Sentences with phrase «on comprehensive efforts»

It's why we are working with national and local public health organizations on comprehensive efforts to reduce sugar consumption in communities where it's most needed.

Weve worked together on this comprehensive effort to try to save lives, keep communities safer and prevent more heroin - related tragedies regionally and across the state.

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In an effort to help plan sponsors and retirement plan professionals communicate more effectively with participants, Invesco Consulting teamed up with the political consultants and word specialists, Maslansky + Partners, to conduct one of the largest, most comprehensive studies of its kind on financial language.

The foundation's mission is, as stated on its website, «to prevent Virginia Tech - type shootings through education and advocacy; to employ comprehensive educational efforts to expand community and student awareness of campus safety issues; and to offer compassion, support, and hope to those affected by violence.»

Tightened Sanctions on Iran: In effort to deter Iran's nuclear program, signed Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (2010) to punish firms and individuals who aid Iran's petroleum sector.

The current and projected future impacts of climate change on nature in Massachusetts are very significant, requiring a thoughtful and comprehensive approach and a sustained effort.

Addressing the effects of climate change on Massachusetts requires a comprehensive, sustained effort.

At the 2011 School Nutrition Association national convention in Nashville today, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced a comprehensive, groundbreaking report on the current state of farm to school efforts around the country.

Bottom line: Great for parents who want to invest time and effort into a comprehensive baby memory book that's not as restrictive as others on this list regarding its cotents.

In FY11 the contractor has been funded to provide individualized, grantee - specific guidance around research and evaluation topics; begin analyzing and synthesizing challenges faced by grantees around research and evaluation; develop comprehensive, user - friendly synthesis of guidance for tribal grantees; and work with grantees on efforts to disseminate and share the knowledge they are building regarding effective home visiting in tribal communities.

To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the Let's Move campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

The Sixty - fifth World Health Assembly (WHA 65) indicated that global efforts to improve nutrition should focus on six global nutrition targets to be achieved by 2025 and endorsed a Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition (CIP) through Resolution WHA65.6.

On Cyprus, over the last year Turkey has supported and continues to support the efforts of the UN Secretary General to achieve a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem.

The «Too Good for Drugs» expansion is part of a comprehensive city effort unveiled on Staten Island Monday to combat opioid misuse deaths across the five boroughs.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

As such, the New York State AFL - CIO will coordinate a comprehensive get - out - the - vote effort, including mailings, phone banks and door to door visits to union members on her behalf.»

«Therefore, we welcome the opportunity to review and discuss the Governor's proposal as part of our effort to arrive at a comprehensive reform package that rebuilds the public trust, and includes action on issues previously raised by members of the Senate Republican Conference.»

Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.

Off - topic questions included the mayor's proposed budget and the potential cost of open labor contracts, a timeline for settling the open labor contracts, the Build it Back program, the administration's «comprehensive review» of the city's Sandy recovery efforts, release of Bishop Findlayter's arrest report, the mayor's September promise to visit a carriage horse stable before acting on his pledge to ban carriage horses and the administration's community development block grant application.

«As a member of the Legislature, Senator Flanagan has been a champion and important partner with us on bipartisan efforts to enact comprehensive legislation around substance use prevention, treatment and recovery,» said Baker.

The roofs were replaced on all 7 buildings at Sack Wern Houses last year and there is currently a comprehensive effort underway to resurface the parking lot at the development.

«As part of a comprehensive outreach effort, we recruited over 10,000 citizens and 158 businesses to join New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes,» the agency said before the page was removed from its online portfolio on Friday.

In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

Building on this effort, I am working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to pass comprehensive cyber security legislation this Congress.

The Roll Back Malaria Partnership has now embarked on a coordinated effort to ensure comprehensive malaria control throughout Africa that includes not only anti-malaria bed nets but also medicines, rapid diagnostic tests and community health workers trained to deliver such vital interventions.

In the interim, until a comprehensive potentially personalized life - course approach is instituted, efforts during pregnancy will by necessity be aimed at recognizing and mitigating the adverse metabolic consequences of maternal obesity during pregnancy on both the mother and her child.»

Policies and strategies to improve global health must include comprehensive efforts to control tobacco use, as envisaged under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

The efforts have been consistent with the land - grant university concept: integration of research, teaching, and extension / outreach into a comprehensive effort that is focused on developing real - world applications.

