Sentences with phrase «largest sustained effort»

But Chicago's program may be the nation's largest sustained effort by a major school district to end social promotion.

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Chale Wote Festival is a collective effort of many people ranging from artists, musicians, community activists, writers, designers and students, all working together to sustain and grow West Africa's largest street art festival.

The team has applied for large block funding from the National Science Foundation Robotics Initiative to sustain this effort.

As part of the conference, Byron Young, a retired Marine Biologist, talks about the biology and efforts at restoration of this important prey fish that is key to sustaining a large portion of the important east coast marine fisheries stock.

They launched a sustained and unfortunately successful effort at merging small schools into large ones, and independent school districts into large, consolidated districts.

Especially in schools with a large number of teachers, it may be difficult to sustain a school - wide push to mobilize the efforts of most teachers.

However, the most recent recovery is accompanied by rising costs in healthcare, corrections, and sustained efforts to maintain support for K - 12 education, leaving higher education as the largest discretionary item in many state budgets.

Dee (2012) suggests that school improvement programs can be viewed as explicit efforts to align, coordinate, and sustain individual efforts into a larger and more efficient collective vision of school improvement.

And the argument that I'm trying to make is that if there's a significant segment of the black community who feels, even if there are now things that are better, but they have not played a significant role in making it better, or they haven't played a significant role in the power relationships, or if you have significant numbers of people who see the effort to change education and the way that it's being done as a larger part of the disempowerment of black people in the city of New Orleans, even the good things that are happening, in my mind, they are, uh, there's a danger in the ability to sustain it if we, if we can't build on a broader base of support within the black community itself.

The likely problem is that getting together the key government research managers across such a wide range of disciplines is very difficult — it is very hard for them to find the time and sustain their interest and efforts in creating such broad - based programs given their responsibilities to make much larger, narrower efforts work.

By refusing to join global efforts to cut emissions and initiate policies that will begin the process of large and sustained emission reductions, the Howard Government is storing up trouble for the future.

I believe myself that civilization would break down, and we would become unable to sustain such efforts, if large releases occur.

It would seem that a large swathe of the economy is firmly behind concerted, predictable and sustained efforts to curb emissions and move our economy into the 21st Century.