Sentences with phrase «state efforts»

Moreover, this local approach is essential to the sustainability of state efforts as it builds a strong local constituency to advocate and support early childhood programs with their local and state elected leaders.

Here's a brief that discusses state efforts in promoting SEL.

These matching grants support state efforts to increase the number of low - income students prepared for and succeeding in college.

This short policy snapshot provides a helpful starting point for state policymakers to learn more about recent state efforts to adopt or expand competency - based education.

I encourage districts to review the plan, as it is a road map for state efforts to improve opportunities and outcomes for our AI / AN students.

Instead, the administration developed state - based conservation plans that built on existing state efforts to protect the bird.

They will announce new federal legislation to encourage state efforts to expand school choice and educational opportunity.

But preliminary analyses showed a slight negative relationship between state efforts to improve teacher quality and student - achievement gains.

Little analysis has been conducted on actual past state efforts to bring about such changes or the political dynamics around the issue.

Learn from experts and researchers in the field as well as other state teams to better connect state efforts to support educators and the implementation of high standards in the classroom.

While state efforts may prioritize certain gears over others based on local needs, establishing this ecosystem is critical for district success.

Although their plans differ, each state is responsible for organizing a small group of local leaders who will form a backbone agency to align state efforts.

This report provides a snapshot of state efforts to promote prenatal health and improve birth outcomes, including but not limited to home visiting.

State efforts in standards - based education over the past decade have had a positive, but modest, relationship with gains in student achievement.

The recent state efforts to trim tests for third through eighth graders wouldn't shrink those fixed costs because they happen every day a test is given, regardless of its length.

- Learn from experts and researchers in the field as well as other state teams to better connect state efforts to support educators and the implementation of high standards in the classroom.

This joint report by ZERO TO THREE and CLASP draws on research on state efforts to expand and enhance access to Early Head Start (EHS) services for infants, toddlers, and their families.

This ZERO TO THREE paper highlights the MIECHV program's role in enhancing state efforts to build high - quality, comprehensive statewide early childhood systems.

ELIZABETHTOWN — A local nonprofit is ringing the bell to ensure some of the Adirondack Park's most remote homes will benefit from state efforts to expand broadband service.

Earlier State efforts at defining and measuring learning outcomes have not yielded much progress, thus compelling the GoI to commit to the development of a learning outcomes policy that will be applied to both government and private schools (note: state academic standards in the U.S. apply only to public school systems).

To coordinate state efforts to improve children's readiness for school, Ohio Governor John Kasich created an Early Education and Development Officer position within the Governors Office of 21st Centu...

Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, who met with President Bush at the White House yesterday, has been trying to persuade him to intensify United States efforts to curb greenhouse gases.

On January 23, an EPA employee leaked that agency staff were instructed to put a freeze on all grants and contracts, which delegate and fund state efforts such as water quality testing and air pollution monitoring.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Governor Cuomo announced a new state effort to educate bar owners, security, and staff of licensed establishments about new security features included on driver licenses, permits, and ID cards issued by the state.

Though some of the challenges involved in passing An Act Establishing Early Education for All are state - specific, the six strategies employed in Massachusetts by Strategies for Children (SFC), the umbrella nonprofit organization created to oversee the EEA campaign, can inform other state efforts to establish universal high - quality early education.

launched in 2008 in order to better understand state efforts related to bicycling and provide a comparative framework that allows states to easily identify areas of improvement.

Apart from the national consortia, there are individual state efforts as well as outside companies writing tests in hopes of profiting from the switch to new standards.

The governor highlighted state efforts to cut taxes, but focused on what he called «unsustainable property taxes» levied by municipalities.

State efforts so far include expanding insurance coverage for treatment and a law requiring drug prescribers to consult a state database to check patient prescription histories.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

Other cross state efforts are under way as well.

The proposal includes an increase in charter school funding; $ 167 million for the Charter Schools program to strengthen significant State efforts to start new charter schools or expand and replicate existing high - performing charter schools.

The Bicycle Friendly State program was launched in 2008 in order to better understand state efforts related to bicycling and provide a comparative framework that allows states to easily identify areas of improvement.

This session covered successful state efforts on centralizing intake, standardizing policies and procedures, identifying core indicators and performance measures and training for home visiting professionals.

An important example is a victorious 28 - state effort resulting in a Supreme Court stay on the Obama Administration's centerpiece Clean Power Plan (CPP) that is aimed at shutting down America's coal industry.

The organization's President, Jan Withers, stated efforts such as the current safety campaign have been shown to reduce impaired driving fatalities by as much as 20 percent.

«Data gained from this survey will help us better define State efforts around recruitment and retention,» he wrote.

One of the less well - known values of the MIECHV program is its role in enhancing and helping intensify state efforts to create strong systems of services that use public resources efficiently and meet families» needs more effectively.

Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealing them.

This prompted Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to remind the Angelides Commission that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision were «actively engaged in a campaign to thwart state efforts to avert the coming crisis.»

He adds that while aggressive state efforts to prevent foreclosures kept some Boston - area distressed properties off the market for a while, many such homes are finally going up for sale.

Comprehensive and multi-faceted waste reduction education programs serving a quarter of the state's population, and achieving solid waste diversion and reduction numbers that lead state efforts.

As I wrote here and on Civil Eats, the BAKE SALE Act and similar state efforts to bring back school junk food fundraising make perfect sense in the short term.

The Supreme Court has dismissed moves by Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome to stop the valuation of his properties by the government as part of efforts to retrieve the GhC47.2 million that he owes the state

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not attend the ribbon cutting but praised the new facility, saying it is part of a broader state effort to ensure that all New Yorkers struggling with addiction have access to quality care.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the decision «reckless» and said New York will continue to be a green energy leader, citing state efforts to achieving 50 percent of electricity from renewables by 2030.

A New York State effort to more tightly regulate the prepaid cards on which many employees receive their wages was struck down by a review board, which ruled that the state's Labor Department exceeded its authority in imposing fee limits and other restrictions on the cards.