Sentences with phrase «for nationwide efforts»

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She's now 21 and a student at Columbia, continuing her efforts to end gun violence; her smart work was the inspiration for the nationwide «Wear Orange» campaign.

The Parkland shooting has faded from the headlines in the weeks since the March for Our Lives, and Friday's rally is one of the last coordinated, nationwide gun control efforts on the calendar.

The organization created a first - of - its - kind proposal to address the challenges in North Minnesota with a goal of «closing the food and health gap and becoming a model for similar efforts nationwide.»

Since then, the program has expanded to hundreds of schools nationwide, thanks to the efforts of Rosati's national brand ambassadors for children's nutrition: Sean Trotter, Nate Todd and Greg Hoffman.

Today, the introduction of Nestlé ® Pure Life ® rPET bottles to consumers nationwide, complements our efforts to inspire and make it easier for consumers to recycle, building on last year's move to begin adding How2Recycle information on the labels of our major U.S. bottled water brands.

The authors of the study called for a more standardized nationwide system of investigating and classifying infant deaths in the United States as one means of furthering prevention efforts.

When the law takes effect, Ulster County will join more than a dozen localities statewide — including Orange, Rockland, Sullivan and Albany counties — that have raise the minimum age for tobacco purchases, according to the Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation, which is championing «Tobacco 21,» a national effort aimed at raising the age to 21 nationwide.

The case is one of several nationwide that have put county clerks in a legal spotlight of late and harkens back to initial efforts in California nearly a decade ago to push for same - sex marriage.

In an unprecedented appearance, First Lady Chirlane McCray will address the congregation at St. Patrick's Cathedral this weekend as part of #ThriveTogether: A Weekend for Mental Health, a nationwide outreach effort by over 2,000 faith and community groups in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. to highlight the need for education, compassion and open conversations about mental health and addiction.

Schumer began his effort after reading last year that the Hudson Valley ranked among the worst 125 metropolitan areas nationwide for mobile network performance.

Planned Parenthood organized 60 rallies in cities nationwide on Wednesday in an effort to persuade the U.S. Senate to keep the organization eligible for funding in the GOP healthcare bill.

Senator Amedore is one of just 69 elected officials nationwide recognized by MADD as a legislative champion for his standout efforts to advance their mission of eliminating drunk and drugged driving.

Senator Amedore is one of just 69 elected officials nationwide recognized by MADD as a legislative champion for his standout efforts to advance their mission of eliminating drunk and...

She applied for permanent research and university positions, which in France are won through nationwide competitions, but her efforts came to no avail, leaving her increasingly frustrated with the French research system.

Monica Bertagnolli, chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and chair of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, a nationwide effort to test new therapies, says she was thrilled that the president used the word «cure» in his speech at all.

A similar effort for heart attack care nationwide could start with looking at what differentiates hospitals from one another, and what the low - cost / low - mortality hospitals can teach their peers.

Despite the wide availability of effective treatments for depression and a growing effort nationwide to detect and begin treating depression during primary care visits, only about one - third of individuals newly diagnosed with depression start treatment, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

The model is based on a similar effort adopted nationwide nearly a decade ago for adult surgery that resulted in reduced mortality and dramatic decreases in post-surgical complications.

For example, offsets need to be designed and implemented as part of a coordinated, national offset strategy where each one is integrated with other conservation planning efforts nationwide and / or regionally to give them the best chance of success.

At the same time, there is much opportunity to make headway on long - term efforts to better account for and track postdocs nationwide.

Addressing the Zika outbreaks has been a challenge for health officials, and since the first microcephaly cases were reported in Brazil last year, there has been a nationwide effort to find practical solutions to the growing threat of the virus.

Max Eden, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins EdNext Editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss the results of the election, and in particular, what they mean for school choice efforts nationwide.

Max Eden joins Marty West to discuss the results of the election, and in particular, what they mean for school choice efforts nationwide.

Mr. Nelson will be responsible for the daily operation of the Washington - based organization's long - term effort to reform science education nationwide.

Georgia last week became the fifth state to pull out of the nationwide efforts to create the same tests for the new Common Core standards.

In particular, Jed offers a wide variety of programming, including The Jed Campus Program, a nationwide initiative designed to empower schools with a framework and customized support to enhance student mental health and help with substance abuse and suicide prevention efforts, and Set to Go, a program to emotionally prepare high schools students for impending transition.

We are also recognized as a leader in the Catholic school renaissance — a nationwide effort to strengthen and rebuild urban Catholic schools as models of academic rigor and transformational change for the communities, students, and families they serve.

Even though the concept of accountability is not new in some states, NCLB mandated a nationwide effort for accountability requirements.

