Sentences with phrase «national example»

The report also looks at national examples of college support at a community level.

It's so refreshing to be a positive national example of success!

Our agenda will feature local, state and national examples of promising practices, emerging case studies, and policies that focus on this joint work.

New York City's public school system set an important national example this week when it made free lunch available to all of its 1.1 million students regardless of income level.

Denver's Professional Compensation for Teachers (ProComp) plan, widely heralded as the leading national example of performance pay, awards more money for earning another degree than for demonstrated performance in the classroom.

Using national examples from districts including LAUSD, the report also includes information about how seniority - based layoffs exacerbate the number of people who lose their jobs because districts have to layoff more teachers with low salaries to meet budgetary demands.

Using Hugh Howey as his model, our new National Example of Everything — remember Amanda Hocking?

The controversy around the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is one of the more recent national examples of failure to tell the complete truth and include indigenous voices in the historical record.

Nidhamu Sasa was one of several local and national examples of entire communities exercising school choice.

For example, the Snowy Owl Project based at Blue Hills Trailside Museum has become a national example of how to humanely capture snowy owls at airports and relocate them to safer areas.

«And even as the federal government in Washington abdicates its responsibilities, New York is committed to exceeding the targets of the Clean Power Plan and setting a national example for progress,» Cuomo said in the statement.

NEW YORK, NY — As the country heads into Super Bowl Sunday, State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to set a national example by expanding current drug testing of professional football players to include synthetic cannabinoids.

With a population of approximately 1,500 students, 60 percent of whom are of color and 71 percent of whom are low - income, RHS is a national example of the type of programmatic systems change needed to move our schools forward.

Lenny Schad has spent the past several years working to turn the 216,000 - student Houston school district into a digital leader, setting a national example for how to manage the high - tech transformation of a large urban school system.

«Arizona's charter model continues to set a national example of excellence,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter Schools Association President and CEO.

She was praised by Arne Duncan when he was U.S. education secretary, and the school system became seen as a national example for corporate - modeled school reform, which emphasized high - stakes tests and private philanthropy.

The charter network is aiming to become «a national example of education transformation,» according to the San Jose Mercury News.

Under his visionary leadership, the Achievement School District has grown to 29 schools serving nearly 10,000 students across Tennessee, catalyzed local district intervention, and set a national example for a sustainable, statewide turnaround approach for schools and students that need it the most.

by Jeremiah Grace Hartford is a national example of the success that is possible when school districts and public charter schools collaborate — and parents and students benefit most.

Claiming that he was «hand - picked» by Arne Duncan to be part of the corporate education reform industry, «Dr.» Terrence Carter has become a national example of what is wrong with the education reform movement.

While HSPC has begun this journey, it is our continuing mission to change Arkansas from «the problem» into a national example of the solution.

This local work is our way of setting a national example for revitalizing rural areas.

for the «National Example of Excellence Award».

California's low - cost car insurance program is a national example, and some lawmakers in different states across the country are hoping to enact similar legislation in their home states.

For family mediation, the Academy of Family Mediators -LRB-[phone]) is a national example.