Sentences with phrase «as comprehensive an effort»
«We know that the system is broken but there's never been as comprehensive an effort as the one we are launching now by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general to get to the bottom of it,» Schneiderman said.
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Morgan Stanley Public Finance, the firm's municipal banking team, coordinated a comprehensive pre-pricing marketing effort that leveraged the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, Wealth Management Financial Advisors, as well as Institutional sales teams and syndicate desks in New York and London.
The foundation's mission is, as stated on its website, «to prevent Virginia Tech - type shootings through education and advocacy; to employ comprehensive educational efforts to expand community and student awareness of campus safety issues; and to offer compassion, support, and hope to those affected by violence.»
The current interest in practical theology may be seen as a return to the earlier effort to develop a comprehensive, integrated understanding of the life of faith in contemporary society.
By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).
If the product of their work is not taken seriously» as, for instance, an invaluable reference in a synod of bishops dedicated to a program of comprehensive reform» it may be a very, very long time before people of their quality will make a comparable effort to help the bishops with much of anything.
The effort to frame the Disciples message within a comprehensive doctrine of the church still stands before these diverse communions as an unfinished task.
This may be seen as a return to an earlier effort to develop a comprehensive, integrated understanding of the life of faith in contemporary society.
We can describe the task of theology as (1) an effort to gain a coherent and comprehensive understanding of ourselves and our worlds, (2) in relation to what is most valuable or fundamental, (3) in order to live life well.
As imaginative and comprehensive as these efforts can be, the claims they make are proposed provisionally to be tested pragmaticallAs imaginative and comprehensive as these efforts can be, the claims they make are proposed provisionally to be tested pragmaticallas these efforts can be, the claims they make are proposed provisionally to be tested pragmatically.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - As part of its ongoing effort to improve the safety and security of the nation's food supply, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today gathered over 200 of the industry's top scientists and quality assurance experts to assess its current food safety practices, share successful practices and develop a comprehensive plan for preventing food - related health outbreaks.
Our faculty felt that we'd rather put our efforts into a comprehensive program that will give you the confidence to take and pass the IBLCE Exam and to work competently as an IBCLC afterwards.
Bottom line: Great for parents who want to invest time and effort into a comprehensive baby memory book that's not as restrictive as others on this list regarding its cotents.
Expatica makes every effort to ensure its articles are as comprehensive, accurate and up - to - date as possible, but we're also grateful for any help!
We offer a comprehensive program, as well as a wide variety of support materials and a web — based professional community to support your efforts and educational needs as an instructor.
As such, the New York State AFL - CIO will coordinate a comprehensive Get - Out - The - Vote effort, including mailings to members, worksite flyers and phone bank operations.
As such, the New York State AFL - CIO will coordinate a comprehensive get - out - the - vote effort, including mailings, phone banks and door to door visits to union members on her behalf.»
«Therefore, we welcome the opportunity to review and discuss the Governor's proposal as part of our effort to arrive at a comprehensive reform package that rebuilds the public trust, and includes action on issues previously raised by members of the Senate Republican Conference.»
Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.
«First we are the course of a radical economy recovery and growth effort that has as its core the implementation of a comprehensive diversification of the Nigerian economy.
«As a member of the Legislature, Senator Flanagan has been a champion and important partner with us on bipartisan efforts to enact comprehensive legislation around substance use prevention, treatment and recovery,» said Baker.
has started a comprehensive fundraising effort to bolster Republican campaign coffers ahead of what is shaping up as a difficult presidential contest for his party.
«As part of a comprehensive outreach effort, we recruited over 10,000 citizens and 158 businesses to join New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes,» the agency said before the page was removed from its online portfolio on Friday.
«As a senator, Clinton supported comprehensive climate change legislation and efforts to promote clean energy and energy efficiency.
They'll have to work around cleanup and containment efforts, but he says he's determined to both «get as close as we can to ground zero» and map the full extent of the plume «to get a very comprehensive map.»
Policies and strategies to improve global health must include comprehensive efforts to control tobacco use, as envisaged under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
And they call for ongoing research and implementation efforts «to promote effective long term cessation in prisons and after release as part of a comprehensive tobacco strategy for this high risk group.»
These efforts resulted in a comprehensive textbook of physiology, authored by 10 members of the APS, as well as the first publication of the American Journal of Physiology in 1898.
