Sentences with phrase «as a national model»

The administration's treatment of nuclear facilities could serve as a national model for other states, where nuclear plants are also struggling to compete against cheaper power sources.

This work has been impressive in both volume and scope, and has served as a national model for advocacy organizations across the country.

The program had been held up as a national model of union - district collaboration.

The programs are recognized as national models for early childhood initiatives to address early academic disadvantage.

This work has also gotten results and is viewed as a national model.

The initiative will serve as a national model for fostering inclusion and critical discussions through the arts.

The city's schools are being held up as a national model for education reform.

When it was signed almost a year ago, Newark's new teacher contract was touted as a national model for rewarding strong teachers and for improving or in some cases, getting rid of weaker ones.

«Teaching Fellows was created in North Carolina and used as a national model for other programs looking to do something similar,» said Miller, who questioned why there is a will to eliminate a program that has worked so well to prepare future teachers and lure those thinking about teaching into the profession.

Already finding success in St. Louis — and praised as a national model by President Obama — the non-profit is finding early traction in Kansas City.

Today, TVAAS is a model for several states (Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina are adopting similar systems) and is under consideration as a national model by the U.S. Department of Education.

The refusal to choose between one instructional emphasis or the other symbolizes the work being done to build career pathways in nine school districts as part of Linked Learning, an initiative cited as a national model of career and technical education.

Over the years, Thriving Minds has emerged as a national model of a coordinated approach to improving arts learning.

«The executive order has been hailed as a national model and its effective date is clear — as the Albany County district attorney said himself on TV, and as the governor's counsel made crystal clear in a letter,» Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said.

The program, called ProComp, is seen as a national model for performance based pay.

It should come as no surprise, being that they're one of the first no - kill communities in the southeast, and recognized as a national model in animal sheltering.

Since taking office, Secretary Kemp has established his state as a national model for election security, including; the My Voter Page or «MVP» voter education website.

The Democratic front - runner touted Cuomo's $ 15 minimum wage as a national model.

We will use this moment to turn outrage into progress and build on New York's legacy as national model for women's rights.»

He authored and passed a law that is now being looked at as a national model that restricted prescription opioids from 30 days down to seven.

Kennedy, an environmental activist and lawyer who was most recently in the news for speaking out against vaccination requirements, has even hailed AbTech's deal with Nassau as a national model that he would help spread, and went on the Fox Business channel to promote the company last year.

Superintendents, sports officials, and parents in Maine are rallying behind a major initiative billed as a national model for creating more positive athletic experiences for young people.

Today the Edwards is recognized as one of the highest - performing middle schools within the Boston Public Schools, and we have shared our school schedule as a national model for ELT.

«There's been a major paradigm shift in the teaching of PE,» says Lawler, whose program has been highlighted in the state and national media and has been identified by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a national model.

In what's being pitched as a national model, state officials last week picked the University of Virginia to run a training program that will let an experienced school leader earn a credential as a «turnaround specialist.»

She recently portrayed Florida as a national model for charters and choice.

I'll start with the good news, then the bad, and end with a recommendation for solidifying D.C.'s place as a national model for systemic reform.

One of the most important questions is whether New Orleans can stand as a national model for those seeking to transform the education — and therefore the life outcomes — of low - income children of color.

«I'm pleased that so many of these schools and districts designated as national models are in California.

At SUNY - CSI, which is one of two state - wide authorizers of charter schools, Mr. Merriman helped create and design systems for authorization and oversight that promote the growth of a high quality charter school sector; then U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan singled out SUNY - CSI as a national model for this work.

I propose that a broad - based group — made up of educators, elected officials, community leaders, and experts in pedagogy and particular content — come together to take the best academic standards and make them available as a national model.

On that day in 2014, with the governor's explicit blessing, education reformers believed they were close to fulfilling a decade - long quest to establish New York as a national model for education reform.

New Jersey joins Washington and Michigan on the list of states that have selected CEL's 5D + Teacher Evaluation Rubric as a national model for use and testing by school districts.

PSJA has been identified as a national model for putting dropouts «Back on Track to College» by Jobs for the Future (JFF).

Proponents of school choice, charter schools and test - based accountability schemes point to Hartford as a national model for change.

Anderson plans to promote the program he developed as a national model to follow.

Dee and Wyckoff also caution that despite the positive results of their research, IMPACT might not work as a national model, given that D.C. is a particularly attractive location to live in (thus it has an unusually robust labor pool).

The program will act as a national model.

A better understanding of D.C. school reform, which was long heralded by the Obama administration as a national model, matters even more now that Donald Trump's administration aims to expand school choice policies across the country — likely beginning with the nation's capital.

The Center for American Progress has published a new report about community schools that features Gardner Pilot Academy as a national model.

The MacArthur Foundation promotes West Valley as a national model, and local officials developed a step - by - step guide after they were swamped by calls from all over the country asking how they did it.

The resignation of D.C. Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson in the wake of two embarrassing scandals at the high school level could provide D.C. schools with an opportunity to change course and regain its reputation as a national model of education reform.

NCATE chose UNC's educational technology program as a national model, and its most recent accreditation in 2011 said the college has no weaknesses.

Education reformers have touted New Orleans as a national model since Katrina largely because of the growth in charter schools and student test scores.

E3 Alliance has provided ground - breaking data analysis and community facilitation recognized by the White House as a national model to help the Greater Austin Area My Brother's Keeper effort to eliminate equity gaps for our young men of color.

Widely regarded as a national model for environmental education and multicultural youth development, the Parks Conservancy's youth programs at Crissy Field, in partnership with the National Park Service and Presidio Trust, effectively utilize national parks as outdoor classrooms and successfully link the parks, schools and community - based youth organizations.

A leading part of our mission is to foster inclusion and critical discussions through the arts, and we are continuing to grow both our collection and our programming to serve as a national model on this front.»

some of the things they do get taken as a national model,» says Deborah Seligsohn, a senior adviser at the World Resources Institute in Beijing.

«Over the past 11 years, Tom Payzant has provided unparalleled leadership in turning around the BPS, to the point that it is recognized as a national model for urban education reform in this country,» said Boston School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger.