Sentences with phrase «other pilot programs»

California recently made history by enacting a pilot program to appoint lawyers in certain civil cases and other pilot programs are underway elsewhere in the country.

Changes included regulations on the number of students eligible to take alternative exams and other pilot programs.

The other pilot program, GoDrive, is in London, where the service offers «flexible, practical, and affordable» access to a fleet of vehicles for one - way trips in the city, and includes guaranteed parking in the city.

Not exact matches

The PEQ is Botler's pilot project, but Moravej says the technology can be adapted to other programs.

Before launching Circle in 2013, she was — among other things — the CEO and COO of the Kashf Foundation, where she expanded a small micro-lending pilot program into an entity that provided more than 300,000 women with loans («98 % of which were repaid in full,» she says with a proud smile).

Ford launched a pilot program to install cordless charging pads in garages and other parking spaces to power up electric cars.

The shipping giant has made 3 - D printing available in a San Diego franchise and will extend the offering to five other cities across the U.S. in the next two months as part of a pilot program.

The steps include submitting their 510 (k) for FDA approval; submitting other documents for international approvals; and continuing to set up (and learn from) pilot programs testing the finished product in real - world settings.

We piloted a program called LearnStorm in the Bay Area [of California] last year and we're expanding it to three to five other areas this Spring.

Seattle - based Koru Careers makes one version of the technology, which Citi (c) and other banks are using in pilot programs to sort out applicants.

The White House said both of their companies, along with Alcoa, have initiated apprenticeship pilot programs and created a guide for other employers.

So, it may be best to focus your content efforts on one audience first — ideally the one you need the most help engaging — and then incorporate other personas after your content marketing pilot program has found its footing.

In 2017, we will be largely participating in WV's hemp pilot program, as well as bringing on other farmers and downstream businesses.

Other resources for entrepreneurial veterans include the Boots to Business program for transitioning service members out of the military, special financing help through the Patriot Express Pilot Loan Initiative, and the National Veteran - Owned Business Association.

Modeled after other countries» successful investor visa programs, Congress established the Immigrant Investor Pilot Program on Oct. 6, 1992 through Sec. 610 Public Law 102 - 395.

After a successful pilot program in Las Vegas, Nevada and Orange County, California, El Pollo Loco has expanded its delivery feature to its system across the Los Angeles Market and 6 others.

La Leche staff members hope the pilot program, which the organization will fund at about $ 7,500 a year, catches on at Amundsen and expands to include boys» classes before moving to other high schools.

A new shared services pilot program under way in Glencoe is on track to save taxpayers almost $ 100,000 in its first year of implementation by allowing village and park district employees to tread on each others» turf in doing their respective jobs, officials said.

«It «s great, «said William Hill, 14, also of Cabrini - Green, who frolicked with Lloyd and other pals in the pool as they took part in a pilot Park District program that keeps the pool open until midnight during the week and until 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

He and 30 other young people are working as lifeguards this summer after completing a four - month pilot program funded by the National Recreation Association and the Park District.

Each study details the implementation of universal breakfast - in - the - classroom pilot programs, one in Memphis City Schools and the other in Dallas Public Schools.

«This helped keep the cost of the pilot program down compared to other park equipment installations.

The evaluation revealed that the nutrition integrity project had a positive impact beyond the schools that participated in the pilot; once the benefits of combi ovens were explained and publicized, other schools wanted to follow suit, either through the program or by finding other creative ways to finance their purchases.

With the Chicago pilot program as its model, Kraft has committed to spend $ 4.5 million on 25 trucks that will work in six other cities in the next three years, including New York, San Antonio and Madison, Wis..

At 11 a.m., Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, other lawmakers and violence prevention advocates introduce the «Jessica Tush Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program,» a pilot Common Core education program scheduled to begin this month at K. 558 Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, 257 N. Sixth St., BrProgram,» a pilot Common Core education program scheduled to begin this month at K. 558 Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, 257 N. Sixth St., Brprogram scheduled to begin this month at K. 558 Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, 257 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn.

