Sentences with phrase «increasing number of initiatives»

New evaluation systems, new standards, online assessments, personalized staff development, data driven decision - making and many more — in the last few years, districts around the country have had to adopt and integrate an increasing number of initiatives.

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During a conference call with analysts on Wednesday, Zuckerberg reiterated much of what he covered during those hearings by explaining recent initiatives like increasing the number of employees who handle reviewing content for security and safety to 20,000.

STEM education initiatives to increase the number of Americans who can fill engineering and research roles are not part of Trump's official platform.

Financial Activism» Over the past three years, the number and intensity of financial activism initiatives has increased.

Prime Minister Harper and Finance Minister Joe Oliver were so confident that this commitment was a «no - brainer» that the Prime Minister announced in a «mini-budget» in October, the Family Tax Cut, and increases to the Universal Child Care Benefit along with a number of other small initiatives.

NACO is proud to publish its first whitepaper with the objective to promote policy initiatives intended to increase the number of successful startup companies, jobs, and wealth creation by supporting early stage capital investment provided by Angel investors in Canada.

The Update also included a large number of spending initiatives (about $ 10 billion over six years), thereby ensuring that these initiatives would be included in Main Estimates for 2018 - 19 as part of efforts to increase transparency and accountability between the budget expenses and the Main Estimates expenditures.

We recently met with CFO Bodo Uebber to discuss details of Daimler's previously announced long - term strategy, which includes increasing the number of Mercedes - Benz dealerships and unit sales in China and capitalizing on recent dealership improvements (better sales training, new technology systems) to steadily boost division profits, as well as initiatives to strengthen business in other divisions.

'' Over the past three years, the number and intensity of financial activism initiatives has increased.

We expect to see our wine tourism numbers increase off the back of this initiative.»

Initiatives that expand the capacity of Early Head Start (EHS) programs to increase the number of children and pregnant women served

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

The NFL Foundation Athletic Trainer Grant Pilot Program builds on recent initiatives developed by the NFL Foundation to increase the number of young athletes with access to an athletic trainer.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services endorsed the initiative, and since then the number of participating hospitals has steadily increased to a rate of nearly 17 percent of U.S. hospitals, according to BFHI accrediting organization Baby - Friendly USA.

In more detail, in recent years China has taken a number of initiatives to assert increasing control of the South China Sea.

He also convinced Albany to allow him to lower the city's speed limit to 25 miles per hour and increase the number of speed cameras, both key parts of his «Vision Zero» initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities.

Dr. Carol Smith, Commissioner of Health and Mental Health, Ulster County Department of Health and President, NYSACHO said, «NYSACHO fully supports the Governor's and New York State DOH's initiative to increase the numbers of our citizens who are vaccinated against the flu.

The executive budget increased overall spending by only about $ 100 million compared to the preliminary budget, but added a number of new initiatives paid for by $ 1.25 billion in additional savings, including an ambitious plan to overhaul the floundering municipal hospital system, New York City Health + Hospitals.

In addition, a $ 140.5 million increase in categorical aid programs supports a number of other initiatives described below.

By the initiative, a total of 114 roads were either constructed or rehabilitated two per each of the 57 Councils in 2016, while in a bid to consolidate on the massive infrastructural drive of his administration, Governor Ambode last Thursday announced readiness to increase the number of the roads from 114 to 181.

An email was sent out from Tory HQ earlier this week blaming Lord Mandelson for the increased number of Labour initiatives getting into the newspapers.

The Athena Project, which is a UK - wide initiative that aims to increase the number of women working in science, engineering, and technology (SET) at all levels of higher education (HE), and to improve their career development, awards development grants to HE institutions for pilot projects that address those aims.

For 14 years, a National Institute of General Medical Services (NIGMS) initiative has worked to increase those numbers.

Beginning in the late 1960s, the school implemented several initiatives designed to increase the numbers of underrepresented minority students attending HMS.

Just over a year ago, Secretary of State Clinton launched an international initiative to promote this approach and it has won an increasing number of adherents, helping to build international attention and action.

