Sentences with phrase «pilot programs in place»

While a small fraction of the teaching force has had training in some elements through pilot programs in place for several years, the final system demands execution on a far larger scale.

And in Chicago the public school district has had a pilot program in place since 2006 in 31 of its 483 elementary schools to give students in grades 6, 7 and 8 more control over what they read.

While the SFMTA has this pilot program in place with Social Bicycles, the agency will not issue any other stationless bike - share permits.

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One report says the places filled up in no time (it was a limited pilot program to see how the idea works), but that's as much reporting as we've had.

A pilot program has placed smaller versions of this new system in a handful of homes in the hope that it will lead to broader use.

A new pilot program launched this month will place them in the hands of police.

Separately, a good - government advocate unloaded her frustration with Cuomo that a broader system of public campaign finance was rejected in place of a pilot program that applies to the state comptroller.

After returning to Argentina in late April, he has been finalizing recommendations to be presented in the fall detailing how Argentina will set up, design, fund, track and evaluate a science policy fellowship program that is expected to get underway in earnest with a pilot project placing five scientists in select agencies in 2018.

In its first round of funding for the PFF program, the NSF sought to reward institutions that already had pilot projects in place and allow them to» continue innovative work based on past achievements.&raquIn its first round of funding for the PFF program, the NSF sought to reward institutions that already had pilot projects in place and allow them to» continue innovative work based on past achievements.&raquin place and allow them to» continue innovative work based on past achievements.»

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

The pilot program has a budget of $ 250,000 and hopes to place 25 to 50 Canadian youth into positions in biotechnology.

LAUSD has been negotiating with UTLA to try to put in place a pilot program with three percent of district teachers, who would be evaluated in part on student performance on the state's standards - based tests.

* The state Education Department plans to apply for a federal pilot program, which may give it the opportunity to use a new assessment system in place of state tests for accountability purposes, Politico New York reports: http://goo.gl/696SoR * SUNY presses ahead with tuition increase plan, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports: http://pojonews.co/1J1tzen * Roberts Wesleyan updates...

This past summer, in a sixth - grade math class, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein piloted a small program in which individualized, technology - based learning takes the place of the old «let's all proceed together» approach.

The Dept. of Education posted draft regulations for ESSA's «Innovative Assessment» pilot program, which grants states the flexibility to administer «Innovative Assessments» to a subsect of their schools in place of their exiting statewide assessments.

Our first MIRSE pilot program took place last school year in Lee, Massachusetts, a small community in the western part of the state.

NJ Spotlight spoke with three of the pilot program applicants, each with its own evaluation system in place and its own reasons for wanting to jump into the fray for what may be the most controversial issue in schools today: how to judge a good teacher.

The change has resulted in confusion with regard to how the virtual charter schools will be held accountable for ensuring students are meeting statutory minimum requirements for learning — and that's a troubling prospect to virtual charter schools expert Gary Miron, a Western Michigan University professor who says a very similar pilot program took place in his home state.

The following screen shots come directly from documents about data collection and sharing pilot programs put in place simultaneously with Common Core Standards.

Bridgeport leaders place greater emphasis on school culture in the year ahead through expansion of a pilot program focused on emotional intelligence (CT Post).

FMCSA has announced in the Federal Register 76 FR 2807 April 13 2011 and also on July 8th 2011 its proposal for the initiation of the United States - Mexico Cross Border Long - Haul Trucking Pilot Program (Pilot) in order to evaluate the ability of motor carrier of property whose principal place of business is in Mexico to operate safely within the United States beyond the municipalities and commercial zones along the U.S. - Mexico border.

The pilot program will take place in nine shelters across the country, ranging from small, limited - admission private shelters to large, open - admission municipal facilities.

Utilities are slow to latch on to everything from hardware to interfaces connecting them to the consumers, which makes it difficult to get pilot programs and new systems in place, let alone make any money off of them.

The University of California Hastings College of the Law is starting a pilot program this fall to place third - year students into public legal offices in nearby Contra Costa County, where they will be trained and then, during their first year out of law school, employed for small salaries.

The Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General launched its own pilot project in 2007 to webcast 21 appeal hearings in the Court of Appeal, but there is no program currently in place.

The program will place trained volunteer members of the public (Public Navigators) in the courthouse in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia (site of the first pilot) to help self - represented litigants navigate and understand options available to them inside and outside the court system for resolving their legal issue.

The pilot program hopes to place 10 fellows at host sites in the first summer and provide our fellows stipends to help defray their living expenses for the 10 - week, 400 hour commitment.

A pilot program has been in place since June 2011, and was discussed by Karim Benyekhlef and Nicolas Vermeys briefly earlier this year.

Places in the pilot program are limited to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates, women, «and those coming from less advantaged social or educational backgrounds».

Glimcher, for example, is currently piloting a smartphone app at its Polaris Fashion Place, a 1.5 - million - square - foot mall in Columbus, Ohio, before rolling out the program across its portfolio.