Sentences with phrase «ever national initiative»

New study looks at the use of performance assessments for both k - 12 learning and college admission, placement and advising; lays foundation for first - ever national initiative to align k - 12 performance assessment with higher education

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Neither John DiIulio, who now heads the White House Office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives, nor Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor who will lead the Corporation for National Service, has ever argued for total privatization of community development and social services, though both strongly advocate a new mix of public and private in which congregations figure more prominently.

At the launch of the initiative, President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum creating the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national goal.

Three years after NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray launched her signature $ 850 million ThriveNYC mental health initiative, she is tapping Alexis Confer, who has worked on de Blasio's successful universal pre-K initiative, on national gun reform and on former President Obama's campaign, to serve as the initiative's first - ever executive director.

Three years after First Lady Chirlane McCray launched her signature $ 850 million ThriveNYC mental health initiative, she is tapping Alexis Confer — who has worked on Mayor Bill de Blasio's successful universal pre-kindergarten initiative, on national gun reform and on former President Barack Obama's campaign — to serve as the initiative's first - ever executive director.

The research launch marks the 20th anniversary of the Trust's Young Readers Programme — the first - ever national school based reading for enjoyment initiative.

Sponsored by the Education Department, the first - ever national conference on chronic absence attracted teams from more than 35 states as well as the 30 school districts that are participating in the My Brother's Keeper Success Mentor initiative.

This is, she believes, the case with what is probably the most important and far - reaching national policy initiative ever taken, and one that she herself had high hopes for: the No Child Left Behind law, enacted in the administration of President George W. Bush, which essentially forced school systems across the country to teach to standardized tests in grades three through eight.

Other great initiatives have seen the establishment of the National Indigenous Health Equality Council, the appointment of the first ever Minister for Indigenous health, and the Prime Minister's annual report to Parliament on closing the gap, to which the campaign produces a shadow report each year.