Sentences with phrase «in local communities across the country»

Each new Boston's location will create up to 40 new jobs in the area, which will provide a welcomed economic boost in local communities across the country.

This program ensures that our restaurants» high - quality, surplus food is donated to hunger relief organizations in our local communities across the country — rather than simply disposing of it in landfills.

Professor Sonia Blandford, CEO and founder of Achievement for All, said: «There is a real solution here to help close the achievement gap in local communities across the country.

In local communities across the country, NEA affiliate members and leaders are working closely with parents, families, and community members to close achievement gaps, improve low - performing schools, and transform relationships between schools and their communities.

With accelerated growth in technology predicted for the next 3 - 5 years, IEL as the Institute for «Educational Leadership,» will explore new leadership development models / services to ensure leaders in local communities across the country are well equipped to leverage the potential of technology in addressing inequities in access.

That's why, throughout the year, American Humane offers disaster preparedness training courses in local communities across the country.

Your contributions help make an impact in local communities across the country.

The network has been hosting Road to the Puppy Bowl adoption events throughout the year in local communities across the country and is responsible for thousands of pet adoptions.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., AHLA focuses on strategic advocacy, communications support, and educational resources for an industry that advances long - term career opportunities for employees, invests in local communities across the country and hosts more than one billion guests» stays in American hotels every year.

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Our local partners reported on how hate incidents affect communities across the country: anti-Semitic graffiti in Phoenix, Islamophobia in Minneapolis, racist vandalism and homophobic threats in Seattle, white supremacist activity at a California university, racist harassment and vandalism in Boston, racism in the workplace in New Orleans, and hate incidents throughout Florida.

There exists a myriad of learning opportunities available to students outside of the regular school day, whether on campus, through local museums and science centers, or elsewhere in communities across the country.

The Certified Angus Beef ® brand supports local farmers and ranchers in small communities across the country.

What does this partnership mean for HUMAN franchisees across the country: 1) Franchisees provide AACS students / future professionals with convenient access to nutrition education and healthful food and beverage options, including hot meals 2) Franchisees have increased access to high - traffic AACS schools in their area 3) Franchisees have increased visibility and impact in their local communities

Two national Safe Kids Day fundraising events will be held on Saturday, April 5 at The Lot in Los Angeles and on Saturday, April 12 at the Highline Stages in New York City, in addition to local events held in more than 100 communities across the country.

I suggested in my Tweet that this is the sort of grassroots community engagement local CLPs across the country should be emulating.

«We have seen real progress with communities across the country making full use of the powers we have put in place with councils, police, courts and local people working in partnership to make neighbourhoods safer and better places to live,» Tony Blair said.

«I would point out that the amount of funding that is devoted to protecting New York and making sure that law enforcement officials in New York have the resources that they need is higher than the amount of money that's provided to local communities across the country,» said Earnest.

Anti-immigrant tensions in the local community could be reflected across the country more broadly when it comes to the 2014 local and European elections, she believes.

Across the country, Team Hope Walks are held throughout the year with the goal of raising as much money possible in the local community to support the mission and services of the HDSA.

Since the ASD launched three years ago, it has been touted by policymakers in Tennessee and across the country as a promising approach for states looking to improve their lowest - performing schools — and criticized by some local educators and communities for not showing results quickly enough.

Backed up by solid evidence that the Partnership impacts positively on children's life chances, the partnership is now offering unique, tailored solutions for local areas and delivers real, evidence - based, impact in schools and communities across the country.

Moreover, this complexity has led to great variance in the amount of funding that is provided to local communities across the country relative to their population of disadvantaged students, and the system's increasing bureaucratic complexity has clouded transparency and public understanding, thereby undermining accountability for the largest federal K - 12 program.

The White House is announcing new steps to combat chronic absenteeism and calling on states and local communities across the country to join in taking immediate action to address and eliminate chronic absenteeism by at least 10 percent each year, beginning in the current school year (2015 - 16).

NSBA with Davenport and the full leadership team will continue its efforts, working with the state school board associations, to ensure that ESSA is implemented as intended, in collaboration with local school boards and other key education stakeholders, and returning the decision - making authority to state and local communities in support of academic success for every public school student across the country.

NSBA is committed to equity and excellence in public education through school board governance, and with the onset of a new administration and a new Congress, will amplify the voice of 90,000 school board members across the country, to maintain and strengthen the ability of local districts and school boards to act in the best interests of students, parents, and communities.

Twenty - three major organizations from across the country also signed a letter sent to Secretary DeVos, in which they stressed: «This federal guidance remains essential for holding our school systems accountable at the local level and for keeping this issue at the center of the national dialogue so that communities can work together to create solutions that bring an end to racial and discipline disparities and provide support so that all students can succeed in our nation.»

