Sentences with phrase «on members of the task force»

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In a statement to news site The Verge on Monday, the Air Force's 45th Space Wing, which is tasked with keeping the public safe during launches, said that the shutdown has caused it to remove «key members of the civilian workforce» from its efforts.

She has also struck a 19 - member task force of politicians, academics, finance and business leaders to find other ways to put pressure on B.C.

Members of Canada's medical community are disappointed over a federal task force's recommendation to allow cannabis sales to those 18 and over, with some warning unrestricted access could have a detrimental impact on developing brains.

He has been a member on various PSAB's task forces, examining government accounting issues and from 2002 - 2005, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Sector Accounting Board.

At every General Assembly, our members elect the World Board, who shape the direction of our work and appoint Affiliates to committees, working groups and task forces on topics like the development of standards or the facilitation of Organic Agriculture in developing countries.

OTA submitted an application to USDA in May 2016 — after over a year of work on behalf of its members through a Transitional task force — to create the transitional certification program, thereby building the foundation for a potential market for transitional products.

She has been an active member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics at the national, state, and local level, serving in a variety of roles, positions, and on task forces.

He has been a member of the committees on Finance, Nominations, and Patient Safety and Quality Improvement and on the task forces on Safety in Residency Training, and District and Section Donation Policy.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday appointed a task force of community leaders to identify potential sites, and instructed its members to offer recommendations within a month.

Analysis of Maternal and Fetal Outcomes by Birth Place — Members of the Research and Data task force are making plans for an analysis of maternal and fetal outcomes by birth place in the US, comparing existing MANAStats data on home and birth center births with a matched cohort of low risk women who planned a hospital delivery (total sample size ~ 80,000).

He touted Wilson's resume and crossover appeal, noting the candidate's stint on the Obama administration's auto task force — the only Republican member of the leadership team.

Wilson, who was raised in upstate Johnstown, once served on President Obama's automobile - industry restructuring task force and was recently made a member of the advisory committee of the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., an independent agency that insures private pension plans.

Gibson said he reached his decision on energy by «listening to experts,» including members of his energy advisory task force and U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, D - Amsterdam.

Acquario is a member of both the Medicaid Relief and Mandate Relief task forces appointed by the governor to come up with recommendations on cuts (in the first case) and legislative proposals (in the second) by March 1 — one month before the legal budget deadline.

Joining Parsons on the new task force are several members who also served with him on the earlier panel, including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, State University of New York chancellor Nancy Zimpher, Parent Power Project founder and Rochester - area parent, Carrie Remis and the State Assembly's education committee chair Cathy Nolan, a Queens Democrat.

Led by Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, the 23 - member caucus asked in an open letter today that the speaker replacing Sheldon Silver, who was arrested on corruption charges a week ago, consider a series of questions related to how the body is governed and requested that the next speaker establish a task force to address reform.

Matt Viggiano (Council member Margaret Chin's land use director), Vanessa Diaz (Council member Mendez's current chief of staff) and a representative of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's staff will also have seats on the task force.

Mr. de Blasio was standing with a cadre of advocates from agencies that help the homeless who will serve on the task force, including Laura Mascuch, the executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, who serve as its co-chair along with two administration members, Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steven Banks and Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been.

Council member Mark Levine is planning to create a task force that will focus on the issue of park shadows caused by tall, new...

Regardless of any personal political stance on the prison count issue, we encourage all task force members to join us in our effort to fully comply with the law as it is written.

Two task force members from the region will be on hand to hear testimony: state Sen. Carl Marcellino (R - Syosset), chairman of the Senate Education Committee, and Constance Evelyn, superintendent of the Valley Stream 13 school district.

«We're dealing with two days» notice for a task force meeting which has been billed as a way of seeking meaningful input from school board members and others on Common Core concerns,» said Lorraine Deller, executive director of the Nassau - Suffolk School Boards Association.

A spokesman for Councilwoman Margaret Chin, a longtime advocate for Lower Manhattan schools and a member of the group, said she will continue to work with Silver on the task force.

In August of last year, shortly after NYPD officers shot to death an emotionally disturbed man in his apartment, City Council Member Jumaane Williams led an effort calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to set up a task force to conduct a wholesale review of the police department's protocols in dealing with «emotionally disturbed persons,» or EDPs.

Assembly members line out reforms they want to see in the chamber in wake of departure of Sheldon Silver, asks them to commit to appointing «task force on reform representing diversity of the conference.»

