Sentences with phrase «system task force»

She is a past - president of the Toronto Real Estate Board, where she served as chair of the finance committee and buyer registry system task force and as a member of the government relations, arbitration and education committees.

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You want to use a to - do list not just as a list of tasks, but as a system for forcing you to think about what's most important to you.

The managers were then grouped into small task forces around these goals where they worked directly with an executive to create solutions to these problems, which ranged from HR initiatives (resulting in things like new performance review methods and a new attendance system) to customer - level projects (such as a customer referral program).

The Financial Stability Board, an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system, recently announced the appointment of experts in responsible investment, sustainable finance, risk management and climate change to head its new task force on climate - change - related disclosures.

In its announcement on Tuesday, the federal task force said it wants product safety and lab testing to be «a cornerstone» of the new regulated system.

If you feel your attention to your task waning and your mind wandering, don't force yourself to keep your nose to the grindstone — get up and walk around for a while, ideally outside where you can reboot your mental system and refresh your energy.

After reviewing, the task force has come to the same conclusion in its report, due to the principle that organic farming is an integrated system — starting with soil health.

The objective for this task force is to work on initiatives that will improve interprofessional collaboration and communication within the U.S. maternity care system.

She appointed a task force to review the assessment system, plans to boost staffing at the Assessment Department and promised to hire a credentialed assessor to run the agency.

Brian would be the ideal partner for my Mighty Waters task force to lead development and preservation efforts along the canal to spur economic development and showcase the rich heritage of our state's canal system.»

Poloncarz added, «This task force will serve as a strong deterrent against local providers» taking advantage of the system and, in instances when we identify waste, fraud or abuse, we now will have the ability to actually recover improper or illegal payments made to these providers.

De Blasio is creating a task force to grapple with the space crisis in the city's school system — and is including supporters of charters.

The proposed fixes for Penn Station include the implementation of a task force, which will have two roles: figure out alternative modes of transit to alleviate the problems that are sure to arise as a result of Amtrak's forthcoming month or so of track closures (which Cuomo's presentation calls a «summer of hell»), and look into long - term fixes for the ailing train system.

The task force recommended a revamp of the common core system, more stakeholder input, a reduction in standardized testing, and increased local control over standards and curriculum.

Again wielding an executive action to advance his education reform agenda, Cuomo said in a video released Monday that the task force's mission is to «overhaul the Common Core system.»

ALBANY — When he unveiled his new Common Core task force Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a «total reboot» of the state's system, citing an urgent need for change amid a growing protest movement.

Because if the parents don't have trust in the education system, then you have nothing and that's where we are now,» Cuomo concluded, setting the stage for next steps by his administration and the state education department, which is doing its own common core review (new SED Commissioner MaryEllen Elia was named to Cuomo's task force, so there appears to be some, if not significant, overlap).

This includes the legalization of ride - hailing services like Uber in upstate areas, funding for a hate - crimes task force and an unknown system of «relief on property taxes.»

In its draft report of recommendations to the governor, the Common Core task force is calling for an overhaul of the state's testing system, the creation of new state standards and transparency on those standards» rollout, according to a copy obtained by POLITICO New York.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, admits the deal would be a «compromise», but it would be better than the current system, where a legislative task force draws the lines.

Mayor de Blasio is creating a task force to grapple with the space crisis in the city's school system — and is including supporters of charters.

The task force will be aimed at reviewing the structure of the state's court system as well as his multiple layers of courts.

ALBANY, NY (11/14/2008)(readMedia)-- CSEA has decided to end participation in a labor - management task force designed to help transform New York's juvenile justice system.

None of those fees should be charged, the task force said, until repairs are made to the public transit system.

«The task force is more than justified, more than earns its keep and plays a vital role in keeping the system on its toes,» said former Family Court Judge Gregory J. Blass, who chaired the task force until it ended in 2011.

A federal task force on 911 systems that sought an explanation from New York officials about the diversion of surcharge money says it got no answers.

ALBANY, NY (06/25/2009)(readMedia)-- New York's leading union is praising Sen. Catharine Young and other state senators for the creation of a special legislative task force aimed at «fixing the broken New York state juvenile justice system.»

