Sentences with phrase «how major initiatives»

The new issue describes how major initiatives like the Race to the Top competition, the No Child Left Behind state waiver requirements, and the Common Core State Standards have propelled state efforts to rapidly overhaul their evaluation systems and link teacher ratings to student outcome data.

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First Lady Michelle Obama is expected to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and USDA nutrition - tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.

The White House is set to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide despite uncertainties over how those salad bars might be treated by local health inspectors and U.S. Department of Agriculture rules that could prove a major impediment.

It was an exceptionally poor performance, and I think it's fair to ask, if this is how he's fared on his first major legislative initiative as Speaker, then what reason is there to expect that he'll ever be effective in the role?

Here is a look at how some of the major — and perhaps not so major — legislative initiatives in Albany fared this year.

Can you provide any concrete examples of the «major initiatives» Rajkumar has «led,» or how she has used her district leader position to «consistently advocate for us downtown,» or what exactly she worked on with Nadler so closely?

But the inability of Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio to push through several major initiatives underscored how both men failed to sway a Legislature that seemed ripe for change after the corruption convictions of Sheldon Silver, the former Democratic Assembly speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, the former Republican Senate majority leader.

While individual researchers and pharmaceutical companies are studying and developing both types of drugs, a major initiative is needed to understand how both drug types might best work together, Sharma and Allison note.

First Lady Michelle Obama is expected to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and USDA nutrition - tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.

The rubric examines how organizations store, access, and use available data to support broad areas of function: Goal - setting for, and evaluation of, programs and major initiatives; system - level performance management and accountability; and resource allocation and budgeting.

This mixed reviews of the country's major Pre-K initiatives doesn't mean we don't have strong hunches on how to improve them.

SETDA developed this new report, «Transforming Data to Information in Service of Learning,» to raise awareness about the major K - 12 data standards and interoperability initiatives underway to address this gap and to offer recommendations for how K - 12 education can become more responsive to educators and better targeted toward individual student success.

The Character.org Leadership Institute is an initial training in Character.org's Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education, customized to help school leaders learn how to move the initiative forward in their schools and what might be major areas for planning.

This is a big initiative, and it is going to require a major reorientation in how many people think about instruction and student learning.

* The international expansion of major technology companies and ebook players * Preserving in - store discovery and improving online discovery * Cloud services: how SaaS (software as a service) will change publishing IT * New businesses initiatives from innovative publishers around the world

A focal part of the series is public programming that involves critical discussion amongst Santa Barbara artists and arts professionals on the necessity of new or expanded arts initiatives and considering various factors that influence how these initiatives emerge and endure, notably in regions outside of major artistic centers, as in Santa Barbara.

A focal part of the series is public programming that involves critical discussion amongst Santa Barbara artists and arts professionals on articulating the necessity of new or expanded arts initiatives; and considering various factors that influence how these initiatives emerge and endure, notably in regions outside of major artistic centers, as is our town.

Witness how major corporations consuming agricultural commodities signed up at the U.N. climate summit last week to a New York Declaration on Forests — an initiative that the World Resources Institute said «could result in more emissions reductions than removing every car, bus and plane from the U.S., China and India combined.»

You will have a tool to measure the progress of your major initiatives, and you will see how you stack up against other firms.

Every major initiative of outside counsel should be driven by how those initiatives can add value for the client.

The eHealth Ontario spending scandal and a Local Health Integration Network's failure to meet requirements for «community engagement» in decisions involving major initiatives are examples of how, in the future, a hospital's reputation can be harmed through a FIPPA request.

Director James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now, The End of the Tour) co-scripted the film adaptation of The Circle with Eggers, and one of their major changes was to limit the story's scope considerably — to drop back from showing anything significant about how The Circle's initiatives are changing the world.