«They've played an invaluable role of maintaining the ongoing discourse on congestion pricing,» said Scott Rechler, chairman of the Regional Planning Association, an influential urban policy group, and another member of the state task force.

Even some of the task force members said there is room to expand on their plan, which itself presented different options.

Task force members raised questions about the potential impact of Interstate 81 plans on a Kennedy Square arena, and about how the task force would communicate with SU officials.

AG: It's been an interesting lesson for me, because as a member I contributed ideas, but I've also been called on to just contribute a set of hands, like everybody else on the task force.

The members of the task force are now calling on healthcare professionals and policymakers to be aware of these expected increases and to develop adult services to meet this demand.

ALEC is leading the nationally - coordinated attack on state renewable portfolio standards as part of an ambitious dirty energy agenda for the members of its anti-environmental task force, like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal interests.

Besides its recommendation on who should or should not be screened, the task force «is calling for research to find better screening tests and treatments that can help reduce the number of women who die from ovarian cancer,» said task force member Dr. Chien - Wen Tseng.

One of the members of the U.S. Education Department's task force on undergraduate education warned recently that colleges and universities must take a long - range view of faculty development because they will have to hire as many as 500,000 new faculty members in the next 25 years.

• There was near unanimity among the task force members (myself excluded), the State Board of Education, and the California Department of Education that NCLB - era accountability systems were excessively punitive, and that the focus should instead be on «continuous improvement,» rather than «test - and - punish.»

In this forum, lead author of Learning from No Child Left Behind, EdisonLearning's John Chubb, and education historian and task force member Diane Ravitch, who declined to sign the recommendations, weigh in on the future of the law.

He currently is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a member of Hoover's task force on K - 12 education.

Under the plan prepared by the Governor's Select Advisory Commission on Primary and Secondary Education — a 15 - member task force composed of six legislators and nine civic leaders appointed by the Governor — the state would establish a state board of education composed of 11 members selected by the Governor.

Washington — Secretary of Education William J. Bennett's task force on elementary education this month held the first of four meetings, with the 21 members outlining the areas that the panel ought to consider.

D.C. Council member David Grosso (I - At Large), chairman of the Education Committee, said he thinks the location of schools is a key issue the task force should take on.

Maya Martin, Executive Director of Parents Amplifying Voices in Education (PAVE), Josh Boots, Executive Director of EmpowerK12, and representatives from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) provided task force members with an overview of recently held parent feedback sessions on the DC school report card.

As a member of the task force, I am excited for the opportunity to join my colleagues in making recommendations to craft a new structure to improve California's education system focused on inclusive education practices, high expectations for students and education leaders, and providing evidence - based instruction and learning supports so that all students have an opportunity to learn the standards in all core subject areas, which will ultimately lead to increased accountability and academic success for all.

Kelly Gonez said she was not involved in the negotiations, and while she would like to be involved with a new task force on charters, she said she would give up any role so that members of the minority could participate.

In 1997, a task force of National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) on technology in teacher education found that college faculty members were not making extensive use of technology in their own research and teaching.

Stark County School Superintendent Jerry Klooster, a member of the task force that helped develop Vision 20/20 in 2012, said the goals of the group include developing a balanced state assessment system; making it easier for teachers from out - of - state to get a license to teach in Illinois; recognize that not all districts are the same, have varied resources and expectations, and differentiated accountability; and adequate funding of education based on local factors rather than «one size fits all.»

As part of a live, two - hour chat on the Idaho Statesman's website, Otter and members of his task force took questions from the public.

On Thursday, task force members spent the day vetting their ideas with the state's Advisory Committee on Special Education, which played no official role in shaping the report but hopes to shepherd through some of its recommendationOn Thursday, task force members spent the day vetting their ideas with the state's Advisory Committee on Special Education, which played no official role in shaping the report but hopes to shepherd through some of its recommendationon Special Education, which played no official role in shaping the report but hopes to shepherd through some of its recommendations.

In reviewing the list of task force recommendations last week, some members of the state's Advisory Commission on Special Education expressed dismay that they were not given the entire report to read and comment on before it goes to the state board.

«There are a lot of eyes on this commission, including the courts,» Cooper told task force members Tuesday.

Bobb has served on the board of trustees for the National and Illinois Staff Development Councils, Illinois International Branch of the Dyslexia Association, and has been a member of numerous national and state task forces and committees.

SB279 would charge the task force of lawmakers and State School Board members to evaluate whether Utah schools are «offering authentic formative assessments throughout the year to recognize mastery when it occurs,» and to make recommendations on changes needed to «hold student mastery as a constant and time as a variable.»