Sentences with phrase «when policy reforms»

Ask your friends, colleagues and community organizations to get involved when policy reforms are being discussed.

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The situation is analogous to health care policy in the years before Obamacare, when, in the absence of a federal consensus, Massachusetts pioneered its own law aimed at reforming health insurance (which later became a model for the Affordable Care Act).

When taking over, Kim Jong Un boldly promised both nuclear weapons and economic reform, his byungjin policy — and to a notable degree, he has delivered.

When Eurozone Finance Ministers met on November 9th in Brussels, they were set to discuss a release of bail - out money in exchange for the latest reform package from Athens along with EU fiscal policy and the banking union.

«When we interviewed the insurers for our report, it was in late 2017, so we were not able to fully capture how insurers currently would feel about these market stabilization proposals that are in the news this week,» said Sabrina Corlette, research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and one of the authors of the study.

When We're 65: Reforming Canada's Retirement Income System, The Social Policy Challenge 13, by John B. Burbidge et al..

Recently, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the principal bank to the world's central banks, hinted at the need for microeconomic reform when it warned that central banks were «overburdened» and called for policies other than monetary stimulus and low interest rates to tackle the issue of slow global growth.

When the Church (or at least the U.S. bishops conference) pronounces on public policy specifics» welfare reform, medical delivery systems, or armaments strategy, for examples» the Catholic house divides the other way.

An adjournment put forward by Roger Williams MP on reforming the common agricultural policy on Tuesday will also be worth a watch, if only to see which of the most excitable Eurosceptics get the wildest look in the eyes when discussing it.

They argue — as Corbyn does when he claims credit for U-turns the government has performed, such as over benefit reform or economic policy — that in holding to the faith they have exercised power, because power is simply the ability to make or to prevent things happening.

«While I am sorry to see her leave our office, I am heartened that Conchita will be returning to Washington to work on immigration policy at this critical moment when we are so close to passing comprehensive immigration reform,» Rivera said said in a statement.

Changes in economic policy create winners and losers; when the would - be losers are a powerful bloc within the government, the push for reform is going to have trouble finding traction.

He veered away from that topic and returned to the issue of the push to reform the financial industry, saying: «You've got to be sympathetic with some of the legislators,» pointing out that elected officials have to navigate a complex minefield of regulations and politics when trying to craft policy.

Ironically, the civil servants in Franco's economic advisory proposed modern and liberal economic policies that brought intense growth and development during the 1960s, but when it came to political reform, however, they resisted change.

Tony Blair's manifesto commitment to a referendum on electoral reform gives him an option for hanging onto government office, in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, by introducing PR when Gordon Brown and Frank Field's policies produce the inevitable dénouement with the electorate.

And when it comes to spearheading movements, policies, and legislation that advance social reforms, does it still, as Cuomo asserts, start with New York?

The Reform Party believes that our government functions best when it lives within its means, sets reasonable and common - sense objectives and implements sound policy.

The report comes at a point when justice secretary Kenneth Clarke has committed to reforming the prison service and outlined policies to reduce the size of the prison population.

The broadcast equivalent of those «bad» interviews would come when, for example, the Today programme decided they really couldn't be bothered to give Gordon a 15 - minute platform to talk about reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.

In 1979, when I became the director of Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink's Program Development Group, we began a research and policy development project aimed at reforming the state's Job Incentive Program.

The full extent of opposition to the plans became clear this morning when the right wing organisation Policy Exchange - often branded the prime minister's favourite think tank - warned against «overly hasty implementation» of the reforms.

Christie and Malloy have clashed repeatedly — and quite publicly — over both personality and policy, particularly when it comes to negotiating with public employee unions, pension reform and budgeting.

When it comes to policy, Klein has said he wants to accomplish a host of progressive goals, such as increasing the state's minimum wage, stop and frisk reform and overhauling campaign - finance laws.

When political parties and public policy groups with such divergent views unite in a common cause it clearly attests to the fact that ballot access reform is not a partisan or special - interest group issue, but a question of fundamental freedom that transcends political and ideological differences.

Even on his top policy priority of campaign finance reform, he wrestled with his words and had to be pulled back twice by debate moderator Errol Louis of NY1 when he strayed to attack de Blasio in the middle of explaining his proposal.

