Sentences with phrase «statewide effort»

He is known for his work with thinking skills, having coordinated statewide efforts to develop instructional strategies, curriculum models, and assessment procedures for improving the quality of student thinking.

As an early educator, you may benefit from statewide efforts to make early education more accessible.

$ 10 million will support efforts to lower the overall cost of the systems and $ 3.5 million will fund a 2 - year statewide effort to educate local officials and first responders.

This video illustrates an unprecedented statewide effort to develop education leadership to address the needs, ability levels and talents of students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

He is well known for work with «thinking skills,» having coordinated statewide efforts to develop instructional strategies, curriculum models, and assessment procedures for improving the quality of student thinking.

Picente noted that Oneida County's efforts are part of statewide efforts to target... Read more

Coloradans Against Auto Theft (CAAT) was created to promote the cumulative statewide efforts in the prevention of auto theft.

In Colorado, the law attracted national attention in part because it bucked a trend of Republicans leading statewide efforts to implement merit pay and tenure reform.

He also was the principal investigator for an NIH - supported initiative that was the nation's first statewide effort to involve the general public in discussion of the Human Genome Project's ethical, legal, and social implications.

In her role as the director of the AHVN, she organizes statewide efforts to expand, coordinate, and develop the network of home visiting programs throughout the state and assists with grant compliance, quality assurance, and evaluation of programs.

The project was part of a larger statewide effort championed by the Sustainability in Prisons Project.

State and local leaders must start working on the massive statewide effort necessary to expand awareness of the Common Core (including the Next Generation Science Standards), train and prepare teachers, provide high - quality instructional materials and build the technology infrastructure for online assessment.

Producer Responsibility Resolution Supports statewide efforts to hold producers responsible for product waste and agencies to include producer responsibility language in city purchasing contracts.

CAAT was created to promote the cumulative statewide efforts in the prevention of auto theft.

The party that brought you AG Andrew Cuomo's upstate RV tour is now launching «Road to a 1000 Democratic Ideas», described in a press release as «new statewide effort to reach out to everyday New Yorkers for their ideas for improving New York government and solving the serious challenge facing the state.»

New Mexico continues statewide efforts to increase HPV vaccination for males and females.

His reforms expanded those of former governor Ann Richards, whose reforms built on those in places like Dallas and previous statewide efforts led by, of all people, Ross Perot.

Recent statewide efforts to make evaluations more rigorous and meaningful in New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Florida, Indiana, Rhode Island, Maryland, and Hawaii, for example, have resulted in the vast majority of teachers — often well over 90 % — continuing to receive ratings of «effective» or «highly effective.»

California's statewide effort created a voracious appetite for new educators, diluting teacher quality and encouraging well - off districts to strip - mine teachers from less affluent communities.

Starting next school year, three schools will offer new dual language programs in Washington County, and Iron County is set to start its first program as local schools fall in line with a burgeoning statewide effort to take advantage of the fact that the developing child brain is more adept at picking up languages.

It's time for California to update its graduation requirements to better align with district practices and other major statewide efforts to improve college readiness.

California could be saving up to 14 million acre - feet of untapped water — providing more than the amount of water used in all of California's cities in one year — with an aggressive statewide effort to use water - saving practices, reuse water, and capture lost stormwater....

Governor Kitzhaber Visits Quality - Rated Preschool to Highlight Statewide Efforts to Improve Early Learning Programs

Picente noted that Oneida County's efforts are part of statewide efforts to target unsafe driving over the Labor Day holiday and late summer peak driving season.

Fletcher Maynard is part of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative, the first statewide effort to lengthen the school day or school year.

From statewide efforts to increase renewable energy sources and ramp up energy efficiency, to supporting communities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, New York is working to address the threat of climate change.

«It is hard to conceive how a political party committee choosing to participate in the party's coordinated statewide effort to help elect the party's slate of candidates to the State Senate could be characterized as a mere straw donor in a conspiracy — unless you found evidence that the committee's officers and members were held hostage and forced to deposit and disburse funds at gunpoint.

«We need to be aware that brain injury is a risk factor, but parents shouldn't keep their kids out of sports because they fear a concussion will lead to dementia,» said Dr. Munro Cullum, a neuropsychologist who oversaw the study and is leading the nation's largest statewide effort to track concussions in youth sports.

The Massachusetts Children's Trust Fund leads statewide efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect by supporting parents and strengthening families.

North Dakota is in the middle of a massive statewide effort to attract new businesses, new development, and new industries.

, a statewide effort to help protect North Carolina's environment.?

Our Community Partners Program is a unique way for businesses and nonprofit organizations to offer great benefits to their employees while supporting Mass Audubon's statewide efforts to protect wildlife and wild lands.

In Washington State, as a statewide effort to provide guidance to encourage schools to offer salad bars that feature produce from school gardens and local farms, Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) published «SAFE Salad Bars in Schools - A Guide to School Food Service» to minimize the risk of foodborn illnesses.

SAFE (Safe and Fun to Eat) Salad Bars in Schools is a statewide effort to provide guidance to encourage schools to offer salad bars that feature produce from local farms and school gardens to minimize the risk of foodborn illnesses.

The mission of the Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition (PABC) is to facilitate community and statewide efforts to protect, support and promote breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The mission of the Coalition is to facilitate community and statewide efforts to protect, support and promote breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

As a condition of membership in the Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition, you agree to support the mission of the Coalition to facilitate community and statewide efforts to protect, support and promote breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

With your help, the Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition will help to facilitate community and statewide efforts to protect, support and promote breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth.

PABC facilitates community and statewide efforts to protect, support and promote breastfeeding.

Learn more about our Community Partners Program, a unique way for businesses and nonprofit organizations to offer great benefits for their employees, while supporting this wildlife sanctuary and Mass Audubon's statewide efforts to protect wildlife and wild lands.

Ohio's Help Me Grow Home Visiting program is a statewide effort to provide expectant or new parents with health and child development information.

Councilwoman Rosie Mendez has backed Schneiderman's statewide effort, calling him a «progressive champion» and a «real reformer with a record of getting things done.»

NEW YORK, NY (04/04/2012)(readMedia)-- As part of a statewide effort to build support for campaign finance reform, Common Cause / NY joined today with Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters and others in Syracuse.

These new treatment beds, either at one 50 - bed site or two 25 - bed sites, continue the Governor's statewide efforts to address the heroin and opioid epidemic including approving new opioid treatment programs in Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, Peekskill, Troy, Plattsburgh, Utica and Watertown, and other residential treatment beds in Staten Island and 130 new beds in Albany, Niagara, Suffolk and Westchester counties.

We would love nothing more than a statewide effort to address this problem rather than a patchwork of local laws.»

Safe Horizon joins a statewide effort to pass the Child Victims Act, legislation that if enacted would reform New York's overly rigid statute of limitation laws for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo begins his statewide effort to raise support for a tax cap, gay marriage bill and ethics reform the New Yorker's Family Research Foundation is starting a «Mayday for Marriage» RV tour.

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman launched a statewide effort on Monday to encourage the State legislature to pass the Abandoned Property Neighborhood Relief Act he proposed earlier this year.