Sentences with phrase «system reforms since»

Robin J. Lake has studied public charter schools and urban school system reforms since 1993.

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This represents the first federal increase to the highest income tax bracket since the federal income tax system was reformed in 1988.

The $ 1.5 trillion tax overhaul is the biggest reform of the U.S. tax system since the 1980s and will see that corporate tax rate slashed to 21 percent from 35 percent.

Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

This is unfortunate since the tax system, including EI revenues is in urgent need of serious reform and simplification.

First tabbed to help lead the reform of his country's capital markets system, he's since chaired many company boards, including... Continue reading →

Since coming to power at the end of 2015, a minority socialist Portuguese government has overcome initial skepticism among market participants and successfully introduced measures to reduce its budget deficit and reform the country's banking system, providing greater stability for investors.

In a research report recently completed for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, I document some startling findings: Canada, perhaps more than any other country, has played a pivotal role in the development of China's system of higher education since the beginning of China's period of Opening and Reform.

With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

Since its initial reform, the Australian government has continued making improvements to the family law system.

Mr. Barrow has since assuming office rolled out new policies to reform his country's political and governance systems.

The system has been criticised since its inception, thought the Department of Health has insisted it is a crucial element of NHS reform.

The system, adopted in the 1970s as a supposed «reform,» has led to myriad cases of lawmakers, who haven't had a pay raise since 1999, intentionally seeking to supplement their incomes by spending time in Albany even when they have no meaningful official work — and they've sometimes done it illegally.

Since he took over as Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has been pushing ahead more productively with cuts to legal aid, reform of the courts system and a new, more accountable prison regime.

Since the Spending Review of 2010 The Centre for Welfare Reform has tried to understand the overall impact of the cuts, changes to the benefit system and other social policy impacts on disabled people and people in poverty.

The changes to the current system of contracting out of paying the political levy are also likely to be equally controversial since there had been an unwritten understanding at Westminster that no party would introduce partisan reforms to party funding without cross party consensus.

Labour's top candidate for Scotland is David Martin, who has been an MEP since 1984, when he represented Lothians (prior to the introduction of the reformed electoral system for European elections in 1999).

The governor and IDC Leader Jeff Klein have been pushing hard for a more robust public system since the passage of the one - year, state comptroller - only program that was included in the 2014 - 125 budget and quickly panned by reform advocates.

Since the reform of the Convention system on 1 November 1998, there has been a considerable increase in the Court's caseload.

Lawmakers are pushing for their first pay raise since 1999, and Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos says he'd accept a deal on a salary increase that would include reform of the per diem system.

Since the formation of the IDC in 2011, mainline Democrats have howled that the IDC's partnership with the GOP has blocked consideration of key progressive agenda items such as the development of a single - payer health care system, campaign finance reforms, abortion protections and more.

«With reforms that increase transparency and crack down on a failing campaign finance system, New York's government will no longer be a laughing stock and can instead become the beacon for fairness and equality that New Yorkers deserve and that is long since overdue,» Ms. Cucco said in a statement.

The GOP is really digging in its heels on this one, which presents a problem for IDC leader Jeff Klein, since he is propsing a public matching system much like the one that currently exists in New York City as part of his omnibus campaign finance reform bill.

The process remains antiquated and reform only comes by court mandate since the guys in control — the party structure and incumbents — benefit from a system requiring many signatures and open to accosting opponents with an intricate and expensive legal process.

«As the governor has said since the beginning of his campaign, he is committed to reforming the pension system in order to reduce costs,» the spokesman, Josh Vlasto, said.

«As the Governor has said since the beginning of his campaign, he is committed to reforming the pension system in order to reduce costs,» Vlasto said in an e-mail.

Since then, Stringer has hit de Blasio for failing to remedy the lack of diversity among city vendors, spending on overtime and his attempted to reform the ailing city hospital system.

While not as fundamental a reform as The Independent and other advocates of proportional representation would like, a move to the Alternative Vote system would still be a landmark change for a country that has used first - past - the - post since modern elections began.

Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said that in examining options for Connecticut's tenure system, state officials looked at states where tenure had been abolished, at other states where old - fashioned versions of tenure remain and at the 31 states where tenure has been reformed since 2009.

Everybody recognizes that the system is set up to protect incumbents, and since reform bills won't pass without the votes of incumbents, the prospect for change is bleak.

Therefore, policies since 2013 have intended to radically reform the nation's research institutions and broader innovation system.

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.

I had been working on supply - side reforms for a long time at that point so I was happy to participate in reform at a more systemic level since both kinds of reform (choice and systems) are very important to me.

First, in its rehearsal of the responses, outcomes, and derivatives of Risk, the one advance since 1983 that gets short shrift from Koret (so short that it is virtually unmentioned) is the recent reform focus not just on teachers as linchpins of the education system but on teaching as the very core of what happens in schools and thus of school reform.

Since implementing significant education reforms in the 1970s, Finland's school system has consistently been at the top of international education rankings.

Longer school days, a move toward a less segregated two - pillared system, and a push for standardized national curricula are among the various reforms adopted by the country since their initial low scores on PISA provoked change.

Identifying effective reforms using rigorous evaluative techniques is a crucial task, especially since improving the education system is likely to have a greater economic impact than any of the medical breakthroughs of the past decade.

But since 2012, a number of large - scale system - and state - wide reforms have given students more options for completing remediation quickly, and more ways to avoid it altogether.

While its argument for regaining control of the schools rested on the principle of local control, a chastened OPSB also pointed out that it had instituted financial reforms since the system's bankruptcy prior to Katrina.

Some education reform advocates who lean to the left are questioning the foundations of the educational system as well as the reform efforts that have been made — not always by people of their preferred political persuasion — since the 1990s.

The question has been repeated each year since, with 72 percent of respondents favoring reform through the existing system in the 2001 poll.

4) The preponderance of school reform efforts since Risk has concentrated on augmenting the system's resources, widening its services, and tightening its regulation of school practices.

And Figure 5 shows that resources per full - time equivalent student (including both government funding and tuition revenue) has increased by nearly 50 percent since reaching a historical low in 1999 (just after the reform, when most students were still grandfathered under the old system).

In fact, since he did reform the school system without always appearing to, he has earned a reputation for what one former Payzant deputy called his «stealth radicalism.»

Mr. Klein has since overseen a number of aggressive reform efforts, including a stringent evaluation effort for each of the system's 1,400 public schools and the introduction of value - added assessment of the city's...

Since 2009, 46 states have reformed their teacher evaluation systems, incorporating such elements as student performance measures, standards - based classroom observations, and even parent and student feedback (Steinberg & Donaldson, 2015).

In the 11 years since the state took over Philadelphia, the district has gone through an array of overhauls, including the hand - off of school operations to outfits such as Edison Schools, and even the hard work of reformers such as Paul Vallas (who began Chicago's successful school reform effort and has just finished up a successful stint overseeing the revamp of New Orleans» school system).

Diane Ravitch has been the titular leader of the grass - roots movement against corporate school reform since 2010, when her book «The Death and Life of the Great American School System» was published and quickly became a bestseller.