Sentences with phrase «week pilot program»

The Redirect Method began with an eight - week pilot program enlisting 320,000 viewers that explored some key insights around the kind of things that potential ISIS recruits search for and what kind of content does and doesn't work as counter-propaganda.

As promised back in June 2012, the state of Delaware launched a two - week pilot program last week that targets distracted driving.

This brief summarizes lessons learned from a six - week pilot program and consultation with practitioners on three implementation issues — recruitment, attendance, and family involvement.

This summer, Wang has been writing for The Atlantic, developing her website, and trying to raise money to fund a two - week pilot program that would send two teams of Harvard College juniors from The Crimson and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School to schools in Mississippi during the January break.

Shoesmith Elementary School Principal Curtis Arthur said the nine - week pilot program for extended day camps will offer an excellent opportunity for working parents and their children.

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It has also run pilot programs, with San Jose State University, and the University of Central Florida, that included week - long studies with small groups of students at each school.

This November another 25 Trade Commissioners will begin the FITTskills program in an intensive one - week pilot project.

«In Arlington Heights, we're not seeing a lot of needy kids, but these families are very busy,» said Coletta Hines - Newell, the director of food services for Arlington Heights Elementary School District 25, where officials kicked the pilot breakfast program last week.

«It «s great, «said William Hill, 14, also of Cabrini - Green, who frolicked with Lloyd and other pals in the pool as they took part in a pilot Park District program that keeps the pool open until midnight during the week and until 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

We are currently doing a pilot in grades 6 to 8 offering French four times per week as we explore changes in our French program to reflect the new curriculum requirements for French in Ontario public schools.

Rather than asking her to make what could be a very expensive permanent change in the food at your school, ask her to do a pilot program for a few weeks; if the pilot is successful, it can be made permanent.

Making the switch for a few weeks, in a pilot program at one school, allows the opportunity to see what happens before going district wide, and also to try innovative strategies for maintaining participation.

A pilot procedure to test a hot lunch program at two elementary schools was approved this week for Indian Prairie School District 204.

A pilot program for NYPD officers to begin wearing body cameras this month cleared a major hurdle when it was approved last week by the federal monitor overseeing changes to the department's stop - and - frisk program.

After a successful pilot program in Astoria and Brooklyn, Costco Wholesale announced last week that it would begin accepting food stamps at all locations nationwide, making one Queens elected official very happy.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

Starting March 22, 2018 the Erie County Department of Social Services is piloting extended business hours one night per week, on Thursdays, with first - floor services at 158 Pearl St. available to clients seeking assistance in the program areas of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and Temporary Assistancprogram areas of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and Temporary AssistancProgram) and Temporary Assistance (TA).

County Executive Steve Bellone announced last week that the county will conduct a lottery to select 19 homeowners who will receive free advanced wastewater treatment systems as part of a pilot demonstration program study.

The New York State Board of Elections (BOE) released draft regulations governing the new pilot public financing program for the state comptroller's race last week.

U.S. Reps. John Katko (R — Camillus), Claudia Tenney (R — New Hartford), and Elise Stefanik (R — Willsboro) this week urged President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to support New York's application for the FAA unmanned - aircraft systems (UAS) integration pilot program (IPP).

Liberal advocates have suggested in recent weeks that Koppell's challenge could disintegrate if Klein and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are successful in getting the Senate Republicans to agree to a more robust public campaign finance program than the comptroller - only pilot included in the 2014 - 15 budget.

The governor last week announced he would create a pilot program for medicinal marijuana, but the idea was blasted by advocates for not going far enough.

The NYPD is wrapping up a pilot program that outfitted officers with body cameras, taking the 54 recording devices off city streets in the coming weeks as it prepares to expand to 1,000 cameras this summer.

De Blasio announced last week that he would spend $ 12.7 million to prevent gun violence by expanding a pilot program using «violence interrupters» — primarily ex-gang members — to intervene in street disputes before they escalate.

New York Times: Most Fundamental Reform Missing from State Budget Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders passed New York's 2014 - 15 budget last week without a comprehensive small donor public matching system — instead establishing a very limited pilot public financing program for the state comptroller's race in 2014.