Lest anyone think, however, that only systemic initiatives make a difference — a common belief related to the final blind spot I would like to address — Dobbin, Kalev and others have shown that mentoring programs are the most effective in increasing the numbers of white and black women and Latino and Asian women and men in management.

«A number of legislative initiatives have been implemented to increase the study of interventions in children.

After all, Africa isn't the first region to put in place a policy aimed at increasing the number of advanced - degreed scientists it produces as part of an economic growth initiative.

One area of the site is devoted to the Division of Minority Opportunities in Research (MORE), a NIGMS initiative to increase the number of underrepresented minority scientists by disseminating information about a variety of biomedical research training programs.

The Cleveland Clinic Office of Diversity, in collaboration with the Office of Civic Education Initiatives and Health Legacy of Cleveland, is sponsoring the Saturday Academy to increase the number of African American and Hispanic physicians, scientists and physician leaders.

During all those years, Prof. Nagel has been the leading person or has been actively involved in different initiatives, which resulted in increasing of visibility and importance of biomedical engineers and medical physicists in medicine and health as well as in large number of benefits for IUPESM and IFMBE affiliated societies and individuals.

With the plan of reducing fees and increasing investment, the college has seen pupil numbers rise and was recognised for an «outstanding initiative» and a «strong vision».

An increasing number of schools and programs are embracing this notion by promoting project - based learning and community - centered initiatives.

A number of initiatives are in place to help teachers develop that confidence by increasing their subject knowledge and understanding of ways of teaching computing that work.

Both the number of students who choose on their own initiative to attend private boarding schools and the number of families becoming associated with such schools for the first time have increased significantly since 1976.

Amy Albright, a spokesman for the Governor's office of child development and education, said the initiative would dramatically increase the number of school - based clinics, although officials do not yet know...

An initiative to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers should have its funding extended so that a more targeted approach can be developed in the future, according to an evaluation panel.

An increasing number of organizations are planning initiatives to include games in their learning solutions.

President Obama's «Preschool for All» initiative calls for dramatic increases in the number of 4 - year - olds enrolled in public preschool programs and in the quality of these programs nationwide.

And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of teacher candidates of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.

Grant money, which started going to the school district this year, funds SAISD's Pipeline for College Success program, an initiative aimed at increasing the number of students who enroll in and complete college.

Each of the 11 high schools selected to receive a Reach Higher System Impact Grant was a second year participant of MCAN's Reach Higher grant program, an initiative aimed at supporting college - going culture inside high schools to increase the number of high school students ready for and enrolling in college.

The George W. Bush Institute began the Middle School Matters (MSM) initiative in 2010 with the goal of increasing the number of students who are prepared for high school and post-secondary success.

MCAN works toward achieving this goal by advocating for policy reforms that lower the barriers to college for students, sponsoring a number of statewide initiatives focused on increasing college access, delivering professional development to train college access professionals to be highly qualified and effective college advisers, and strengthening like - minded and mission - aligned statewide college access and success initiatives.

To address persistent gaps in postsecondary educational attainment and our country's growing economic and workforce needs, federal and state policymakers, the philanthropic community, national education organizations and practitioners have put forth a number of goals and initiatives designed to increase college completion rates.

The Council on Children and Families initiative shows that between the 1999 - 2000 school year and 2009 - 2010, the number of students per teacher in Wisconsin increased by 0.5 students.

Across the country, states are adopting a number of different strategies to improve outcomes for students: third grade reading requirements, literacy initiatives, new assessment and accountability systems, plus an increased focus on data - driven decision - making are changing how districts approach teaching and learning for all students.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

«To help do this, we have introduced a number of initiatives, such as the Women Leading in Education programme, and in December 2017 we announced an # 1.8 million fund to help schools increase the diversity of their senior teams.

«Choice» has become a popular mantra in education - reform circles, used primarily to describe initiatives to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated, and to increase funding for private schools through voucher systems.