Sentences with phrase «few small initiatives»

You might do a few small initiatives, but for the most part, you will continue to rely on favorable economic assumptions and «unexplained adjustments» to balance the budget.

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Over the past few months I worked with Go Mighty as part of the Too Small to Fail initiative.

MPCP started in fiscal year 1991 as a small initiative, capped at 1 percent of MPS enrollment, with a few hundred students from low - income families who chose to attend secular private schools.

I think [Common Core] is essentially a federal initiative at this point, having been created by a small group of people, including very few if any teachers, working in conjunction with the Duncan administration, and it has been at the very least aggressively encouraged for states to adopt, particularly through the Race to the Top funding.»

Few initiatives possessed the prominence of Amplify, which grew out of a nearly five - year - old acquisition of a testing software maker that became a small but visible part of News Corporation.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

Jeff Bezos took the podium, and proudly talked about how Amazon had launched their «frustration - free packaging initiative» just a few years ago, «designed to eliminate wire twist ties, blister packs, and those clear hard plastic packages that you need a small nuclear device to open.

«With PEFC's focus on enabling small - and family forest owners gain access to certification, Double A has brought the KHAN - NA initiative to the notice of PEFC in the last few years,» continued Mr. Leetavorn.

Clinton went on to outline a few of the basics of the initiative, which includes providing aid for research and better seed for farmers in developing regions, and innovations to better connect small farmers to marketplaces.

There have been several new initiatives in the past few years designed to make the time for hiring window smaller.