The president called for strengthening standards that protect our air, water, and communities from unchecked natural gas development.
What's more, strengthening standards has widespread support: it's perhaps the one thing that the people who see Ravitch as a hero and the reformers who are often her target agree on.
"By strengthening standards for preventing, reporting, investigating and responding to incidents of bullying this act will help to reduce the risk of suicide among students and avert not only the needless loss of a young life, but also the tragedy that such loss represents to the student's family and the community at large," the law reads.
The OECD has been asked by G20 finance ministers to strengthen standards around tax for multinationals.
In 1990, Congress passed the Fastener Quality Act to strengthen standards.
In Indonesia, the government has its own plan to strengthen standards.
That's now down by nearly 20 percentage points -- in direct support of higher expectations, strengthened standards and better tests.
The firm also said it would strengthen standards in so-called structured products, the complicated investments that got a bad name during the financial crisis.
She cited the "shocking" Hillsborough report, the Ian Tomlinson case, the ongoing investigations into several chief officers, and the Guardian's disclosures of the practices employed by undercover officers as examples of the need to strengthen standards of police integrity.
"I think it's important to emphasize that this initiative should be seen less as a criticism than as a constructive attempt to strengthen standards and enforcement," said Pat Doherty, corporate governance director of New York State Comptroller Thomas P DiNapoli, during the conference call.
