Sentences with phrase «promising pilot programs»

Sustainability: Too many promising pilot programs are abandoned for lack of institutional support, a clear strategy and buy - in.

Ideally, Oddo said he'd like to see DOT try one of its promised pilot programs on acquiring and using a different kind of asphalt.

Not exact matches

While the SBA's pilot program turned promising results, taxpayer money should not be indiscriminately thrown at business groups, says Muro.

Working both with innovators and researchers across the various schools of the University as well as promising startups from around the country, Dr. Rao helped guide and refine the process for vetting and integrating pilot programs to test new technologies within the clinical venue.

An IH - designed pilot program in which third - party nurse - experts review EFM tracings to provide objective consultations has shown promising results.

«I learned a lot about how effective or ineffective the state party is,» Dadey said, adding that Cox had «guaranteed» Antonacci that he would have help in reaching the $ 200,000 threshold to qualify for the state's matching funds pilot program — in which the Onondaga County comptroller was the lone participant — and then did not deliver on that promise.

The chancellor acknowledged «that Breakfast in the Classroom has had a little bit of a rocky start» and promised that those concerns would be addressed before the pilot program was expanded across the city.

Mr. Bernardo in his UCIDA (Ulster County Industrial Development Agency) application promised 51 full time jobs (26 the first year and 25 the second year) to be maintained over ten years in return for a PILOT program (Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) which meant he avoided paying sales tax and a good amount of property and school taxes for ten years while we taxpayers picked up his tab.

Still, city DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg promised Borough President James Oddo her office «will come up with three to five experimental, out - of - the - box things to do pilot programs on,» Oddo said.

And, time after time, these programs are introduced locally, yield a promising pilot run, but ultimately deliver tepid results at scale.

A piloted reading or mentoring program would offer promising results, only to disappoint when scaled.

JS: Absolutely, our pilot trial, while the findings are very promising and they do give support to our idea around how this program might be beneficial, it's not definitive, it's just one school that got the program compared to one other, but it's proof of concept.

A recent pilot program, run by the OECD and administered by CTB - McGraw Hill, promises local schools the possibility of comparing themselves against top performing educational systems like Finland and Singapore.

The eight districts promised to link teacher evaluations to student performance starting with pilot programs in 2014 - 15, and a full launch the following school year.

September 2 Report Weighs in on Florida's New Accountability Pilot Program (PDF) Group calls Florida's plan ambitious and promising

The Christie administration on Wednesday provided an overview of its promised charter school deregulation plan, which, among other changes, would create a pilot program for a special teaching certificate valid only at charter schools.

The Massachusetts State Ebook Project (MA EBook Project), conceived by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioner's (MBLC) Statewide Resource Sharing Committee and the Massachusetts Library System (MLS), with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), this summer concluded a pilot program, offering many insights into the challenges and promises that statewide consortial ebook lending programs may offer.

As promised back in June 2012, the state of Delaware launched a two - week pilot program last week that targets distracted driving.

Moreover, two pilot intervention programs with domestic violence batterers and poverty - level parents have shown promising empirical results.

At the other end of the spectrum, bbc.com reported on a pilot program showing promising results for obese children in Denmark, that involves extensive testing and changes to all aspects of the children's lives.

Pilot Evaluation of a Home Visit Parent Training Program in Disadvantaged Families Leung, Tsang, & Heung (2013) Research on Social Work Practice, 23 (4) View Abstract Reviews the pilot evaluation and resulting promising outcomes of the Healthy Start Home Visit Program for disadvantaged Chinese parents with preschool children, delivered by trained parent assistants to make services more accessible to disadvantaged famiPilot Evaluation of a Home Visit Parent Training Program in Disadvantaged Families Leung, Tsang, & Heung (2013) Research on Social Work Practice, 23 (4) View Abstract Reviews the pilot evaluation and resulting promising outcomes of the Healthy Start Home Visit Program for disadvantaged Chinese parents with preschool children, delivered by trained parent assistants to make services more accessible to disadvantaged famipilot evaluation and resulting promising outcomes of the Healthy Start Home Visit Program for disadvantaged Chinese parents with preschool children, delivered by trained parent assistants to make services more accessible to disadvantaged families.

The program has shown promising results in pilot studies and is now tested in controlled trials in settings such as schools and educational institutions, adults diagnosed with ADHD, and children in care.