Sentences with phrase «funded pilot programs»

In the past few years, a number of states have created and funded pilot programs to experiment with the concept of school restructuring.

EN: Can we generalize the results from well - designed, generously funded pilot programs to large - scale efforts at the state or national level?

Despite gaining the support of transit advocates and several local officials, including Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Mayor de Blasio has been reluctant to fund the pilot program, or any variation of it, saying the city can not afford it and that ultimately the MTA is the state's responsibility.

Fund a pilot program to provide counsel to indigent persons at arraignment.

«I learned a lot about how effective or ineffective the state party is,» Dadey said, adding that Cox had «guaranteed» Antonacci that he would have help in reaching the $ 200,000 threshold to qualify for the state's matching funds pilot program — in which the Onondaga County comptroller was the lone participant — and then did not deliver on that promise.

The program is modeled after a New York City - funded pilot program administered through the Center for New York City Neighborhoods (CNYCN).

The fate of the federally funded pilot program will be left in the hands of whoever wins the Syracuse mayoral race in November.

Eventually, we abandoned the project and in 2007 began planning for a self - funded pilot program using Intel Classmate PCs, a new ultramobile personal computer at the time with a 40 GB hard drive.

From what Mr. Gates said, he sees the philanthropic role as being «to shake things up» and fund pilot programs.

ACTC developed the CONNECT program, a government funded pilot program to provide wrap around services for adolescents with substance abuse issues.

I thought you would be interested in learning about a new 3 year funded Pilot Program, ACERT (Adverse Childhood Response Team), a collaboration between Project LAUNCH / Manchester Community Health Center, Manchester PD, and the YWCA.

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The organization raised the funds to purchase micro: bits for a pilot program focused on 25 middle - school classrooms, with the eventual goal of purchasing the device for every 7th grader attending the county's schools.

The lab got $ 1.1 million through the Catalyst fund to take that pilot and make it a permanent program.

With $ 1 million in funding from the tech industry — affiliated Economic - Security Project, the Stockton Economic - Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) will be the country's first municipal pilot program.

In recent years, tech leaders have funded major projects in the space: Y Combinator Research piloted a program in Oakland that gave people $ 1,500 a month for a year, and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is funding a project in Stockton for working individuals.

Where available, explore funding FLW reduction community pilot programs as well as FLW recovery / recycling infrastructure investments.

La Leche staff members hope the pilot program, which the organization will fund at about $ 7,500 a year, catches on at Amundsen and expands to include boys» classes before moving to other high schools.

Memphis was one of five cities in the original Breakfast - in - the - Classroom pilot program, generously funded... Continue reading →

The organization will be awarding funds ranging from $ 500 to $ 5,000 to around one thousand schools, with the goal of helping schools create or expand school breakfast programs, pilot universal breakfast programs or enhance their physical activity programs.

He and 30 other young people are working as lifeguards this summer after completing a four - month pilot program funded by the National Recreation Association and the Park District.

These pilot programs were funded through the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom; along with SNF, the partners include the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF), and National Education Association Health Information Network (NEAHIN), and funded by the Walmart Foundation.

SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

The recently enacted state budget creates a new affordable housing pilot program designed to help those who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing, and initially funds it with $ 15 million.

The liberal Democratic mayor pledged that those convicted of such crimes, and of less severe violations like forcible touching and misdirection of prescription drugs, would not benefit from the defense fund — but Mark - Viverito noted that pilot program does offer assistance to such offenders, and argued they should continue to do so in the new iteration.

When de Blasio unveiled his $ 84.68 billion second - draft budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, he announced that the city would meet Mark - Viverito's request that city establish a permanent taxpayer funding stream to the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, a pilot program that has provided attorneys to unauthorized foreign nationals in immigration court.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

One silver lining is the Senate Republicans» willingness to vote for public funding for one state office as a pilot program.

The only statewide candidate who is participating in a pilot public campaign finance program says it's been slow going, but Republican candidate for Comptroller Bob Antonacci expects to collect enough individual donors to qualify for the state matching funds.