Syracuse Post-Standard: Public Financing «Pilot» Program a Cop - out The Syracuse Post-Standard reiterated the shortfalls of the 2014 - 15 New York budget in an editorial last week.

The New York City Housing Authority has a pilot program that allows tenants to report rent payments, but as of last week it only had «one person on board,» NYCHA senior advisor Tischelle George said.

The budget adopted last week constructed a new pilot public financing program for the state comptroller's race.

«One of the things the president is rightfully focused on is body cameras, and later this week we'll be rolling out a pilot program related to body cameras here in this city,» de Blasio told reporters this morning, referencing his meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday with President Obama and other elected and law - enforcement officials and clergy to discuss policing.

Official said the Health Department in coming weeks or months will announce a small pilot program to expedite access with medical institutions.

This week, at an NSF geosciences advisory committee meeting, Assistant Director for Geosciences Roger Wakimoto revealed the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.

Kessler researchers have published a pilot study showing the benefits of a 10 - week psychoeducational wellness program in people with multiple sclerosis (MS).

In the first three and a half weeks of its launch, Kaiser reported that 250 arts organizations contacted the Kennedy Center for its pro bono help, which will include a new arts in education program, slated to pilot in the Lafayette, La., schools next year, that aims to reshape the current, episodic nature of children's arts education.

Beginning this January, Wang will launch a pilot program that will send five Harvard Crimson senior writers to run a two - week journalism workshop in a Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Helena, Arkansas, high school.

Beginning next week, students in Dade County, Fla., public schools will start «logging on» microcomputers to solve geometry problems or to work on reading skills as part of a pilot program designed to acquaint students with computer technology and to supplement classroom instruction.

For one hour, four days per week, they take science class as part of a pilot program.

He also plans to pilot a week - long residential program for university students, the African Leadership Experience for University Fellows.

The character education program being piloted in Pittsburgh at the Horace Mann, Liberty International, Regent Square, Schaeffer, and Woolslair elementary schools is based on Your Environment's copyrighted Word of the Week system.

This belief inspired the HGSE project that would become the pilot program, Podrska ne Perfekcija — which translates to «support, not perfection» — a 10 - week relationship - and strength - based workshop for parents in rural Serbia that teaches about child development and positive discipline strategies, and helps build a social support network.

In the pilot program in Tajikistan, for example, every other week the program director, Anora Rahim, takes new materials from Khujand — the second largest city in the country — to Isfara, a small town roughly 120 kilometers away, or 2.5 hours by bus.

Mounting evidence that a pilot program to prepare more minority and disadvantaged students for college is showing success has prompted the organization that sponsors the SAT to expand its initiative, officials said last week.

The announcement came the same week late last month that the department unveiled a pilot program designed to help states better test students with limited English proficiency.

The Colorado legislature is considering several bills related to private school vouchers, including one signed into law last week by Republican Gov. Bill Owens that establishes a pilot voucher program for students in poorly performing public schools.

According to Education Week's Alyson Klein, thanks to the U.S. Department of Education's new «Weighted Student Funding Pilot» program, school districts now have the chance for local, state, and federal funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to...

The budget wrangling comes amid new figures from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) this week which show the problems seem to only be mounting at both schools in the state's pilot program.

According to Education Week's Alyson Klein, thanks to the U.S. Department of Education's new «Weighted Student Funding Pilot» program, school districts now have the chance for local, state, and federal funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to them.»

The announcement of closures came two weeks after Gov. Ricardo Rossello signed a bill that initiates a charter schools pilot program in 10 percent of public schools and offers private school vouchers to 3 percent of students starting in 2019 - 20.

Pence says «the time is now» for the legislature to reinstate a pre-k pilot program after the Senate Education Committee gutted a bill last week that would have provided vouchers for 1,000 4 - year - olds in five counties to attend preschool.

The announcement of closures came two weeks after Gov. Ricardo Rossello signed a bill for implementing a charter schools pilot program in 10 percent of public schools and offering private school vouchers to 3 percent of students starting in 2019 - 2020 as part of an education overhaul.

Last week, Boston City Council member Anissa Essaibi - George called for a hearing on the city's Payment in Lieu of Taxes, or PILOT program.