Sentences with phrase «nationwide effort»

As amicus curiae in many federal and state courts, NSBA continues to urge courts to refrain from joining a troubling wave of nationwide efforts to divert public tax dollars away from public schools to fund private entities.

Colorado has been a key state in nationwide efforts to evaluate and reward teachers based on student achievement.

Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, chair of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Penn, a chief architect of the Affordable Care Act, and an internationally renowned expert on innovative strategies to bend the cost curve, has also pointed to IMPaCT as a role model for nationwide efforts to transform health care.

The NGLC grants, combined with nationwide efforts to bridge the technology gap in schools, will help educators discover ways to use technology — and as more than just an end in itself.

«The digitisation of the PHR to inform similar nationwide efforts by qualified midwives would place Nigeria at the forefront of improving maternal and infant health outcomes.

Eventually, data gathered for BudBreak will be fed into a similar nationwide effort called Project BudBurst.

This month, it issued a declaration from the 1,050 journals it oversees — part of increasingly aggressive nationwide efforts to purge China's corpulent scientific publishing industry and bring its home - grown journals, in both English and Chinese, up to international standards.

You can donate to large, nationwide efforts like the American Humane Society, or you can look for smaller organizations in your neighborhood.

The massive nationwide effort commemorated the centennial of our «Be Kind to Animals Week ®,» the largest humane education effort in history.

The sad reality for surrendered animals is that even with nationwide efforts to enact low - cost vaccines and spay and neuter programs, shelters may be forced to euthanize due to overcrowding issues.

The conservative Koch network plans to spend between $ 300 million and $ 400 million to influence politics and public policy over the next two years, intensifying its nationwide efforts in the initial years of Donald Trump's presidency.

Rise of the Rest is a nationwide effort powered by Revolution to invest in and work closely with entrepreneurs in emerging startup ecosystems.

In its fourth year, the Rise of the Rest bus tour is a nationwide effort powered by Revolution to showcase founders in emerging startup ecosystems across the U.S..

Hazeem Pudhiapura is asking his Atlanta, Georgia, congregation to personally hand out pamphlets with that message in a nationwide effort to reach two percent of all Americans this year.

I get to work on Adirondack conservation issues and assist those who are fighting global warming; I've helped my wife start a new school in our town; I can teach Sunday school and help run a nationwide effort to decommercialize Christmas and sit on the board of the local college.

As part of the beverage industry's nationwide efforts to reduce calories and sugar consumed from beverages, this week, Ohio's leading beverage companies announced the launch of Balance Calories Ohio.

It's part of a nationwide effort to get kids eating healthier and battle high rates of childhood obesity and associated health problems.

This particular tour is a nationwide effort featuring the «One Man, One Woman» bus.

And a nationwide effort is underway to include same - sex marriage approval as a plank on the Democratic platform this summer at the Charlotte convention (New York Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs was the latest to sign on to the campaign).

He also worked as an attorney and advocate at Demos, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, on a nationwide effort to secure the voting rights of low - income citizens, and was a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Election Law Committee.

«I think it's because she is part of this nationwide effort.

Ulster County United Way President and CEO Stacey Rein said that the study was part of a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the plight of ALICE families who walk a kind of fiscal tightrope where minor financial setbacks can spiral into crushing debt or homelessness.

The City of Buffalo took part in a nationwide effort to highlight the impact of community service, on Tuesday.

Former Gov. George Pataki's Revere America PAC just released its first ad in what will eventually be a nationwide effort to target members of Congress who voted «yes» on so - called «ObamaCare», and the lucky winner is... Democratic Rep. John Hall (NY - 19).

The bomb threat that forced the local Jewish Community Center to evacuate both its buildings, on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo and North Forest Road in Amherst, late Monday morning was part of a nationwide effort that saw at least 10 such centers targeted with similar threats, according to local and national officials.

The idea to set an immigration policy came in response to a nationwide effort led by Republican President Donald Trump to deport undocumented immigrants.

Establishing an immigration policy came in response to a nationwide effort led by Republican President Donald Trump to deport undocumented immigrants.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has joined a nationwide effort to call on large pharmacies like Rite - Aid and Walgreens to ban tobacco sales.

Monica Bertagnolli, chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and chair of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, a nationwide effort to test new therapies, says she was thrilled that the president used the word «cure» in his speech at all.

The unit represents the vanguard of a nationwide effort, pushed by education and science groups, to broaden climate change education into a variety of physical and social science classes in public school curricula.

CDC is coordinating a nationwide effort by state and local public health departments to find new cases, she said.

States» rights and state - level public utility commission regulations essentially kill the motivation of any utility or utility group to lead a nationwide effort.

As a freshman at the University of California at Berkeley, I was one of 15 students who received support from the National Science Foundation (as part of a nationwide effort to attract university students into science and engineering careers) to study the work of 10 Nobel Prize — winning scientists and to spend a day with each of them.

6/16/2008 UC San Diego Hyperbaric Medicine Team Contributes to War on Cancer Leadership Role in Nationwide Study on «Late Effect» Wounds The University of California, San Diego Medical Center's Hyperbaric Medicine Center is part of a nationwide effort to compile and evaluate data in order to validate whether cancer patients... More...

Addressing the Zika outbreaks has been a challenge for health officials, and since the first microcephaly cases were reported in Brazil last year, there has been a nationwide effort to find practical solutions to the growing threat of the virus.

Our nationwide efforts are funded primarily by donations from forward - thinking people like you.

Our work is one part of a nationwide effort to help save urban Catholic education.

With only approximately 3 percent of American teachers currently Board - certified, Doctor is leading nationwide efforts to make certification the norm.

The Obama administration has encouraged a nationwide effort to develop common school standards.

Public debate over a nationwide effort to set common education standards has been raging in many states over the past year.

This nationwide effort is made possible by our impressive coalition of national and regional partners.

Our nationwide effort to follow the lead of California and Arizona is bipartisan, with Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, immigrants and the native - born.