Sentences with phrase «of such turnarounds»

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Today, factoring has become significant in the financing of many other businesses that depend on fast billing turnaround, such as hardware stores, pharmacies, florists, wine and liquor distributors, parking garages (for commercial accounts), garden supply shops, pest controllers, and temp agencies.

The airline last year said it would target HK$ 4 billion ($ 510 million) in cost savings as part of the turnaround, which includes more than 740 individual measures, such as adding economy class seats in its Boeing 777 jets.

However, the Washington - based institution said late November that the Russian economy has managed to absorb such shocks and there were «signs of a nascent turnaround».

In a turnaround plan Boire unveiled to Wall Street analysts barely two months ago, Barnes & Noble announced initiatives such as opening four concept stores in fiscal 2017 that will feature bars offering wine and beer, along with better food, in cafés twice the size of its usual food spots, among other efforts to rejuvenate its business.

Vornado, which owns and manages commercial real estate such as office buildings and malls, sold more than 40 percent of its shares in Penney in March, a month before the department store chain fired its CEO Ron Johnson who had spearheaded a botched turnaround that led to disastrous results.

A number of factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.

Bertrand has been president of Swimming Australia for five years, engineering a turnaround out of the pool that has seen the organisation's finances stabilised with the help of large sponsorship deals with companies such as Optus and a broadcast contract with Seven West Media.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

President Donald Trump's policies are driving an economic turnaround that puts him in the company of transformative presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, White House economists said Wednesday as they unveiled their first «Economic Report of the President.»

Measures such as the Global Skills Strategy (GSS), which introduces a new two - week turnaround time for tech - worker permits, and an ambitious new approach to Work - Integrated - Learning placements, show the Government is listening to the concerns of Canadian CEOs facing talent shortages.

Our industrial personnel perform industrial cleaning and maintenance services that require fast turnaround, such as hydro - blasting, liquid / dry vacuuming, sodium bicarbonate blasting, steam cleaning and chemical cleaning of equipment and systems.

With such a quick turnaround from Week 13 to Week 14, we've seen tons of line movement on big underdogs including Leicester (+426 to +400), Watford (+550 to +450), Huddersfield (+1550 to +1350) and Southampton (+1700 to +1300).

Doheny later formed his own local investment firm and now uses his acquired knowledge in turnarounds, development and business reforms while serving on the boards of directors of several national companies, such as Kodak, YRC Worldwide and Affinity Gaming.

The rapid turnaround time of the test could be ideal for resource - limited situations, such as war zones, remote areas, and during emergencies, the authors say.

The plodding timeline of a film such as «Tulip Fever» — which was in the works for about 13 years before premiering this past summer — is much more typical than a turnaround of less than a year.

I really can't speak to what happened behind the scenes to turn the series around in such a dramatic fashion, but it was one of the most impressive TV turnarounds I've ever seen.

The federal turnaround school consisting of 475 students — 99 percent free / reduced lunch and 54 percent ESL — saw such large improvements that it recently was named North Carolina Title One School of the Year.

But turnaround high schools have yet to make significant inroads with academics and face hurdles such as declining enrollment, lack of rigorous curricula and a disproportionate number of students with special needs.

«We are equally proud that this partnership has helped us on our journey of improvement, which has seen both schools being removed from special measures and rated «good» by Ofsted — an incredible turnaround in such as short space of time.»

Yet, a judicious eLearning system seamlessly meets the criteria because it facilitates all verticals of the firm, to smoothly enforce such turnarounds, and offers resources to comprehend changes.

According to the press release, «The automated scoring competition intends to solve the longstanding problem of high cost and low turnaround of current testing deeper learning such as student essays.

Related efforts, such as New Leaders for New Schools and the University of Virginia's School Turnaround Specialist Program, are underway to help more turnaround leaders succeed.

To identify what makes turnarounds successful, we reviewed dozens of studies across a wide range of organizations: nonprofits of differing sizes, some in highly regulated industries such as health care; government agencies with varying missions; and for - profits in numerous industries.

For example, the SIG program was written such that SEA had no power to tell districts which of the four «turnaround» models to use (and of course, most districts then chose the weakest models).

It will use proven business management strategies such as effective organizational management, finance and accounting practices, restructuring and renewal of troubled organizations, turnaround and crisis management, and lessons in business and education law.

«The story of the Erdington Academy's turnaround in such a short time has been nothing short of inspirational in the way the teachers and pupils have worked together.

In February this year we highlighted a school in Western Australia that has seen such a swift turnaround in student results, that independent think - tank The Grattan Institute named it one of four Australian schools that proved rapid transformation was possible.

«We look forward to working with PIER Fellows to analyze the implementation and impact of statewide initiatives such as our curriculum frameworks, educator evaluation framework, and school and district turnaround efforts.

