Sentences with phrase «increasing direct support»

Prior to LMCC, Miller was President of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), a ten - year initiative centered on increasing direct support for independent artists in the U.S.. Before launching LINC, Miller was Executive Director of the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), and President and Executive Director of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

Under the plan, the city would also help arts organizations lower their carbon footprint and increase direct support to artists, particularly those working with and in historically disenfranchised communities.

My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.

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Significant effort should be directed towards actions that support maintaining or increasing customer satisfaction.

Two - thirds of that money would provide direct assistance for food and housing, and the rest would support an increased demand for counseling.

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As you can see, there's a direct correlation between decreasing public support and increasing profits as evidenced by the return on investment.

Much to my delight, I found that there was a direct correlation between decreasing public support and increasing returns.

This evidence supports the American Public Health Association's recommendation8 to increase access to out of hospital maternity care services with direct entry midwives in the United States.

If you are not already familiar with RDA, it trains and supports grassroots advocates in leading local Real Diaper Circles, compiles and distributes research on cloth diapering and leading cloth diaper advocacy, it works with media and other businesses and organizations to increase awareness about cloth diapers, and provides direct, reliable and unbiased support for consumers.

The money is aimed at providing wage increases over the next six years to direct care workers, who provide support for the developmentally disabled and other vulnerable populations.

Ulster County's Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA) has given final approval to a $ 14.3 - million budget for 2015 which calls for sharp increases in collection fees but for the third year in a row requires no direct support from county property owners.

Riverkeeper Water Quality Advocate Tracy Brown: «To have the federal government continue to cut the state revolving fund monies that are available to support repair and maintenance is really gonna have a direct impact on water quality and it's gonna increase the number of sewage infrastructure failures and the amount of pollution in our waterways.»

The state's approved spending plan provides $ 160 million over two years to support two 3.25 percent wage increases (a total of 6.5 percent over two years) for direct support professionals.

We support the State Assembly's plan to increase Governor Cuomo's direct school aid proposal by an additional $ 400 million.

The findings suggest that documentation support with either dictation or documentation assistant services may increase direct clinical face time with patients.

G7 governments will aim to increase by up to 400 million the number of people in the most vulnerable developing countries who have access to direct or indirect insurance coverage against climate - related hazards by 2020, and support early warning systems in the most vulnerable countries, the statement said.

SkS has looked at another study (Kaufmann [2011]-RRB- which suggested an increase in aerosol forcing (greater cooling) due to the rapid industrialization in China in the last decade, however we don't have any direct and accurate global observations yet to support this.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

Increased local autonomy, more complex operations and more rigorous direct accountability mean that all schools require highly skilled specialists to support head teachers and governors.

«Importantly for schools in this climate, they will also save a huge amount on the cost of the usual direct delivery of these services — potentially up to 75 %; which represents a cost effective solution to reducing budgets.We will even support them to fundraise and increase awareness through our new Purple Day package.»

In the last several years, through the direct assistance of city departments, the district has been able to institute new behavioral health supports, create 12 new community schools, improve out - of - school time programming, increase early literacy, better prepare children for kindergarten, bring critical infrastructure repair, and end the teachers» contract stalemate.

What hiring a Director of School Operations will do is to clarify roles and responsibilities for students, staff, and parents; increase opportunities for direct coaching and management to support staff; allow Principals and Assistant Principals to focus on teaching and learning, all of which create a healthy school culture, and ultimately drive student achievement.

Each district school board shall provide funding for the professional development system as required by s. 1011.62 and the General Appropriations Act, and shall direct expenditures from other funding sources to continuously strengthen the system in order to increase student achievement and support instructional staff in enhancing rigor and relevance in the classroom.

Most support that was offered to schools was directed at senior leadership teams, with other popular support categories including «key» subject improvement and increasing the quality of special educational needs.

The proposed investment in Title I, including the increased amount directed to interventions and support for schools in need of improvement, is welcome, as our states and school districts develop new plans to advance academic achievement under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

The majority of teachers noted that both their science pedagogical content knowledge and geospatial pedagogical content knowledge increased as a direct result of their use of the curriculum and educative support materials (Table 3).

