Sentences with phrase «become national efforts»

What began at the turn of the 20th century as a movement from highly variable one - room schoolhouses to a district - level «one best system» had by century's end become a national effort to use the power of the federal government to create uniformity across the nation's public schools.

Not exact matches

In response to the urgency, CI changed its mission with the hope that our efforts would become central and essential for our national, business and community partners.

Japan this year became the first country to regulate exchanges at the national level, part of a government effort to exploit financial technology as a means of stimulating the economy.

A major national effort to become more efficient in the use of fuels will slow down the Greenhouse effect.

In a written statement responding to the AAP's guidelines and recommendations, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) said that it that «agree [d] with many of the recommendations,» and pointed to its efforts over the past 20 years to minimize risk for high school cheerleaders, beginning with publication of its first guidelines for sideline cheerleading in 1988, which became the basis for the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, first published in 1992.

The American College of Nurse - Midwives and the North American Registry of Midwives recommend that midwives should at minimum meet the standards of midwifery established by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), which include completion of a formal midwifery education program, national certification, and licensure in the local jurisdiction of practice.32, 33 Certified professional midwives (CPMs) may achieve certification through apprenticeship and portfolio evaluation without obtaining a formal midwifery degree; within CPM professional organizations efforts are under way to uniformly adopt ICM standards.33, 34 Oregon has followed this trend; in 2015 licensure became mandatory for attendants at out - of - hospital births.

I have been impressed by the level of passion and dedication the RNC and Chairman Preibus have put into this application (and digital efforts overall) and I truly believe it can help bridge the offline - online gap and become an effective tool for both the national and state parties.

Cuomo insisted he is not concerned the National Guard will be spread too thin by the most recent efforts, saying the only way that would become an issue is if something extreme happened back home.

The second - term governor has made no secret of his interest in becoming a candidate for the Republican nomination, and he has recently made key additions to his political team, including the hiring of Rick Wiley, a former Republican National Committee political director, to lead the organizing effort.

NEW YORK — Andrew Cuomo became a Democratic bright spot on a night of national losses Tuesday as he captured the governor's office — a seat his father held for three terms and a brass ring that eluded him in an ill - fated first effort eight years ago.

Siegfried Hecker, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and director emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, said in a letter of support for the award nomination that, since Zerbo became the executive secretary of the CTBTO, his diplomatic efforts «have gone into overdrive.»

One such effort is the nascent national Cancer Syndicate, which Brenner is sure will acquire the necessary critical mass to «become a very significant contributor to basic biological research.»

And so mitigation efforts become more valuable — more worthwhile — because they can prevent these costs,» said Hausman, who is co-author of the study that appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Since the 2008 Olympics, when government leaders made a national effort to clean the air, experts say the city's smog has become even worse.

«Informed activists have become full participants in deciding the design and the kinds of trial that should be done,» says Anthony Fauci, head of the US government's AIDS research effort at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease in Maryland.

The ASBMB aims to develop and support sustainable hubs of regional science advocates throughout the U.S. Delegates become the regional link to ASBMB, building networks and mobilizing local grassroots efforts for national ASBMB advocacy campaigns.

Originally co-founded natural supplement company 180 Nutrition in 2010.180 Nutrition became one of Australia's leading natural proteins was a Telstra business awards finalist and gained multiple national media exposure or their efforts.

There is a concerted national effort to connect the country's high - end designers with its local producers, and St. Petersburg is becoming increasingly important in this network.

Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.

Overnight, Bauman goes from a Costco worker to the subject of national attention as he becomes integral in law enforcement's efforts to track down the bombers.

«I support the growing effort of states and school districts to create new incentives that encourage more of America's teachers to take the challenge to become National Board Certified.

He became the lead governor in bringing the National Governors Association into the national standardsNational Governors Association into the national standardsnational standards effort.

Most importantly, it reflects the National Board's effort to make certification more affordable and efficient for all teachers, so that that it can become the norm in the profession.

The national response to the hurricane aftermath was heartening, and for many young people, contributing to the rebuilding effort became a calling.

I'm pleased to announce that ASCD has become an endorsing partner of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a state - led effort spearheaded by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governors Association (NGA) to develop a common core of state standards that prepare our children for college, the workforce, and success in the global economy.

Opponents of the nation's teacher unions won a landmark victory last year in a California lawsuit that challenged tenure protections, a case that became the beginning of a national effort to roll back teacher tenure laws in state courts.

PDK's contribution to building the next generation of educators has been to create Educators Rising, a national network launched in 2015 to support existing grow - your - own efforts aimed at attracting and supporting high school students interested in becoming teachers.

School District of Philadelphia's financial woes became a national story last week when the New York Times featured a piece on the district's efforts to borrow $ 50 million to make up a significant funding shortfall that actually threatened the start of the school year.