«Our analysis shows that if you are poor and live in one of the 25 opt - out states, you are likely to have been left out when it comes to health reform,» says lead author Peter Shin, PhD, MPH, director of the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy and an associate professor of health policy at Policy and an associate professor of health policy at policy at SPHHS.

THE NEXT WEB - Oct 27 — China's national policies, economic reform, and urban migration have created challenges for the country's one billion residents when it comes to relationships.

It's just what happens when school improvement is shaped by policy and the pursuit of system reform — the same way that character and relationships get squeezed when studios figure out what teenage boys want to see.

When judges have been called in to reform education, they have quickly grown weary of policy minutiae and have let quantifiable metrics drive out that which is more difficult to measure.

When you look at smart charter policies in Colorado, New York, Louisiana, Tennessee, and elsewhere, you tend to see the fingerprints of mainstream Republicans and reform - minded Democrats — the folks with lots of influence when government is closely diviWhen you look at smart charter policies in Colorado, New York, Louisiana, Tennessee, and elsewhere, you tend to see the fingerprints of mainstream Republicans and reform - minded Democrats — the folks with lots of influence when government is closely diviwhen government is closely divided.

These are precisely the kinds of far - reaching reforms that my colleagues and I called for four years ago when the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education, based at Stanford's Hoover Institution, evaluated Florida's Jeb Bush - era policy changes.

In 2013, when one could just start to glimpse that some reforms might be going south, I mused, «Reformers have greeted with a surprising lack of interest the seemingly self - evident fact that the fruits of policy innovation depend as much on how policies are carried out as on whether they're carried out... Earlier reform efforts failed when their champions got mired in changing «professional practice» while ignoring policy.

When it comes to school reform, a current wave of rhetoric and recent changes in federal education policy, including the No Child Left Behind Act, have put the spotlight on the academic achievement gap.

When talking about broad reforms to health care, energy policy, or education, however, it's a different story.

Split Decision: Two Incumbents Losing in Denver School Board Elections, Two Supporters of District Policies Prevail (Chalkbeat) Quotes Martin West: «There are signs in the national election results this week that Democrats may make significant headway at the state and local level next year when many more seats are in play, and that typically makes it harder to pursue the traditional reform agenda.

And when it comes to education policy, which does a particularly good job of stirring people's passions, opportunities for advancing meaningful policy reform would appear entirely fleeting.

This question of who should «own» reforms, especially when the grasstops and grassroots disagree on good policy, is going to be an ongoing tension.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

The study was released along with previously available national data that, when taken together, have important implications for current policy debates over welfare reform.

She is co-author of Learning Policy: When State Education Reform Works with David K. Cohen (Yale Press, 2001).

When talk turned to educational equity, panelists stressed the need for comprehensive school reform which incorporates academics with school safety measures, curricula that encourages teachers to operate creatively, policies that promote safe local housing, particularly when involving children under agWhen talk turned to educational equity, panelists stressed the need for comprehensive school reform which incorporates academics with school safety measures, curricula that encourages teachers to operate creatively, policies that promote safe local housing, particularly when involving children under agwhen involving children under age 5.

States should develop policies that acknowledge the challenge of opening and operating rural charter schools but also allow charter operators, school districts, and state officials to consider where and when charter schools might be a useful reform strategy.

The many calls for «evidence based» decisionmaking notwithstanding, most of our major policy and reform initiatives have either been launched without any prior research on their efficacy, and without provisions for assessing their intended and unintended effects, or have ignored or misused whatever relevant research evidence was available when...

Back in the 1990s, there was a sense that reforms failed when advocates got bogged down in efforts to change «professional practice» while ignoring the role of policy.

The truth is that school reform tends to be much heavier on talk than on execution, especially when it comes to policy change — and especially in recent years.

When the union had to defend policies that protected teachers who spelled magician as «magition» and truth as «thruth,» the editorial pages of the Sacramento Bee, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times all came out for reform.

Linn (1998) has suggested that policy - makers have placed enormous emphasis on assessment reform because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to mandate, can be implemented rapidly, and is easily reported by the press, when compared to the type professional development and restructuring / reculturing of schools required to affect deep, second - order educational change (Fullan & Miles, 1992).

When the wave of education reform starts at the national level, the national policy discussion often takes place at the macro level.

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).

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.