Sentences with phrase «pilot efforts in»

To date, the project has launched pilot efforts in Boston, the state of Illinois, and most recently Silicon Valley, Calif., to help mobilize leaders to improve the pathways in their regions.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bigger.

With SRI Education as the independent evaluator, this pilot effort in nine California districts has documented the development and implementation of Linked Learning district systems and examined their impact on student outcomes.

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Newer innovations involve train travel, with pilot projects to have rail passengers clear U.S. customs in Montreal and B.C., as the latest in ongoing efforts between the administrations of Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.

In an effort to bring more equity into the capital acquisitions area, the Small Business Administration's Women's Prequalification Pilot Loan Program was developed.

The organizations are taking part in a Malaria Elimination Initiative effort called project DiSARM which will be piloted in Swaziland and Zimbabwe and uses the Google Earth Engine to map malaria.

The Company conducted a 30 - day pilot of its AI efforts involving 1 % of its traffic, delivering a 400 % increase in the yield on programmatic revenue.

In an effort to promote a more open economy and accelerate reforms, China established pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) that provide lower thresholds for setting up new companies, have fewer restrictions on capital flows, and offer more market access to foreign investors.

He said that effort will begin with an «undergrounding pilot» program to put certain lateral lines or neighborhood power lines underground in sites throughout the state.

It also comes at a time when Uber is doubling down on its self - driving efforts with both the soft launch of its UberFreight service and the self - driving pilot in Pittsburgh, as well as the acquisition of artificial intelligence and machine learning research startup Geometric Intelligence.

For me, that feeling will never get old... but I can see how it could for others since it's kind of on auto - pilot now and you are no longer putting in any effort.

A diversified healthcare company and a global leader in providing solutions to help people live healthier lives, UnitedHealth Group has done a lot of pilots in its efforts to expand work flexibility, and remote work options in particular, to non-exempt as well as exempt employees.

A pilot program is being pioneered in Boston as a result of the efforts of Dr. Gerald Caplan, Director of Harvard Community Mental Health Program.

The pilot project is an effort to increase recycling in the downtown area, while also raising awareness about the importance of recycling.

Think - tank Activities SOAAN will progress in stepwise fashion in order to develop the outputs mentioned above: Step 1) Review existing science and actions: An overview or survey of the existing science on the topic, including a discussion of the limitations of scope, empirical data, and their reliability and applicability to the organic sector's understanding of best practice; Step 2) Actors engagements: Identification in both public and private sectors of the institutions and individuals active on the topic and their respective roles and networks, so that SOAAN and the organic sector then moves to engage them, along with think tanking activities; Step 3) Think tank: Development of the model, the strategy and promotional / advocacy tools through think tank efforts including piloting cases to gain experience and showcase practicability; Step 4) Synthesis: Publication of the results, tools and recommendations.

On that note, recent efforts to convene two pilot Citizens» Assemblies by the Electoral Reform Society with civic partners, in the Solent and Sheffield, are worth supporting and studying.

That approach has long frustrated efforts by many to see «budget gaps» in common - sensical or literal terms, because reported «out - year gaps» are not the actual differences in spending and revenues between one year and the next, but instead reflect projections of how circumstances would look if on auto pilot.

Since the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) took over the management of Arik, The Guardian learnt that efforts are on to tackle the challenge of «too expensive pilots and engineers» where there are cheaper equivalents in the Nigerian workforce.

The proposed city - wide fund would be modeled after the Bronx Freedom Fund's successful pilot program in an effort to provide the same effective and cost - saving program to all New Yorkers across the five boroughs.

«As the lead community engagement partner in the Participatory Budgeting (PB) effort in NYC, Community Voices Heard was excited that Citizens Union noted its support today for innovative pilot programs such as Participatory Budgeting.

Adam Kinzinger — This former Air Force pilot is tight with leadership, often organizing press conferences in support of their efforts, inevitably finds his way into every «Hottest on the Hill» list and stresses over how to stay fit while living Washington's sedentary lifestyle.