As the principal investigator for the evaluation of the federal Center on School Turnaround, Scott has collected data about school improvement efforts nationwide.

Previously he served as Senior Program Director for Evaluation and Policy Research at WestEd and Founding Director of its Washington, DC office where he led a nationwide staff conducting research, evaluation, and technical assistance efforts for clients from federal, state and local agencies, national and community - based foundations, and non-profit and for - profit organizations.

A new report from the Wallace Foundation and the Teachers College at Columbia University, Collective Impact and the New Generation of Cross-Sector Collaborations for Education: A Nationwide Scan, identifies and describes the many education - focused collaborations happening in the U.S. right now, explores the role of the collective impact model in collaborative efforts, and outlines trends to watch moving forward.

To support these efforts, ED launched the National Student Attendance, Engagement, and Success Center (NSAEC) to provide technical assistance nationwide for strategies that prevent and address chronic absenteeism.

As Idaho marks 20 years since its first charter schools opened, the recently released Shackled Education Pioneers looks back at how the public charter school movement started in the Gem State — and how that effort has strayed from its original intent of allowing significant space for education innovation, a progression that led the alliance to downgrade Idaho's charter school law from 20th to 21st nationwide this year.

Nevertheless, as anyone fighting for this effort will tell you, the enormity of the challenge pales in comparison to the incredible opportunity of realizing the day when every student in every neighborhood nationwide receives the world - class public education they deserve.

Broad has become a major target of teacher unions for his efforts nationwide to reform public schools through charters and an academy that trains executives to run them.

* Choice and Competition — This area of reform has been a nationwide battleground for many years and this session will see a revival of a range of serious efforts in Texas to expand robust education choices to meet the needs of students and their parents, with funding following the child.

Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, nationwide efforts to dismantle segregation and integrate schools through anti-discrimination lawsuits, although modestly successful on occasion, have ultimately foundered, producing neither dramatic racial integration nor significant improvements in academic outcomes for black students.

Puckett, who taught at Chipman and quit because of the changes following from NCLB, also contextualizes the eventual closure of the school, and the devaluation of what it stood for, in the broader context of education reform and accountability efforts nationwide.»

The ENERGY STAR Low Carbon IT Campaign is a nationwide effort to assist and recognize organizations for reducing the energy consumed by computers.

Almost half of 2015 Teach For America, or TFA, corps members identified as people of color, 46 compared with less than 20 percent of teachers nationwide.47 The candidate acceptance rate between 2009 and 2012 averaged below 15 percent, making Teach For America one of the most highly selective teacher training programs in the country.48 Additionally, some residency - based teacher programs also are putting more effort into recruiting diverse, high - achieving candidates.

By mobilizing school professionals, parents, and communities in a nationwide grassroots network, we support schools in their efforts to provide nutritious food, nutrition education and comprehensive physical activity and physical education for all children.

On August 21, 2012 at a Los Angeles, CA press conference held at Chuco's Justice Center, the Dignity in Schools Campaign stood together with the Opportunity to Learn Campaign to call for a moratorium on out - of - school suspensions in an effort to address the nationwide pushout crisis facing our schools.

Now is a key moment of opportunity for accelerating our efforts nationwide so we can demonstrate the ideas Bloom put forward in his paper and achieve that second sigma once and for all.

In late 2012, the Wallace Foundation, a philanthropic organization that supports efforts nationwide to improve school leadership, awarded AACTE a grant to serve as one of its communications partners for its Principal Pipeline Initiative.

In 2003, EdVisions was awarded a second Gates grant for $ 4.5 million to take the replication effort nationwide, create a teacher / leader's center to help develop leaders for these new schools, and create a plan to assist / coach these new schools during their first 3 years.

At the West Line project, Secretary LaHood also spoke about the importance of continuing to fund transit projects nationwide, in the wake of recent efforts in the House to remove a primary source of funding for transit systems.

In an effort to promote reading for fun over the summer, two Scholastic - branded RVs will tour the country, hosting free, pop - up family reading festivals at bookstores and public libraries in 30 cities nationwide.

«The support of VIP Petcare and the ASPCA — for our second annual Clear the Shelters nationwide pet adoption campaign — is sure to encourage another successful year for this incredible effort,» said Bruce Kallner, Senior Vice President of Strategic Sales and Marketing, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations.

The apparent success of the Adoption Pact made San Francisco the most often emulated model for community efforts to reduce shelter killing nationwide.

Our Partnership efforts that began in 2014, have led to a community - wide Live Release Rate of 88.5 %, a remarkable level that stands at the forefront for communities our size nationwide.