Sentences with phrase «latest public programs»

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When I'm 65 will begin with a coast - to - coast 60 - minute feature documentary produced by PBS via Detroit Public Television and will continue long beyond the broadcast with a five - year engagement program that will help people of all ages across the nation expand their capacity for financial self - reliance in their later years.

The Program applies the latest thinking in public finance and resource policy to assess how governments can improve the global competitiveness of the energy sector, improve the understanding of the need for energy market access, foster the innovation that will create the energy sector of the future, and help policymakers collaborate locally, nationally and globally.

The Society published the Chinese Muslim Monthly — later changed to a quarterly — and gave public lectures and courses on Islam as part of its educational program.

Thoughtful contemporary symphonic alternatives to most of the left - wing pablum that is programmed in our concert halls will come as a relief to those of us who day after day sit on stage and play the music, often gritting our teeth, as an unsuspecting public heaps praise on the latest piece of leftist socio - musical drivel.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

Presenters at the public summit included Nate Lewis, Farm Policy Director for the Organic Trade Association, speaking on how to build organic farmer coalitions and encourage farmers to transition to organic; Dr. Jessica Shade, Director of Science Programs for The Organic Center, presenting the latest research on the benefits of organic; and Monique Marez, who gave an update and analysis of global organic trade and imports.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Four years later, the breakfast program had grown to serve 199 public elementary schools, and Esaian urged the school board to take it districtwide, crediting the program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

Four years later, the program had grown to serve 199 public elementary schools in Chicago.

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.

The largest food vendor for the District's public school system has agreed to pay $ 19 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged the city and mismanaged the school meals programs, with food often arriving at schools late, spoiled or in short supply.

The NYC Campaign Finance Board just released a list of 10 candidates who have filed certification forms to join the public financing program for the upcoming Nov. 2 nonpartisan special election to fill the Queens seat left vacant by the death of the late NYC Councilman Tom White.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a long time supporter of public finance, says this plan comes too late in the election cycle, and relies on the State Board of Elections, a board widely viewed as incompetent, to set up the program.

The budget provision, which first surfaced late Friday, would enact a pilot public campaign finance program limited to the comptroller's office.

The governor later clarified that he remains «100 %» in favor of adopting a public matching donor program for statewide races.

Residents of the village of Fayetteville in Onondaga County voiced their opinions at a public meeting on a proposed deer management program late last week.

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

You've got to let the public know the impact that this has, whether it's a program in the City of Buffalo or here in the Town of Hamburg, and there would be Town of Hamburg programs that would be negatively impacted because if you wait for the budget to be passed, it's too late.»

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

The unions have gotten public support from Cuomo, who is engaged in a series of fights with the mayor, most notably over the future of the 421 - a tax break program, which expires later this month.

A new school safety pilot program, Mutualink K - 12, is rolling out in 20 public schools in Oneida and Rockland counties later this month.

Earlier this year, Cuomo proposed a $ 100 million public - spending program that would «make Nelson Rockefeller jealous,» a reference to the late governor who greatly expanded the state - university system.

The budget, which includes the elimination of 70 positions and cuts to public health programs such as mosquito control and the county's breastfeeding initiative for new mothers, was presented in late October and has been going through detailed review in the legislature.

The New York state legislature is due to adjourn later this week, but there's still no agreement by Assembly Democrats on an education tax credit sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would allow donors a tax credit when they give up to a million dollars for private school scholarships and some public school programs.

Schools, hospitals, public - safety and mass - transit programs are now going to have to face deeper cuts later, and everyone's probably going to get way higher taxes.

In the latest slap at Gov. Cuomo over transparency, state legislators want to restore public disclosure requirements for his controversial Start - Up NY jobs program.

DiNapoli, a long time supporter of public finance, says this plan comes too late in the election cycle, and relies on the State Board of Elections, a board widely viewed as incompetent, to set up the program.

Of late, Cuomo has said the commission had done its job because it prompted state lawmakers in 2014 to create a pilot program for public campaign finance, create an enforcement counsel at the Board of Elections and change the statutory definition of bribery.

«Despite its intent,» said Rachel Bloom, director of public policy and programs, «the introduction of the bill at this late stage in the municipal election cycle is a deviation of the carefully measured process by which the program is updated and revised.»

