Sentences with phrase «several pilot programs»

It therefore calls for experimentation and innovation in the way lawyers learn to practice, and announces several pilot programs designed to demonstrate some new and different approaches to be implemented in New York City.

The next phase of Ford's Smart Mobility plan includes several pilot programs designed to help ease the cost of transportation.

And, it is launching several pilot programs at Seton Hill University, the University of Alabama, Abilene Christian University, and with the Virginia Department of Education.

However, there was some small hope with the recent announcements of several pilot programs from all but one of the Big Six publishers.

ISTE is committed to making such training available; we're actually working on several pilots programs that directly involve ISTE in delivering training to administrators.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Lloyd's has several objectives for 2018, which includes a pilot of a tailored female development program, conducting a full review of its family care policies and improving flexible working for all employees.

Several oil sands operators launched pilot programs to explore the restoration of boreal forest habitat as a means of creating offset credits.

I have been teaching entrepreneurship at Ohio State for several years and we are now piloting the program at this art school.

Several years ago, the Rainforest Alliance partnered with the local coffee cooperative UNECAFE (Unidad Ecológica para el Sector Café Oaxaqueño) to pilot a reforestation program with certified coffee farmers to restore degraded areas within and around coffee parcels.

Sonia Rivera, who has several sons in the pilot program at Humboldt, said «it's a social kind of fun and it's learning.»

Despite gaining the support of transit advocates and several local officials, including Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Mayor de Blasio has been reluctant to fund the pilot program, or any variation of it, saying the city can not afford it and that ultimately the MTA is the state's responsibility.

And the D.O.E. has been piloting restorative justice programs in schools for several months, largely through a program called Man Up!

Several months ago, Mr. Cuomo said, the state had quietly started a pilot program to limit the number of trucks in Manhattan during peak hours by offering them an incentive, through lower tolls, to conduct their work overnight.

The Assembly's budget also omits Cuomo's plan to allow a pilot program of private equity financing for hospitals, a measure Cuomo has included in his executive budget proposal for several years running.

Several Actions Announced to Foster Industry Growth and Six New Research Permits Issued Under Agricultural Research Pilot Program Governor's Proposal to Lift Cap on Number of Industrial Hemp Research Permits Passed as Part of FY 2018 State Budget Summit Supports Regional Focus on Growing Agriculture as Part of the Southern Tier Soaring Upstate Revitalization Initiative Video From Industrial Hemp Summit is Available Here

The Committee on Transportation will meet at 10 a.m. to discuss several proposed laws, including a law related to a proposed pilot program for reserved parking spaces in municipal lots, as well as laws pertaining to taxicab licenses.

Several of Queens» state legislators lamented that a public campaign finance pilot program approved in the New York state budget was limited to the state comptroller's race in 2014.

In addition to supporting several pilot grants for in - depth research projects, the funding now has also enabled the development of new multi-site research projects, a mentoring program, educational training videos, biostatistical support, and more to faculty members within the participating universities.

Dating back to 1968, TSTC's Aircraft Pilot Training program offers you several unique advantages: top - notch equipment, a dual runway operational control A pilot who wrote a conspiracy theory book about 9/11 is dead after he shot his two teenage children and family dog before turning the gun on hiPilot Training program offers you several unique advantages: top - notch equipment, a dual runway operational control A pilot who wrote a conspiracy theory book about 9/11 is dead after he shot his two teenage children and family dog before turning the gun on hipilot who wrote a conspiracy theory book about 9/11 is dead after he shot his two teenage children and family dog before turning the gun on himself

Tamez Guerra informed the class of a pilot program involving technology - based textbooks called Programa Enciclomedias, which are provided to several thousand fourth and fifth grade students throughout the country.

There are also plans to pilot the program in Myanmar, starting with a feasibility study in several internally displaced - persons camps.

She was working with several school health nurses who were keen to expand their use of the VIP programme, given they had piloted the program before and it had shown good short - term results.

The Colorado legislature is considering several bills related to private school vouchers, including one signed into law last week by Republican Gov. Bill Owens that establishes a pilot voucher program for students in poorly performing public schools.

