Sentences with phrase «to convene»

The Common Core was devised by experts convened by state education commissioners and governors to set uniform benchmarks for learning.

Late Friday afternoon, members of Buffalo's Board of Education responded to accusations from Buffalo developer Carl Paladino asserting the board violated the state's open meetings law by convening in closed - door executive sessions when it chose Dr. Pamela Brown to be the district's new superintendent.

The only bow to Canada might be a clause that calls for convening of a «workgroup» that will be charged with evaluating «reciprocal trade access for any foreign state that may be significantly impacted by the implementation of this act.»

In June, over one thousand educators, parents, community - based partners, and fellow stakeholders in education convened at the second annual National Family and Community Engagement Conference to discuss the role of family engagement in K - 12 education.

The summer months have produced more talk and some action on the much - discussed problems in precollege science and mathematics education, with legislation proposed or in effect in several Southern states, two federal bills introduced, and a national panel convened for the first time.

Program, and Associate Professor Martin West, will also enable the creation of online content for system - level leaders, as well as a series of convenings on the topic of education leadership.

M.R.C. Greenwood gave the keynote address at the Third Annual Meeting convened by Next Wave's Postdoc Network.

Global experts convene at Jurong Bird Park to discussed conservation strategies for the endangered songbirds.

On the flip side, all of this illustrates why traditional environmental campaigners might reconsider their longstanding strategy of fighting battles from the edges instead of convening with the «strange bedfellows» described by Leiserowitz to find ways to move forward.

The earlier start time is one of a number of changes being considered by a working group convened by Governor Cuomo last year to recommend changes to New York's Prohibition - era liquor laws.

At 11 a.m. Monday, Mayor de Blasio will deliver opening remarks to the 2017 Urban Resilience Summit, a conference convening leaders of the Rockefeller Foundation «to spur new solutions and collaborate on best practices to tackle 21st century urban challenges.»

State Republican Chairman Ed Cox is expected to cruise to a fifth two - year term when the GOP state committee convenes in Albany on Sept. 19.

In April, scholars who convened at the Madrid International Conference on the Assassination of Iraqi Academics reported that the number of academics killed in 2005 totaled more than the numbers in 2003 and 2004 combined.

The Foundation also convenes events with relevant stakeholders and opinion leaders to discuss Canada's current and future economic engagement with Asia.

From noon to 4 p.m., Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh attends a 50 - state convening on gun violence prevention, with VP Joe Biden, Valerie Jarrett, and other administration officials.

The forum as convened by its Chairman Mr. Tony O. Elumelu reviews the impressive growth that the bank's African network had made over the past 11 years and to provide a platform to reaffirm and embolden its strategic goals.

Roadmap for Educators This two - page summary includes key considerations on what educators can do to seize benefits of personalized learning for students with disabilities (developed through the support of NCLD's national convening on meeting the needs of students with disabilities in personalized learning systems).

In the last year I've participated in two or three «Nutrition Strategy» meetings held by HISD Food Services, sessions which convene stakeholders from the district, the parent community, the public health profession, the urban gardening movement and elsewhere to discuss our district's school food.

Law firm leaders recently convened in New York to discuss the impact of the changing law firm business climate and how firms can improve their processes to keep up.

The new school discipline policies were developed as part of a «roadmap» based on recommendations from a task force convened last year to focus on reforming the city's school discipline code.

The university also plans new environmental sustainability degrees and courses, and to use its international convening power to spark collaborations and ideas across societal sectors.

-- The filings show checks totaling at least $ 32,000 from wine and liquor stores on April 8, the day Cuomo convened leaders from various booze companies at the Capitol complex for a summit.

A new commission convened by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon seeks to come up with a long - range plan for early childhood education services.

The LA Unified School Board convened at 10 a.m. and didn't adjourn until more than 12 hours later yesterday, in a series of meetings that ran the gamut from moving forward on finding a new superintendent, to confronting ugly budget realities to diving into the minutiae of charter school applications.

Commissioners Victoria Lipnic and Chai Feldblum are co-chairing an anti-harassment task force convening experts from the employer, advocate, and academic communities to identify effective strategies for preventing and remedying harassment in the workplace.

Midwives from all over the world convene for conferences, have their own medical journal, and write for women's magazines.

A committee has been established to look at the circumstances around the arrest but it will not convene again until the police investigation is over.

As part of its spring 2018 programme, Sharjah Art Foundation hosts March Meeting 2018: Active Forms (MM 2018), its annual convening of local and international artists, curators, scholars and other arts practitioners.

Senate Democrats on Wednesday elected Chuck Schumer to be their new minority leader when Congress convenes in January.

Two expert panels on education convened on college campuses on Long Island to discuss the current peril students and teachers face and to propose possible solutions.

The increase awaits formal approval by Cuomo's labor commissioner, but it was endorsed Wednesday by a wage board that Cuomo convened after attempts to raise the minimum wage across the board fell flat in the legislature.

The nation's Governors and Mr. Bush announced after their education summit in Charlottesville, Va., in September that they had agreed to establish national education goals by the time the Governors convened for their mid-winter meeting in late February.

Seven of the eight candidates vying to become the next Speaker of the New York City Council convened at New York Law School on Monday night for a forum focused on government reform, running the Council, transparency, ethics, voting, and elections.

They will also convene partners to collectively discuss tackling systemic barriers, and advocate to address identified barriers via their outlined policy agenda.

Nurture the Ecosystem: Coalition members convened communities of practice, collaborating with human capital support organizations and building robust data systems.

Malloy was kept out of negotiations and left in the dark about the compromise negotiated by Democrat and Republican leaders, which was kept under wraps until the Senate convened late Wednesday night.

At 9 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul convenes a meeting of the Capital Region Regional Economic Development Council, SEFCU, Dora Maxwell Auditorium, 700 Patroon Creek Blvd., Albany.

The Bellagio Group first convened in 2012 when it called for greater access to LARCs within a contraceptive framework that advances rights, promotes quality of care, assures equity, and responds to the needs of the most vulnerable populations in developing countries.

The state Legislature convenes again in January; de Blasio is up for re-election in 2017.

They also presented at events convened by think tanks often in cooperation with government, such as the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium in Brussels and the UN-South Korea non-proliferation forum on Jeju Island.

Suggesting that competitors in China, Japan, Europe are driving innovation through greater commitments to sustainability, the summit convened with the purpose of discussing «why investing in greater sustainabilty is the best business strategy for the 21st century.»

The workshop convened representatives from 12 colleges and universities to share innovative climate related project information, solutions to barriers and problems, and ideas for funding and marketing climate initiatives to trustees.

Last week, the 15th annual Skoll World Forum convened with the theme «The Power of Proximity.»

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools convening last weekend brought people together from across the country to share ideas and forge a common strategy.