Sentences with phrase «groups challenging the program»

In that case, a judge also ruled the groups challenging the program could not show it harmed public schools.

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Wake Forest University, for example, has developed a group mentoring program for its alumni in several cities, helping them learn to cope with challenges in their professional and personal spheres.

Prevent works in much the same way the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program works — a group of people (12, in Omada's case) take classes, engage in challenges, and generally support one another with the help of a health coach for several months to a year, with the goal of losing 7 % body weight and preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes.

«The Commission will not take adverse action on a license renewal application based upon the subjective determination of a listener or group of listeners that the station has broadcast purportedly inappropriate programming,» the FCC commissioners wrote in a recent decision challenging a local radio station license.

The Home Project is Zillow Group's signature social impact program that aims to address challenges around housing insecurity.

«The PBM industry is known for «business as usual» and has been challenged to bring real value to plan sponsors (health plans, ACO's, FFS government programs, self - funded groups).

The article quotes David E. Teitelbaum, Partner at Sidley Austin, as saying that the guidance will be «challenging» and Angela Angelovska - Wilson, Counsel at Latham & Watkins in Washington D.C. and a Member of the Finance Department and the Financial Regulatory Group, as explaining as others have how the guidance creates more confusion than it clarifies: the new definitions introduce ambiguities and where it seems to target Bitcoin it isn't clear if it affects programs offering «miles» or «points,» etc..

«We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few,» the group wrote in a letter to the lawmaker.

By undercutting the moral basis of representativeness in religious programming on television, the paid - time religious broadcasters have removed one of the major contributions that religious groups could have made in influencing television in America: that of acting as agents in challenging the television industry to act within its moral responsibility as a utility for genuine social communication.

The road to the elusive league title for the boys» program may be uphill and pose a few speed bumps for the Eagles, but DePonte is confident that this year's group can evolve into a group that challenges consensus DRL favorite Sheldon this year.

The program trains and challenges wrestlers at all age groups from kindergarten through high school, and all experience levels from beginner to champion.

Work in small groups, program and build your robot, and rise to the challenge.

The Weight Loss Challenge is part of the Fit & Fab Small Group Training program.

The Barrington Park District offers a variety of Challenge Programs designed to meet the needs of a wide diversity of groups.

The study, by Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and co-founder of the advocacy group Challenge Success, analyzes the accuracy of four commonly encountered talking points relating to the AP program:

Building Arizona Families offers adoption programs for families interested in domestic and international adoption of infants, older children, sibling groups, and children with special challenges.

But I challenged her ideals and asked her if this group was surveyed to identify the real reasons for this so that programs can be established based on the information collected.

The small groups» deliberations cited a number of challenges associated with training programs, including:

In addition to the counseling services and support groups for pregnant and postpartum women, the following programs have been established to enhance a family's adjustment potential and minimize the risk of depression / anxiety which may accompany many of these challenges.

He introduces readers to a group of MIT students who made a fortune playing Massachusetts state lottery games, showing how PhD level pundits using methods originally developed for the U.S. nuclear program to accurately predict field goals and race times, and explains why poker is one of the ultimate challenges for artificial intelligence.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

The future challenges of this line of research, started through an undergraduate degree final project by Carlos Aguado in the Grupo de Computación Evolutiva y Redes Neuronales (EVANNAI - Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks Group) at UC3M, include carrying out clinical trials using this technology, in addition to developing programs that help rehabilitate the other four movement of the shoulder: flexing, extension, internal rotation and external rotation.

The entire Internet censorship program, he says, is currently being challenged by Internet freedom groups in the Council of State, Turkey's highest court.

«The predator - removal mind - set is deeply ingrained in many people, including those at these agencies,» says Bethany Cotton, attorney and wildlife program director at WildEarth Guardians, another advocacy group that challenges federal wildlife agencies over alleged lapses.

The ruling could have broad implications for the biofuel mandate, as various groups weigh challenges to EPA's management of the program.

