Sentences with phrase «increase public participation»

The review could potentially take up issues such as whether to increase public participation in land - use decisions, alter the way budget decisions are made and question the checks and balances between the mayor and the Council.

Related: Today, Cuomo launched a new website aimed at increasing public participation in the legislative process.

Erie County Legislature Majority Leader Joseph C. Lorigo announces that the Legislature unanimously approved a resolution on Nov. 3, 2016 that is aimed at increasing public participation in county government.

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Virginia Hunger Solutions works to increase participation in school breakfast programs throughout the Commonwealth by promoting alternative breakfast delivery models, such as Breakfast in the Classroom, and innovative public policies, such as the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).

• increase public funding for after - school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more school districts to provide after - school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated school closures; and • improve meal quality

Whitfield County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Implementation of the New Meal Pattern and Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Seaborn Lee Elementary / Fulton County School Nutrition (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Liberty County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Promoting a Healthy School Environment Atlanta Public Schools Nutrition Department Savannah — Chatham County Public Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Walton County Public Schools Farm to School Programs Commerce City Schools DeKalb County Schools Sharon Elementary School — Forsyth County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Jackson County Schools Pierce County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Fiscal Management Thomaston - Upson School System (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Food Safety (HACCP Implementation) Gwinnett County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Increasing Participation in School Lunch, School Breakfast, or Afterschool Snacks Bibb County School Nutrition Butts County School System Tri-Cities High School, Fulton County School Nutrition Program Leadership, Development and Program Management Cobb County School District Jackson County Schools School Breakfast and School Lunch Week Events Dublin City Schools Jackson County Schools Pierce County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner)

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

These eight districts joined our original five districts — Dallas ISD (Dallas, TX), Little Rock (AR), Memphis City Schools (TN), Orange County Public Schools (FL), and Prince George's County Public Schools (MD)-- in the work of increasing access to, and participation in, the federally - funded School Breakfast Program, with the goal of reducing childhood hunger, and improving health and educational outcome for students.

The May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2015 agreements with police dispatchers, telecommunications operators, and public works and building maintenance employees and upper police management: • * increase required employee contributions to participate in conventional preferred provider organization health plans, • * provide financial incentives to employees to switch to consumer - directed plans or managed - care plans, • * provide village funding of 40 percent of the deductible for high deductible health plans with health savings accounts and • * require employee participation in annual wellness and health risk assessment screenings in order to qualify for best rates.

Later that afternoon we attended «Increase Participation in Your Breakfast in the Classroom Program» with Lora Gilbert and Javier Vazquez from Orange County Public Schools.

These findings suggest that policies aiming to increase voluntary participation in public service provision are likely to be more successful in some areas than others.

The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.

How would you increase participation in politics?By having more public offi cials elected, and more contentious local issues settled by referendum.

Cuomo highlighted the issue in his campaign policy book on government reform, wrting, «Like New York City, New York State needs a system of public campaign financing to set limits on campaign spending and to increase participation by qualified candidates who lack the means or the connections to raise significant campaign funds.»

The committee was impressed by the work done by some local authorities to increase young people's participation rates, citing the «Total Place» pilots experimenting with ways public service providers can work more closely.

Assembly to Implement Workgroup Recommendations to Strengthen Operations and Promote Transparency Speaker Carl Heastie announced today the Assembly will take immediate action to implement recommendations from the Workgroup on Legislative Process, Operations, and Public Participation to promote transparency and increase member effectiveness.

The League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF) works with our state LCVEF partners, educates the public, media and elected officials about key environmental issues, works to increase voter participation in the democratic process and mobilizes a diverse network of activists to advocate for sound environmental policies.

The Council's public tech division was a unit first created under Mark - Viverito as part of an effort to modernize the Council, increase outreach to communities of color and increase participation among communities typically less involved in civic activity.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 17, 2016 Assembly to Implement Workgroup Recommendations to Strengthen Operations and Promote Transparency Speaker Carl Heastie announced today the Assembly will take immediate action to implement recommendations from the Workgroup on Legislative Process, Operations, and Public Participation to promote transparency and increase member effectiveness.

Larry Norden, senior counsel at the Brennan Center lauded the benefits of campaign finance reform, presenting original research that indicates how small donor matching and public funding of elections has increased political participation and competition in New York City elections.

Earlier this year, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced he would implement a series of recommendations — proposed by the Assembly Workgroup on Legislative Process, Operations and Public Participation — designed to increase transparency, efficiency and participation inParticipation — designed to increase transparency, efficiency and participation inparticipation in the chamber.

