Sentences with phrase «local efforts like»

Local efforts like eTelligence are catching on.

It will require more than a few local efforts like the one in Milwaukee to make the American school system more inclusive and fair; it will require a much larger cultural shift and an about - face from government at all levels.

Not exact matches

It could be that developing a project to support local or international educational efforts may help you to map out what you'd like your company to accomplish in the long term.

Our efforts represent the single largest block of community support in the history of New Orleans, contributing more than 54,000 volunteer hours and investing more than $ 1 million in local projects like painting, landscaping, and building playgrounds.

In Ottawa, a nervous government implemented new regulations for insured mortgages in an effort to slow down the Vancouver and Toronto markets — and came under fire from Realtors in places like Saskatoon, where the local real estate association says the new regulations have seriously hurt would - be home buyers.

One aide who felt energized by the president's actions was the embattled White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who shares Mr. Trump's anger at the efforts of local governments to remove monuments honoring prominent Confederate figures like Robert E. Lee.

Meanwhile, the World and National councils of churches, myriad regional and local councils, the many bilateral conversations, and unity efforts like the Consultation on Church Union have continued to do their work largely out of the public eye except for occasional moments of media - orchestrated controversy.

Church people, like everyone else in America, have grown up on an ideology of competitive individualism coupled with a sense of loyalty, and the local congregation has been the focal point, of effort.

The plan may also include efforts in parts of the world where ingredients are sourced — like Indonesia, a huge source of palm oil for processed food manufacturers — such as providing communities with technology and resources to harvest and utilize local foods more efficiently.

What we'd like to see with the passage of the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act is a concerted effort by schools — whether at the state or local level — to find the best practices that work for their system, their resources, and the type of programs they already have in place.

Get your hands dirty at Shedd - organized cleanup efforts across the city on April 21 and help pick up litter, like plastic, on local beaches and neighborhood parks.

Fate intervened in several unlikely ways in the two ensuing decades and then last fall, Weber, now a fixture in the national Farm to School Network, found himself waxing enthusiastic about local produce to a woman who was part of an effort called Homegrown Minneapolis, which would like to see more of that farmstead goodness put before MPS kids and other locals.

Cuomo and locally elected officials have pushed back against efforts that would end local and state deductions, a move that would have the greatest effect on high - tax states like New York, New Jersey and Illinois.

Like the Medicaid Anti-Fraud Task Force, this companion effort is partially funded by New York State with no cost to local taxpayers, and has already resulted in savings for residents.

The delays also gave local efforts to ban fracking time to get traction in towns like Dryden; today Martens claimed those legal hurdles were greatly reducing the acreage available for fracking.

Generally speaking, the Assembly's proposal, which allows for the cap to be overridden by a 60 percent majority of a local school district and is directed particularly at areas with crushing property taxes like Long Island and Westchester County, is similar to that of the Governor, who said today that he applauded their efforts.

Only an imperial governor like Cuomo would label my efforts to fix the tax code as «treasonous,» as he did last week, reacting to my support for reform that would cut taxes for most New Yorkers while removing the state and local deduction.

That insight prompted engineers like Malkin to set up a mosaic of efforts centered on three tactics: repair the old equipment; train local technicians to perform fixes; and design low cost, high reliability, easy - to - maintain equipment specifically for the developing world.

While several organizations like the World Bank, European agencies, nonprofit agencies and USAID have commissioned studies, experts yesterday acknowledged that no one has emerged with a systematic approach to understanding local climate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green Climate Fund.

Dressing down for date night Its fine to hit your local supermarket in your favorite holey sweats, but like any first or second date, consider putting more effort into your ensemble.

Last weekend I made an enormous effort to get out of bed early about 7 (ish) I wanted to visit our local «junk» market, and then after that a «Vintage fair sale» When I have an incentive like vintage shopping I will sometimes arise at 6.30!

I truly believe that without the efforts and support of local film industry vanguards like Louis Black of Austin Chronicle and SXSW, and Tim and Karrie League of Alamo Drafthouse, I would not have met Slackerwood's founder and editor Jette Kernion.

There's plenty to draw from in the film, just like in the previous two Pegg / Frost / Wright efforts; there's the «blank» robots who stand in for Thatcheresque conformism and «Starbucking» of local flavor, the Star Trek / Doctor Who-esque climax, complete with a «Kirk talks the computer into defeat» scene, the sadness of lost potential in our lives, and so much more.

I can just imagine what it was like the day Tom Hanks (Cast Away) decided to make Larry Crowne, his latest directorial effort about a man who loses his job at a local department store and goes back to school.