Sheehan does not expect a sizeable enough PILOT from that effort to be in place by next year.

The NYPD is expanding its pilot program for body cameras, a central part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's police reform effort, by seeking companies to provide another 5,000 devices, according to a recent solicitation published in the City Record.

During the length of the pilot program, these cleaning services will be provided to the community free of charge by ACE in furtherance of its effort to create job opportunities for individuals in need of workforce training.

Antonacci announced over the summer that he would attempt to take advantage of a pilot program for public funding of campaigns, but that effort ran aground after he failed to run the prerequisite $ 200,000 in small donations ($ 10 to $ 175) from 2,000 donors.

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.

The CDC is piloting cameras and tablets in high - level biosafety spaces in an effort to avoid future infectious disease botch - ups

For instance, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is involved in a pilot effort to market carbon credits in Madagascar via the Makira Carbon Co., yet Ferguson complains that the organization has never sought consent from indigenous communities living in the forests and has no mechanism to distribute revenues.

His research and development efforts focused on the quality of raw materials and of products in the pilot - development phase.

A pilot program placing 20 endangered Tasmanian devils in selected zoos around the world is about to be launched as part of an effort to save the species from extinction

It remains to be seen if China's effort will fare any better, although a pilot plant has been reprocessing limited amounts of used nuclear fuel since 2006 in Gansu.

Also today, NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large - scale, systematic approach to identify important genomic changes involved in cancer.

It assessed and monitored the pilot projects in order to generalise the outcomes, and identified the criteria of innovation and quality that should become the standards for setting up future science teaching efforts.

The world's only deep underground nuclear waste dump is in New Mexico, and efforts of many New Mexicans to prevent high - level waste disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have had an effect on the state's decisions (page 5).

This is the first time this type of analysis is being piloted specifically to inform developing country efforts in the aftermath of an extreme weather event.

In modern universities, pilot studies now often are: (1) conducted as minor side efforts during the investigations funded by a research grant, (2) assigned to a graduate student or a research technician, or, (3) done during a sabbatical leave.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

This focus on outcomes has its roots in her experiences in Texas, where during the 1980s and 1990s she was chief lobbyist for the Texas Association of School Boards and worked on several education improvement efforts piloted by business leaders, including a commission headed by billionaire H. Ross Perot.

As part of its efforts, the school is moving grades 3 to 5 over to Everyday Mathematics this year; it was piloted in those grades last year, and first and second - grade teachers already were using it.

Florida is piloting a bonus program in four school districts this year, in an effort to draw teachers to needier schools, said Jim Warford, chancellor of the Florida Department of Education.

Tired of living in the only Southern state without a publicly financed program of early - childhood education, business leaders across Mississippi have launched a three - year pilot effort to improve the educational quality of child - care centers and better prepare children for school.

A promising example of a replicable, blended learning effort executed at large scale can be found in Idaho, where Khan Academy's largest U.S. pilot is under way (the largest non-American pilot is in Mongolia, a heavily rural country).

When the Montgomery Blair High School Magnet Foundation learned of our AoPS Academy plans in their area, they asked to be our pilot program in that effort.

One area under particular scrutiny is education, where funding for programs such as charter and pilot schools, mainstays in the effort to bring innovative teaching...

Washington — In an attempt to reduce the paperwork associated with administering school - meals programs, the Department of Agriculture has begun a pilot effort under which selected districts may alter the way they run their programs.

The effort began with four pilot schools in 1988 - 89; six more were added in 1989 - 90.

The product of a collaboration involving the local school system, a federal agency, a professional association, and private foundations and universities, the pilot effort is designed to both encourage young people to stay in school and gently nudge them toward careers in public service.

That approach is called for in the science - education - reform efforts undertaken by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Teachers Association, both of which have pilot...

Those efforts bore fruit in March 2011 when Douglas County's school board unanimously approved the Pilot Choice Scholarship Program.

One area under particular scrutiny is education, where funding for programs such as charter and pilot schools, mainstays in the effort to bring innovative teaching practices into broader use, has long been a political hot topic.