Sentences with phrase «placing major effort»

Current Reform Strategies by Pass / Reason for Fail — Ranked by Percent Placing Major Effort

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But despite the city's efforts, such as providing free breakfast for students and placing restrictions on snacks sold in school vending machines, childhood obesity continues to pose a major challenge.

Everyone I know in my home borough is thrilled to see major revitalization efforts taking place, and everyone is eager to see this transformation include more great public school options.

There's a new effort in Albany to pass a bill that would bring about a major expansion to New York's DNA databank — the place where the state stores genetic material from convicted offenders.

(The other major pieces of the puzzle fell into place, thanks to the efforts of immunologist Fred Ramsdell; for this work Rudensky, Ramsdell, and Sakaguchi shared the prestigious Crafoord Prize in 2017.)

With such big - budget major studio efforts as Con Air (1997) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), the fledgling director has indeed proven his keen ability to shoot entertainingly jarring action scenes that place filmgoers in the eye of a frenzied storm of chaos with such gleeful abandon that he has become a solid staple in the Michael Bay / Jerry Bruckheimer cannon.

Warner continues to place a distant last place among the major studios in menu creativity, simply dropping an short score excerpt over poster artwork formatted to fill 16:9 screens on both discs and, as is now the case, pouring no effort into the DVD's generic submenus (which don't even include a scene selection one).

Weingarten has launched major efforts to place real education reform high on the nation's and her union's agendas.

In the months immediately following her election, Weingarten launched major efforts to place education reform and innovation high on the nation's agenda.

It is a place where several major reform efforts are going on at once, making it a good prism for viewing school choice.

The District has made a good faith effort to implement the 2007 law that placed public schools under mayoral control, but there is no evidence that the change in governance has been a factor in improved standardized test scores, according to the first major independent study of D.C. school reform.

Put in place principals specially trained to turn around failing schools and help ensure that major education reform efforts around teacher effectiveness, innovation and common core are carried out effectively

She was not included in the major exhibitions of realist art that took place in the 1960s in, among other museums, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in spite of her efforts at ingratiating herself with two of the major curators of the time, Frank O'Hara and Henry Geldzahler, by painting their portraits.

One of the major limits to climate change adaptation is the context in which it needs to take place and efforts to slow or reverse negative impacts need to engage the long - term place based change in economy, nature, and society.

Readers can order a discounted copy today to get ready for the live chat with the authors on June 13 at 3 pm Eastern.READ A REVIEW: 4 Key Lessons Learned From The Death and Rebirth of Monterey Bay The Death and Life of Monterey Bay outlines the unique history of the place — which went from pristine marine paradise to ravaged industrial wasteland, only to be revitalized years later — and demonstrates how the efforts of individuals can have a major impact on the environment.

That's why major efforts are taking place to finally rid the atoll of this species — though it will be years before the plant finally disappears.

The achievement is still largely attributed to cost - cutting efforts and not major revenue increases, though the San Francisco - based firm is now expected to place a larger focus on long - term sustainability moving forward.

... As land access is crucial to project planning and funding, this lack of ability by the State to provide unencumbered land is a major weakness in efforts to attract investment... [I] t is not sensible to allow obstacles to be placed before the owner of a resource, as that owner may have alternatives elsewhere, where land is not an issue.