Sentences with phrase «ribbon commission report»

Pronouncements from a series of blue - ribbon commission reports and hard - charging education leaders swayed legislators to reshape schools.

Not exact matches

A recent report from a blue - ribbon panel, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, suggests sweeping changes to reduce violence behind bars and improve health care so that when prisoners are released — 600,000 each year — they will be better citizens.

The case is scheduled to go to trial in December — though it could be delayed — meaning whatever magical fixes the DI board plans to implement from the blue - ribbon commission's report may only be in effect a year before the schools have to blow up their athlete compensation model and start from scratch.

They can just look at the reports from the ten or twenty PREVIOUS «blue ribbon» panels or commissions on mandate relief — including the 2008 Suozzi report.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear industry.

We were spurred into action when the Augustine commission, a blue - ribbon panel that President Barack Obama set up earlier that year to review the space shuttle and its intended successor, reported that «the U.S. human spaceflight program appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory.»

The most intriguing recent examination of this question comes not from some report by a blue - ribbon commission or white paper by a board of academic big shots.

In response to the Obama Administration's «Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future,» SRIC submitted various reports, participated in three meetings, and has provided information about WIPP and nuclear waste storage and disposal policies to the public, policymakers, and the media.

A year ago, North Carolina's Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability issued a report recommending a sharp reduction in the number of tests that the state required.

Darling - Hammond was the founding Executive Director of the National Commission for Teaching and America's Future, the blue - ribbon panel that authored the 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future.

Decades of studies, reports, and blue - ribbon commissions have criticized ed schools for low entrance requirements, mediocre standards, an emphasis on theory over practice, and outdated curricula.

Eighteen months in the making and written by the blue - ribbon members of the National Commission on Excellence in Education at the behest of Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, the report examined the quality of education in the United States — and the findings were anything but stellar.

The MTA Blue Ribbon Commission on Sustainability and Climate Change, which I chaired, issued a report in 2009 recommending a wide range of actions that the MTA take to prepare itself for the future.

Reacting to the first reports of an agreement on Friday, Cortlandt Town Supervisor Linda Puglisi called on Cuomo to form a blue ribbon commission to deal with the arrangments much like the one that dealt with the closing of the GM plant in Tarrytown, called by the governor's father, Gov. Mario Cuomo.

These findings will inform a report developed later this year by the state's Blue Ribbon Commission on Financing High - Quality, Affordable Child Care.