We still have a long way to go in transforming the bureaucracy by rooting out entrenched practices that don't make financial sense and redirecting more funds straight into the classroom.

Once appointed, Duncan began the task of dealing with "entrenched bad practice, poor leadership, maladminsitration and corruption.

In its early years of teaching, research and administration, Monash had the advantage of no entrenched traditional practices.

In its early years of teaching, research and administration, Monash was not disadvantaged by entrenched traditional practices.

Sexual harassment, meanwhile, remains a deeply entrenched practice.

Religious accommodationists state that this entrenched practice has not historically presented any constitutional difficulty, is not coercive, and does not prefer one religious denomination over another.

But changing entrenched practices is not easy.

The court announced today that it would hear a small Texas school district's appeal of a federal appeals court's ruling that barred the highly popular and deeply entrenched practice of pregame invocations.

Still, it may be difficult to reverse entrenched practices.

The Issue: Low Pay The union representing the lawyers, paralegals and clerical workers is seeking an end to an entrenched practice in the field of public law: low pay.