Sentences with phrase «system reform go»

The strategies of good coaches and the right drivers for whole - system reform go hand in hand.

Not exact matches

Canada's rail giants, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., currently have an advantage over shippers, the coalition said, and Ottawa's latest attempt to reform Canada's rail system doesn't go far enough in addressing those issues.

When it comes to determining how a society should organize and reform its market system, ideological talk only goes so far.

I used to go to our state capitol to make speeches on prison reform to the legislators — speeches in which I quoted Scripture to denounce both our corrections system and the legislators who were responsible for it.

It's going to take some real political muscle to reform the system.

If we are going to have a referendum on voting reform - bearing in mind other questions, such as Scottish independence, are far more pressing - then let's have one on a more credible system.

By the time he goes to the country again he needs House of Lords reform set in stone and civil liberties reinstalled, with AV acting as the electoral system used to judge his achievements.

However, the United States should also be an active partner in the on - going reform process by tackling the existing patronage system, particularly — but not exclusively — through its financial and military influence in institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and NATO respectively.

Likewise, Cameron and Clegg could, in theory, reform the education system to the relative detriment of the public schools without accusations of class hatred, because they went to public schools themselves.

AV IS NOT THE REFORM WE NEED: There are lots of genuine reforms which would go some way to restoring people's trust in politics — but changing our voting system to AV is not one of them.

«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.

Whether Cuomo broaches a public campaign finance system will help gauge how bold he's going on reform.

Proponents consider this proposition a good start toward reforming a system which at present has only one guiding principle: To the victors go the spoils.

If you are going to have radical reform of the education system you HAVE to dismantle the embedded ability of veto held by local education authorities.

# 2.25 bn of this spending would be new money taken from reforms of the tax credit system and # 500m from abolishing the child trust fund, which goes to teenagers.

For me, thinking about AV and electoral reform made me realise properly, for the first time, how much the voting system dictates how we go about our democratic politics — especially in relation to marginal constituencies or marginal wards.

The Senate President's motivation for the reform package of 2011 was to save the pension system from going under, to ensure that hard - working public employees received their pensions during retirement that they had been counting on throughout their careers.

«This is the only effective way to reform education, and the alternative is to go back to a system that was rife with corruption,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Originally all 3.3 m disability living allowance claimants were due to be on the new system at the beginning of October before being moved to the end of the month, there is now no set rollout date on the reform going through.

If you're going to allow wine sales in grocery stores, you have to reform the whole system.

Today I'm going to talk about how the economic reform we need to earn our way out of the cost of living crisis, and social security reform to ensure the system is fair and affordable, go hand in hand.

When initial explorations into voting reform were last made by the late Roy Jenkins, it was shown that, had the 1997 election been held under the alternative vote system, Labour's already huge majority would have gone up from 179 to 245.

«The fact that one of the factors that goes into redrawing district lines is how much money incumbents are willing to spend on lobbyists is yet another sign that the system is in desperate need of reform,» he said.

Campaigners for democratic reform give a mixed reaction on Mr Brown's proposals, with some, such as Power 2010 saying it did not go far enough: «Without troubling the public for their views, ministers hand - picked the voting system they favour in a cynical exercise aimed at wrong - footing the Tories ahead of a likely election defeat.

There is not going to be electoral reform any time soon — maybe not for a generation — so both Ukip and the Greens are going to have to find a different way of working the system to their favour.

... I'm [also] excited to go there to reform the criminal justice system [where] so many black and brown men end up.»

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«As our nation goes forward in its own healthcare reform debate, the failures of the British system should have Americans asking some very important questions, such as: who should make medical decisions - me and my doctor or a government board?»

Voting reform was always going to be the toughest issue and the Conservatives were now offering what amounted to an all - party inquiry, which would draw up a list of possible voting systems.

«I don't want to comment on the specifics yet, but we're going to have a bail reform proposal in the State of the State because I think we can make the bail system better,» said Cuomo.

After the campaign that the Liberal Democrats have waged over this past month, for which considerable personal credit goes to Nick Clegg, the election presents the British people with a huge opportunity: the reform of the electoral system itself.

Organisations representing the elderly welcomed the pledges on social care featured in the Queen's speech today, but said the government should have gone further in instigating overdue reform of the widely - derided existing system.

Many - giving parliament the power over Britain going to war, a largely - elected House of Lords, «no» to ID cards and support for reform of the electoral system - seem designed to woo the Liberal Democrats as possible coalition partners.

We are going to help good educators stay and grow in this profession, and usher real reform that will lift up kids across the whole system.

Ethics reforms, voting reforms and a whole new system of public financing of elections must go together.

Other groups, like Common Cause, seem less likely to go along, and it will be similarly difficult to secure the blessing of former Mayor Ed Koch, who successfully shamed legislators into promising to reform the system, but has been unable to shame them into keeping that promise.

Real - estate millionaire Carl Paladino, the somewhat surging Republican gubernatorial primary opponent to the party - backed Rick Lazio, has some interesting ideas about how to reform the welfare system, including an optional program in which welfare recipients would go live in converted prisons while they work for the state.

And if we are going to get a change or reform in the property tax system — that we all struggle with — I am sure she will make her voice heard.»

«He's going to discuss our shared Democratic agenda to keep moving the country forward by growing the economy, rebuilding the middle class, implementing the affordable care act and reforming our broken immigration system,» one source said.

The pols are asking for $ 26 million to expand administrative courts to brace for an influx of civil summonses that could replace summonses now handled by the criminal system if a series of reforms the Council is pursuing to ease up on minor offenses go through.

INFN President Fernando Ferroni, quoted by Il Manifesto, conceded that the current research system is «muddled, hyper - bureaucratic, and difficult to manage» but said that this «rapid reform» was not the way to go about changing it.

Many meetings and workshops have since taken place in which «we try to make new proposals to go into the opposite direction, to try to understand what the best thing to reform the university system» would be, Leuzzi says.

The main demand of the researchers was to revise the current reform of the Russian academic system, which has been going on since mid-2013.

If the reform policy playbook was going to drive transformational, system - wide gains in American education, we'd have seen it by now.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

For going on two decades now, the twin movements to expand parental choice and foster accountability have been the major drivers of reform in the K - 12 education system.

«Yet somehow, despite hard - fought political battles and reforms, and the daily efforts of system leaders, teachers, parents and students across the nation, we continue to replicate a system in which key indicators of impact and equity are stagnating or going backwards,» they said.

The Sutton Trust is urging the Government to reform the student funding system after poll shows that the proportion of young people who think they are likely to go into Higher Education has fallen

If you're going to do a show about school reform, perhaps you should not make general, and inaccurate, generalizations about the entire educational system.

Given the need to improve the quality of instruction and the lack of clarity and shared knowledge about what systems and activities improve teaching, this is the right time to take stock of what is known; what kinds of activities are currently underway; and what will be needed going forward as reforms roll through the education system.