Sentences with phrase «seen aggressive efforts»

In just the last few weeks we've seen aggressive efforts to expand charter schools in Bridgeport including a new charter elementary school, a plan to turn over another elementary school to the FUSE / Jumoke Academy of Hartford and a proposal by the Chairman of the Bridgeport Board of Education, Kenneth Moales, Jr. to create a boys - only charter school that would augment his present church affiliated school.

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Discouraged by this move, and by what he saw as paltry efforts at responding to an aggressive evangelical atmosphere, Weinstein filed a lawsuit citing the academy for severe, systemic and pervasive» religious discrimination.

But Gordon sees a need for an aggressive campaign to promote breast - feeding to counter the marketing efforts of infant formula companies which imply that formula is close to mother's milk.

The speaker warned that the alternative to a quota system, or an aggressive effort to encourage women to run for office, would be seeing the number of women in city government continue to shrink.

While it seems likely that moderate GOPers, long unhappy with DeLay's aggressive brand of conservatism, will support an effort to throw him overboard, it remains to be seen how many conservatives will join such an effort.

The governor's announcement was cheered by lawmakers from minority neighborhoods as well as by civil rights groups, who are increasingly looking to Albany and to Washington in an effort to rein in what they see as overly aggressive tactics on the part of the Bloomberg administration.

The message from Executive Director Scott Pearson and board Chairman John «Skip» McKoy was met with relief by advocates of neighborhood schools and disbelief from some who want to see more aggressive charter school growth in one of the most closely watched school reform efforts in the nation.

The Prichard Committee sees the report as a conversation starter and framework for discussions and plans to follow up the report with data updates and support for local action, said Brigitte Blom Ramsey, the group's director, pledging «an aggressive and consistent effort in the months ahead to galvanize support among community and business leaders, advocates, policymakers and others to move with urgency.»

Many school districts still could see some improvement in their teacher diversity — if they were smarter and more aggressive in their efforts.

However, other types of aggressive behavior can be stymied by clicker training, but don't be discouraged if your efforts at rehabilitation don't see immediate results.

«This could be seen as another effort [by ExxonMobil] to say, Were doing something, but this is a complex problem thats going to take decades to solve and, in the meantime, lets not do anything aggressive with fuel economy standards or anything else that actually reduces oil use today,» he said (Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2002).

Aggressive designs have always been a trademark of Razer's high - end gaming computers and accessories, so it obviously came as no surprise to see the company's rookie smartphone effort follow a similar direction by pretty much snubbing all of the industry's latest trends.