Sentences with phrase «roll back reforms»

Within the year's first weeks, a historic test boycott was underway, civil rights advocates confronted Arne Duncan on school closings, and thousands were marching in Texas to roll back reforms.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that over 95 percent of districts are now meeting the standards, which sounds like a resounding success, but to bolster its own campaign to roll back reforms, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has tended to emphasize all the obstacles districts reportedly face, from lost revenue to increased food waste.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that over 95 percent of districts are now meeting the standards, which sounds like a resounding success, but to bolster its own campaign to roll back reforms, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has tended to emphasize all the obstacles districts reportedly face, from lost revenue to increased food waste.

The de Blasio administration is reissuing tens of thousands of parking permits to city education workers, rolling back reforms made by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

He said he did not think Mr Cameron and his frontbench team were homophobic but he claimed the Tory leader could be pushed into rolling back reforms by his own backbenchers if he won the next election.

In an election - year gift, the de Blasio administration is issuing up to 50,000 more car placards to city education workers — rolling back reforms made by Mayor Mike Bloomberg and opening the floodgates for abuse.

(She lists five other «solutions» that simply amount to rolling back reforms: Ban for - profit charters and charter chains; eliminate high - stakes standardized testing; don't allow «non-educators» to be teachers, principals, or superintendents; don't allow mayoral control of the schools; don't view education as a «consumer good.»)

Not exact matches

A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

Wall Street hated it, but Congress enacted key parts of the accords under the Dodd - Frank financial reform act, which President Trump started to roll back on Friday with the latest of a series of executive orders.

In the last year, Trump rolled back regulations on environmental protections, financial services, and health care, calling it the «most far - reaching regulatory reform» in U.S. history.

The Military Times over the weekend quoted the Center for Military Readiness President Elaine Donnelly, who runs a military advocacy group, as endorsing the «rolling back» of some of President Barack Obama's military personnel reforms.

Just as President Obama's Affordable Care Act was seen as a boon to hospital and other health care stocks, President Trump's desire to roll back his predecessor's health reform law has threatened those same companies» share prices since he won the election.

Recently, Bloomberg reported that Jamie Dimon was a key player in an industry - wide effort to roll back a provision of the Dodd - Frank financial reform bill that would have required banks to split their derivative trading units from the rest of the bank.

Investors are sometimes cheered by the election of a candidate, such as Trump, who seems likely to roll back regulations and embrace corporate tax reform.

And the conditionalities, the so - called reforms, are an Orwellian term for anti-reform, for cutting back pensions, for rolling back the progress that the labor movement has made in the last half century.

Another executive order that was signed will roll back the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

«««By voting to roll back the CFPB's work, senators have emboldened banks and finance companies to engage in racial discrimination by charging millions of people of color more for a car loan than is justified,» said Rion Dennis of Americans for Financial Reform, an advocacy group.

What's needed: fiscal spending on infrastructure; comprehensive corporate and personal tax reform, less bureaucratic red tape, and entitlement reform and a roll back on excessive regulation.

If confirmed, he is expected to maintain monetary policy continuity while rolling back some post — financial crisis banking reforms.

This is not to say that Dante wanted to regress to the situation that preceded Gregory or to roll back Gregory's reforms.

Not only would Reconstructionists roll back painfully won civil and political reforms, but religious liberty itself would be at risk.

Until deregulation is rolled back, the reforms suggested in these chapters simply have no real chance of succeeding.

Regular TLT readers know all about the (misguided) Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill passed by the House Education & the Workforce Committee, a bill which would roll back key school food reforms and put economically disadvantaged kids at risk.

As I wrote here last week, and as I've been telling you for the last few months, many of the important school food reforms of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act are currently at risk of being rolled back.

Despite post-independence reform that attempted to roll back such impositions on Islamic jurisprudence, successive attempts at constitutional overhaul in 1979, 1989, 1995, and 1999 all failed to resolve the conflict over the nature and scope of Islamic law.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi indicated that her party would like to roll back the tax reform law passed last year if they gain control of Congress this November.

1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.

Roll back Malloy education reform policies by not interfering in high - performing schools, which would be subjected to different standards than lower - performing schools.

Although the Conservative Party leader made it clear that it would be far too «simplistic» to propose a «bonfire of the QUANGOs», he emphasised his strong appetite for significant reform of these organisations and a general rolling back of unelected governmental bodies.

The state rolled back criminal justice reforms it had adopted only a year earlier.

Katko agrees with some items on the president's wish list, like tackling sentencing reform and rolling back some of the regulations on businesses.

«These include everything from rolling back the surveillance state and giving people back their civil liberties, to prison and NHS reforms, fairer pensions, the ending of child detention and the scrapping of the third runway at Heathrow,» the briefing said.

In a long piece in the Winter 2017 issue of Education Next, Stephen Eide took a close look at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to roll back the education reforms of his predecessor and pursue an education agenda of his own.

De Blasio's first three years in office attest to the significant constraints progressives across the country will face in trying to roll back education reform, even when faced with no significant political opposition at the local level.

In City Journal, Charles Sahm urges New York City major Bill de Blasio not to roll back the accountability - based, competition - driven school reforms put in place by his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg.

The groups lauded reforms to standards, assessments, funding equity and access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses, but lashed into the Harkin - Enzi draft for rolling back the federal government's role in policing states» education goals:

But the teachers union, which doesn't like the fact that most charter schools aren't unionized, has been eagerly awaiting Bloomberg's departure so that it can roll back his educational reform policies.

One of them, Shavar Jeffries, president of the Democrats for Education Reform, an influential political action committee supported heavily by hedge fund managers favoring charter schools, merit - pay tied to test scores and related reforms, issued a statement that went so far as to say that the original draft on education was «progressive and balanced» but that the new language «threatens to roll back» President Obama's education legacy.

These reforms were largely rolled back as Gates money dissipated alongside political will, courage and leadership.

The new law is poised to roll back the tsunami of school reforms that NCLB unleashed on schools, educators, students, and their families.

It's going to be very difficult to roll back some of these reforms.

It would probably be an uphill battle with regard to rolling back education reforms given fact that the legislature's likely to be Republican majority in both chambers.

The Trump administration, however, attempted to alter that trajectory with a number of actions in its first year, including rolling back EPA regulations on carbon, methane and other pollutants, as well as pushing wholesale market reforms to benefit coal and nuclear.

Conservative pundits also came to Pruitt's defense, pointing out the administrator's success in rolling back regulations and reforming EPA science policies make him a prime target for Democrats.

Prop 47 is considered a significant step for criminal justice reform, as it rolls back outdated sentencing guidelines and safely reduces prison population and spending.

«If plans to invest in infrastructure, reform healthcare laws and roll back regulations are delayed, many contractors will likely scale back their plans to expand headcounts.»

Health care reform, or the rolling back of all or some of President Obama's signature ACA, was mentioned frequently on the campaign trail.

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The Senate approved a bill last week that will roll back some aspects of the Dodd - Frank banking reform bill, which was passed in 2010 after the financial crisis.