Sentences with phrase «pilot programs intended»

D.C. Central Kitchen was the winning bidder for one of two contracted pilot programs intended to provide some competition for Chartwells, the giant food services company that has been providing meals of mostly processed convenience foods to the city's 122 public schools for the past two years.

State officials say so - called Climate Resilient Farming is a pilot program intended to help mitigate the environmental impact of agriculture, following Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signed pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions about 40 percent by 2030.

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Lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014 backed a public financing system for the comptroller's race that year, intended as a pilot program of sorts.

The Suffolk County Legislature approved a 2018 vector control plan on Tuesday that includes use of methoprene, a mosquito larvicide, but also acknowledges a pilot program launched this year at Accabonac Harbor that is intended to reduce and possibly...

The Suffolk County Legislature approved a 2018 vector control plan on Tuesday that includes use of methoprene, a mosquito larvicide, but also acknowledges a pilot program launched this year at Accabonac Harbor that is intended to reduce and possibly eliminate the pesticide's use.

Cuomo would sign a more robust bill allowing independent dispensaries, nor is it clear if Cuomo intended this to be a real beginning or a small pilot program.

But the pilot offers a shot at increasing the effectiveness of federal programs like Title I. Despite an annual budget of $ 15 billion, study after study has shown the 53 - year - old cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty is not having the intended effect of improving impoverished students» outcomes.

Instead, House legislators signaled they intend to spend big on initiatives such as a pilot program for so - called «advanced teaching roles» and a «modernization» of the N.C. Department of Public Instruction's (DPI) business system.

The application package will contain information on both the carriers and individual drivers working for the carriers who intend to participate in the pilot program to cross the border and operate inside the United States.

She intends to reverse the trend by piloting a curatorial studies program at Spelman.

China has also launched a number of pilot cap - and - trade programs at the provincial level and intends to launch a national trading program within the next few years.

But last November, the Law Society of Upper Canada announced it would be running the law practice program, a pilot project intended to give aspiring lawyers an alternative pathway to the Ontario bar.

The pilot program is to be guided by a set of e-discovery Principles, which are intended to «incentivize cooperative exchange of information on evidence preservation and discovery.»

Following program pilot testing and obtaining community and stakeholder feedback on the intended design, it was determined the burden of data collection on participants would be too great in a stepped wedge trial.

SRI partnered with the Santa Clara County Office of Education on its Preschool Development Grants — Preschool Pay for Success Feasibility Pilot grant to study using a Pay for Success (PFS) model to initiate and / or expand a high - quality preschool program intended to improve learning outcomes for the...