The three Penn study authors are also participating with Cognition in a NASA effort reported earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight on the human body by comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive cognitive test battery for spaceflight.

But in their comprehensive effort to better identify children at highest risk of disease — and ideally one day intervene — this particular search focused on non-HLA genes.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

In addition to his internationally recognized research efforts, Bullock is also focused on developing a comprehensive understanding of how chemical and electrical energy is stored and used for applications in the development of non-fossil fuel sources.

While there are a number of conservative resources that profile organizations and individuals on the Left (such as David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org, Heartland Institute's LeftExposed.org, Berman and Company's ActivistFacts.org and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's UndueInfluence.com) CDC will build upon and complement their efforts adding value through its more comprehensive coverage, superior search engine optimization, and wiki - style format,» (Capital Research Center, Grant Proposal Record, 8/16/2016).

The 90 - minute film focuses in part on the historic Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action reached between Iran and the P5 +1, which Trump's already dragged the U.S. out of in an effort to undo all the Obama - era accomplishments, and oh damn, we're feeling maudlin again.

All information contained on this website is provided by the voluntary efforts of individual players and groups working to develop a comprehensive information resource for all Stardew Valley's fans to use and enjoy.

But Julie Corbett of Mass Insight Education, a nonprofit that focuses on school - turnaround efforts, says actually turning around a failing school requires comprehensive, sustainable planning and a willingness to look for outside help.

When low scores on the 2000 PISA exams revealed the inequities in their education system, many German states began to make comprehensive efforts to improve the quality of their schools.

A national coalition of peace activists — whose affiliates are already challenging local school policies - has set out to forge a comprehensive, and apparently unprecedented, effort to eliminate the influence of the U.S. military on public and private schools.

As Haskins points out, the early childhood education community has resisted a focus on academic skills in Head Start, concerned that attention to academic skills will dilute efforts to promote positive social and emotional development and that the comprehensive health services that Head Start currently provides will be abandoned.

This runs counter to the idea that teachers should focus their instructional efforts on the (already comprehensive) topics and skills in the grade - level standards.

Identifying feelings and recognizing the pain of negative comments are elements of a comprehensive effort at Brooklyn's PS 15 — also known as Patrick F. Daly School — to give kids the tools they need to become emotionally intelligent individuals able to move away from feelings and responses that prevent them from getting along with others, solving disputes peacefully, and concentrating on schoolwork.

Studies on evaluation reform efforts in Cincinnati, Chicago, Denver, New York City, and Washington, D.C. have found that comprehensive evaluation systems can help identify teachers who need to improve their practice, nudge low - performing teachers out of the profession, and, ultimately, boost student achievement.

Yet despite volumes of policy guidance, on - the - ground effort and research over the past decades, few comprehensive and representative portraits of teacher and teaching quality in U.S. mathematics classrooms exist.

Based on the first thorough study of the archival records, this essay reveals that the campaign established novel features of university fundraising through contentious negotiations among conflicting groups, prompted the university administration to centralize and control alumni affairs and development efforts for the first time, and, above all, introduced today's ubiquitous episodic pattern of continuous fundraising, in which mass comprehensive campaigns alternate with discrete solicitations of wealthy donors, whose dominant roles have never changed.

The federal appellate ruling last month lets stand a massive court - ordered property - tax hike imposed last fall on the city's residents to help fund the school district's desegregation efforts, which are among the most comprehensive and expensive ever undertaken.

Based on a «whole child» model, the program provides comprehensive services that include preschool education; medical, dental, and mental health care; nutrition services; and efforts to help parents foster their child «s development.

Three studies reported on the effects of comprehensive school reform efforts, which included a teacher leadership component, on student learning outcomes.

Council of State Governments Justice Center released a school discipline publication that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

He worked with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to design and develop the free, Web - based Data - Based Decision Making Tool: A Resource for Teachers (www.edvantia.org/dbdm), a comprehensive guide for developing and implementing school improvement efforts; and also developed the Web - based version of the K - 12 Total Cost of Ownership, or TCO, Calculator (www.edvantia.org/tco), which is based on the work of the Integrated Technology in Education Group.

Over the past five years, they have undertaken a comprehensive effort to provide teachers with professional development and access to resources to encourage student self - determination, with an emphasis on student involvement in the IEP process.