De Blasio has pushed back on that proposal, arguing that the pilot program his administration funded last year that provided free lunch to all middle schoolers has yielded «mixed results.»

With her authority's 2,563 buildings crumbling and shootings spiking, Ms. Olatoye has a tough task ahead of her, but is set to announce a pilot program called «Next - Generation» in May that the administration hopes will ultimately boost funding and improve safety for the 600,000 New Yorkers who rely on NYCHA.

The pilot public financing program for the state comptroller race, which legislative leaders — including Republicans — and Governor Cuomo authorized in the 2014 - 15 budget, is supported by the state's abandoned property fund.

The cities of Cortland and Oneonta are part of a pilot program funded in the State Senate's version of next year's state budget.

The cities of Cortland and Oneonta are part of a pilot program funded in the State Senate's version

The proposed city - wide fund would be modeled after the Bronx Freedom Fund's successful pilot program in an effort to provide the same effective and cost - saving program to all New Yorkers across the five boroufund would be modeled after the Bronx Freedom Fund's successful pilot program in an effort to provide the same effective and cost - saving program to all New Yorkers across the five borouFund's successful pilot program in an effort to provide the same effective and cost - saving program to all New Yorkers across the five boroughs.

Last year, he announced a pilot pre-K program funded by $ 25 million in competitive grants which will serve 27 of New York's roughly 700 school districts.

While Antonacci plans to opt into the public campaign financing pilot program, he must reach the $ 200,000 threshold before he can begin getting the 6 - to - 1 matching public funds.

The officials participated in the first harvest of Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program's pilot Peconic Estuary Seaweed Aquaculture Feasibility Study, which is funded in part through Suffolk County.

Skelos says it's not a contradiction that the Republican candidate for comptroller, Bob Antonacci, will participate in a pilot public finance program funded by the state's unclaimed funds.

Antonacci announced over the summer that he would attempt to take advantage of a pilot program for public funding of campaigns, but that effort ran aground after he failed to run the prerequisite $ 200,000 in small donations ($ 10 to $ 175) from 2,000 donors.

After returning to Argentina in late April, he has been finalizing recommendations to be presented in the fall detailing how Argentina will set up, design, fund, track and evaluate a science policy fellowship program that is expected to get underway in earnest with a pilot project placing five scientists in select agencies in 2018.

A year later, also with funding from the Elsevier Foundation, the American Physical Society (APS) ran a pilot program offering its spring meeting attendees grants to offset child - care expenses incurred at home or onsite.

Stephen Doig, program director at the Rocky Mountain Institute, said in the phone conference that the solar pilot projects around the country funded by the Energy Department provide the laboratories for attacking the cost and systems issues.

These training programs share features such as courses, seminars, and workshops focused on clinical and translational issues; access to specialized equipment and databases; mentorship from established clinical and translation scientists; and pilot funding for research projects.

Although this year's pilot program is limited to fellows from the four university partners, ELISS organizers hope to attract additional funding in order to make the program available to others.

Supported by pilot program funding from the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), van Horne, with his team, is exploring an additional treatment option, and possibly a way to alter the course of the disease.

In its first round of funding for the PFF program, the NSF sought to reward institutions that already had pilot projects in place and allow them to» continue innovative work based on past achievements.»

To study how this can be done in practice, the commission proposes using a tool called Preparatory Action, essentially a pilot program funding collaborative defense research projects that paves the way for a fully - fledged military R&D component in future E.U. programs.

The pilot programs floated by the Department of Transportation funding will be particularly important in figuring out how humans actually react to the technology, said Gonder, from the NREL.

This money will complement the annual budget of about $ 1 million FIRST gathered from the university and the integration of two already - funded pilot Ph.D. programs.

The research, «A Pilot Study: Association between Antidepressant Use and Implant Failure,» was funded by the Student Research Program through the SDM Dean's Vision Fund.