These may include training for teachers, additional accommodations, increased special education services, direct staff support (such as a one - on - one paraprofessional or other direct adult support or su - pervision), support from a behavior specialist, counseling or any other appropriate supports and services and that enable the child to make educational progress in his or her least restrictive environment.

This finding, says the report, reconfirms the importance of building direct, personal relationships with parents to strengthen their support and increase their involvement in their child's education.

Mary has supported the increase of the gifted education faculty from 2 to 15 teachers, enough to give direct services to gifted students in all 36 schools.

Together, as a direct result of our membership's support we have been able to make significant strides to increase the funding available to charter schools and shore up the educational environment through which charter schools operate.

Analyses revealed at least a 10 % difference between Years 1 and 2 in teacher observations in grades 2 - 6 for the following factors: decrease in whole - group instruction, increase in small - group instruction, increase in asking of higher - level questions, increase in comprehension strategies instruction, increase in teacher - directed stance, decrease in student support stance.

Except for the increase in teacher - directed stance and decrease in student - support stance categories, all differences in classroom practices were in the direction which would be expected based on the research on effective classroom reading instruction, which had been shared with the teachers before Year 1 and between Years 1 and 2.

Although a direct correlation can not be drawn between the increase in test scores and the support provided by MSMI last year, many in the district attribute MSMI's efforts as a notable factor.

In a 2002 New York Times article, «Why Blacks Support Vouchers,» Michael Leo Owens stated that black students» achievement in schools should have a strong and direct positive correlation with the increase in black political power.

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 Education Corps is designed to provide tutoring and after - school support but not necessarily to train future teachers.92 The VISTA program matches corps members with a nonprofit organization to perform capacity building and provides yearlong stipends, but it is not intended for provision of direct services.93 The Professional Corps, which specifies teaching as one of its qualified positions, allows participants to access Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards — which recipients can use either for loan forgiveness or for paying tuition and other qualifying educational expenses — but increases residency program costs because residents are prohibited from receiving stipends through AmeriCorps and must therefore be paid through their program or the school district.94 None of these programs were designed for supported entry specifically; thus, programs dedicated to providing a gradual on - ramp to the teaching profession can sometimes find it hard to meet their definitions and requirements.

In addition to the direct spending on education, the commissioners have also increased support for wrap - around services such as hiring more school nurses, providing universal school breakfast, initiating and expanding the number of food pantries within several schools, and this year will expand its efforts to provide stable, affordable housing.

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As a direct result of the support we've received, we've been able to increase our membership, and the positive impact on one child has a ripple effect throughout the community.

Direct air capacity from the UK supported an increase in arrivals, increasing by 13 % over 2016, thanks largely to more seat availability between London - Gatwick and Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, St. Johns, and Winnipeg.

This is an obvious area where stated domestic policy is in direct conflict with stated foreign policy — for example, we just had the U.S. special envoy for Eurasian energy, Richard Morningstar, state that the U.S. supports all projects that increase world use of oil and gas.

The President will direct federal agencies to identify and remove barriers to making climate - resilient investments; identify and remove counterproductive policies that increase vulnerabilities; and encourage and support smarter, more resilient investments, including through agency grants, technical assistance, and other programs, in sectors from transportation and water management to conservation and disaster relief.

As a result, direct decarbonization of these sectors would require increased government support, making the development of indirect methods of reducing emissions that might require less support in the long - run increasingly attractive.

The brief promotes climate - smart agriculture, where: agricultural development is directed along pathways that lead to sustainable increases in agricultural productivity; social and ecological resilience are increased in order to contribute to climate change adaptation; and agriculture is used to support the achievement of national food security and development goals.

«we find no direct evidence to support the claims that the Greenland ice sheet is melting due to increased temperature caused by increased atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide.

The report also recommends baseline research on adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability, and the need for agencies with appropriate expertise to «increase funding and take a leadership role in supporting, managing, and directing this research.»

Such a system — which would have direct and visible positive financial consequences (i.e., rebate checks larger than energy price increases) for 80 % of American households — might not only not be difficult for politicians to support, but it might actually be difficult for politicians to oppose!

«Support for cap and trade has only decreased, not increased» in Washington state, says Ted Sturdevant, who directs the state's Department of Ecology, which backs cap and trade.