Sentences with phrase «supporting this initiative because»

«The Nation supported the initiative because we have experienced firsthand how responsible gaming can provide vital financial support for communities, creating good - paying jobs and providing opportunities for young adults to move back home for career advancement.»

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) supports this initiative because high - speed connectivity is vital for preparing students and communities for success in a competitive global economy.

In fact, companies are already supporting this initiative because it is the right thing to do.

Not exact matches

«The need for some of the local value initiatives is somewhat reduced because we're putting the national muscle to play here to support the program,» said CEO Steve Easterbrook.

Many professors are engaged in environmental or social research initiatives — despite a lack of significant faculty support — because they understand the underlying trends in the business and engineering communities.

«Incalculable and unaccountable», I say, for the narratives constantly betray a baffled wonderment; but not magical or irrational, because they are congruous with the account which Jesus gave of the character of God: the «Father in heaven», who is «good» with a goodness beyond justice, (Mark 10:18; Matthew 5: 45; Luke 6: 35; Matthew 20: 1 - 15) supported by sufficient power; (Mark 10: 27, 14:36) and who persistently takes the initiative in giving good gifts to His creatures.

«When men and women put on a pink ribbon it's because of the support for the breast cancer initiative,» he said.

NEA is proud to support initiatives that increase student participation in school breakfast, because our children are counting on us.

Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton thanked Ms. Gangopadhyay for the pivotal support of IMLS, «because strong collaborations are vital to the most successful initiatives, such as this one.

«On my own initiative I have conducted a search and I know that if we should go for a re-run 10 times Nii Noi will win - that is a fact because he has a large support base in that constituency, but the way we treated Addison and Nii Adjei Tawiah is not fair.

Now, I don't want to be too cynical - if you wanted people to support a constitutional amendment which relinquishes sovereignty to Canada, you'd need a huge amount of social influence over a prolonged period of time; but some of the existing initiatives for constitutional amendments are challenging mostly because of active minority groups applying pressure in both directions rather than staunch popular opinion.

This initiative [the minimum wage], the push, if you will, happens to be higher profile because it has a coalition behind it that is supporting it,» Cuomo said.

Such attacks are unlikely to be unleashed on Ms. Davids, an unemployed single mother, and the NYC Parents Union because they have been past allies of the UFT regarding parent leadership, supporting the community schools initiative, pushing charter schools to enroll more special ed students, and keeping teacher evaluations private.

«With this partnership, no farmer would suffer anything as far as farming is concerned because this initiative would go a long way to support all there needs and bring a difference into the system.

The government can not release public funds to support the John Evans Atta Mills Presidential Library in Cape Coast because the memorial and research facility is a private initiative.

«It is a little bit difficult for us to win this competition because we already won over a billion and a half dollars in state support for our strategic initiatives including this one, Buffalo Manufacturing Works, but I would say this team is very impressed by the turnaround they've seen in Western New York and Buffalo in particular,» WNY REDC co-chairman Jeff Belt said.

It might be that the Commons would vote for one of the two measures, or even both, because enough Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs would support them: it is arguable that Ed Miliband would not oppose the Baron initiative, in particular.

Congress should support this Administration's clean energy initiatives because our economic future depends on building the clean energy industries of tomorrow.

Because of individuals like you, we now touch the lives of tens - of - thousands of women with PCOS and their supporters each year through television and radio programming, a magazine publication, online and offline support groups, health screenings, research, grants, education, awareness and advocacy initiatives.

«Sometimes a school decides to take part because one of their pupils has a liver disease but with senior schools in particular we find that pupils are often encouraged to take part in fundraising initiatives and prefer to support a smaller charity.

For the best development I chose Race to the Top, because the initiative, the key reform effort of the Obama Administration, demonstrated broad political support for charters, merit pay and data - driven education reform.

When questions are asked in that way, apparent support for an initiative will drop, because many people might support the idea even though they can not predict its effects.

