Sentences with phrase «between local community leaders»

Additionally, he launched the Georgia College and Career Academy Network, a partnership between local community leaders, school systems, and Georgia's technical colleges.

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«Since taking office, Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Bratton have focused on rebuilding the bonds between police officers and the neighborhoods they serve — and giving officers the tools and flexibility they need to connect with communities and local leaders,» spokesman Austin Finan said.

He has shepherded a purposeful litany of task forces, including Operation Safe Southeast Queens (OSSEQ), a program that formed a nexus between the NYPD, civic organizations, church leaders and local businesses to effectively address the hot spots of crime in local communities.

District leaders help run local elections, act as ambassadors between constituents and elected officials and serve as community leaders.

With my organization here in Houston we've always been a link between the community and regulators, and between industry and neighborhoods, and between national organizations and local groups and leaders.

IEL's Coalition for Community Schools is working with community school initiative leaders to enhance local capacity to make schools and communities healthier places for all by bridging the gap between the health and educationCommunity Schools is working with community school initiative leaders to enhance local capacity to make schools and communities healthier places for all by bridging the gap between the health and educationcommunity school initiative leaders to enhance local capacity to make schools and communities healthier places for all by bridging the gap between the health and education sectors.

In local communities across the country, NEA affiliate members and leaders are working closely with parents, families, and community members to close achievement gaps, improve low - performing schools, and transform relationships between schools and their communities.

Local college access networks (LCANs) are partnerships between school administrators, community leaders, non-profits and other groups to improve the number of college - going students.

But it also means a fine balance between the ideal of local control of a public service - and the risk of takeovers by self - appointed community leaders.

Applying your knowledge of these assumptions and agreements about education can lead to creative and effective communication between school leaders and parents, members of the local community, and other stakeholders.

This event brings together national, regional, and local experts in charter public schools and provides opportunities for networking, learning, and engagement between charter school leaders, teachers, board, members, advocates, and community stakeholders.

But those problems, which have lingered for decades, are beginning to improve, thanks to a partnership between the state teacher's union, community leaders and local businesses.

Dolgin is also a co-founder of Ladyfest Atlanta, an annual political arts festival that fosters collaboration and dialogue between local artists, activists, and community leaders around gender - centered oppression issues.

The committees work with local museum directors and curators, education experts and business leaders to capitalize on their region's artistic, financial, and educational strengths and resources in order to develop meaningful programming and build a bridge between their communities and the museum.

The primary goal of the program was to build a more integrated, diverse community of next generation leaders equipped with the tools to drive local, sustainable solutions to plastic pollution; another was to illustrate the irrefutable connection between the health of our oceans, lands, and human life.

The plan was to save their forest and earn offsets for the carbon captured in trees under a financing mechanism know as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), but REDD project standards require a «Free Prior and Informed Consent» (FPIC, pronounced «F - pic») by the local people, a measure that requires disclosure, discussion and agreement — a process involving far more than just a few meetings between community leaders and a project developer.

A new reform unit will lead the changes, and in the coming weeks the Government will call for nominations from Aboriginal leaders to join Regional Strategic Advisory Councils for the Kimberley and Pilbara, which will act as a liaison between government agencies and local communities.

In the City of Kelowna, where Albertans account for between 10 and 15 per cent of homeowners, local leaders were «disappointed» by the changes, said Doug Gilchrist director of community planning and strategic investment.