Sentences with phrase «targeted policy reforms»

Given the business mindset of charter school financial administrators, targeted policy reforms are needed to improve financial accountability within charter schools.

Not exact matches

Mills, like many other policy experts and analysts, is in favor of some financial regulatory reform, especially as regards the newer lending startups and other fintech companies targeting small businesses.

Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of «zombie» firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a competitive market), capital misallocation and stalling technological diffusion... As the zombie firm problem may partly stem from bank forbearance, complementary reforms to insolvency regimes are essential to ensure that a more aggressive policy to resolve non-performing loans is effective.

But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

Ms. Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico who has built a broader profile in part by focusing on immigration reform issues nationwide and in the city, said the policy would target women and children who were fleeing «horrific violence» at home.

He also has signaled that public education and criminal justice reform will be two policy targets.

That was consistent with a «health in all policies» strategy focusing on the targeted reforms, across City departments and agencies.

The findings, published July 9 in The Lancet, come four years after the same group of researchers issued a call to action, laying out an ambitious plan to curtail HIV epidemics in gay men, setting targets for policy reform, funding and improvement in effective HIV prevention and treatment services, including expanded access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) which has been highly effective in dramatically reducing transmission among this population.

The policy could still be cast as an ineffective, politically motivated, and discriminatory approach to school reform: an easy target.

With a new generation of reform - minded philanthropists targeting high - profile efforts that will influence educational politics and policy, the time is ripe for a project that targets methodological advances and improvements for cost modeling strategies.

The Communiqué calls on the international community to increase efforts to phase out perverse subsidies to fossil fuels by promoting policy transparency, ambitious reform and targeted support for the poorest.

«Although generically described as «school reform,»» he writes in Shame, «most of these practices and policies are targeted at poor children of color,» failing to explain why reform should not be directed at the lowest - performing schools.

, «most of these practices and policies are targeted at poor children of color,» failing to explain why reform should not be directed at the lowest - performing schools.

Our focus on education reform policy and its opponents has obscured our focus on the original target customers — kids and families.

Reforms targeting governance and funding policies were also included in the analysis, such as the increase in the number of academies in England as part of moves to gives schools greater autonomy.

The next most popular set of reforms have been around school improvement, including policies to target the teaching profession and school leadership.

From a front - row seat watching these reforms over decades — first, as an expert in Congress, and then as founder of the Center on Education Policy, I believe that we have missed the target on school reform.

In conclusion, while it is true that the corporate education reform «movement» is weighed down with a long list of failed policies, you have to give them credit for their prowess when it comes to developing marketing terms that seek to mislead their target audiences.

I would encourage policy makers and teachers to make widespread use of the TNA reports and teacher - specific findings provided by the study to improve and target teacher training, classroom reforms and processes.

Increased, targeted funding and community - based approached to education reform and policy is.

There are a ton of education reforms and policies tackling this problem through things like charter schools, college - and - career ready standards, targeted professional development, wrap - around services and more — all efforts that have made progress to closing the Black - white achievement gap.

WASHINGTON — Auto industry lobbyists plan to make distracted - driving guidelines, fuel - economy regulations and tax reform their top policy targets on Capitol Hill this year.

These include 1) reducing the risk of recession; 2) reverting to quantitative easing; 3) moving away from inflation targeting; 4) using fiscal policy to replace monetary policy; (v) using fiscal and monetary policy together in a bid to introduce so - called «helicopter money»; and 5) pushing interest rates higher through structural reforms designed to lower excess savings, most obviously via increases in retirement age.

From these three country experiences, we find that fostering public support to implement lasting reform may depend on four measures: (1) forming a public engagement plan and a comprehensive reform policy that are then clearly communicated to the public in advance of price increases; (2) phasing in price adjustments over a period of time to ease absorption; (3) providing a targeted compensatory cash transfer to alleviate financial impacts on low - to middle - income households; and (4) capitalizing on favorable global macroeconomic conditions.

This Article, excerpted from Michael B. Gerrard & John C. Dernbach, eds., Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (forthcoming in 2018 from ELI Press), examines how these challenges can be overcome with targeted legal and policy reforms.

It also calls for a higher EU energy efficiency target, expanding energy efficient policies, rapid reform of EU carbon markets and caution when assessing shale gas's potential contribution to the energy mix.

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.

Commit to making significant progress towards restoring the natural environment by 2020, including the doubling of UK woodland cover, meeting other habitat targets and ensuring that protected sites are in good condition; through utilising reforms to agricultural incentives, planning policy and other measures to create high quality landscapes rich in nature and able to adapt to climate change.

Key areas of focus include getting more waste to treatment, and improving treatment effectiveness where needed; improving the testing to target hormonally active substances in waste waters; and agricultural and chemical policy reform.

Government targets, mandates, business incentives, and reformed tax and subsidy policies must promote sustainable development in order for the green labor market to take off.

Regarding old measures, the Greek Government had to revise its promise to cancel many of the austerity measures it heavily criticized since 2010 as an opposition party, agreeing to «refrain from any rollback of measures and unilateral changes to the policies and structural reforms that would negatively impact fiscal targets, economic recovery or financial stability, as assessed by the institutions.»

KirkTousaw, (@kirktousaw), a lawyer and advocate for cannabis policy reform in Abbotsford, B.C.: #omnicrime does not target org crime, will affect mostly small timers, addicts, medpot patients.

In the state of Michigan, for example, even the decision of the state's highest court has not prevented consumer advocates from continuing their lobbying efforts on behalf of auto insurance reforms targeted at the use of credit scores in policy underwriting.

In the light of broader human rights principles, the report assesses the outcomes of government policies, including the focus on improvements in targeted areas including health and housing reform.

Recent discussions and policy reforms in the area of violence against women have been mostly targeted towards intimate partner violence.

MSPCC targets its children's mental health public policy goals to support proven efforts, improving capacity for early identification and treatment, and reforming practices that inhibit school success.