Sentences with phrase «began as a pilot project»

They include the mandatory information program that began as a pilot project at the courts in Milton and Brampton, Ont.

The Hamilton Family Court was the first «Unified Family Court» in Canada — beginning as a pilot project in 1977.

The FDAC began as a pilot project in 2008 in London as a response to a report, Hidden Harm, which estimated that in the UK, there were between 250,000 to 350,000 children of problem drug users.

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The project began as a pilot program in New York City, but a $ 10 million expansion will bring it to the rest of the state.

As part of the deal, Quinn also announced that she and the council would urge the city's Economic Development Corporation to begin a «pilot program» that would make certain development projects open only to developers who agreed that their tenants would also pay their workers the higher wage.

For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit about 60 patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of addiction.

Lisa Gunter, a doctoral candidate studying behavioral neuroscience at the Canine Science Collaboratory in the Department of Psychology, began the project as a pilot study at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, the largest no - kill shelter in the country.

The New York City Department of Education ventured into pay - for - performance for students beginning this year with two pilot projects developed by Harvard University economist Roland G. Fryer, who is working pro bono as the department's chief equality officer.

The Florida Legislature initially funded FLVS as a pilot project in 1997 and kicked in $ 1.3 billion to begin course development; to ensure that the project didn't threaten general education funding, Bush created a separate budgetary line item for it.

In 2008, the Strategic Data Project (SDP)-- a project within the Harvard Graduate School of Education — based Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University — began as a pilot program with two partners and big dreams to create a network of data strategists working in schools, agencies, and nonprofits across the cProject (SDP)-- a project within the Harvard Graduate School of Education — based Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University — began as a pilot program with two partners and big dreams to create a network of data strategists working in schools, agencies, and nonprofits across the cproject within the Harvard Graduate School of Education — based Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University — began as a pilot program with two partners and big dreams to create a network of data strategists working in schools, agencies, and nonprofits across the country.

The project began as a pilot in 2011 with just 30 students.

Some 615 school districts in 44 states have used VAL - ED since it became available commercially in 2009, according to Hardin Daniel, vice president of Discovery Education Assessment, which handles its distribution.37 In a 2011 - 12 pilot project involving 50 of its 200 principals, Prince George's County, Md., began using VAL - ED as a supplemental source of information about strengths and weaknesses in school leadership.

Some schools from last year's pilot, which drew more than 100 schools, have changed curricula as a result: One school, chagrined that its kids did poorly on scientific problem - solving, has begun requiring a senior year science project.

Although ebooks had existed as a futuristic dream with antecedents in the Palm Pilot, Project Gutenberg, and Doug Adams» 1979 novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it wasn't until the Kindle's launch late in 2007 that the ebook revolution began in earnest.

Both were involved in the research project Oslo Pilot, where they began to research placing art in public spaces as a model for a future biennial exhibition — González - Sancho was formerly director of Spain's Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León and Eeg - Tverbakk was director of the Kunsthall Oslo.

It began as a one - year pilot project, and the lease has since been renewed on two occasions by a unanimous City Council vote.

To complement these initiatives, electric taxis are to begin operating in Bogotá as part of a pilot project.

The Carbfix pilot project began as an answer to a renewable energy problem.

«That's why we've pitched it as pilot projects — because it can begin immediately, perhaps on a two - or three - year basis, and then evaluated at the end and expanded on the basis of what we learn from the pilot.»

The Civil Division began as a three - year pilot project in the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto.

«As the Supreme Court and the Advisory Commission began to develop the rules and procedure for our pilot project, there was no definitive overview of the other states that have gone before us in implementing a business court.

The current dispute, first reported by Gizmodo, is focused on Project Maven, which began last year as a pilot program to find ways to speed up the military application of the latest A.I. technology.

The project began in 1999 as a small pilot study designed by Dr. John Gottman and Alyson F. Shapiro.

Incredible Years began here six years ago as a pilot project at Clondalkin Partnership and has spread nationwide.

MIECHV began as a small pilot project during the George W. Bush administration.