Sentences with phrase «under his initiative came»

These top - of - the - morning meetings, which under his initiative came to take up the first 45 minutes of each school day at Bruns and later at Newell Elementary, are a central feature of a revamped curriculum that puts an emphasis on social - emotional learning — that is, development of character, empathy, selfmanagement, and other life skills that lie outside the domain of the three R's.

«These top - of - the - morning meetings, which under his initiative came to take up the first 45 minutes of each school day at Bruns and later at Newell Elementary, are a central feature of a revamped curriculum that puts an emphasis on social - emotional learning — that is, development of character, empathy, self management, and other life skills that lie outside the domain of the three R's.

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Fast service chains have come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years over obscuring the nutritional content of their foods, and Taco Bell has taken initiative to be different.

The enhanced station initiative has previously come under fire from the de Blasio administration, which feels it is a vanity project especially when the subway is in the midst of a crisis.

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

The initiative came under fire even before the mayor has managed to name a single task force member.

With Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration coming under investigation for its economic initiative in Buffalo, we're taking a closer look at another state project, the planned overhaul of LaGuardia Airport.

Asked yesterday about the increased scrutiny the initiatives have come under recently, LG Kathy Hochul's response could've just as easily come out of the governor's mouth.

Within the first minute, Lacorte drops the name of popular Gov. Andrew Cuomo and also touts the fact that he managed to pass a budget that came in under the governor's two percent property tax cap — a very popular initiative in the NYC suburbs, which have the highest property taxes in the state and the nation.

These resources come under a new «Breaking Through» initiative, to address the stigma attached to such issues.

It's hard to imagine a constituency that has been more invisible to city government and under - served by society at large» The funding came from the initiative created and sponsored by Councilman Ritchie Torres.

The initiatives come as federal data, released last month by Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D - N.Y., show children in Western New York — ages 5 and under — suffer from the highest rate of lead poisoning in upstate New York.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), meanwhile, is considering how to treat wood - burning power plants under the Clean Power Plan, the Obama Administration's initiative to cut greenhouse gases coming from the electricity sector.

According to the Russian culture, this initiative should come from the boyfriend, and in no way, she can try to put him under pressure.

President Barack Obama is forcefully defending his signature education initiative, the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top program, which has come under fire from civil rights groups that worry the competitive nature of the program creates a system of winners and losers that could hinder schools serving poor and minority students.

The two most controversial initiatives have come under Title IX: The office's seven - year effort to combat what it described as an «epidemic» of sexual violence on campus, and its 2016 directive on the right of transgender students to choose restrooms, locker rooms, overnight accommodations and sports teams on the basis of their subjective sense of «gender identity» rather than their biological sex.

Children in North Tyneside, Northumberland, Gateshead, Sunderland, County Durham, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton on Tees will enjoy better schools in the years to come from the new initiative agreed today and local construction companies will play a key role in building better schools across the country under the wider Priority School Building Programme.»

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

It was an initiative the district had come close to accomplishing under the previous superintendent, when efforts to release students early were halted by a busing conflict with a local private school.

Endeavor is the first vehicle coming to market under Mitsubishi Motors» Project America initiative.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts has come under fire for an ambitious and costly international initiative.

Edge of Arabia, a pioneering travelling exhibition that has shed new light on the largely unknown contemporary art culture of Saudi Arabia, is coming to Dubai this March during the Sharjah Biennial and in partnership with Art Dubai, and under the global tour sponsorship of ALJ Community Initiatives.

She had come under fire for the museum's Wild Noise initiative, to exchange works from the Bronx Museum's collection with the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.

Plans for the coming year also include solo exhibitions by three acclaimed American artists Elizabeth Peyton, Terry Winters, and Lynda Benglis, French artist Philippe Parreno and Irish artist Alan Phelan, and a number of new partnerships and initiatives under IMMA's Education and Community Programme.

With climate changing, the Obama administration has an effort under way to create a coherent and overarching initiative to help communities around the country adapt to what's coming.

The event, «Feelings, Facts, Food and GMOs — A Fresh Look,» * is part of FoodYou, a year - long initiative of the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies (where I've been based since early 2010) that is designed to focus students, faculty and staff on the under - appreciated back story behind our food choices and habits, from the «concentrated animal feeding operations» (also called CAFOs) that supply most meat and poultry to the costs that come with food waste.

In this series, we'll offer a deep dive into the pioneering work of one agroforestry initiative that is changing the lives of farmers across Kenya, and we'll see how the arrival of deep - pocketed consumer giants, dairy cooperatives, and flower - growers can accelerate these activities while slowing climate change — especially as new financing mechanisms come into effect under the Paris Climate Agreement.

The project received funding through Governor Cuomo's $ 1 billion NY - Sun initiative, which is designed to build a self - sustaining solar industry in New York and help achieve strategic energy goals under REV and the Clean Energy Standard, which requires that 50 percent of electricity generated in New York come from renewable sources by 2030.

Energy ministers from 24 participating countries and the European Commission come together to assess progress and guide work under the concrete and transformative clean energy initiatives.

The Law Society isn't the first to introduce such an initiative; indeed, there has been a flurry of similar «shifts» throughout academia, government and the private sector in recent times, but although they share a morally - worthy outward appearance, there are other motivations at play that have recently come under scrutiny, particularly on university campuses.

AT&T has come up with a cheaper unlimited data plan offer under its GoPhone initiative.

These smartphones come with several consumer - centric innovations developed under the Samsung «Make for India» initiative.»

137.3 (1) The contraventions designated by regulation under section 56 (1)[designated contraventions and penalty amounts], as that section read immediately before the coming into force of this section, are deemed to have been designated by the superintendent, by rule, under section 56 (1) as enacted by the Miscellaneous Statutes (Housing Priority Initiatives) Amendment Act, 2016.

(3) The council members of the former council who were appointed under section 74 (1)(b)[council membership], as that section read immediately before the coming into force of this section, continue to hold office under section 74 (1) as enacted by the Miscellaneous Statutes (Housing Priority Initiatives) Amendment Act, 2016.

Pornhub.com, one of the world's largest free porn websites, has come up with perhaps the most genius initiative to raise money for an important cause that we've ever seen: For every 30 videos watched under the site's «Big Tits» and «Small Tits» channels, Pornhub will donate one cent to the Susan G. Komen Foundation to further its research in finding a cure for breast cancer.