She brought her passion for working with young children to become a national advocate and served as Executive Director of the Center for the Child Care Workforce where she led efforts to improve the quality of working conditions for educators in early learning settings.

Raising the Bar: Why Public Charter Schools Must Become Even More Innovative, was a joint effort between The Mind Trust and Public Impact, a national education policy and management consulting organization based in North Carolina that explores these challenges.

I was less offended by the «push» of the political Left than I was disappointed by how voiceless the conservative ideas around school improvement efforts have become at the national level.

The Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association led the effort, which became known as the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSS).

Honda's efforts in the areas of enhanced driver visibility have been recognized by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as part of its 5 - Star Safety Ratings program (also known as the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP)-RRB-, with nearly all Honda and Acura models with rearview camera systems becoming the first vehicles in the industry to be recognized by the U.S. Department of Transportation for having met its Advanced Technology Feature performance criteria (http://1.usa.gov/Pv0lKq).

For his initiatives to help kids become passionate readers and for his philanthropic efforts, Patterson was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2015 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.

Hitchhiking to California to cover the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Hayden witnessed the nomination for U.S. president of John F. Kennedy, but after a sidewalk interview with Martin Luther King Jr., became more interested in the Deep South effort to register voters of African descent than in mainstream politics.

Director of No Kill NOW said, «This presents a unique opportunity for interested individuals to become an important part of the national No - Kill effort.

To achieve this goal, Maddie's Fund is investing its resources in building community collaborations where animal welfare organizations come together to develop successful models of lifesaving; in veterinary colleges to help shelter medicine become part of the veterinary curriculum to train veterinarians to save the lives of sick and injured dogs and cats in animal shelters; and in the implementation of a national effort to promote accountability and transparency in animal shelter operations.

As a result of the excellence of its educational programs, publications and legislative efforts, the NYSVMS has become a recognized and influential voice for veterinarians on the national level, and before the New York State Legislature and regulatory agencies.

As our national effort evolves, your input will also shape what becomes the Ideal ASC Cocker Spaniel Rescue.

According to VIN, in addition to efforts to spread the word, a group of volunteers are formulating organizational documents and compiling paperwork to file with the National Labor Relations Board, all of which may lead to the NVPU becoming an officially recognized union.

And, of course, maybe most notably, the dog walking fundraising event Strut Your Mutt, which has now become a national fundraiser for our Network rescue partners across the country, raising millions for local rescue efforts.

Her position as a Disaster Team Leader and Client Services Supervisor for disaster relief, damage assessment and disbursement of services for the Red Cross had Joanne become part of the relief effort at ground zero in the aftermath of September 11th and Hurricane Katrina, along with numerous local and national disasters for over a decade.

A collaborative effort between the Caribbean Conservation Corporation and sea turtle biologist Archie Carr helped Tortuguero become an officially declared a national park in 1970.

A collaborative effort to enhance creative tourism in the region, Bonavista Biennale is a unique rural - based national event that is fast becoming a significant element within the Canadian cultural landscape.

These intransigent leaders at the Climate Change Conference evidently became so isolated from the family of humanity at the end of the last day of meetings that their unilateral, morally offensive «rear - guard action» in defense of selfish, irresponsible national aims crumbled, as is common with such unsavory efforts.

But he wholly fails to explain what the implications of the variability problem is (the need for overbuild of generation capacity and expensive / unfeasible large - scale energy storage), nor whether, if an effort is made to deal practically with these problems in real national electricity grids, the «increasingly cheaper» renewables will ever become cheap enough (when all relevant real - world factors are considered) and reliable enough (without natural gas «backup»), to actually substitute for and displace fossil fuels (or nuclear) at the scale required.

The search for more cost - effective solar became a cornerstone of the federal energy R&D effort in 1977 with the establishment of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Solar Energy Research Institute, now part of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The document aims to diffuse useful information that Parties have provided under the Convention, to reflect adequately the tremendous efforts by Parties in preparing and submitting GHG data, and to become a key reference for national GHG data.

The same country that has made headlines for measuring Gross National Happiness (there are some legitimate questions for how GNH is calculated) and aiming for 100 % organic agriculture recently announcing a partnership with Nissan to supply electric vehicles (EVs) to government and taxi fleets, as well as electric vehicle chargers, as part of a broad scale effort to cut fossil fuel imports by a whopping 70 %, eventually aiming to become a zero emissions nation.

Our human problem has become so severe through extreme neglect and the unwillingness to engage in confrontational behavior that it's more or less now going to take two dimensional an carbon based quantum simulators using a Manhattan style project and Apollo style national effort in reusable launch vehicles to even come close to solving it in the timeframes that will make any difference.