Sentences with phrase «federal leadership roles»
By the mid-2000s, many of these reformers were migrating to district, state, and federal leadership roles.
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Premiers agreed to create a Council of the Federation, as part of their plan to play a leadership role in revitalizing the Canadian federation and building a more constructive and cooperative federal system.
An upstate - downstate divide is just one of several rifts within the conference that have emerged since Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest on federal corruption charges last week touched off a furious round of discussions — both public and private — about whether the Manhattan Democrat is too damaged to continue in his leadership role.
Achebe stated further that the minimum in that regard would be the recognition by the constitution of the role of the traditional institution in communal life, such as mobilising the community for enlightenment, education, economic empowerment, peace building, safety and security; custodianship of and leadership in advancing «our culture; and the creation of National council of Traditional Rulers at the federal level.
Attorneys for Chicago asked a federal judge for a nationwide halt to Trump administration requirements that cities enforce tough immigration laws in order to receive some federal grants, staking out a leadership role for the nation's third largest city in the fight over so - called sanctuary cities.
Just a quarter of lawyers who have leadership roles in New York state and federal courtrooms are women, according to a new analysis by the New York State Bar Association.
Defrancisco expects lawmakers will meet again to discuss whether Skelos should keep his leadership role in light of an indictment this week on federal corruption charges.
Back in 2008, when federal investigators were pursuing Joe Bruno, then the Republican Senate leader, Bruno voluntarily stepped aside — turning over his leadership role to Skelos.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his leadership team are seriously considering voting on a bill that would scale back the federal government's role in the health care system and instead provide block grants to states.
(a) The Regents of the University of California are requested to establish the Cal - BRAIN program to leverage California's vast research assets and the federal BRAIN Initiative's funding opportunities to accelerate the development of brain mapping techniques, including the development of new technologies, which will create new, high - paying jobs in California while advancing patient care and improving lives, in order to achieve the following goals: (1) Maintain California's leadership role in neuroscience innovation.
The primary target audience is deliberately broad, including, for example: state - and federal - policymakers; education leaders; early education center directors; practitioners serving in formal or informal leadership roles; funders and non-profit leaders working in the early education sector; faculty and graduate students.
The target audience for this project is deliberately broad, including, for example: state - and federal - policymakers; education leaders (e.g., superintendents, assistant superintendents, etc.); early education center directors; practitioners serving in formal or informal leadership roles (e.g., head teachers, pre-school teachers, department heads); funders and non-profit leaders working in the early education sector; faculty and graduate students.
Together the board and leadership will work diligently to provide valuable resources to our members, secure federal policies that ensure public education continues to improve to meet students» needs today and into the future, create a better understanding of the importance and benefits of the role of school boards and local governance, and generate greater appreciation for our local public schools.»
Reasons include evolving understanding of the principal's role as instructional leader, accountability pressures from states and the federal government, and worries about turnover and leadership shortages in high - needs schools.
Berry cited a CTQ survey of administrators from more than 30 school districts and nonprofits that held federal leadership grants that revealed a narrow approach to teacher leadership: ``... The vast majority of interviewees could not envision teachers leading in roles other than instructional coach or, perhaps peer evaluator.»
In addition, Berry reported, the organizations surveyed together supported more than 500 teacher leaders, yet did not have strategies in place to sustain the leadership roles after federal dollars were no longer supporting the work.
Supported by the federal Teacher Incentive Fund, New York City piloted and scaled new formal roles, with corresponding pay increases, in the 2014 UFT - DOE contract.31 There are now three New York City teacher leadership roles: Model Teacher, Master Teacher, and Peer Collaborative Teacher.
Related to these interests, Dr. Riley - Tillman has participated in leadership roles on seven federal grants and is a Senior Advisor for the National Center on Intensive Intervention.
The federal government needs to assert its educational leadership role.
He played a leadership role on the National Reading Panel (NRP), and chaired two other influential federal research review panels the National Literacy Panel for English Minority Children and Youth, and the National Early Literacy Panel (making him the only scholar to serve on all three national literacy research panels).
«States and the federal government have a role in changing the way districts support effective leadership in every school;» said Jean Desravines, CEO of New Leaders, Inc. «To scale and sustain school improvement, state and federal leaders must recognize the important role that districts play and promote and model large shifts in organizational culture and operations.»
Without much leadership at the federal level, states have a big role to play in pushing renewable energy policy.
In 2005, we decided it was time to take a more proactive leadership role and promote a federal, economy wide U.S. policy.
It also exploited its close relationship with the administration of President George W. Bush to pressure the administration to remove top scientists from leadership roles in the IPCC and the US National Climate Assessment and to promote federal policies driving further reliance on fossil energy (UCS 2007; Brulle 2014).
Ned has served on multiple trial teams, secured favorable decisions from multiple state and federal trial courts, and served in leadership roles in several... Continue Reading»
We applaud the leadership role that DHS has taken in this matter and are hopeful that this process leads to the full implementation of DMARC across the federal government.»
Excellent leadership and communication abilities are beneficial in this role, as is a strong understanding of local, state, and federal safety regulations.
An experience of a variety of roles throughout the sector has allowed for the building and advancing of knowledge and skills including team management leadership project management knowledge of federal funds finance management and a variety of...
The monitoring of child development and well - being over time and across the whole population enables local communities to determine if they are making improvements and fosters the relative comparison of communities and populations subgroups.19 This commitment to tracking and reporting early childhood outcomes across the entire population, underlines the federal government's leadership role in providing communities and governments with evidence - based information for policy and service evaluation.
It is timely for the federal government to take a leadership role in developing a national reparations process to be co-funded by the states and territories.
Policymakers at the federal and state level should build upon these efforts to expand Early Head Start and take leadership roles to ensure that all at - risk infants and toddlers enter school ready to learn and succeed.
It is timely that the federal government take a leadership role in developing a national process to make this happen.
The Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance program plays an important and vital role in the nation's housing financing system and has shown tremendous leadership and strength during the economic crisis, the National Association of Realtors ® said in testimony today.