She has contributed to widely varying fields — such as viral sequencing, information theory, rural disease surveillance, and education efforts in West Africa — to create comprehensive approaches for detecting, containing, and treating deadly infectious diseases.
They were helped by various other research groups as part of the International Comprehensive Ocean - Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS), a worldwide effort to recover weather data from ships» logbooks.
While there are a number of conservative resources that profile organizations and individuals on the Left (such as David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org, Heartland Institute's LeftExposed.org, Berman and Company's ActivistFacts.org and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's UndueInfluence.com) CDC will build upon and complement their efforts adding value through its more comprehensive coverage, superior search engine optimization, and wiki - style format,» (Capital Research Center, Grant Proposal Record, 8/16/2016).
He directs a Genome Data Analysis Center as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project, a comprehensive and coordinated effort to accelerate our understanding of the molecular basis of cancer through the application of genome analysis technologies, including large - scale genome sequencing.
Schools need low - burden strategies that are easy to implement but that still promote caring and inclusive schools and classrooms, develop key emotional and ethical capacities in students, and inspire interest in deeper and more comprehensive efforts to promote SEL and ethical capacities — practices that can easily be scaled and may achieve certain goals as effectively as comprehensive programs at far less cost.
As Haskins points out, the early childhood education community has resisted a focus on academic skills in Head Start, concerned that attention to academic skills will dilute efforts to promote positive social and emotional development and that the comprehensive health services that Head Start currently provides will be abandoned.
While surveying the landscape and statistics as our inaugural graduating class headed toward commencement, we realized immediately that in order to hold true to our efforts to create social change and increase the opportunities for young Black men, it was imperative to create something that would extend and expand upon the comprehensive supports that our schools offered students.
Identifying feelings and recognizing the pain of negative comments are elements of a comprehensive effort at Brooklyn's PS 15 — also known as Patrick F. Daly School — to give kids the tools they need to become emotionally intelligent individuals able to move away from feelings and responses that prevent them from getting along with others, solving disputes peacefully, and concentrating on schoolwork.
Efforts to establish similarly comprehensive standards for teacher preparation, such as those being developed by CAEP, should be applauded.
It provides a comprehensive framework to help communities design local dropout prevention efforts as well as 16 downloadable tools that communities can use immediately.
As part of the Everett leadership team, Dr. Byrd led efforts to make Everett Public Schools the first district in Western Washington to have the AP Capstone Diploma program in each of its comprehensive high schools.
«This is our effort to recognize that student behaviors should not be dealt with in a haphazard fashion, but they should be evaluated and changed as part of a comprehensive process that's measured and involves increasingly intensive action in a positive way.»
Purpose — The primary purpose of the accountability system the state must develop in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is to appropriately identify schools with performance issues for comprehensive and targeted support and improvement efforts as required under ESSA.
Agile Mind offers comprehensive programs — encompassing job - embedded professional development, course curricula, student practice, formative assessment, and data analytics and reporting — for middle school mathematics through AP Calculus and Statistics, as well as high school Biology and a unique family of programs designed to enhance students» persistence, effective effort, and growth mindsets.
As a former high school teacher and author of the legislation creating the California High School Exit Exam, he has led a comprehensive effort to increase rigor and improve student achievement in California high schools.
I was the lead teacher of a small school - within - a-school project inside my large comprehensive high school and a facilitator for the whole - school reform efforts that had grown out of a school funding case known as Abbott v. Burke.
With this award, North Carolina is able to enhance the efforts of the Agency's District and School Transformation division to implement a comprehensive program that targets low performing - schools and responds to state and federal legislation and requirements, as well as North Carolina's own judicial and executive direction.
As board member and president of the Oregon School Boards Association, she led the association's proactive response to the state's severe funding crises following passage of a property tax limitation and was involved in the development of Oregon's comprehensive standards - based reform effort.
As a result of technical assistance requests from various stakeholders, CSAI has conducted comprehensive scans or reviews of states» efforts surrounding teacher evaluation, standards, assessment, and accountability systems.
Currently, there are several hundred external CSR models (also known as service providers) that districts and schools can turn to support local comprehensive school reform efforts.
IPN will serve as a resource for principals in schools with comprehensive and targeted status in an effort to support and build their capacity in specific aspects of leadership.
Examples of each theme will be presented and examined to provide board members with action steps to examine and strengthen their current community partnerships as well as to create or enhance efforts to develop a more comprehensive and cohesive education delivery model.