Sentences with phrase «statewide pilot program»

The state will take part in a mandatory, statewide pilot program for the next two years.

In 1995, Act 192 created a statewide pilot program that allowed up to eight school districts to volunteer to either grant charters to eligible groups or apply to operate a charter school themselves.

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Statewide Training and Technical Assistance for School Districts focused on local procurement and the Unprocessed Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program.

But that study helped stimulate a similar three - year pilot program in 15 schools statewide by the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training program, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The program, which has been designated a statewide pilot, serves women in the Humboldt Park, West Town and Logan Square neighborhoods.

The only statewide candidate participating in the pilot public campaign finance program says it's been slow going.

The only statewide candidate who is participating in a pilot public campaign finance program says it's been slow going, but Republican candidate for Comptroller Bob Antonacci expects to collect enough individual donors to qualify for the state matching funds.

States that receive the pilot waiver would also be given the opportunity, after five years, to further extend the program another two years, with the goal of scaling up the new assessment system and running it statewide.

One of the candidates on the GOP statewide ticket, comptroller candidate Bob Antonacci, is participating in public financing for his campaign under a pilot program approved in the state budget and limited to that race only.

The announcement, made last Wednesday during the governor's State of the State address, described the pilot program as a way to evaluate the effectiveness of a statewide medical marijuana system by allowing eligible participants to legally seek relief from pain and discomfort.

Under the pilot program — and the program Cuomo included in his budget — statewide candidates who choose to participate need to raise $ 200,000 from at least 2,000 New York State residents.

On Monday, he touted a $ 500 million second phase of the «Buffalo Billion» initiative, a $ 2 billion investment in drinking water infrastructure statewide and a far smaller $ 35 million investment in a pilot program to provide after - school services to children in 16 cities.

State Attorney Eric Schneiderman was to announce late Friday morning a pilot program that will make available to land banks statewide $ 4 million for New Yorkers to take over «zombie homes» in their neighborhoods and rehab them into affordable rental housing.

Education took center stage in Iowa's 2006 legislative session, resulting in measures to boost teacher salaries, start a pilot program that bases teacher pay on student achievement, expand preschool, and establish statewide graduation requirements.

Secretary da Silva called this method of teaching «teacher - present high school with technological mediation,» and he wanted to know: Would the IDB be willing to make an investment that would help the program transform from an experimental pilot into a radically new, statewide model for education?

Earlier this year Joseph Bast, president of the pro-voucher Heartland Institute, wrote: «Pilot voucher programs for the urban poor will lead the way to statewide universal voucher plans.

The program was initially piloted in New Orleans in 2008; Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and the state legislature expanded the LSP statewide in 2012, allowing thousands of public school students to transfer out of their residentially assigned schools and into private schools of their choosing.

Initially established in 2008 as a pilot program in New Orleans, the LSP was expanded statewide in 2012.

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

Joining the Jersey City representatives were Tanya Tenturier, an Elizabeth fourth - grade teacher, principal Genar Mills of Newark's Malcolm X. Shabazz High School, and Bob Fisicaro, coordinator of the statewide pilot evaluation program, Excellent Education New Jersey (EENJ).

The state piloted the program the past two years with plans to roll it out statewide this year.

The Dept. of Education posted draft regulations for ESSA's «Innovative Assessment» pilot program, which grants states the flexibility to administer «Innovative Assessments» to a subsect of their schools in place of their exiting statewide assessments.

The Michigan State School Aid Act allocates funding for MIBLSI to pilot a program that will develop, enhance, and expand statewide systems of support for intermediate school districts and schools implementing an evidence - based, multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all students.

In Missouri, the mandated link between evaluations and standardized test score was removed prior to the final passage of the legislation, whereas in Connecticut, Malloy's plan now provides for a 10 district pilot program linking evaluations and test scores before the concept is spread statewide.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program began as a small pilot program in 2008 and was expanded statewide iProgram began as a small pilot program in 2008 and was expanded statewide iprogram in 2008 and was expanded statewide in 2012.

Statewide dual credit courses must be approved by the Consortium for Cooperative Innovative Education before they can be offered as part of the state's current pilot program.

But ESSA also creates a pilot program allowing up to seven states to experiment with local assessments that could eventually be used statewide.73 As under NCLB, test results must be disaggregated and reported at the school level and by student subgroups, such as racial and ethnic groups, students designated as economically disadvantaged, and students with disabilities.

After a year of planning, the program is slated to pilot in 30 to 40 Detroit schools before expanding statewide.

The agency will use the money to conduct statewide training on school accountability metrics that the State Board of Education will approve in September and a pilot program to work with districts that have identified areas needing improvement.

Subsequent to DOT's establishment of the pilot program, Congress enacted Section 192 as a General Provision in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, that expressly authorizes DOT to permit the use of hiring preferences for construction projects if the grantee certifies that a pool of readily available but unemployed skilled individuals are available to meet the preference, that it will include a provision in its bid document ensuring that the contractor will not displace any employees in order to meet the preference, and that any increase in costs will not delay or displace any transportation project in the applicable Statewide Transportation Improvement Program or Transportation Improvement Pprogram, Congress enacted Section 192 as a General Provision in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, that expressly authorizes DOT to permit the use of hiring preferences for construction projects if the grantee certifies that a pool of readily available but unemployed skilled individuals are available to meet the preference, that it will include a provision in its bid document ensuring that the contractor will not displace any employees in order to meet the preference, and that any increase in costs will not delay or displace any transportation project in the applicable Statewide Transportation Improvement Program or Transportation Improvement PProgram or Transportation Improvement ProgramProgram.

The Massachusetts State Ebook Project (MA EBook Project), conceived by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioner's (MBLC) Statewide Resource Sharing Committee and the Massachusetts Library System (MLS), with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), this summer concluded a pilot program, offering many insights into the challenges and promises that statewide consortial ebook lending programs mStatewide Resource Sharing Committee and the Massachusetts Library System (MLS), with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), this summer concluded a pilot program, offering many insights into the challenges and promises that statewide consortial ebook lending programs mstatewide consortial ebook lending programs may offer.

The Legal Services Corporation Announces Pilot States for Innovative Program to Increase Access to Justice — LSC, Microsoft, and Pro Bono Net to Partner with Alaska and Hawaii to Create Statewide Legal Access Portals https://www.lsc.gov/media-center/press-releases/2017/legal-services-corporation-announces-pilot-states-innovative

Due to the success of this pilot program in Palm Beach County, Operation Green Light went statewide on April 18, 2015, collecting $ 5.4 million in revenue, processing 27,000 cases and reinstating or making eligible for reinstatement 9,500 drivers» licenses in Florida.

An ambitious evaluation in 1999 of a statewide home visiting program in Hawaii failed to demonstrate any substantial improvements in either maternal or child development and health outcomes.18 Although these findings contradicted previous smaller studies and evaluations of earlier pilot programs, the comprehensiveness of this evaluation led to further examination of the evidence base for home visiting.

Under a California Association of REALTORS ® pilot program, launched in March 2012, a member's suspension by one local association for failure to comply with sanctions takes effect statewide after a CAR review.