Word: reform
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Koerner would go one step further and abolish or reform the tenure system to allow schools to dismiss incompetent teachers and hire more
...Reform Group, which serves as a think tank for progressive tax reform and lobbies both the Administration and Congress...
Workers greet a new boss by voting for reform...
Politics in Boston had reached a point where almost any change was bound to be a step forward. The new, uninspired leaders may very well encourage a reform atmosphere that could become a prelude to a major restructuring of the city's government. It is unlikely, however, that they themselves will be the primary forces behind such changes...
Voters also rejected the two reform referenda that would have changed the structure of the school committee and city council from its present composition of all citywide representatives to a mixture of citywide and district representatives. Reformers designed the changes specifically to insure black representation on both bodies and greater responsibility to constituents among the representatives by tying them down to set districts. The referenda lost by only a few thousand votes but 32 per cent of the voters--28,000--did not even vote on the questions...