Sentences with phrase «small number of reforms»

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And sure enough, just hours after Comey testified, the House of Representatives voted to repeal key parts of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which has contributed to an alarming number of small bank closures since its passage in 2010.

The legislation would also reform higher education benefits ($ 65 billion) and repeal or reform a number of smaller tax breaks.

The key there has been not export - driven agriculture but the opposite: the most thorough land reform in the world, reform that has given immense numbers of people the security of a small plot of land.

Governor Cuomo Introduces Campaign Finance Reform Legislation with a Public Financing Option Governor Andrew Cuomo has introduced legislation that seeks to enact a system of small donor matching funds for state elections, along with a number of other provisions designed to reduce corruption and special interest influence.

A study by a reform group finds that if New York were to ban outside income for lawmakers, it would actually effect only a small number of legislators.

In January 2012, in a speech in Strasburg, Prime Minister David Cameron set out an agenda for reforming the ECtHR which would reduce the number of admissible cases, and thus the backlog, by ensuring that the Court did not act as a small claims court or Court of Fourth Instance and did not go over national decisions where it did not need to.

He argued this would encourage reform of the party funding system by creating a greater incentive for a broader base for party funding, rather than the current reliance on a smaller number of bigger donors.

«It would've been a full citywide runoff,» he said, «and considering the paucity of actual enrollees in the Reform Party, its very easy to field candidates when you need such a small number of signatures and then open the Board up to significant elections responsibilities and a potential runoff.»

New York's two - year - old Voluntary Defined Contribution (VDC) retirement plan — the most significant structural reform in Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2012 Tier 6 pension legislation — is shaping up as a popular alternative among the relatively small number of government employees eligible to sign up for it.

The message was clear: The new reforms will affect all city students, not just 4 - year - olds or the relatively small number of students who attend struggling schools.

The Labour leader, a long - term proponent of Lords reform, said the upper chamber is dominated by «a small number of people from London and the south east» and should be more representative.

He wants to raid a fund for workers compensation, with the promise of reforming the entire system, and raise a small number of fees, including higher fines for texting or using a cell phone while driving.

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

Andy has repeatedly argued that the measure of the Obama administration's seriousness on reform is its willingness to award RTT grants to only a small number of exemplary states (at least in the first round).

For example, the Gates Foundation's small school reforms were widely panned as a flop in early reviews relying on student test scores, but a number of later rigorous studies showed (sometimes substantial) positive effects on outcomes such as graduation and college enrollment.

Shavar Jeffries, the president of Democrats for Education Reform, said there might be too much focus on school choice even in this environment, given the relatively small number of children choice programs serve.

Since Arne Duncan's appointment, the ascendant views controlling the education reform narrative have been those of a handful of billionaires and an equally small number of high - profile urban superintendents.

Since change takes time, our ability to analyze the impact of the reform effort has thus far been limited by the small number of schools which have been in the project for at least 2 years.

At the present time, a small number of studies describes how superintendents and their staffs work with state policies and regulations to ensure authentic reflection of such reform efforts while, at the same time, doing justice to local district and school priorities.

Designed by the Institute for Research and Reform in Education (IRRE), a New Jersey - based nonprofit, the model, called «First Things First,» combined a number of ideas that were gaining currency at the time: small learning communities, «looping» (in which teachers stay with the same students for multiple years) and changes in teaching practices to emphasize engagement and rigor.

The Global Witness report concluded that despite forestry reforms initiated by the prime minister himself, large - scale illegal logging operations were the preserve of a relatively small number of people who were relatives or friends of the prime minister or other senior officials.

The organization — Young Conservatives for Energy Reform, or YCER — joins a small but growing number of like - minded groups and individuals who hope to revive a voice that has been lost in the Republican Party, one that's focused on curbing, not expanding, fossil fuel production.

But the country faces a number of challenges, such as ensuring that the benefits of market reform reach smaller customers as well as larger customers.

However the pilot only provided a small number of recommendations on health and social care and did not produce sufficient evidence to assess health and social care responsiveness to recommendations, nor of the wider implications for the health and social care sectors, meaning that the reform's potential has hitherto been limited.

«The number - one tax related concern of small businesses today is the possible elimination of deductions and credits without an offsetting reduction in tax rates,» stated NSBA Chair Pedro Alfonso of Dynamic Concepts, Inc. in Washington, D.C. «The need for broad tax reform — and not just a tinkering here and there — is a real need for millions of American small businesses.»

The judicial reforms now require senior personnel to hear a small number of cases per year and according to President Zhou Qiang, that number is up 32 % (the base number is unknown).

[103] Even across these jurisdictions, however, the numbers of child deaths are relatively small and five years» data (i.e. data that includes years in which the COAG Closing the Gap reform agenda was operating — effectively from July 2009 on) are not enough to reliably show change.