That's because data helps you by empowering you to not just provide information but to tell a story about your process of delivering value to the business and employees whom your eLearning projects and initiatives support.

Stacey, who works only two days a week as a specialist teacher at Holy Family but gives up almost all her spare time to support the initiative, was chosen because of the incredible commitment and passion she puts into running Sky Sports Living for Sport projects — supporting students» progress not just for one term but throughout their entire school life.

Now, I'm more inclined to listen to the naysayer, because when implementing a mobile administrator initiative, you need to consider the following support issues before implementation:

And because this analysis is limited to initiatives under Title II, Part A, it is not an exhaustive list of states» strategies to improve the educator workforce; rather this brief highlights a few noteworthy states that have proposed promising teacher pipeline initiatives that they are either starting or continuing with support from Title II, Part A of ESSA.

Historically, voucher initiatives have struggled to gain support, says Mathews, because of persistent Democratic Party and educator opposition.

The candidate said she opposes charter schools because of the state's poor economic climate, even though she supported a charter - school initiative four years ago.

Teachers in elementary schools whose principals score in the top 20 % on Factor 1 say that «things [new initiatives] will be supported because they are related to a greater vision.»

We are taking a leadership role in this initiative because we consistently hear from our members across the Commonwealth who are increasingly concerned that our schools do not have adequate time, training, support, and resources to develop students» social - emotional skills.

Nonetheless, a new effort is under way, and it better have enthusiastic support because backers will have only about a month to gather signatures before the state is finished processing the initiative, which was filed just Tuesday.

Too often, SBM schools don't enthusiastically support districtwide initiatives because the people in them feel too detached from the decisions that launched them.

Too often, new initiatives fail at schools because the professional development needed to support educators comes to a halt when training ends.

School districts should consider connecting with these initiatives because they were designed to help every student navigate the college - going process, raise awareness about college access tools and resources, enhance student support systems by building the capacity of the school counseling profession, and reach students through social media platforms sharing their successes through the «UpNext» free college access tool and «College Signing Day» and «Beating The Odds Summit» events.

«We partnered with BloomBoard because of the platform's impressive set of features and high - quality content that support, motivate, and record progress on our teachers» unique personal learning needs and goals, as well as larger district initiatives,» said Dr. Philip W.V. Hickman, Superintendent at Columbus Municipal School District.

Wisconsin's governor got away with undermining collective bargaining BECAUSE he has a right - wing Republican legislature to support is anti-union, anti-public employee, anti-teacher, anti-public education initiatives.

«This initiative also excites me because of the support and modeling that these teacher - leaders will be able to provide for our staff, thus making us all more effective.

Yet, because there has been such a bombardment on parents to support the Milwaukee Parental Choice program coupled with the Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program (aka the MPS Takeover) presented by State Senator Alberta Darling and Representative Dale Kooyenga, many people have never heard of the Community Schools initiative.

On the evaluation I turned in, I was very honest and let them know I could not support their efforts because of their thoughts on potential model - dog legislation and their 3 - point national initiative.

We have to come together as a unified industry and show support for initiatives like the Purdue Canine Care Certified program, which ensures more uniform regulations and higher standards for breeders because, without them, we're simply going to have a dog shortage.

In e-mail messages and interviews, many other scientists said they supported the group's push for a greatly expanded effort in basic energy research but did not sign the letter because they differed on the appropriate amount to be spent or on some aspects of how such an initiative should be carried out.

Climate Neutral Now supports this objective, because it is an initiative that acts as a climate action tool: its work contributes to the objective of limiting the raise of the temperature by proposing an immediate and economically advantageous set of climate actions: measure, reduce and offset with trustworthy units, vetted by the United Nations.

wouldn't tell the public that the problem is not the Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authorities.

Identifying and supporting children at risk of not reaching their potential in the educational system because of poor attendance, participation and retention via initiatives such as breakfast clubs; homework clubs; afterschool supports; mentoring programmes.