Based on extremely low participation in the past, I believe changing the public hearings to the evening will increase the amount of speakers in attendance,» said Majority Leader Lorigo.

These public forums provide an opportunity to increase citizen awareness and participation in the Consortium's federal Community Development program by allowing the general public, as well as agency advocates for low and moderate income individuals, the elderly and handicapped to offer suggestions and information on the needs of these populations to County and municipal officials.

But the counter-argument is strong: Public financing, however imperfect, has been shown to increase the democratic participation of marginalized people.

«The workgroup is working on an ambitious set of proposals for increasing transparency and public participation and improving the legislative process,» workgroup co-leader Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, D - Manhattan, told the Times Union.

The project aimed to set up a network of Indian scientists and engineers to facilitate communication and increase their participation on committees and boards working on public science policy and minorities in science issues, as well as scientific peer review panels.

At the eve of the 21st century, discussions on the future of science and scientists show that there is a need for an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, increased international cooperation, new forms of scientific training and career structures for young scientists, and increased participation of scientists in public affairs and public awareness of science.

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

Emerging themes in the evolving ethical conduct of research with humans include a major increase in the participation of research subjects, and the lay public, in the research and oversight worlds.

The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.

Continued assessment of the value of citizen science in other areas of research could help increase overall public participation as well as identify new frontiers in multiple research fields and improve the interdisciplinary practice of citizen science.

She has several years of experience being a leader and representative of other nonprofit organizations, specializing in writing mass communications, creating and organizing events to increase member participation, promoting and managing fundraising contributions, and public speaking.

We urge increased focus on public - citizen participation for more democratised actions on climate change.

The study also found that students in private schools increased their participation in extracurricular activities in each succeeding grade, while public school students appeared to decrease their participation.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

Barron and Darling - Hammond describe evidence - based approaches to support inquiry - based teaching in the classroom: (1) clear goals and guiding activities; (2) a variety of resources (e.g., museums, libraries, Internet, videos, lectures) and time for students to share, reflect, and apply resources, while debating over information discrepancies; (3) participation structures and classroom norms that increase the use of evidence and a culture of collaboration (i.e., framing debates as productive conflicts, using public performances); (4) formative assessments that provide opportunities for revision; and (5) summative assessments that are multidimensional and representative of professional practice.

2011 — The VIVA Project report gives voice to the arts In a project designed to dramatically increase classroom teachers» participation in important state and national public education policy decisions, the VIVA Project issues a report sanctioned by both the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Scpublic education policy decisions, the VIVA Project issues a report sanctioned by both the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public ScPublic Schools.

The Stanford Law and Policy Lab and Stanford Law's Youth & Education Law Project (YELP), on behalf of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), released a guide today to address increasing student absences and decreasing parental participation in California's public charter schools among immigrant families in the wake of recent federal policy changes.

Having more public charter schools in a school boundary increases participation in public charter schools even when we exclude the Wilson HS boundary schools (see Appendix Table 15).

[1] Each public charter school per square mile in a school boundary increases public charter school participation rates by between 1 and 2 percentage points for elementary school students, [2] and some students attend a public charter schools that is very close to home.

In the elementary model, public charter schools per square mile are significant, with each public charter school in the school boundary per square mile increasing public charter school participation rates by between 1 and 2 percentage points.

Without public education for children, illiteracy rates will increase, and opportunities for workforce and community participation will decrease.

She has developed numerous partnerships between public schools, non-profits, higher education institutions, businesses, foundations, and industry in order to bolster student achievement and success that increased participation in after school programs, increased high school graduation rates, college enrollment rates, access to and achievement in advanced and rigorous coursework for historically underserved youth.

In part, the perception of increasing funder participation in policy discussions is due to the very public personas of founders of major foundations like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.7 And the advocacy efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have increased dramatically with a shift from local funding efforts to more direct support for national - level policy advocacy on issues such as the Common Core State Standards.8

The data from the College Board's 10th Annual Advanced Placement Report to the Nation shows a steady increase in AP exam participation among California public high school students, with the state ranking sixth nationally in the quality of its scores.

We also have increased citizen participation on all fronts, including engaging the public on departmental policy and regulations and in local transportation decision - making through our Ladders of Opportunity efforts and initiatives such as the Every Place Counts challenge.

We generally take these extra steps to increase or improve the opportunities for public participation and to obtain that participation very early in the development process.

We have increased citizen participation, both in our key activities through the Regulation Room and through a series of online public dialogues.

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Does the plan explain how the agency will improve participation, including steps the agency will take to revise its current practices to increase opportunities for public participation in and feedback on the agency's core mission activities (including proposed changes to internal management and administrative policies to improve participation)?