Sentences with phrase «national focus on»

Based in Vancouver, Fletcher will serve as vice-president of capital markets and the International Capital Group, driving the firm's national focus on advising Canadian investors deploying funds offshore and investing foreign capital into the Canadian real estate market.

This would ensure a continued national focus on those Recommendations.

As one of the first U.S. law firms with a national focus on fraud and recovery, we are valued for our multi-jurisdictional experience and deep sector knowledge.

Similarly, we've just had an intense national focus on the impact of disclosure of hacked emails.

The study was done in February and March to coincide with Sunshine Week, an annual national focus on government openness in public meetings and public information.

A national focus on tax planning and compliance for exempt organizations.

Other efforts are more promising, including a growing national focus on feed - in tariffs as a key policy tool for promoting renewable energy.

However, motivated by the principles that fueled both Massachusetts» cap and this paper — making tangible progress in public education, particularly for lower - income and minority American students — a renewed national focus on education policy should be a priority of the country.

Without No Child, there is no Race to the Top, no teacher quality reform movement, no discussion about value - added assessment and no real national focus on stemming achievement gaps.

In the wake of a standards reform movement that galvanized among state and school system leaders in the 1980s and 1990s, the passage of the Improving America's Schools Act and the Goals 2000 Educate America Act (both enacted in 1994) embedded a meaningful and new national focus on high standards expectations for all students.

New York, NY — With the increasing national focus on state leadership in education policy reform, New Leaders» latest publication, Change Agents: How States Can Develop Effective Leaders, makes the case that now is the time for states to improve the preparation and licensure of principals.

In 2015, while continuing to advance a national focus on 21st century learning and leadership, we are again drilling down to provide assistance to local communities.

Arun Ramanathan, who directs the advocacy group Education Trust - West, said he hoped the national focus on education and the importance of good teaching will help bring an end to the notorious «dance of the lemons,» or the shuffling of bad teachers from school to school, which is depicted in an animated cartoon.

This national focus on racism prompted attention from teachers unions, too.

IN THE ERA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER, the movement that has spotlighted racist policies afflicting black Americans, a new national focus on school discipline disparities has taken hold.

«This brief offers relevant, scholarly research directly from the education community to help college access practitioners mitigate the problem of low college completion rates, especially among underrepresented student groups,» said IHEP President Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D. «With an increased national focus on postsecondary degree completion, understanding the role of social supports can be the key to providing college access practitioners with strategies to create comprehensive structures and increase self - efficacy, which in turn, improves student success.»

The bill provides states and districts with greater flexibility while still preserving a national focus on closing the achievement gap and ensuring that additional services and supports are provided to the students and schools most in need.

As the national focus on community college grows, a new report released by REL Northwest unveils the developmental education enrollment rates and postsecondary...

But with an increased national focus on standardized test scores, the data collection process has become much more formalized in recent years.

Kathy Ward - Cameron, the executive director / founding president of the Early Literacy Institute, has been on the leading edge of the national focus on early literacy and practice - based coaching for early childhood practitioners for over two decades.

This era included a national focus on race relations in America and public policies to promote harmonious relationships between Blacks and Whites.

The time for «reform realism» has arrived: a national focus on results (a la Common standards) combined with state leadership in terms of getting the job done.

DriveSafe & StaySafe has called for a national focus on road safety education after a big rise in the number of children killed on Britain's roads.

Thompson: The council was one of the few education organizations in Washington to support the No Child Left Behind Act and we believe the federal law deserves credit for focusing the attention of urban schools more sharply on student achievement, and increasing the national focus on educating our neediest children.

Increasing national focus on sugar content has led many influential experts and organisations, including Cancer Research and the UK Health Forum to back the introduction of a Sugar Tax and it was announced last year by the government that this would be introduced in 2018 for soft drinks.

«A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the...

Our national focus on snacking, grazing and dinner - centric eating has created an epidemic of sluggish digestion, weight gain, and hypoglycemia that plagues so many women.

But as he prepares to assume the presidency of AAAS, William Press sees some positive aspects: bipartisan agreement on key U.S. science policy goals, a renewed national focus on...

Despite the increased national focus on reducing hospital readmissions, Dharmarajan said it had not been clear whether hospitals with the lowest readmission rates have been especially good at reducing readmissions from specific diagnoses and time periods after hospitalization, or have instead lowered readmissions more generally.

Lead poisoning has gained renewed attention in recent months because of the national focus on Flint, Mich..

Despite the national focus on this district, Mr. Behan said he thought residents would continue their tradition of voting for people they respect and who they believe will help their families the most.

Buffalo News columnist Rod Watson wrote today that the protest has the potential to «be different from underwhelming rallies of the past... because the national focus on both income inequality and whether black lives really matter has underscored the economic dimensions of racial exclusion.»

That's thanks not only to the end of the legal cloud that has hung over the WFP's head since the 2009 NYC elections; but also to the success of its longtime ally, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and renewed national focus on its top agenda item: Bridging the income equality gap.

The 30 House Dems at the Top of the GOP's Target List, plus Redrawing The Lines: Growing National Focus on Redistricting.

Before Heads Up Football, there was no national focus on teaching and training football coaches, parents and players on concussion recognition and response, heat preparedness and hydration, equipment fitting, sudden cardiac arrest, Heads Up Tackling and Heads Up Blocking.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

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Miller Lite has also aligned with community partners that focus on entrepreneurship and technical resources, including the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Milwaukee Urban League, Chicago Urban League, Urban League of Greater Dallas and North Central Texas, the Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the National Association for Asian American Professionals.

In all of these negotiations, the administration is focused on quotas that will restrain imports, prevent transshipment, and protect the national security,» the White House added.

While national media coverage of politics in Quebec has been overwhelmingly focused on the specter of separatism and Parti - Québécois's proposed charter of values, a recent CBC - Ekos poll found that the majority of Quebeckers are most concerned about jobs and the economy.

Immediately, though, the companies are focusing on expanding a national grid of rental hubs.

The two - page document, marked «Top Secret,» mentions a draft decision paper that focuses on the «relative merits of retaining [deleted in document] as a high - priority secret national security installation versus the merits of the NASA belief that there would be domestic and foreign problems created by withholding the photograph.»

«We made the hard decision to focus on dry good groceries and having that be national,» Elliott says.

Matt Bodnar, called a «Rising Restaurateur Star» by the National Restaurant Association and a «Strategy Pro» by Restaurant Hospitality magazine, is a partner at early stage investment firm Fresh Hospitality, where he focuses on deal making and strategy.

She focuses on computer security, privacy, social networking and online business and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other national publications.

Steve studied politics at the University of London, with a focus on world economic development, IMF, World Bank and WTO; and journalism at the National Council for Training Journalists.

It is simple if you stay clearly focused on your goals, not in a manipulative way but in a strategic manner like a big national brand would do.

The reviews apparently focus on aspects of these companies» products and technology — such as data storage and encryption — and whether they might endanger China's national security.

But allies acknowledged Kelly's receding power and said he's trying to keep his head down and focus on policy, such as the plan to mobilize the National Guard along the U.S. border with Mexico.

«We wanted to have a restaurant that really focuses on things you'd never do at home,» says Bil, who also happens to be a former national oyster - shucking champion.

Tuesday's event will focus on national security.