«While many state - funded preschool programs in the U.S. do not begin until age three or later, this study provides some of the first large - scale evidence that public early education for children as young as age one can be critical for children's language skills,» said Dearing.

The program continues to scan progress once public heath agencies declare an outbreak or epidemic to keep both researchers and consumersin the loop and on top of the latest news about any particular event.

«Racial - ethnic minorities suffer more strokes and worse stroke outcomes than White Americans and they often show up later to an emergency room to seek critical treatments,» said Bernadette Boden - Albala, M.P.H., Dr.PH., lead author and professor of public health, dentistry and neurology and associate dean of program development, at Global Institute of Public Health at New York Univepublic health, dentistry and neurology and associate dean of program development, at Global Institute of Public Health at New York UnivePublic Health at New York University.

Although it may be counterintuitive that Apollo 8, rather than the moon landing seven months later, should mark the high point of public support for the space program, McCurdy sees some reasons for this.

Originally the home, gardens and commercial nursery of the late Theodore Klein and his family, Yew Dell now offers the public exceptional display gardens, an ambitious slate of education programs and community events, ongoing garden plant research, hiking trails and event rental opportunities.

As a member of the Apple Beta Software Program, you'll be able to enroll your devices to access the public betas and try out the latest features.

Wormwood's subject is that spookiest of spy programs, Project MKUltra, revealed to the public in 1975 and thus condemned 20 years too late.

A decade later, a Harvard graduate student, Maureen Allenberg Petronio, studied the public - school choice program in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Later as the first African American and female superintendent of San Francisco Public Schools, she introduced a program to target additional resources and create a new equitable funding formula for schools.

This is all the more impressive since the latest Florida Department of Education report found that «public school students who ultimately became program participants are more likely to be the relatively lower - performing students in their schools, a fact that has not changed over time.»

These reactions later became part of a public - service announcement made by first - year participants in Project IT Girl, an after - school program that strives to boost female high school students» confidence and competence in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

Students using vouchers to attend established private schools in Cleveland are slightly outperforming their public school counterparts in language skills and science, and doing about the same in reading, math, and social studies, according to the latest independent evaluation of the program.

Other economists used their analytical tools in lawsuits arguing that states failed to provide adequate education for all students, while others developed models to show that spending public money on dropout - prevention programs would actually save taxpayer money if the dropouts were later incarcerated.

The latest suit also marks the second time in a year that Jindal has locked horns with the federal government over education: He and the Justice Department claimed partial victories in a dispute over a private school voucher program that the feds said affected desegregation efforts in Louisiana public schools.

The Colorado legislature late last month approved, as part of an omnibus education - reform bill, an experimental public - school voucher program, the first of its kind in the country, experts say.

Although Heckman and Carneiro devote markedly less space to the public school system than to the failure of job training programs, the potential effectiveness of early - childhood education, and the importance of noncognitive skills, they do document a «growing consensus» that schools» material resources are only weakly related to their students» earnings later in life.

Oregon is one of five states chosen in the latest round of federal grants to aid charter schools, which are public schools that are free to break the mold and offer distinctive programs under a contract, or charter, with their local school board.

The question of market failure is one raised of late with respect to the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a voucher program enacted and launched in 2008 to help low - income students in «low - performing» Louisiana public sProgram (LSP), a voucher program enacted and launched in 2008 to help low - income students in «low - performing» Louisiana public sprogram enacted and launched in 2008 to help low - income students in «low - performing» Louisiana public schools.

Prior to her work at Achievement First, Christina taught special education for six years, first as a teacher in Harlem and later helping to build a special education program at Rise Academy in Newark, N.J. Throughout this time, she spent her summers working as a school director at Teach For America's Summer Institute, while also earning a master's degree in public policy at the University of Chicago, where she received a Harris Fellowship.

Utah's 127 - page draft, more than a year in the making, also includes the state's latest public school accountability program spelled out in SB220, passed by the Utah Legislature earlier this year.

Some educators say they are fueled partly by their war with Ducey over his latest expansion of a voucher - like program — a pioneering «education savings account» that allows virtually any family to get public dollars to pay for private school expenses.