Sentences with phrase «national effort we have made»

School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movement.

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Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

A senior administration official told The New York Times earlier this month that the Russians had also breached the Republican National Committee but chose not to release any of the information, lending credence to the idea that the Kremlin made a specific and targeted effort to embarrass Democrats.

China has made self - driving auto technology a national priority, but the recent U.S. fatality involving an autonomous test car is prompting calls for the Chinese government to slow down those efforts to ensure public safety.

Donald Trump has forgiven $ 50 million in loans he made to his campaign, and fundraising efforts have kicked into high gear, his national finance chairman told CNBC on Thursday.

Trans Mountain has spent $.1.1 billion (approximately half of which has been spent since the KML IPO) and made unprecedented efforts to develop the project since its initial filing with the National Energy Board in 2013.

In his effort to obtain governmental support for his total national and world mission, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has made personal appearances before legislatures in Iowa, Illinois and Michigan, calling upon them to assist him in «the alleviation of human suffering.»

They treat Augusta National as special because it has made a massive effort to demonstrate that it is special.

Buber and Magnes were convinced that, given goodwill, concentrated effort and practical concrete deeds, a just and viable arrangement could be made in which the two national movements would share the same country.

(A small part of us wishes Ashley Cole had made the list for a brave, inspiring effort including the game - winning assist, but the former England National Team regular was lax on Vela's first goal so fair's fair.

He has to decide whether he is willing to take a gamble on the Belgian player and start him in Chelsea's game against Leicester City after the efforts Hazard has made for the national team.

I am pleased to report that thanks to your volunteer efforts, we have begun to make progress in our national campaign to reduce premature birth.

Efforts such as School Food Focus» National Learning Lab, Center for Ecoliteracy's California Thursdays, and Meatless Mondays have helped the District make substantial progress with their farm - to - school eEfforts such as School Food Focus» National Learning Lab, Center for Ecoliteracy's California Thursdays, and Meatless Mondays have helped the District make substantial progress with their farm - to - school effortsefforts.

Lastly, as a citizen, I want push for change on the national level, re-prioritizing how we help the parents of young children and making sure our public educational institutions are strong enough to resist the efforts to fragment communities into haves and have - nots.

The resort to thinly - veiled attacks on past regimes and the effort made to run down their contributions towards economic growth and national development as a whole has long since fallen out of favour with the Ghanaian public.

[1] Earlier in September 2013, Tarek Mitri, who heads the UN Support Mission in Libya, described it as a process that «would give voice to many Libyans and opens a space that does not exclude any of those who may have contributions to make to public life and are otherwise isolated, separated or entrenched in their partisan attitudes... [to] promote a national capacity to address urgent priorities and ensure public support to the efforts of state - building.»

«Instead of respecting the right of citizens in every state to make the laws they wish regarding marriage, and instead of focusing on the serious economic problems confronting our state and our nation, Kirsten Gillibrand has chosen to focus on a national campaign pledging to, in her words, «take this fight all across the country,» in an effort to impose her own personal social agenda.»

Frantic efforts made by this reporter to contact some of the national officers to either confirm or deny this story was unsuccessful, but Chronicle sources at the party office said the National Executive Committee would meet any moment from now to consider the recall of some of the suspended officers who have shown genuine remorse over the matters that led to their susnational officers to either confirm or deny this story was unsuccessful, but Chronicle sources at the party office said the National Executive Committee would meet any moment from now to consider the recall of some of the suspended officers who have shown genuine remorse over the matters that led to their susNational Executive Committee would meet any moment from now to consider the recall of some of the suspended officers who have shown genuine remorse over the matters that led to their suspension.

He said the government's efforts at addressing the liquidity problems in the power sector would go a long way to release funds for GRIDCo to execute its critical projects that would make the national transmission system robust and improve reliability of power supply.

Shettima said during the inauguration of the projects that the people of Borno State would ever remain grateful to Tinubu for freeing them from the hands of a tyrant, who made frantic efforts to hijack the APC's machinery ahead of the 2015 governorship, national and state Assembly elections.

And he's also spoken of the effort to make New York the first in the nation to back the $ 15 wage for all workers as one that will have a national impact.

Republican Party leaders have turned aside an effort to change the rules at the party's upcoming national convention to make it harder for the GOP to nominate a fresh presidential candidate.

The second - term governor has made no secret of his interest in becoming a candidate for the Republican nomination, and he has recently made key additions to his political team, including the hiring of Rick Wiley, a former Republican National Committee political director, to lead the organizing effort.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lent his support to an effort to make part of Lake Ontario a national marine sanctuary.

All three have made obvious efforts to raise their national profiles, and all three have endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front - runner, for president.