The experiences of the featured states, and others like them, confirm that there are innovative local leaders eager to make the transition to competency - based education and that a pilot program is a highly effective way to kick - start those efforts.

The majority said de jure segregation (caused by the state or a local government) was different from de facto segregation (resulting from social and economic factors, like lower housing prices in the city and white flight to the suburbs) and that it was constitutional to address only the first through a metropolitan - wide effort.

Fourth, engage key allies like Teach For America, New Leaders for New Schools, and national and local foundations to ensure the effort has the human and financial capital needed.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Institutions like the University of New Orleans trimmed or eliminated teacher training programs in an effort to stay afloat, cutting off many of the traditional routes that used to supply local teachers.

The letter outlines how policies Secretary Duncan helped initiate, like Race to the Top, have hurt local communities and excluded them from participating in efforts to reform their schools.

In part, the perception of increasing funder participation in policy discussions is due to the very public personas of founders of major foundations like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.7 And the advocacy efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have increased dramatically with a shift from local funding efforts to more direct support for national - level policy advocacy on issues such as the Common Core State Standards.8

But it also calls for greater local control over school districts, criticizing some of the Obama administration's federal efforts to make changes to the education system through programs like Race to The Top.

There are literally hundreds of other efforts too, including activities in local school buildings by organizations like Up For Learning in Vermont, school district programs like New York City's Student Voice Collaborative, and individual educators like Donnan Stoicovy in Pennsylvania (McGarry & Stoicovy, 2014; Dzur, 2013) and Nelson Beaudoin in Maine.

It also builds on the disaster assistance efforts President Obama approved in the last several days, including major disaster declarations, which make federal assistance - like these emergency relief funds - available to supplement state and local response and recovery efforts.

Reducing Brevard County's abandoned / community cat population takes efforts from many organizations, including other grassroots animal welfare organizations, county animal services and law enforcement, local businesses, and citizens like yourself!

While not restricted from accepting animals from the public, local rescue groups like Alachua County Humane Society, Helping Hands Pet Rescue, Puppy Hill Farm Animal Rescue, Gainesville Pet Rescue, Haile's Angels Pet Rescue, etc. focus their efforts on saving animals from the county shelter.

Like many community oriented shelters, the facility is heavily reliant on local support and the tireless efforts of volunteers.

Guest blog by Karel Minor While it seems like the focus in the effort to combat animal cruelty would be at the State legislative level, local elections give animal advocates a chance to make a difference in this off year election.

-- Support local community conservation efforts by displaying literature and cooperating with programs from organizations like Wildsight and Stream Keepers.

Becoming a Divemaster trainee or «Dmt» is 6 to 8 week commitment where you become a part of our family, learning all the ins and outs of the dive industry, besides learning the full practical and theory of the PADI Divemaster course, we like to put in the extra effort such as weekly fish identifying competitions, extensive guide training with our eagle eyed local dive guides, dive sales training and more ensuring by the end of the course you have what it takes to be a full time PADI Divemaster

Thanks to the valiant efforts of businesses like Florblanca and the people of Costa Rica, there is an abundance of a Pura Vida to be shared by locals and tourist like me, for which I'm grateful.

The options include everything from cozy local bed and breakfasts that feel like home but require no effort to large national or international hotel chains that will have familiar services.

Over the weekend, a slew of more than 40 local and visiting artists, as well as organizations like the Chinatown Art Brigade (a grassroots effort tackling the divisive issue of gallery - led gentrification in their neighborhood) demonstrated that preservation doesn't have to be backward - looking.

In Hudson, a quaint city of 6,700 about 35 miles south of Albany, Marina Abramovic was selling French macarons «that tasted like her,» in an effort to raise cash for the institute, according to a local blogger.

Looks like more local efforts will be needed for the next 4 years.

Plus, one can celebrate a demonstrable positive influence from local cleanup efforts, whereas a windfarm (or the like) is capable of being at most symbolic.

Lastly, the government's proposal to fund only state adaptation projects is blind - sighted to the need to encourage local mitigation efforts that offer strong development co-benefits like energy efficiency gains, energy security, and clean air.

It is critical that we see more efforts like this, and that the financial commitments made are unlocked at the local level.

Microsoft's failure with Windows Phone here almost makes its local Xbox efforts look like a success; after a single Windows Phone 7 handset from Toshiba and Fujitsu flopped, the entire platform has been dead on arrival.

Kodi is a powerful piece of software for browsing local videos, for example, and you can do things like watch live TV with an antenna if you're willing to put in some effort.