Sentences with phrase «goal of raising standards»

Prior to his involvement with NASC, Mr. Hartog was the founder and President of the National Association of Equine Supplement Manufacturers, a nonprofit group formed in 1999 with the goal of raising standards in the equine supplement industry.

Gunlock, though, says he wants a reasonable solution that doesn't abandon the long - term goal of raising standards.

Not exact matches

As we crafted policy in this space, we talked to worker advocates, innovative businesses, and legal experts with the goal of raising wages and standards for independent contractors broadly, providing these workers universally needed benefits as well as a say in obtaining nontraditional benefits, and ensuring that the system would be practicable for participating companies.

One of the main goals of the competition is to raise the standards of culinary excellence and professionalism.

But if Sweetgreen's goal was to raise awareness about school nutrition (and not just garner a lot of publicity for its restaurants, which it did in spades), I fail to see what it accomplished by holding American schools up to an unrealistic international standard — whether the standard is unrealistic because it's inaccurate (Greece) or because the country in question invests far more time, money and effort than the United States in feeding its children (France.)

«Understandably, the goal of national global competitiveness has given considerable impetus to the drive to raise educational standards,» it states.

Reform's Academy chains unlocked report brings together results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives and recommends reforms to the funding and oversight of academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all children.

By typical standards, Rhee will raise a lot of money in 2011 — in the hundreds of millions of dollars — but won't come close to her $ 1 billion goal.

This, in turn, has been proven to raise aspirations and ultimately academic attainment standards - something hard to establish in areas devoid of opportunity and goals worth striving for.

What they mean: The Common Core has many goals, including raising the rigor of academic standards and increasing the depth of learning.

But raising standards in the absence of proper funding for implementation, clear thinking about whether these changes will really allow our kids to compete globally and ensuring that the whole exercise isn't just an exhausting and expensive dance of «move the goal» is equally important.

In fact, though most public high schools do not track or publish college graduation rates, many high - performing charter networks have a new, unified goal of increasing college graduation rates and raising their own standards for accountability.

Raising standards should be the primary goal of education reform.

Our goal is to raise expectations for student learning and focus the work of teaching and learning on academically rigorous «college - and - career ready» Pre K - 12 programs which are aligned to the Common Core standards.

The end goal of the amalgamation is to create one single organization and help raise the standards of the profession.

Because the goal of the program is to raise the overall standards of care, we will work to help breeders meet the standards for certification.

The goal of the program is to raise the overall standards of care for the welfare of dogs.

The goals of the Reassessment Campaign on Veterinary Resuscitation (RECOVER) initiative are to provide up - to - date, evidence - based, consensus CPR guidelines for veterinary medicine and to widely disseminate those guidelines in an effort to raise the standard of care in veterinary critical care medicine and to improve outcomes for dogs and cats in cardiopulmonary arrest.

State - level renewable portfolio standards, for example, have been a central driver for wind and solar energy, and one of the Green Chamber's business platform goals for the next year is to achieve legislative approval to raise New Mexico's standards to 30 percent by 2030, said Green Chamber CEO Allan Oliver.

While raising the living standards of the growing populations in developing countries is a certainly a desirable goal, it will likely worsen the planet's ecosystems.

The following organizations support the goals of the Charter First campaign to increase transparency and accountability surrounding Charter issues in proposed legislation, and to raise the standard of Charter compliance of laws passed by Parliament.

«Periodic peer review of legal services, as well as regular review of lawyers» progress toward marketing goals, billing and recovery goals or other standards, are processes that can promote interaction among lawyers in a firm and raise the likelihood that impairment will be discovered and effectively addressed.»

Responsibilities for this Senior Data Entry Clerk - Customer Service job includes: • Receive inbound calls with varying degrees of questions or concerns • Keep record of customer interactions, record details of inquiries, complaints, or comments, as well as actions taken • Use computer system to track, gather information, and / or troubleshoot the items raised by the customer • Achieve productivity standards and goals set by the company while maintaining high level of customer service • Basic data entry and administrative duties.

While Australian governments had previously committed to raise the standard of Indigenous Australians» health to that of other Australians, the COAG commitment marked the first time that Australian governments had agreed to be accountable for reaching this goal by placing its achievement within a time - frame.

OREA, Hudak says, had three goals for the plan and was successful in having them all realized: to make sure supply was an important part of the solution; to consider a vacancy tax («because no one has any sympathy for a speculator who buys a house and then leaves it sitting empty») and to have the provincial real estate act reviewed and updated to help raise industry standards — something Hudak says the province has committed to doing.

Their goal is to optimize your experience and raise the standards of how business telecommunications services are bought, sold and managed.