Sentences with phrase «as national models»

Several of these programs have been disseminated as national models of evidence - based programs by federal agencies.

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

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.

«Now, Adriano is seeking to ensure the seat originally created to give the African and Caribbean diaspora representation in Washington remains at the forefront of fighting poverty, speaking truth to power, and serving as a national model of cooperation between communities of color nation - wide.

The response in Newburgh was crafted in consultation with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and will serve as a national model for understanding PFOS exposure, state Department of Health spokesman James Plastiras said.

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

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.

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.

«During her seven - year tenure with the State University of New York, Nancy Zimpher has transformed SUNY and lifted our system up as the national model of higher education for the 21st century,» said H. Carl McCall, chairman of the SUNY board.

Despite its failings, however, «reformers» tout it as a national model.

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.

«During her seven - year tenure with the State University of New York, Nancy Zimpher has transformed SUNY and lifted our system up as the national model of higher education for the 21st century,» said McCall.

«As a national model, we must maintain our upward momentum to end gender and racial inequality through public policy that celebrates our diversity,» Council Member Cumbo said at the rally, pointing to other city and state efforts like the municipal identification card program and a higher minimum wage.

Can the state's «net metering» law serve as a national model for integrating rooftop solar into the grid?

Recognized as a national model, the Maryland Medevac Helicopter Program is considered to be one of the largest and most sophisticated air - medical transport systems in the country.

IMR serves as the national model for addressing topics currently not included in conventional medical education.

A recently approved plan to spend $ 100 million over the next five years to make preschool more widely available to youngsters in Los Angeles County is being touted as a national model.

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.»

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.

New York City Community School District # 2, whose reforms are widely touted as a national model, also benefited from the fact that its superintendent had a virtuoso's grasp of community and school - system politics.

The FTC program, which is essentially a voucher program funded by business tax credits, is the largest private school choice program in the country and has been held up as a national model by advocates and policymakers.

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

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

What the experimenters are attempting to achieve is concisely captured in this statement: «The ability of first - hand experience to inform and reinforce education is nothing new, but, at the College of Medicine, the idea is being given top priority in a first - of - its - kind initiative that could serve as a national model to transform how medicine is taught.»

The announcement left proponents of the standards scratching their heads, since New York's Common Core implementation has been held up as a national model.

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.

One of the largest Native American tribes is the first community in the US to implement a hepatitis C elimination program to treat its citizens; federal officials say the initiative could serve as a national model.

Foremost, Imagine Andrews will serve as a national model of excellence for innovation in public school education for military bases and their surrounding communities across the country.

Recognized as a national model and the best example of public - private partnership in Pennsylvania, the EITC program has allowed more than 40,000 students to attend the school of their choice in this school year alone, and hundreds of public school initiatives would have gone unfunded without this program.

The settlement may serve as a national model.

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.

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

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

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.

With a national election and campaign finance system spiraling out of control and increasingly under the control of special interests, Connecticut actually stood up and took an action that would serve as the national model for what can and should be done to promote true democracy.

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

The Harvard Graduate School of Education is a launching an innovative teacher preparation program it hopes will serve as a national model.

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

«In the last ten years, public education in New Orleans has seen unprecedented growth in student achievement and has served as a national model for state recovery districts and innovative practices such as centralized enrollment,» the RSD said in a statement posted on its website in August.

DC PCSB's board is independent and committed to their job of quality authorizing, while maintaining a larger vision to serve as a national model for authorizing.

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.

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

«Indigenous studies, languages, innovations and leadership are all strengths of the NACA community, and similarly CNM's vision for innovation and its core values of service and community will provide our students and families with unbound opportunities and serve as a national model for collaboration and success.»

Friends of the Children is too labor intensive and expensive to serve as a national model.

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

Experts describe the building's «learning community» set - up as a national model for school building design in the 21st century.