Sentences with phrase «ensure greater access»

We offer this program to ensure greater access and promote the diversity that is vital to a place of learning.

Officials from the state's Housing and Community Renewal say they regularly review policies, procedures and technology to ensure greater access to affordable housing.

Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie and Election Law Committee Chair Michael J. Cusick announced the Assembly's end - of - session passage of reform legislation to overhaul the state's election process in order to increase voter participation, ensure greater access to the polls, protect voting rights, and promote efficient, voter - friendly registration and elections.

This includes ensuring greater access to information via the Freedom of Information Act, making it easier for people to obtain the information they need.

In addition, two Alliance reports from the Climate Change series offer specific federal, state, and local policy recommendations for fostering a positive school climate by ensuring greater access to rigorous coursework and high - quality teaching.

Not exact matches

So while the interests of fairness argue for a dramatic scaling back of seniors» discounts — or at least greater use of income testing to ensure only those in real financial need are accessing them — political dynamics are actually working to expand their scope and cost.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's wide range of programs, such as the Small Business Council, offer Members access to social events, development, and financial benefits, ensuring there will be something of value for any serious business professional.

«The federal government has taken a leadership position on climate change policy while also enabling greater access to international markets for our natural resources, which ensures that Canadians receive full value for those resources.»

With transparency of the management team found to be the greatest concern of likely investors in this survey, crowdfunding portals play an important role in mediating the exchange to ensure investors have access to comprehensive information.

In a great move to ensure educational access to all students, authorities have decided to get 25 students to move with two groups

In an effort to solve that challenge, the Szalays partnered with HUMAN Healthy Vending — the nation's leading franchisor of healthy vending machine businesses — to ensure that their family, as well as the greater Memphis community, has convenient access to healthful foods and beverages, including allergy - and diabetic - friendly options.

We understand that education is the great equalizer and that is why we are going to keep up our campaign to ensure all New York students have access to a world - class education.»

The Ashanti Youth for Development is completely astounded by how functionaries of this government have gone to great and desperate lengths to ensure that Exton Cubic is denied the right to access its legally and rightfully acquired bauxite concession in the Tano - Offin Forest Reserve.

The state should encourage high - performing colleges to improve access by enrolling more low - income students, and it should ensure equitable per - student support for the institutions that serve students with the greatest needs.

Erie County is proud to partner with Hamburg to support these programs and ensure that our local youth have access to great services,» said Legislator Dixon.

«In the midst of a widely recognized teacher shortage,» Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz said in a statement,» [the vote for the rules] ensures that kids of color will have access to great teachers and exceptional educational outcomes.»

Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder and chief executive of Success Academy Charter Schools, shown last year, said in a statement on Wednesday, «In the midst of a widely recognized teacher shortage, SUNY's vote today ensures that kids of color will have access to great teachers and exceptional educational outcomes.»

The legislative intent of the bill is to «ensure that all workers in Albany County can address their own health and safety needs... and the needs of their families...» The legislature found that access to paid sick time promotes a healthy and safe county, reduces the spread of illness, and provides greater flexibility to employees with caregiving responsibilities.

«I want to assure Nigerians that Government will continue to ensure that great numbers of Nigerians have access to quality basic health care services.;;

«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

«The Discount Card program is a great way to ensure that every resident has access to affordable medications without the county or the card user incurring any costs,» said Vanderhoef.

The changes offer each student access to a greater choice of exam options, whilst ensuring a level of international tax knowledge and expertise which is rigorous and benchmarked, regardless of the option selected.

While we are disappointed in the vote, ensuring every child has access to a great school is critical — and we are confident we'll move forward and site the third school in time for its planned opening in September of 2016.»

From 2002 - 2007, SHRP conducted a special project, Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest (SIPPI), that emphasized public interest approaches to ensure greater equity in access to scientific information and greater public participation in deliberating intellectual property policy.

Greater priority placed on equity in contraceptive access and ensuring that young people and those who are the most marginalized and live in the most difficult circumstances are given the greatest attention and care.

