Sentences with phrase «of turnaround initiatives»

Policy advising and crafting to fit the legal and political landscape of turnaround initiatives

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The struggling restaurant chain updated investors on its attempted turnaround and reported disappointing results despite a number of promising initiatives, like changing how it prepares burgers and streamlining its menu.

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.

If you're considering a merchant cash advance for financing the purchase of quick - turnaround inventory, equipment, an expansion project, or marketing initiative, a three - to 36 - month online business loan is another option if you have at least a year in business and annual revenues of $ 100,000 or more.

«We request that the agency place this project on the «front burner,» with attention from top staff who are empowered to make decisions and quick turnaround and resolution of issues as they will necessarily arise in an initiative of this scope and complexity,» the lawmakers said in a letter to John A. Sarcone III, regional administrator of the General Services Administration.

«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.

One measure of whether the turnaround initiative is worth the substantial investment of taxpayer money will be whether Marshall attracts students who are ready for accelerated classes, or even regular high school - level courses.

Before that, Mr. Field was the deputy chief of Charter, Partnership and New Schools with the School District of Philadelphia, where he authorizer new schools and designed and managed key elements of the district's Renaissance School initiative to restart (turnaround) chronically failing schools in partnership with high - performing charter schools.

The failure of the federal School Improvement Grant program and countless other «turnaround» initiatives is convincing policymakers that nondistrict alternatives are essential.

The authors examined the student achievement data of each school included in the turnaround initiatives — and in LPS, each traditional public school in the district — to select schools that have made notable academic gains since implementing these practices.

For example, prior to LPS's school turnaround initiative, the district's math and English language arts, or ELA, proficiency rates fell within the bottom 1 percent of school districts in Massachusetts.

Leading Charlotte foundations formed a funding collaborative to support a five - year district turnaround initiative to dramatically improve educational outcomes for students in the West Charlotte High School corridor, one of the city's lowest - performing feeder zones.

In a presentation to the State Board of Education earlier this month, Vanderbilt researcher Gary Henry said he found positive effects from turnaround efforts in North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't continue.

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.

One year into an aggressive, expensive school turnaround initiative, some of Denver's lowest - performing public schools are showing marked academic improvement by providing an education nearly identical to that of the highest - performing charter schools in the country.

As one of [our] external providers, the CST has helped our state with initiatives toward making a turnaround effort with differentiated support for school -, complex -, and state - level leaders.

As the founder and leader of ED - Volution Education Group, a boutique K - 12 education consulting firm, she has worked with leading sector entrepreneurs and philanthropies on strategy, new initiative design, partnership creation, growth and launch, and management and the content areas of school turnaround; charter management; state, city and district redesign; and human capital with special focus on school leadership.

Analyses of his successful leadership are featured in several books: Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools (Kirp, 2013); Team Turnarounds (Frontiera and Leidl, 2012) and Respect (Kwalwasser, 2012)-- and the early childhood education initiatives Dr. Weast led in Montgomery County are discussed in the book Building Blocks, (Maerhoff, 2006).

The cornerstone of Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiative is the concept of «turnaround schools» and the creation of the «Commissioner's Network.»

Rabinowitz questioned whether the embattled charter organization, also known as Family Urban Schools of Excellence, should continue running Dunbar School under a year - old arrangement through the state Commissioner's Network, a reform initiative that gives millions in extra funding to struggling schools that implement a three - to 5 - year «turnaround» plan.

The TISS initiative builds an innovative new program on the foundation of three existing core NYCLA programs with proven results: our nationally - recognized and externally validated Aspiring Principals Program (APP), which recruits, prepares, and supports talented educators committed to leading school turnaround efforts; the Leadership Advancement Program (LAP), which prepares aspiring leaders; and our current coaching program for NYC principals, especially those early in their careers.

North High School adopted restorative practices in 2006 as part of the pilot initiative in Denver Public Schools.Throughout its ten years of implementation, North has moved from a school on turnaround status to the coveted Green School rating, transforming student attendance, student achievement, and other indicators of success.

Cohen wrote, «To dramatically and systemically improve our nation's failing schools, comprehensive state turnaround initiatives, like the Commissioner's Network included in Senate Bill 24, must be pursued as part of a spectrum of interventions.

To help oversee the turnaround process, Ronan tapped Laura Mitchell, herself a former turnaround principal, to serve as the deputy superintendent in charge of the initiative.

One review of the literature found that only about one - fourth of businesses that undertook turnaround initiatives were able to institute major changes in their structure and management, and even those businesses did not show increased economic performance (Hess & Gift, 2008).

Phoenix is replicated in Lawrence as a district school part of the state turnaround initiative, an unprecedented collaboration.

During my 12 years as president of the United Federation of Teachers, I worked closely with parents and community allies to improve New York City schools through initiatives like the Community Collaborative to Improve District 9 Schools, a community - led school turnaround program in the south Bronx.

During his tenure at Cadbury Schweppes, Bayern participated in several large - scale business turnaround and transformation initiatives, including the turnaround of Snapple Beverage Group and the acquisition and integration of the largest independent bottling company in the U.S.

Maiwurm's wealth of experience includes implementing turnaround initiatives, dealing with clients all over the world, negotiating and managing major asset dispositions, orchestrating debt restructurings, and building relationships with bondholders, stockholders, joint venture partners, employees and customers.

Various initiatives from insurers like providing online premium payment facility / auto debit in - structions, credit card standing instructions, facility to place service requests through customer portals and mobile apps, premium payment facili - ties in various banks, periodical fund statements and other service related communications being sent to registered e-mail ids, one time NEFT registration facility to facilitate direct credit of all policy related benefit payouts are perceived to be concerted efforts towards creating «Customer Delight» by providing most hassle free service mechanisms with least turnaround time and ease of executing various transactions.

This latest initiative has improved turnaround time for hiring by a large margin, and has significantly reduced the number of applicants that are required to undergo fingerprinting.

My past work experience has shaped me into a Business Operations Leader with skills in marketing, sales and business development and strong knowledge of business turnaround initiatives.

Automotive Manufacturing Operations Executive Record of tenacious problem solving, cost cutting and turnaround initiatives.

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