Sentences with phrase «way of reform efforts»

Their technical assistance and financial analysis helped solve tough problems that often stand in the way of reform efforts.

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While last week's budget vote cleared the way to begin the tax reform effort, 20 Republicans voted against it, citing issues with the elimination of state and local tax deductions and a massive expansion of the federal deficit.

Weakening the link between Saudi Arabian prosperity and oil prices is, of course, the ultimate goal of the country's reform effort, but that is a long way off.

This rising tide of cultural domination can be turned back in two ways: through the support of efforts in the third world to achieve local communication that reflects local needs; and through reform of the media in the first world — which we will consider in some detail in Chapter 11, «What We Can Do.»

Bonhoeffer's consistent effort for a non-religious interpretation of Christianity was to reform the church in such a way that it could truly be a prophet and servant to the contemporary man.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Silver said he believes there will be changes in the way redistricting takes place after the 2010 Census numbers come in, but he stressed this reform effort might be easier said than done, adding: «There are a whole bunch of things that are recognized either by law, federal law or the Supreme Court that go into this.»

He said the police investigation had been a «shock to the system» and was on the whole a «good one» because would result in changes in the way political parties were funded and had led to renewed efforts to finish the reform of the House of Lords.

Bloomberg went out of his way to link himself to Obama during the 2009 mayor's race, especially when it came to talking up the president's health care reform efforts.

Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel led by Elias Zerhouni, the former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.

Among today's advocates for young people are nonprofit insurgent groups that challenge the education establishment by organizing, educating, and mobilizing parents in a variety of roles and in different ways, empowering them to engage in K — 12 reform efforts.

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

President Obama and Education Reform was written when there was really only half a presidential term to evaluate: after the midterm elections of 2010, there was nothing the administration could do that was in any way dependent on Congress, and even the long - delayed effort to reauthorize the primary basis of the federal role in education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next administration.

After her talk, an elementary school principal sought her out and complained that faculty members in Kentucky's colleges of education were bashing the state's reform effort and failing to train teachers to understand the new way of thinking.

Data systems, which are ways of collecting and tracking information about school, student, and teacher performance, are key elements in driving the Obama administration's reform effort.

Peterson is the author of Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, which chronicles the unanticipated consequences of school reform efforts over the past 150 years and the considers the way in which the school choice movement has evolved.

Because of the way Congress creates and funds programs, the department traditionally operated in program - based silos, which led to similar silos in states and hampered efforts to link together programs in comprehensive reform.

In many ways professional development is the link between the design and implementation of education reforms and the ultimate success of reform efforts in schools.

«Given the accessible and yet sophisticated way that Darling - Hammond analyzes past educational reform efforts and provides policy direction for the future, it is no surprise that many in the field of education had hoped that she would become the Secretary of Education under President Obama.»

Teacher evaluation policy has undergone a lot of upheaval, but the ESSA transition can provide an opportunity to consider teacher evaluation as part of a larger effort to attract, retain, and leverage teacher talent in a way that may have been overlooked in recent reforms.

A renewed commitment to those goals, rather than to the particular means pursued during the past several decades of reform efforts, may help both liberals and conservatives see their way to bold, constructive ideas for improving American schools — and toward alternatives to schools as we know them.

Few analyses have been conducted on past state efforts to overhaul teacher - tenure policies, concludes a report that recommends ways states, districts, and unions might approach the issue of tenure reform in the future.

Superintendent Cami Anderson's recent letter goes a long way toward countering the narrative of failure that has taken hold about the Newark school reform effort.

Chief in these efforts is the Smart Arkansas suite, a series of programs that deal with elementary, middle and high school reform, professional development, and that combine for a more strategic and systemic way to support low - performing students.

Hence, while it seems that the residual effects of the federal governments» former efforts are still dominating states» actions with regards to educational accountability, hopefully some states can at least begin to lead the way to what will likely yield the educational reform... still desired...

ProgressNow, by the way, was one of the key players in ousting school reform - minded Michigan legislator Paul Scott from his statehouse seat earlier this month and has decried Gov. Rick Snyder's efforts to allow for the expansion of charter schools and school choice....»

«I have seen the ways in which models of design, efforts of reform, and pedagogical approaches to instructional and behavioral management practice have an immense impact on the successes and failures of the students they serve.

We are disappointed with the way this round of PSC has devolved from a nationally recognized reform effort to a process where defenders of the status quo have sought to sideline external operators with proven ability to serve students, including charter schools.

Exploring «union reform» efforts in ways that expands the role of teacher voice in education reform efforts, incorporates social justice for students and families and strengthens the quality of the teaching profession

Gray described the initiative he is leading, CEE - Trust, a network of 18 city - based organizations that support education innovation and reform, and discussed the efforts of a CEE - Trust working group that is exploring innovative ways to rapidly expand the supply of high - quality charter schools in seven CEE - Trust cities.

Mapleton: Mapleton is the smallest of these districts, but in many ways launched what was the most radical reform effort.

The content and tone of the Statement to the Commissioner and the communication surrounding the development of this document make it very clear that while some school superintendents» support «reform efforts» and others raises serious concerns about particular elements of the reform agenda, there is broad - based opposition about the way Commissioner Pryor and his leadership team have been operating.

This flexibility is intended to build on and support the significant State and local reform efforts already under way in critical areas such as transitioning to college - and career - ready standards and assessments; developing systems of differentiated recognition, accountability, and support; and evaluating and supporting teacher and principal effectiveness.

The trick is for schools to do this in ways that do not fragment the coherence of overall reform efforts across the district.

Given the tax reform effort currently under way in Congress this would seem an appropriate time to consider the usefulness of a carbon tax to increase Federal revenue even though no such proposal (happily) is in the current tax bill.

Planned Parenthood is a member of the Clean Missouri Coalition, an effort to reform our democracy by banning big lobbyist gifts, capping campaign contributions, and improving the way we draw district lines.

Delivery System Reform: A general term for efforts to slow the growth of health costs by reforming the way health care is delivered in order to generate efficiencies.