All states have been actively engaged in efforts to turnaround failing schools, but the effectiveness of such efforts has varied dramatically across jurisdictions.

implement such strategies as financial incentives, increased opportunities for promotion and career growth, and more flexible work conditions that shall be designed to recruit, place, and retain staff with the skills necessary to meet the needs of students in the turnaround school;

The numbers of young people graduating has shot up thanks to a host of «equity» focused reforms, such as re-engagement programs, the turnaround of chronically struggling districts, and strong regulation of traditional public and charter schools, wrought under a landmark Massachusetts Education Act.

The creation of turnaround districts by states, indeed even the serious contemplation of such a move, suggests a real restlessness with the ability of traditional K — 12 governance to act on persistent school failure.

After the release of our December study — which found that just one percent of district and charter school turnarounds were successful, as defined as reaching at least the 50th percentile in state proficiency in reading and math — Bryan wondered whether charter start - ups in similar neighborhoods would fare any better against such rigorous criteria.

States» applications to secure one of the federal grants will be scored on the basis of more than 30 selection criteria, involving such education improvement priorities as school turnaround, teacher and principal effectiveness, and encouragement of high - quality charter schools.

Second, we have identified our monitoring of state and federal programs such as IDEA, Title I, and civil rights as a body of work that can become more aligned to the turnaround practices as well.

The four turnaround practices touch upon the expertise of many offices within our agency, and as such, our Office of District Support must collaborate across the agency to bring to bear the best practices in each of those areas.

In turnaround schools, teacher - leaders such as multi-classroom leaders are an essential component of an Instructional Team of Leaders (ILT) to improve the instructional practice of all teachers and deploy school - wide initiatives.

Eight years after they found themselves lumped in with some of the lowest - performing schools in the state, Mobile County schools such as Mae Eanes Middle School and Grant Elementary are now regularly making Adequate Yearly Progress on state exams and have become turnaround models for educators around the country.

Turnaround experts can even usually deal with forces and interests outside of their control; save for situations involving a sponsor such as the U.S. Department of State who pays the tab and controls the conditions under which an organization operates, the turnaround experts can win over those outfits with a little care and feeding.

«Our schools have been able to afford extra books for lower - level students, much - needed classroom technology, after - school programming that would otherwise be unaffordable in this budget climate, and additional staffing such as master teachers, turnaround teachers, and teaching residents,» teachers from 13 of the 33 schools wrote in their letter.

This toolkit attempts to support such coming together by combining a powerful framework for school turnaround with a focus on the human side of change.

Research shows that career pathways can improve teacher evaluation procedures and improve student achievement.13 For example, research from the Emerging Leaders Program — a job - embedded teacher leadership development program — shows that with high - quality training, teacher leaders can quickly improve achievement among students in high - need school districts in places such as New York City, the District of Columbia, and Shelby County, Tennessee.14 Likewise, student achievement growth in schools implementing Teach Plus» T3 Initiative — a teacher - designed turnaround model that trains and supports teacher leaders to improve school outcomes and transform schools — is consistently more than double that of area district and charter schools.15

Systemic family engagement is purposefully designed as a core component of educational goals such as school readiness, student achievement, and school turnaround.

He cited some components of the competitions, such as school turnarounds, as positive steps for districts.

Beyond that, few details are available about the plan, such as the amount of funding over which states will have more discretion and the turnaround models that failing schools will have to use.

Moreover, we appreciate the many ways the regulations highlight priority actions and conditions necessary for school leaders to be most effective — such as elevating the importance of hiring turnaround leaders who are trained for or have a record of success in low - performing schools and providing principals with balanced autonomy to transform underperforming schools.

Even «turnaround specialists» are not successful across the board; Maryland gave up on using such organizations in 2007 because of poor results (Neuman - Sheldon, 2007).

Deborah Meier is responding to a writing prompt in Richard Elmore's new book: I Used to Think... And Now I Think... 1 In this book, 20 leading educators, researchers, and policy analysts individually reexamine their longstanding views on such school reform topics as community schools, inclusion, the role of unions, the effectiveness of turnaround strategies, and even their faith that any single public policy can make a difference in improving schools.

The Innovative School District — a school turnaround model born out of similar reform efforts that experienced mixed records in Tennessee, Michigan, Louisiana and a few other states — is getting off to a slow start due at least in part to a contentious and very public struggle to select low - performing schools that were willing to undergo such a controversial experiment.

Contracts between boards of education and not - for - profit educational management organizations... the local or regional board of education for a school participating in the commissioner's network of schools, as described in section 10 - 223h, that is implementing a turnaround plan that assigns the management, administration or governance of such school to a not - for - profit educational management organization, as defined in section 10 - 223h, shall include in each contract with such approved not - for - profit educational management organization a requirement that such not - for - profit educational management organization annually submit to the Commissioner of Education, and make publicly available, a report on the operations of such school...»