Sentences with phrase «officials leading efforts»

Institutions and government officials leading these efforts have been optimistic about the impact that bilateral scientific collaboration can have in creating more positive exchanges and areas of agreement between the two countries.

District officials leading the effort told the committee that preparing students for the state tests, known as the Next Generation Science Standards, will require 90 teachers and administrators to be trained for a Science Leadership Team, and 1,000 teachers (at least one for every school) to serve as a lead science teacher.

But just days later, the official leading the effort resigned after he was caught scrubbing data to make school sponsors look better.

District officials leading the effort told the committee that...

Conservation Justice, one of the private groups working with Gabonese authorities to curb wildlife trafficking, is encouraging people to send congratulatory notes to Kouma Zaou and other officials leading the effort.

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«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» White House official Raj Shah said in an emailed statement ahead of the announcement.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» White House official Raj Shah said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.

«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» the official said.

Kushner, who had a broad portfolio in the White House, including leading Middle East peace negotiations and an effort to modernize and reduce the size of some government programs, lost his interim top - secret security clearance, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

The trustee committee of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission announced two reprimands on Friday for Richard Land, who leads public policy efforts for the Southern Baptists, according to the official press arm.

In the case of Norwalk, Connecticut, for instance, it was Diane Beltz - Jacobson, Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City, who, once a concerned mother brought the issue to the attention of governmental officials, spearheaded the effort which led to adoption of a concussion safety ordinance by the city.

In its effort to unionize flight attendants at JetBlue, the Transport Workers Union has found an uncommon array of allies — top New York City and state officials led by Cuomo.

«I think there were 40 restaurants and bars from Van Rensselaer Street to Smith Street,» said Howard Zemsky, the businessman - turned - developer - turned - state - official who has led efforts to revive the former Hydraulics District.

Schumer last week told The Daily News he was taking a wait - and - see approach on whether he'd recommend Bharara, who has led successful prosecution efforts against top state elected officials from both parties, for another term in the new presidential administration.

Amy Peterson, a former development official who runs an organization that helps place women in blue - collar jobs, will be named to lead New York City's efforts to recover from Hurricane Sandy.

De Blasio's first year in office was marred by the deaths of 58 kids whose families were known to child - welfare officials — and he should lead an «all - out» effort to prevent future tragedies, a new report says.

«James Burke is an outstanding law enforcement official and has helped lead our efforts to make Suffolk County a safer place to live,» the statement said.

City officials will also conduct concentrated code enforcement efforts in zip codes where there are known high percentages of lead - based paint.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has tapped Jon Kaiman, a former official in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, to lead the implementation of a shared services effort that had been included in the state budget.

She works most directly with local elected officials in Southern states and leads efforts on recruitment, engagement and policy support of members across the region.

The effort is being led by the Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo and Western New York Inc., government officials including councilmember David Franczyk, local businesses and community stakeholders.

To restore the public trust in public service, he's leading the effort to bring ethics reform to Albany by helping to pass a constitutional amendment stripping officials convicted of a felony of their taxpayer - funded retirement and instituting term limits on legislative leadership position, ensuring no one can accumulate entrenched power and use it to his or her advantage.

«These officials were supposed to lead New York State's efforts to modernize technology, but my office found flagrant misconduct and that no one within OFT stepped forward to question these actions, indicating a systemic breakdown in agency ethics,» DiNapoli said.

Finally, on Thursday, March 22, 2018, at a meeting held at the Palisades Center, the collective efforts of the Bi-Partisan Rockland County and New Yrork State elected officials, the many Rockland commuter - citizens who showed up to protect their interests, as well as the long - term efforts of this newspaper, led to a victory to restore this vital express bus service!

Its efforts on this project were led by Lori Harris, who heads up the company's Albany efforts, and herself is a former state governmental housing official.

Topics of discussion included the Buffalo Billion scandal, the ramifications of this week's School Board elections, and efforts by City Hall and Erie County officials to deal with Buffalo's lead poisoning problem.

As recruitment efforts among local emergency squads have continued to sag — training requirements and a lack of volunteers have led to a dangerous depletion of manpower — county officials have also expressed interest in the possibility of a countywide EMS system.