«Today's decision marks a watershed moment, where the ASMFC embraced the challenge of managing the entire ecosystem, not just one species,» said Peter Baker, director of Northeast Fisheries Program at the Pew Environment Group in a statement.

«China and Japan are among the world's leading nations in stem cell research, but because of challenges distinct from western nations, they are dramatically underrepresented in terms of patents and licensing,» says Debra Mathews, PhD, MA, assistant director of Science Programs at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a founding member of the Hinxton Group.

Each work group was then tasked with designing a research program for a specific case study using a genomic solution to address a key environmental challenge, culminating with a presentation of their work to a panel representing potential funding sources (industry, government, and philanthropy).

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Relative to other challenge providers we are small, and as such our private Facebook group will be more intimate and you'll have greater access to the program designers and coaches.

It's a 21 - day workout program called the Tone + Tune Up Challenge that you can do at home or at the gym and includes five full - body workout videos, e-mail inspiration, a 21 - day calendar, journaling and meditation assignments, access to a private Facebook group and more.

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Understanding the needs and challenges of senior leaders can help determine how to build a program directed to this target group.

A group of state taxpayers has challenged the programs, enacted by the state legislature in 1984 and 1985, as violating the clauses in the New York State and United States constitutions that bar government establishment of religion.

As former middle school teachers, the trio found that despite the many challenges students face as they transition from «learning to read» to «reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readers.

In my role as a guest presenter in high schools and as a small group facilitator in California Film Institute Education programs, I encounter many high school students who wrestle with significant emotional challenges.

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He trained his teachers on these programs, ensuring that the students in the top reading groups would be challenged with difficult material.

The groups had previously been told by both the trial court and appeals court that they did not have legal standing to challenge the 15 - year - old program adopted by the Legislature, and Wednesday's rejection ends their appeal.

Remote districts can face challenges to delivery and receipt of a world - class education, but new research from the Foundation for Blended and Online Learning (FBOL) and the Evergreen Education Group highlights how digital learning programs are addressing these obstacles.

The program is a mix of formal sessions led by faculty and smaller discussion groups that occur daily where library leaders can dive into issues they are facing at their home institutions, while learning from the unique perspectives of other librarian leaders with similar challenges.

Superintendents are expected to be instructional leaders with new ideas; school boards are challenged to satisfy disparate interest groups asking for more programs; and union leaders often advocate for their membership without considering impacts on other stakeholders.

The lawsuit — filed Nov. 14 in the Arizona Supreme Court on behalf of the parents by People for the American Way, a Washington - based advocacy group, and other groups — marks the first time a voucher program for special - needs students has been challenged in court, according to the Institute for Justice, an Arlington, Va. - based legal - advocacy group that will...

A critical test for the voucher lawsuits will come on Friday, though, when attorneys for the individuals, groups and boards of education challenging the «Opportunity Scholarship» Program ask the court to delay its implementation while the judge considers its underlying constitutionality.

The difference for this group — participants in the Montana public schools» most successful online credit recovery programs — seems to be access to teachers who can help them troubleshoot technical difficulties and content - related challenges, according to the study, «Online credit recovery: Enrollment and passing patterns in Montana Digital Academy courses,» released last month by REL Northwest, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences serving Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.

A second suit brought by a coalition of taxpayer groups also challenged the program, claiming that the Nevada Constitution requires the legislature to set apart money to be used to fund the operation of public schools «to the exclusion of all other purposes.»

Julio Fuentes, president and CEO of the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, a national education reform group, said the FEA challenged the tax - credit scholarship program but not other Florida voucher programs because the scholarships help predominantly low - income students.

FEA president Joanne McCall said the group would not drop its legal challenge, one of two major lawsuits pending against the program.

Establish a program that includes research based practices in gifted education, including acceleration, enrichment, curriculum compacting, and flexible grouping so that each student is challenged to perform to his or her potential.

In addition to his coaching duties, Rosen makes time to work with small groups of struggling students, host parent programs, and collaborates with small groups of teachers on «lesson studies» — Japanese - style brainstorming sessions designed to help teachers create effective lessons on particularly challenging topics.