Sentences with phrase «more years of implementation»

Table 3 - Gains for Grade Levels Experiencing Five or More Years of Implementation The grade levels in this category revealed the greatest average gain in NPR points.

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State Street's experiment comes as financial firms prepare to bring more blockchain systems out of testing and into implementation in the new year.

This long - overdue update more than doubles the former salary threshold (just $ 23,660 annually), thereby extending overtime pay protections to over 4 million additional workers in the first year of implementation alone.

In other words, 2017 should be the year where there is more implementation of products utilizing blockchain tech, and less talk about blockchain tech being the magical pixie dust that can just be sprinkled atop everything.

Among some of the first changes: the implementation of a more rigorous business reporting, monitoring, and tracking structure; development of a strategic business plan for the coming 2016 year; the introduction a renovated compensation structure for our sales team; and creation of a bonus plan for all non-sales employees so that everyone participates in the success of the company.

The Supreme Court reference to teaching about religion is even more important and worthy of implementation today than it was 20 years ago.

«We're having more successes than failures,» says Nocetti of the gradual implementation that's taken place over the past several years, «and we think we'll get even better.»

This club was a more ruthless, unforgiving place, that spoke in terms of delivery and implementation, that had just signed its third three year managerial contract in two years.

For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; Implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years,» he said.

Among other findings, the report also revealed that while the total number of County residents on Medicaid has risen due to fuller implementation of the Affordable Care Act («ACA»), Erie County's portion of Medicaid costs is projected to drop by more than $ 6.4 million from 2013 due to the Act's implementation and the state's Medicaid cap, and is approximately $ 340,000 less than 2012; the biggest increase in Medicaid recipients was seen among whites age 18 - 64, while other demographics remained consistent; and that the number of persons on Medicaid continues to grow at an average rate of more than 4 % each year, a trend noted by the Medicaid Inspector General's office in his September 2013 report.

The legal challenge comes as state education officials believe the implementation of Common Core will be rolled out much more smoothly this school year.

«The proposed implementation delay of two more years, on top of seven years of work undertaken already, is the latest in a series of cost - avoidance actions taken in regard to this high need and grossly underserved group of children,» Nayowith wrote.

They also trust the state Education Department and the Board of Regents more than Cuomo of the Legislature when it comes to setting education policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in recent years.

READ MORE: Ban harmful cultural practices that undermine women's rights — WiLDAF The United Nation (UN) said, the idea behind this year's theme, «is to consider how to accelerate the 2030 Agenda, building momentum for the effective implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals, especially goal number 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls; and number 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning».

In the coming year, ECONEC plans more Needs Assessment and Solidarity missions to other member countries planning elections, and follow - up missions for the implementation of ECOWAS Election Observation missions» reports / recommendations.

Chairman Sean Ward and Majority Leader Frank Commisso strongly disputed the mayor's $ 2 million deficit estimate, but they did tell McCoy that they were willing to delay implementation of Resolution 445 for a year to give the city more time to plan for the change.

«For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says it has disbursed N55 billion to more than 250,000 farmers within two years of implementation of the...

Paris drew 150 heads of state, including President Obama, but it is unclear whether many will journey to this year's conference, which is viewed as more of an implementation conference than a messaging moment.

After the first year of CCO implementation, mothers on Medicaid were more likely to receive prenatal care starting in the first trimester of pregnancy compared to the year before implementation, the researchers found.

It is simply a matter of global adoption or, as the United Nations Environment Programme put it in a similar analysis last year, «much wider and more rapid implementation is required to achieve the full benefits.»

OMB's role in the budget process does not end when Congress passes and the President signs the annual appropriations bills (or, in more recent years, the continuing resolutions to provide funding for a limited period of time after the fiscal year until the appropriations bills are agreed upon).195 OMB is intimately involved in budget execution — the way federal agencies carry out their work under the budgetary authority they have been granted.196 OMB affects budget execution through two different levers: the formal specification lever, through which it «apportions» and otherwise defines how agencies spend the funds Congress has appropriated, and the informal monitoring lever, through which it oversees agencies» implementation of their programs.

Acqua for Life, launched in 2011, has in its first three years raised funds for the successful implementation of water pumps, wells and rainwater harvesting systems in more than 60 communities and schools in Ghana, Bolivia, Mexico and China, providing around 150 million litres of water per year.

