Sentences with phrase «small number of initiatives»

A small number of initiatives aim to widen participation in SRM research.

The best strategy for schools is to have a small number of initiatives that everyone commits to for the long haul.

Overall, the foundation is spending about $ 20 million a year to «leverage change in public education — especially in schools serving disadvantaged students — through large strategic investments in a small number of initiatives that bolster student achievement.»

Strategic CSR moves beyond good corporate citizenship and mitigating harmful value chain impacts to mount a small number of initiatives whose social and business benefits are large and distinctive.

Not exact matches

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

There are a number of things governments could do to strengthen economic growth and the platforms of all the parties contain small initiatives that might help.

Prime Minister Harper and Finance Minister Joe Oliver were so confident that this commitment was a «no - brainer» that the Prime Minister announced in a «mini-budget» in October, the Family Tax Cut, and increases to the Universal Child Care Benefit along with a number of other small initiatives.

Struggling economic conditions and cost - containment initiatives led to lower demand for office space and restrained pricing across many Southern European markets including Madrid, Milan, Rome, Athens and a number of smaller markets such as Valencia and Oporto.

MeetMe is a smaller player in the social networking space, but it has undertaken a number of initiatives to boost its customer base.

This pioneering initiative began when CSU supplemented the California 11th grade math and English language arts / literacy exams with a small number of additional items so the tests would measure CSU's standards for readiness for credit - bearing courses.

Fiddling whilst teacher supply burns, the Government has engaged in a number of small, localised initiatives which fail to begin to address the scale of the teacher supply problem.

As the initiative gained momentum and began opening small schools in a diverse number of settings across the state, we provided intensive technical assistance to several of the demonstration sites, including McMinnville Academy of Communication Arts, South Medford High School, and Woodburn High School.

The new initiative also will provide a total of $ 1.5 million to a smaller set of leading districts — Tulsa and Washington, D.C. — that already have taken steps to strengthen principal supervisors by reducing the number of principals they oversee, downplaying compliance and building supervisors» skills.

Finally, Oakland should expect the next superintendent to advance a small number of strategic priorities — not a long list of projects and initiatives that lead nowhere but an empty wallet.

Over the years the bookseller has unveiled a series of small initiatives that are not game changing in itself, but do appeal to a select number of users.

Production is characterised by small pockets of basic volume product, thousands of small community groups and artisans, and a growing number of pioneering sustainable production units and initiatives.

He was involved in persuading Donald Trump to leave the Paris climate accords and has spearheaded a number of rollbacks of Obama - era initiatives, including reversing the Clean Power Plan, as well as smaller repeals like on a ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which has been shown to cause developmental problems in children.

«I was part of one of the first intakes of students in the PRIME initiative, whereby a small number of secondary school students are shown a taste of what life is like in a law firm.

CFTKAW lawyers say the NAIC report proposed that these actions should range from activities common to most states, such as the creation of rate comparison guides or the implementation of restrictions on underwriting guidelines, to initiatives unique to a small number of states such as comprehensive programs to provide low - cost liability policies to low - income drivers.

In her role with KHF, Marguerite has supported the Director in relation to the overall strategic planning of the Foundation's work and in particular the planning and development of a number of new programmes / initiatives including the Tallaght West Small Grants Programme (2004 - 2006), the Parent and Toddler Group Initiative (2006 - 2008) and more recently with the Parenting Support Initiative (PSI)(2013 - 2016) and the new Nurture Programme - Infant Health and Wellbeing (2014 - 2017).