Sentences with phrase «support substantial reforms»

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Toward that end the Oversight Board, which has substantial moral authority, needs to provide real leadership by stressing that reform and support are mutually reinforcing.

In the 2014 State of State handbook which accompanied the speech, the governor detailed these as well as other reform initiatives, emphasizing that matching small donations with public funds would give «voice to small donors» and «help enable a diverse pool of candidates with substantial grassroots support, but little access to large donors, to run competitive campaigns.»

[6] Others claim that at that point in time Blair preferred short - term ideas to anything more substantial, [4] and it was another decade before the inception of Blair's major reform to welfare — the replacement of Incapacity Benefit by Employment and Support Allowance.

Sen. John Kerry appears headed for a fall presidential campaign in which education will be playing a supporting role, with the Democratic nominee offering the politically popular blend of «reform» and substantial spending increases for schools.

However, decades of school reform research «has shown that school improvements tend not to deepen at single schools or spread across schools without substantial support from district central offices,» as Mike Copland and Meredith Honig, University of Washington researchers, point out in their recent Education Week commentary, «Don't Cut Out the Center.»

On the other hand, research on school reform for decades has shown that school improvements tend not to deepen at single schools or spread across schools without substantial support from district central offices.

Some proponents of teacher evaluation reforms have conjectured that if districts would eliminate the bottom 5 to 10 percent of teachers each year, as measured by value - added student test scores, U.S. student achievement would increase by a substantial amount — enough to catch up to high - achieving countries like Finland.3 However, there is no real - world evidence to support this idea and quite a bit to dispute it.