Now, in our third year of implementation, we are focused on shifting more responsibility for completing goals back to the teachers.

Tom Atwood, chairman of the schools sponsor Atwood Academies, said: «The people of Bexhill and more particularly the children of Bexhill have in recent years been let down badly by an ill thought out building design and worse a dreadful implementation of the new build.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

Over the last year, Reville was central to the design and implementation of Patrick's plan to create a more integrated, effective community college system that is responsive to both local and statewide employer needs.

Among other findings, they concluded that 1) white enrollment declined much more in the year of plan implementation than in subsequent years, and 2) pairing and clustering, the desegregation technique that involved the joining of schools with initially very different black and white enrollment shares into a single attendance zone, produced the largest average white - enrollment losses surrounding plan implementation in the period of greatest desegregation activity.

student, spoke more about her work as director of implementation with Character Lab, the nonprofit started a little more than a year ago by Angela Duckworth.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

Program, spoke more about her work as director of implementation with Character Lab, the nonprofit started a little more than a year ago by Angela Duckworth.

One study reported, «The NCLB law does not specify any additional actions for schools that remain in the implementation phase of restructuring for more than one year, and [the Department] has offered little guidance on what to do about persistently struggling schools.»

In less than two years after the implementation of the new initiative, the average mean percentile test scores of more than a million immigrant students went up by 40 percent.

As we all embark on the implementation of ESSA, this statement should not be considered an endorsement of teaching to one or more end - of - the - year summative assessments.

And, like any new product or process in other endeavors, the implementation plans must be field - tested for a year or more, «time when teachers can give and get feedback, share ideas, and try out methods of teaching to the new standards.

This year, I was given a class of LTELs (long - term English Language Learners) and recently exited SPED students with the goal of focusing my lesson implementation on engagement and more social - emotional learning.

With a perspective informed by advances in research and deepened by more than 15 years of implementation feedback in all types of schools, Tomlinson

And with new, more rigorous standards and assessments in the early years of implementation across most states, and facing political headwinds in many places, the current policy climate is marked by fluctuation and uncertainty.

It's not more than three years when AAP (American Association of Publishers) stood forward to announce a new project named ePub3 Implementation Project in July 2013.

The report about the fourth year of the law's implementation, issued by the Center on Education Policy, also found that the law is having the positive effect of spurring schools and districts to more closely align instruction with their states» curriculum standards, and...

And so, in its second year of Opportunity Culture implementation in four schools, Project L.I.F.T. saw a strong uptick in both the quantity — more than 800 applications for 27 spots — and quality of applicants for teaching roles at schools that previously saw many positions go unfilled.

The Administration will invest more than $ 216 million this year to assist in the planning and implementation of public charter schools and dissemination of their successful practices through the Charter School Grants Program.

With each year of implementation, both principals and teachers are increasingly more positive about TPE.

The implementation timeline spanned more than a decade and was rolled out in only one or two grades per year, always preceded by a year of planning, training, and professional development:

What happens in schools two or more years after the implementation of such programs?

Some schools were more prepared than others in the first year of implementation, she said.

Regional Educational Laboratory Central worked with Aurora Public Schools in Colorado to conduct a randomized controlled trial study in the 2013 - 14 and 2014 - 15 school years during implementation of the district's innovative Read more about Study Finds Positive Impacts of Retired Educators to Support New Teachers -LSB-...]

In an effort to better delineate and understand the results of the study, the grade levels were divided into the three categories: 1) those in the first year of implementation; 2) those in the second, third, or fourth year of implementation; 3) those implementing Great Expectations ® for five or more years.

Table 2 - Gains for Grade Levels Experiencing Second, Third, and Fourth Years of Implementation NPR scores greater than 50 are considered above the norm, therefore making gains more difficult to attain.

The budget increases school spending per student to $ 10,591 in 2016 - 17 — a boost of nearly $ 3,600 compared with 2011 - 12 levels, according a post on Brown's website: «The budget provides a fourth - year investment of more than $ 2.8 billion in the Local Control Funding Formula, which focuses on students with the greatest challenges to success, bringing the formula to 95 percent implementation.