Sentences with phrase «significant national effort»

This review assesses the most significant national effort to date to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: the 2008 Council of Australian Governments» (COAG) Closing the Gap Strategy with its target to achieve life expectancy (health) equality by 2030.

Like Gary Mendell, Stacie Mathewson has also turned personal tragedy at the hands of addiction into a significant national effort to improve prevention science, practice and policy.

Not exact matches

In three - fourths of the plans for mental health reported from all the states in a national mental health planning effort a few years ago, the clergyman was listed as a significant helping person.

Like the national labor relations legislation of the 1930s, it represents a significant Congressional effort to find a path between laissez - faire and direct state intervention into social relationships.

The long - standing chaos of Argentine football has been a constant drain on the national side, with significant weight and pressure placed on every match as an effort to lift the country as a whole.

... nevertheless, Christie is enjoying significant influence in D.C., spearheading a new national anti-addiction effort, talking to the president several times per week, and recently spending much of two days in the Oval Office advising Trump.

A more significant reshuffle will take place tomorrow than last Monday's troubled effort by the prime minister, when the election results are announced for three new party member posts on Labour's ruling national executive committee (NEC).

► How intellectual property (IP) ownership is awarded to academics can have a significant effect on their commercialization efforts, according to a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research that Mervis reported on (subscription required), also in this week's issue.

One such effort is the nascent national Cancer Syndicate, which Brenner is sure will acquire the necessary critical mass to «become a very significant contributor to basic biological research.»

Even if the so - called Clean Power Plan survives the legal gantlet, however, the United States will still fall short in meeting its pledged reductions for 2025 without significant additional efforts, according to researchers at the federal government's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.

Also today, NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large - scale, systematic approach to identify important genomic changes involved in cancer.

Sept. 29, 2017 - Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 on Tuesday presented Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with a regional - level award for significant efforts in reducing waste.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

NGA has «led national efforts to encourage significant input» from stakeholders and...

Washington, D.C. --(March 23, 2016)-- The State of Our Schools: America's K — 12 Facilities report, released today by the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the 21st Century School Fund and the National Council on School Facilities, shows that the nation faces a projected annual shortfall of $ 46 billion in school funding, despite significant effort on the part of local communities.

School District of Philadelphia's financial woes became a national story last week when the New York Times featured a piece on the district's efforts to borrow $ 50 million to make up a significant funding shortfall that actually threatened the start of the school year.

To achieve this vision, combined state, district, and school efforts must close significant and persistent achievement gaps, which occur when one student group statistically outperforms another.18 However, data from international, national, and state - level sources all confirm that nonwhite, disabled, poor, and non-English-speaking students perform more poorly than their peers outside of these groups.19

The timing of the coordinated effort by Pressbooks and BiblioBoard is significant: the beta version of Pressbooks Public is being created during the ongoing international November «NaNoWriMo» National Novel Writing Month project, which runs through November and sees many fledgling and veteran writers produce a first draft of a book in 30 days.

Bottom line: This is part of a significant effort to improve national standards governing credit reporting and scoring, a system that many people continue to feel treats them poorly, based on the volume of complaints.

Over the past 7 years, faculty at UC Davis have committed significant time and effort into transforming the School of Veterinary Medicine into a national leader for veterinary regenerative medicine.

A collaborative effort to enhance creative tourism in the region, Bonavista Biennale is a unique rural - based national event that is fast becoming a significant element within the Canadian cultural landscape.

That conference started the modern conservation movement and planted the seed for the National Parks System and significant state efforts to protect land.»

Witness the Arctic provides information on current Arctic research efforts and findings, significant research initiatives, national policy affecting Arctic research, international activities, and profiles of institutions with major Arctic research efforts.

Documents examined by CMD expose a national effort by the Milwaukee - based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to defund and dismantle unions, the most significant force for higher wages and better working conditions in America.

The newsletter serves an audience of Arctic scientists, educators, agency personnel, and policy makers and provides information on current Arctic research efforts and findings, significant research initiatives, science education, national policy affecting Arctic research, and related international activities.

Most egregiously, this has led to the axing of primary health care research, development and evaluation with the loss of the PHCRED Strategy and BEACH; mental health reforms floundering between Primary Health Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisations.

Such cuts, in addition to being fiscally shortsighted, represent a significant setback to the national effort to close the gap.

In 2010 - 2012 the Closing the Gap health reforms associated with the Closing the Gap Strategy were just getting started.Because of this time lag, the Campaign Steering Committee believe that significant increases in life expectancy, like those seen among the Maori, should be expected before the early 2020s if the national effort to close the gap is maintained.

While there have been substantial efforts made in the first 12 months of the new arrangements to identify processes for engaging with Indigenous peoples, significant gaps remain in Indigenous representation at local, regional and national levels.

NAR is meeting with several of the largest national mortgage lenders in an effort to communicate REALTOR ® concerns and discuss how we can work together to make significant improvements to both the origination and short sale processes.