«Licensure is critical because it will ensure the quality, consistency and safety of the islet product; provide greater patient access to islet transplantation; and accelerate continued research that we hope would make this procedure suitable for a broader population of people with type 1 diabetes.»

The committee recognized that implementing a new financing structure to ensure access to high - quality, affordable early care and education will take time and will require ample political will and leadership, but it also noted that there is great urgency in realizing this vision.

The benefit to choosing non-starchy veggies over grains is that you get A LOT of food by volume for the same net carbs... And they taste great with FAT which will ensure that you have access to all the nutrients as well.

You can make a difference in students» lives and help ensure that good people have access to the resources of a great university in a way that benefits the world.

Greater access for women to education must be ensured in the educational system.

However, as state legislatures and the Trump administration look to grow school choice, we must commit to ensuring that increases in choice do not lead to decreases in access to quality schools for, or greater segregation of, students with disabilities.

At the NAHT conference in April 2017, against a backdrop of rising concerns about the impact of the proposed fairer funding formula, 97 per cent of NAHT members present voted to campaign for protected funding to ensure children have greater access to outdoor education and residential experiences.

«This calls for stronger efforts by governments and all actors, in ensuring access, use and affordability — it requires also greater work to build the capacities of all women and men to make the most of all new opportunities.»

Ellen Sherratt is deputy director of the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders where she led the support of 22 states» plans to ensure equitable access to excellent educators.

States must demonstrate that they appreciate that with greater flexibility comes greater responsibility, and the department must continue to hold their feet to the fire in terms of ensuring that all kids have access to a quality education.

Hassel and Dean believe that one of the areas where technology holds the greatest potential to transform rural education is also one of the most important: ensuring that every child has access to great instruction, year after year.

State governments are the entities ultimately responsible, under state constitutions, for ensuring kids have access to great schools.

They want to see a brighter future and one of the best ways to ensure that is to provide all children with fair funding and access to great schools.

IF the IDOE collaborates with key stakeholders, including LEAs, institutions of higher education, and educator associations, to refine existing human capital management systems that leverage evaluation and support systems to recruit, prepare, develop, support, advance, reward, and retain great teachers and leaders, THEN increased educator capacity and effectiveness will ensure equitable access to excellent educators and lead to improved student outcomes.50

Looking forward, we will do whatever it takes to authorize great schools, ensure access and equity for every child, grow what works, and replace what does not.»

Unfortunately, the Mayor's education agenda falls short where it counts the most - ensuring that New York's children have access to great teachers and schools.

Here's what I told them: As a teacher, I would love for someone to ask me to imagine what it would be like to work in a place that ensures that all teachers have the chance to improve their craft, and be rewarded for getting better; a place that lets all teachers make the best use of their talents by focusing their time and energy on parts of their job that they do best; a place that lets great teachers multiply their impact by giving more students access to their teaching for more pay; and a place that offers excellent teachers leadership roles that are not far removed from students.

This program exists to ensure that all Indianapolis students have access to great teachers, so you will need to be extremely flexible about your teaching assignment.

Many of you have told me that you are ready for a renewed and deeper commitment to ensuring every student in every public school has equal access to great educators who set and maintain high expectations for every student.

By supporting current teachers, and putting our efforts into preparing the next generation of educators, we can ensure that students have access to the great education they need and deserve.

Florida's nonprofit approach to ESA administration provides a good policy example to states considering ESA programs because such organizations have greater autonomy and flexibility than state bureaucracies and are primarily dedicated to ensuring that children have access to the educational options they need.

Whatever happens nationally, we are determined to continue to act locally: to support our educators, embrace our families, engage in respectful debate, and work together to ensure that every child in Oakland has access to a great public education.

The NAACP works to ensure that all disadvantaged students and students of color are on the path to college or a successful career by ensuring access to great teaching, equitable resources, and a challenging curriculum.

Ideally, an updated definition will lead to greater scrutiny of actual quality of services, rather than just compliance, and school districts fully embracing inclusion to ensure that students with disabilities have access to the general education curriculum.

Although the community is critical to ensure every student has access to a great public school — especially those students who face tremendous challenges to academic success — engaging the community can be a challenge.