Although the Common Core task force wasn't asked by the governor to review the politically fraught teacher evaluation system, the group had felt compelled to make a recommendation on it, the source familiar with the task force previously told POLITICO New York.

The problem, says Rosenthal, of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, is that most of these people don't enter the health system via the traditional medical route that Cuomo's task force would recommend.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo's task force to cut the cost and improve the most expensive Medicaid system in the nation said more than $ 1.1 billion can be cut while improving service to the one in four New Yorkers it serves.

One 2007 Centers for Disease Control task force study, «Effects on Violence of Laws and Policies Facilitating the Transfer of Youth from the Juvenile to the Adult Justice System,» states that the transferring of children under the age of 18 into the adult criminal justice system increases the rate of violence behavior and makes it more likely for them to return to the system after they serve theirSystem,» states that the transferring of children under the age of 18 into the adult criminal justice system increases the rate of violence behavior and makes it more likely for them to return to the system after they serve theirsystem increases the rate of violence behavior and makes it more likely for them to return to the system after they serve theirsystem after they serve their time.

Cuomo also is creating a new voter registration task force made up of members of his administration to oversee the effort, including ways to create «secure» online voting registration systems in different state agencies, similar to the ones already used by the Department of Motor Vehicles.

«Although some of these changes represent modest improvements, we're very disappointed that after months of discussion the city fails to recognize that we can't create a stronger Midtown if we don't reliably invest in the transit system, predictably fund public space improvements, protect landmark worthy buildings, and make sure that New Yorkers have a real voice in the future of their skyline,» Lola Finkelstein, chairwoman of a multi-board task force comprised of Community Boards 1, 4, 5 and 6, said in a statement.

THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the public retirement systems, including the retirement plan trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and

The task force will recommend and implement strategies to ensure proper diversion routes and treatment for people with mental illness or substance abuse within the criminal justice system, as well as before and after contact with the system.

The agenda, five months in the making, includes bills that call for the creation of a task force to assess the city university system's affordability, admissions and graduation rates, a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices, sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers, a street co-naming for the original Ms. Magazine headquarters and expanding the definition of employer under the human rights law to offer protections for domestic workers.

In September, the task force was tasked by Cuomo with reviewing the standards as he called for a «total reboot» of the Common Core system.

The Association of Public and Land - Grant Universities (APLU)-- which comprises more than 230 institutions and university systems from every state, the District of Columbia, Mexico, Canada, Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands — has formed a task force on laboratory safety.

But we always believed it was the right thing to do for patient and employee safety,» says Dr. Weinmann, who leads the health system's immunization task force and was an early champion of the mandatory policy.

The task force recommendation to harden venting systems should be fast - tracked too, he said.

One of STEREO's most important tasks will be tracking solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which pack the force of a billion - megaton nuclear bomb and are the most powerful explosions in the solar system.

Everglades scientists worked with an intergovernmental task force to establish a transparent reporting system that assesses the progress of ecosystem restoration efforts.

Dr. Cohn co-chaired a task force that created recommendations for a global evaluation system for neuroblastoma.

Toward the end of its review of the commission's work, the task force states, «Education reform will only come about in the United States when the delivery system itself is reconstructed around clear principles, sound ideas and learning - centered rules, incentives and power relationships.»

The task force is right to emphasize the need for transparency in the education system.

Several years ago, Governor Chris Christie appointed you to a task force charged with making recommendations for a new statewide education - evaluation system.

Going beyond Risk, the task force calls for «an accountability system with consequences,» such as rewards and sanctions whose result, it is hoped, will be that taxpayers will no longer have to continue paying for ineffective schools.

The publishers» task force, which is expected to report to state textbook directors next year, could recommend the first changes in decades in the system, which in 15 states requires storage of textbooks in a central location before they are distributed to districts.

• There was near unanimity among the task force members (myself excluded), the State Board of Education, and the California Department of Education that NCLB - era accountability systems were excessively punitive, and that the focus should instead be on «continuous improvement,» rather than «test - and - punish.»

And he cited a 2014 task force report commissioned by his Democratic predecessor, Martin O'Malley, that concluded «there was no quantifiable evidence that a post-Labor Day start is harmful to local schools systems.»