While party strategists are glad to have the money that Mrs. Clinton is directing from the Democratic National Committee to voter - turnout efforts in Indiana and Missouri, they have little appetite for Mrs. Clinton to visit those states, where she is likely to lose, because that would make it easier for Republicans to tie Democratic Senate candidates to her.

However a lot has been made of the fact that while both polls had an effort to take account of people's personal and tactical voting behaviour in their own constituency, they did so in different ways — Ashcroft asks a two stage question, asking people their national preference and then how they will vote thinking about the candidates and parties in their own constituency; ICM asked people the voting intention question including the names of the candidates standing in Sheffield Hallam.

Over the past year, governments have been making pledges about how they will cut emissions, and one of the main outcomes from Paris will be a new agreement that codifies all those national efforts into international law.

Since the 2008 Olympics, when government leaders made a national effort to clean the air, experts say the city's smog has become even worse.

There have been many subsequent efforts to find the treasure — and even a Hollywood movie called National Treasure inspired by the tale — but Gillogly has seen nothing in the past 30 years to make him doubt his original assessment.

Consequently, the strains of decreased purchasing power coupled with the responsibility for maintaining the national U.S. ground - based effort in radio, optical, and solar astronomy have led to a division of the NSF AST budget such that, through the decade of the 1990s, about 65 percent of the NSF allocation to AST was assigned to facilities operated by national astronomy organizations, with only about 22 percent made available to support individual investigators (Figure 6.2); the rest went to instrumentation and the university radio observatories.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

The National Gallery of Art has made a concerted effort to develop online content for children.

Fortunately, for our purposes as evaluators, project administrators made a concerted effort to contain the effect of the NLP within the selected LEAs, and no information about the NLP formally crossed LEA boundaries; schools outside the LEAs involved would not have been able to obtain a copy of the framework from the national center.

The success or failure of the turnaround has national as well as local implications, since U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made the strategy a centerpiece of federal reform efforts.

Efforts to disentangle success from economics are made somewhat harder by New York's decision not to adopt one of the national Common Core tests, which promised to allow more apples - to - apples comparisons among school districts across the country (though New York has a modified version of the Common Core standards in place, the state makes its own exams to test whether kids are meeting those expectations).

«This year's results demonstrate loud and clear that we are going to have to ask some hard questions and re-double our efforts if we are to make further progress in national curriculum tests next year and in future years.»

BPS has gained a national reputation for its ability to make continuous improvements and to sustain a focused reform effort over time.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

Although it was widely reported that Massachusetts had dumped Common Core, the move by the Board was, in fact, a deliberate effort to make the public believe that the state had scrapped the controversial national standards in favor of the state's own superior pre-Common Core standards.

Her well - publicized efforts at Success have earned her a profile on a par with some of New York's most prominent elected officials, and have effectively made her a national leader on education reform.

The shift toward accountability policies for schools over the past two decades — first introduced in some states, and made national under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), signed into law in 2002 — has been an important part of these efforts.

This has been made possible thanks to the efforts of Creative New Zealand, the country's national arts developmental agency, Copyright Licensing New Zealand and the Vice-Chancellor's Strategic Development Fund at the University of Auckland.

Although some organizations with national sounding names make up their stories, I have no reason to doubt the ASPCA tale of Brutus, and I have no reason to do anything but commend ASPCA for that effort and others like it that they make to save animals.

«With our new national grant program and our ongoing efforts to make affordable spay / neuter available to the public, PetSmart Charities is addressing the root cause of pet homelessness and this will have a national impact on reducing shelter intake and, ultimately, the euthanasia of adoptable pets.»

«Animal welfare began to make tremendous progress in increasing lifesaving efforts when we first had credible research generated in the early 90's by the National Council on Pet Population,» said Ed Sayres, PLC consultant and former ASPCA president of 10 years.

«Animal welfare began to make tremendous progress in increasing lifesaving efforts when we first had credible research generated in the early 90's by the National Council on Pet Population,» said Ed Sayres, PLC Consultant and former ASPCA President of 10 years.

Leatherback Turtles National Park - Impressive efforts have been made to protect Costa Rica's endangered giant leatherback turtle, or lute turtle as it is also known, the largest marine reptile in the world weighing up to 1500 lbs.

As on the other islands, the National Park Service has made great efforts to preserve and protect these island resources, including enforcement of marine protected areas, stabilization of cultural sites, rehabilitation of historic buildings, removal of nonnative plants and animals, recovery of island foxes, and reestablishment of bald eagles.

Those visitors who do make the effort are invariably impressed by just how much this tiny country has to offer: world - class surfing on empty, dark - sand beaches; coffee plantations clinging to the sides of volcanoes; colorful Spanish colonial towns; and sublime national parks.