Considering all of the political posturing and seeming lack of coordination between city and state officials, the fact that eyes and efforts are being trained on substandard shelter conditions for tens of thousands of New Yorkers who lack stable housing, this source of agreement may lead to positive results.

As the dispute was unfolding, Mr. Felton laid out his concerns to a top Paterson administration official, Michael Balboni, saying in March 2008 that the effort was led by two top Paterson aides, David W. Johnson and Clemmie L. Harris Jr..

The governor previously designated Mayor Byron W. Brown to lead the effort, which involves stakeholders such as the NFTA, city and elected officials, Amtrak and transit advocacy groups.

Although the efforts were initially expected to only last during the run - up to and staging of the Olympic Games, UNEP officials say the big gains made have likely led to permanent awareness of and demands for better air quality among Beijing residents and municipal authorities.

«Public health officials, legislators and clinicians should continue efforts and allocate resources to further decrease environmental lead exposure to children in all communities at risk.»

Baltimore — Public - school officials here have launched a five - year effort to identify and curb learning and behavioral problems in young children that could lead to depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and delinquency.

Playing a leading role in this effort is Kasama Varavarn, Ed.D.» 78, who last year became Thailand's second - highest education official and the first woman named to the post of...

Leading foundations, school networks, and nonprofits are putting it front and center in their efforts, and innovation - minded officials in states like Rhode Island are actively promoting it as a strategy for improving student success.

As federal officials weigh proposals to improve the quality of mathematics and science education, a new report highlights state - led efforts to recruit new teachers into those subject areas and boost their skills through professional development programs.

She says that includes updating federal officials about the new education standards and school monitoring efforts, led by the state's division of Outreach for School Improvement, which Ritz created last year.

Incredible in life, perhaps the most disturbing truth of all about Diane Kaplan Devries» work is the uncomfortable fact that so many elected officials, often led by so - called Democrats, immorally and unethically sought to throw up barriers to stop Diane's critical effort to make sure that Connecticut's children got the education they needed, while ensuring that Connecticut's middle income property taxpayers were treated more fairly.

Within the past year, Common Core opponents have managed to keep states such as Texas and Virginia from embracing the curricula reform effort, and have managed to lead nearly - successful efforts to overturn decisions by state education officials in South Carolina to enact them.

«The district is working on a list of policies that could relate to charter schools that is non-exhaustive,» said Emilio Pack, founder and CEO of Stem Preparatory Schools, who has helped lead efforts since April to work with district officials to change the charter language.

Oklahoma parent activist Jenni White — who has led the anti-Common Core effort in that state for nearly a decade — says Gates's money is always welcomed by government education officials because schools are «perennially unfunded.»

Turner coordinated regional planning efforts to respond to the education funding crisis; developed and monitored collaborative work with local civic and elected officials focusing on school success; and was part of a small team, led by the mayor, that successfully averted an impending strike by negotiating a settlement between the Portland school district and the Portland Association of Teachers.

As district leaders, they know they play crucial roles in informing others of these changes and leading efforts to get local elected officials and civic and business leaders to embrace and support schools as these changes continue.

The father of two children, including a fifth - grader at Desert Trails Elementary School, he helped lead the effort for local parents to use California's parent trigger laws, which allows parents who gather sufficient signatures to wrest control of their school away from officials and, in this case, turn it over to a Hesperia charter school operator at the end of this school year.

Any efforts to break up North Carolina school districts would likely lead to lawsuits and challenges such as higher costs and fewer school choices, state education officials warned Tuesday.

Expand efforts and encourage management officials to establish developmental training programs leading to mission related or specialized occupations and ensure that Hispanics are represented in such programs with other candidates.

For example, George Washington understood that the troops he was leading were part of a unified American effort to leave the British Empire even before delegates meeting in Philadelphia had made an official statement to that effect.

In an unprecedented collaborative effort, pet store and veterinary hospital groups, manufacturers and distributors and associations and organizations within the pet industry are pooling their resources and working with lead disaster and shelter officials to coordinate logistics of providing much needed supplies including sharing warehouses, facilities and distribution centers for storage until affected areas can be accessed.