The Community Schools model has been implemented across the country, showing that authentic engagement and shared leadership, combined with coordinated community partnerships focused on equity, can improve educational outcomes, school climate, and investment in local neighCommunity Schools model has been implemented across the country, showing that authentic engagement and shared leadership, combined with coordinated community partnerships focused on equity, can improve educational outcomes, school climate, and investment in local neighcommunity partnerships focused on equity, can improve educational outcomes, school climate, and investment in local neighborhoods.

As schools and districts across the country struggled to find high - quality, well - prepared leadership capable of improving learning, a need emerged to identify and support home - grown, innovative ideas generated by local nonprofit and community organizations, and to create new learning networks through which knowledge about improving leadership could spread to others in the field.

State of Our Cities: Profiles of Education Performance Around the Nation provides comparable education data on more than 100 cities across the country and allows users to make comparisons at the state, national, and global level so that mayors, policymakers, and the public can engage more vigorously in education decision - making in their local communities.

NESRI collaborates with DSC to provide workshops and webinars on the Model Code and to support DSC members in communities across the country in implementing sections of the Model Code through local and state - wide campaigns.

This Declaration unites members of Educators for Excellence across the country and is a common starting point for the conversations and advocacy that we lead in our local communities.

Teachers across the country are organizing regional and local ECET2 convenings in their communities with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The plan includes partnering with regional and local leaders to conduct seven workshops this fall and winter in communities across the country culminating in an interim report following the first 4 workshops conducted in 2016, and a final report with recommendations on next steps following completion of all 7 workshops.

Following on the heels of the Smart City Challenge, DOT announced in October 2016 that local communities across the country will receive nearly $ 65 million in grants to support advanced technology transportation projects.

Instead of trying to manage communities across the country, they focus on a smaller area and build a reputation for quality in management and a deep knowledge of local needs.

In the coming months, municipal officials from all across the country will gather together to discuss key local policy trends and share best practices for improving communities and quality of life.

Again, this is the Best Friends blog, and I work for Best Friends, so I can only comment on our work — but as a national organization, we work directly on the ground in communities all across the country and directly support local shelters and rescue organizations.

In California, 36 local jurisdictions are among the more than 230 cities, towns, and counties across the country which have passed ordinances to stop the sale of cruelly bred animals at pet stores in their communitieIn California, 36 local jurisdictions are among the more than 230 cities, towns, and counties across the country which have passed ordinances to stop the sale of cruelly bred animals at pet stores in their communitiein their communities.

Through significant investment in the adventure travel market that is worth $ 263 Billion as of 2012, Mexico plans to work with multiple States across the country that want to educate their community, train local guides and operators, build infrastructure and promote Mexico's adventure travel offerings.

From our local community to the visitors who traveled across country, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported and participated in Chinati Weekend 2017.

Ultimately, the demand for clean, local and affordable energy puts the community solar industry in position to continue to invest, create new jobs, and serve millions of customers across the country who have been waiting for their opportunity to choose solar.»

• Improved understanding of climate thresholds and vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptive responses in a variety of different local contexts across the country • Improved understanding of vulnerable populations (e.g., urban poor, native populations on tribal lands) that have limited capacities for responding to climate change • Ways to build adaptive capacity that can be generalized across individuals, communities, and countries • Decision support tools for entities responsible for hazard mitigation and management • Collection of socioeconomic research to inform impact, vulnerability, and adaptation research

So we're here today to kick off a nationwide grassroots campaign called «Plug - In Partners,» bringing together local governments, businesses, cities, organizations, and community groups from across the entire country, to say to the automakers, «Americans understand the problem, and Americans will deal with the problem.

Kate Meis, Executive Director of the Local Government Commission in Sacramento, an organization that works with cities in California and across the country to build sustainable communities, agreed that local actions — and local activism — can bring major chLocal Government Commission in Sacramento, an organization that works with cities in California and across the country to build sustainable communities, agreed that local actions — and local activism — can bring major chlocal actions — and local activism — can bring major chlocal activism — can bring major change.

Thanks to local organizers in communities across the country, thousands of people have attended national climate consultations with a united message.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, representing more than 1,300 cities across the country, noted at its 2012 meeting that «communities that have invested in pedestrian and bicycle projects have benefited from improved quality of life, a healthier population, greater local real estate values, more local travel choices, and reduced air pollution.»

State and local bar associations from across the country are organizing hundreds of events in their communities to engage and educate both students and adults.

Instead of trying to manage communities across the country, they focus on a smaller area and build a reputation for quality in management and a deep knowledge of local needs.

Wednesday the 10th of January saw young people from across Ireland flock to Facebook HQ Dublin to take part in the WebWise / Irish Second - Level Students» Union Safer Internet Day Ambassador Training session, a day where representatives from schools and groups from all corners of the country discussed internet safety and the big issues that affect them and their communities on a national and local level when it comes to the internet.

Soon after, the Buffett Early Childhood Fund and Ounce of Prevention Fund joined forces to support other local public - private partnerships in communities across the country to establish Educare Schools.