Sentences with phrase «years after the reform»

Despite the well known and rapid spread of internet access and increasingly smart mobile phones, today, of all the six countries covered in the report, only France offers any meaningful support aimed directly at online media — and that to the tune of about $ 20 million a year after reforms in 2009, less than 0.5 % of all the support provided.

In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.

Yet nearly 10 years after the reforms, there is little more than anecdotal evidence — and no hard data — to show whether programs, and graduating teachers, are better than those who graduated before the reforms.

The study estimates the impact of overturning a state's school finance system and finds that, seven years after reform, a state's highest poverty quartile experienced a 4 to 12 percent increase in per pupil spending and a 5 to 8 percentage point increase in graduation rates.

Not exact matches

THE federal government's reform of the living - away - from - home allowance will come into effect next week after almost a year of consultation.

Saudi Arabia is revising its major reform strategy just over a year after its launch, extending the timeline of some targets and removing others entirely, according to reports.

The public's enthusiasm for the intimate and sophisticated experience offered by the city's small bars shows no sign of slowing, nearly six years after liquor licence reform was legislated in Western

After a year of infuriating government shutdowns and mind - boggling health care reform, small business owners are entering the new year with confidence.

In recent years, the senator has shifted from advocating comprehensive immigration reform to a stance that puts border security first, though with the possibility of a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants after 10 to 12 years.

He has an interest in US prison reform because his father, Charles Kushner, served just over a year in federal prison after a conviction in 2005 for illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.

According to a new report from the Joint Committee on Taxation, the House GOP tax reform bill — the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)-- would increase the federal deficit by $ 1.487 trillion over the 10 years after it is implemented.

Twenty - five years after turning her Princeton senior thesis into a national education reform program called Teach for America, Kopp is taking her model global.

The SEC's review comes after the agency put together a dedicated group earlier this year to examine private equity and hedge funds that had to register with it as part of the 2010 Dodd - Frank financial reform law, Reuters first reported in April.

Jacobs: Former police commissioner Charles Ramsey implemented a lot of reforms towards police - involved shootings in the department after the Department of Justice released that study a few years ago.

After years of economic expansion, the Turkish economy is set to continue struggling in 2017 on the back of growing terrorist acts, lack of structural reforms, falling tourism figures and increased political uncertainty.

At the event, the 29 - year - old billionaire said he was compelled to push for immigration reform after volunteering with students at a Menlo Park school.

The original 2017 House tax reform bill included some of this approach, creating a $ 300 - per - adult «family credit» and sunsetting it after five years.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

After some reforms to the program were brought in last year, Kenney said, his department has undertaken a second phase of review.

They later fell to the lower end of their trading band so far this year, after the retraction of President Trump's health care reform legislation magnified concerns that planned tax reforms might face similar problems.

Even the last 3 months are at +2.7 % SAAR after the 2017 year - end boost likely induced by the tax reform.

The Volcker rule, finalized three years after the Dodd - Frank financial reform law passed in the wake of the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis, restricts U.S. banks from making certain kinds of speculative transactions on their own account and from investing in hedge funds.

After confronting the «knowledge problem» at the heart of discretionary monetary policy — that policymakers are unable to know the true structure of an increasingly complex and global economic system — Dorn calls for the establishment of a Centennial Monetary Commission to evaluate the performance of the Fed over its 100 - plus years of discretionary monetary authority and to discuss how best to reform the country's central bank.

After Republicans spent the greater part of the year pushing unsuccessfully to repeal Obamacare, tax reform was the last frontier for major legislative change in Trump's first year in office — a reality that served as a major motivator to get the tax bill done by Christmas.

But CPP / QPP reform ran into a federal brick wall last December, after years of work building a reform consensus among Canada's ten provinces and three territories.

Yet Republican deficit hawks are balking at an increase in federal spending after the recent passage of the tax reform plan and 2019 fiscal year budget.

She was speaking after Eurozone leaders agreed to give Greece a third bailout package of up to $ 86bn over the next three years, in exchange for further austerity and reforms.

Thus the antecedent field of the Reform Bill passage is about two years long, or from the accession of the Duke of Wellington as prime minister in the Spring of 1828 (when the issue of Reform was first broached) to the first meeting of parliament after the elections of summer, 1830, when Reform became the focus of political conflict.

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.

While editors continued to commend Roosevelt for his courage in producing a reformed economic order, they also began to distance themselves from him within a year after his reelection.

In 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equality.

With classic terminology but with an emotional insistence not common in the earlier generations of New England Puritans, Cotton Mather preached that the only hope of reform from these various forms of wickedness was to be born again in Christ, to rise again, not with one's own strength but with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of times.

Urukagina in Sumer had sought reform through legislation many centuries before, and six hundred years after his time Hammurabi of Babylon had renewed the effort.

(CNN)- Children in the Catholic Church are safer 10 years after the church initiated reforms in the wake of the priest abuse scandal, but there is still work to be done, according to a report delivered to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Pope Shenouda, the controversial yet beloved head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, died Saturday after 40 years of leading and reforming the ancient Christian communion.

Scholarly, ascetic, an experienced administrator, by his vigorous attempts at reform he might in time have overcome the stubborn opposition, but he died after less than two years in office.

Shortly after George Pell was named Archbishop of Melbourne, he instituted several reforms at the archdiocesan seminary, including daily Mass and the daily celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours, both of which had fallen by the wayside in the preceding years.

The long - awaited rule stems from the Affordable Care Act, the comprehensive health care reform law of 2010, and comes more than three years after the proposed rule was issued in April 2011.

His very sensible call for reform comes 10 years after the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council concluded that the lack of share options was a problem for early - stage companies and a barrier to growing new technology companies in Australia.

After the first year of the partnership, schools often return to our conferences to receive further guidance and support and to plan for future reform efforts.

Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote a piece for Civil Eats asking a question that had been on my mind for several years: why are school breakfasts often loaded with added sugars, even after the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act nutritional reforms?

-LSB-...] overview of where federal school food reform now stands, almost one year after President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 into law.

After 28 years working to get kids into college, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the equation.

Nestle is a professor in the nutrition, food studies and public health department at New York University, and here she provides a concise but comprehensive overview of where federal school food reform now stands, almost one year after President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 into law.

The referendum drive began earlier this year after a series of park district board decisions drew the ire of Citizens for Tax Moderation, a tax reform group composed mainly of longtime Gurnee residents.

Ten years after I first dipped my toe into the roiling waters of school food reform, I continue to hear parents complain about unhealthy food and food practices at school, even as headlines scream about the childhood obesity epidemic.

I'd also started The Lunch Tray the prior year, and after each episode of that second season of Food Revolution (covering Oliver's reform efforts in Los Angeles USD), I offered TLT readers a recap and my thoughts.

I am a former lawyer with some food regulatory experience, and after three and a half years of working on school food reform in Houston ISD, I'm relatively well - versed in how school food programs operate.

The House of Lords have passed the Defamation Act, after a three - year campaign calling for the reform of Britain's libel laws.

Ethics legislation now would come after several years of reform measures passing, which good - government advocates criticized as being watered - down.