reforming the campaign finance system and possibly raising the state's minimum wage.

«Our goal is not just indicting and arresting more and more members of the legislature, the goal is reform,» Schneiderman said.

While Tierney has attempted to portray Tisei, 50, as the new recruit of the House Republicans» «Young Guns» — a group of fiscal reform - minded Republicans led originally by Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy, and whose PAC is supporting Tisei with television ads — Tisei said that he will work across the aisle in Washington to achieve his legislative goals, all of which are focused on the economy.

«If the objective of the GOP is to win a legislative battle, then the tax reform bill may still reach its goal,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Updegrove said he saw the meeting as an important step in achieving reform goals, and praised the two state lawmakers for attending Tuesday's meeting.

Cuomo listed public campaign finance reform as a goal in his election campaign, and mentioned it in his State of the State message, but recently cast doubt on the bill's chances for passage this year, saying that in an election year, there's not a «tremendous appetite» for it.

The types of reforms he hopes to bring to the Council, such as the borough's members coordinating their economic development efforts to serve common goals, are not welcomed by county leaders, he said.

Cuomo has said that public pension reform will be his top goal for 2012.

«The goal of our research was to explore the opportunities for marine fisheries reform in China that arise from their 13th Five - Year Plan and show how the best available science can be used in the design and implementation of fisheries management in China's coastal and ocean ecosystems,» said Cao, a Research Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

In contrast, real immigration reform, Hira said, should «significantly raise wage floors» depressed by the presence of low - paid workers on temporary visas and «ensure that Americans have a first and genuine opportunity for these jobs» — two goals apparently absent from Warner's stated preferences.

He said the awards were evidence that the reform law was in place and working, the two goals he set out to achieve when he arrived in the state four years ago.

«I think education reform certainly would be right up at the top of that, achieving our goals for education by the year 2000,» the President said.

Instead of «prescriptive commands issued from headquarters here in Sacramento,» he said, the school funding reforms he and the Legislature have put in place «set more general goals» that «put... read more

To implicitly say otherwise, as CER has done in its latest index is unfitting of the school reform movement's ultimate goal of providing every child the capacity to shape their own futures.

Tech Firms Call for Mandatory Computer Classes Boston Globe, June 11, 2013 «One of the architects of education reform in Massachusetts, Paul Reville, now a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, sympathizes with the goal of the business group, but said the tech executives are taking the wrong approach.

«Pessimists might feel that school - level reform is difficult if not impossible, because several teams did not meet the NASDC goals,» the report by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based think tank says.

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

«They've gone from the debate over NCLB in terms of the goals being unrealistic, to saying we're not going to require you to have goals at all,» said Charlie Barone, director of federal policy for Democrats for Education Reform.

We concluded our conversation, and then, in a private moment, she stated simply and eloquently what seems so difficult to say in the midst of the current politically correct public discourse about school reform: «If we claim our goal is to educated all children, we had better mean all children — not all children except the gifted.»

«It's hard to find consistent, long - term, high - quality service learning,» says Sarah Pearson of the American Youth Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. Pearson's recent report, Finding Common Ground: Service Learning and Education Reform (2002), establishes the compatibility between the goals of comprehensive school reform models and those of service leaReform (2002), establishes the compatibility between the goals of comprehensive school reform models and those of service leareform models and those of service learning.

The strong reactions to the manifesto on the Post's website have little to do with what it says and much more to do with the details of how these leaders (mostly Klein and Rhee) have tried to effect these reforms (and pursued other goals) in their districts.

The overall goal, said Ms. McCartney, is to produce a cadre of highly skilled educational leaders who are committed to reform of the profession, knowledgeable about the way children learn and well - grounded in the real world of practical management and politics.

The goal is to revamp a process in which the vast majority of teachers are traditionally stamped with «satisfactory» or «meets expectations» ratings — if they are evaluated at all — either because of administrative incompetence or an interest in keeping the peace with politically powerful unions, reform advocates say.

The central idea of the school - reform community, Perry said, is that improving public education will lead to an overall improvement in New Orleans social conditions, and that this goal justifies the radical changes they have imposed on schools here — firing teachers, closing schools, moving students every few years.

It's no exaggeration at all to say that for many who claim to be part of a «school reform» movement, the goal really is to get rid of traditional public schools.

Young said the program best helps him achieve his longer term goals of impacting education reform and educational entrepreneurship.

Charles Zogby, the state education secretary, says the goal is «to introduce a more market - based reform into public education... where you have a diverse set of providers... but everybody is under the same accountability measures.»