«I am writing to express my complete disappointment that the proposal from New York State, Oneida County, Amazon and other partners for the U.S. Department of Transportation's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program was denied,» Picente wrote in his letter to Chao.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. and New York State Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi today said they have written to U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao, expressing their strong disappointment that the proposal from New York State, Amazon and other partners to participate in an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Pilot Program... Read more

And he, along with other elected officials, filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg and the Taxi and Limousine Commission for its pilot e-hail program, in which yellow cabs would employ smartphone technology to pick up fares.

The pilot program will provide extra availability of services to these cients in need, while also modernizing ECDSS to the level of other County units that have hours - beyond - usual, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

The state comptroller is chosing to opt out of the pilot program, while other groups are pushing for more.

Thanks to our advocacy, the city has agreed to expand higher speed WiFi access throughout the five boroughs and to implement a 10 kiosk solar pilot program in The Bronx, among other concessions.

«One of the things the president is rightfully focused on is body cameras, and later this week we'll be rolling out a pilot program related to body cameras here in this city,» de Blasio told reporters this morning, referencing his meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday with President Obama and other elected and law - enforcement officials and clergy to discuss policing.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's announcement of plans to launch a pilot medical marijuana research program came as encouraging news to some but worried others, with both sides seeing it as New York State inching closer to the possible legalization of marijuana.

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.

Shortly after the June meeting, NSF officials approached Levine and other PoLS - SRN program directors and asked if they'd be interested in becoming a pilot program for their newly created Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) project.

Along with seven other projects, John's research won HHMI support in 2008 as part of a 4 - year, $ 40 million pilot program targeted at collaborative and potentially transformative research.

Although this year's pilot program is limited to fellows from the four university partners, ELISS organizers hope to attract additional funding in order to make the program available to others.

As with the other self - diagnosis tools, home use of Ozcan's cell phone blood imager is a ways off, but it is already being looked at for pilot programs in remote locations where doctors and lab equipment are in short supply.

The approach was developed by Pacific Center Director Paul Glassman, a professor of dentistry at University of the Pacific, who collaborated with a broad range of stakeholders to leverage advances in dentistry and telehealth, create training programs for dentists and hygienists, and win policy and other changes needed to pilot and evaluate the system.

Other SRIC program updates are our nuclear waste safety work regarding the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and Louisiana Energy Services (LES) Uranium Enrichment Plant.

After we've done our test program there would be really no purpose for Boeing (astronaut) pilots unless some other business develops somewhere along the line.

The Institute's Hubble Mission Office has initiated a pilot, ultra-low priority SNAP program (14840, PI: Bellini) in Cycle 24, with the goal of taking useful data in Hubble orbits that absolutely no other program is able to use.

- NIH should create a pilot program for institutional postdoctoral offices to compete for funding to experiment in enriching and diversifying postdoctoral training, including partnerships with other entities (industry, private foundations, government, etc.).

For the pilot program last spring, the 15 trainees selected by the correctional administration were at very different levels — some had been practicing yoga for years, others were brand new to it.

Implementing an effective blended - learning program may require hiring outside help, visiting other school systems, or running semester - or year - long pilots to get teachers onboard.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & UccePilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccepilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

The experiences of the featured states, and others like them, confirm that there are innovative local leaders eager to make the transition to competency - based education and that a pilot program is a highly effective way to kick - start those efforts.

The state is also about to start a pilot program that pairs up students with an adult mentor who can, among other things, help students understand the purpose of school and set and meet academic goals.

A pilot program sponsored by the National School Boards Foundation, based in Alexandria, Va., and the AOL Foundation, part of the Internet giant America Online of Dulles, Va., will link the school boards to their constituents via e - mail, message boards, Web site polls, and other electronic tools.