The PDE has also proposed several new initiatives worth watching as they develop, including: a statewide teacher recruitment initiative aimed at high school students; a pathway to teaching specifically for paraprofessionals; pilot programs for improving mentoring and induction; and initiatives to improve the diversity of the workforce.60

SoundOut began deep partnerships in several schools to pilot programs, including Douay Matyrs School, Sussex, UK; Martin Luther King Jr..

Sixteen pilot schools along with several other Lead schools in the English sector experimented with the key concepts of the program of study, as well as school organizational approaches that could be best suited to the strategies required to maximize the effectiveness of the learning environment.

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.

As a part of a pilot program for innovative educators, KTA provided free licensing to several schools.

Out of those discussions, Morales pushed to expand MyOn, a digital library program piloted at Ramona, and Accelerated Reader, a comprehension assessment tool used in several schools, to all schools in the district.

Several districts that have been part of the pilot program testing evaluation models have included or plan to include student surveys, although not necessarily as part of a teacher's grade.

Current investments by states in preschool programs, as well as individual eligibility, vary significantly: Florida, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia each offer a program reaching more than 70 percent of the 4 - year - old children in their state, 133 although several other states have passed laws either establishing or piloting universal preschool programs.134

This includes the new teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform package contained in what is now Public Law 116, which will only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also battling reformers over another evaluation framework that uses student test score data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.

When Amazon announced the larger format Kindle DX in May, and along with it a pilot digital textbook program at several major US universities to be launched this fall — including Princeton, UVA, Case Western, Arizona State, and Reed College — we called it «a game changer.»

The pilot program that will begin in August includes libraries in several boroughs and sidesteps OverDrive in favor of 3M.

Several months ago, we piloted a program to deliver digital course materials to students enrolled in a select group of medical test prep programs These students were evaluated at the end of their courses to determine how using digital course materials affected their learning experiences, as well as how they felt about using the materials.

In an upcoming pilot program the consortium is planning to undertake with YBP, ebrary, and Ebook Library, he said, it would focus on several issues — such as which publishers would participate; making PDA - candidate records properly viewable in the union catalog; controlling spending on materials; and avoiding buying the same materials in both electronic and print versions.

For the past several years the AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF), in a joint venture with the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA), has piloted a registry program for genetic problems using four breeds in its initial phases.

Several DRU dogs have been accepted by the Pilot Program, have graduated with flying colors, and become working companions for the hearing or sight - impaired.

The school's structure acknowledges that contemporary artists have to be trained at the intersection of several fields — an approach exemplified by the school's new pilot program, the Masters in Art and Public Space, a two year program starting in fall 2014 that focuses on art in spaces outside of the traditional museum or exhibition institution.

«We have looked at a lot of these types of programs over the past several years, a small base of results but it's growing every ear as the programs expand beyond the pilot phase,» Feldman said.

Sales of popular hemp items like non-dairy milk, shelled seed, soaps and lotions have continued to increase, complemented by successful hemp cultivation pilot programs in several states, and increasing grassroots pressure to allow hemp to be grown domestically on a commercial scale once again for U.S. processors and manufacturers.

China, with several years of pilot project experience under its belt, is now committed to rolling out a cap - and - trade program in 2016 that will dwarf both the EU and Japan's programs, probably covering about 5,000 MMT of pollution.

The Law Practice Program (LPP) was established several years ago as an additional pathway to address this shortfall and to pilot a new approach to experiential training.

The Law Practice Program (LPP) was established several years ago as an additional pathway to address this shortfall and to pilot a...

In early 2016, the Law Practice Division, along with several other organizations, piloted a program to connect the students of these six HBCU law schools with practicing attorneys around the country.

The approach could eventually save millions of dollars, according to the pilot program's lead sponsor, Rep. Kimberly Dudik, a Democrat from Missoula, who is sponsoring several bills as part of the overhaul.»

Furthermore, the DOJ made public several declinations under the pilot program in 2016, conditional upon the disgorgement of profits resulting from the companies» FCPA violations.

Ed tech entrepreneurs looking ahead to the programs» next round of deadlines have been poking around, trying to figure out which of the several accelerators will help them reach the venture capitalists or pilot programs or beta customers they need to move ahead.

In one case, Magic Leap employees and partners apparently received several HoloLens headsets as part of Microsoft's developer pilot program, but (according to Magic Leap) they quickly sent them all back.