Sentences with phrase «while the state transitions»

Cuomo has earmarked billions in state dollars to keep upstate nuclear plants open, saying workers needed the jobs while the state transitions to renewable fuels.

A coalition representing «tens of thousands» of parents, teachers and education reform organizations is petitioning Governor Jerry Brown to veto a bill letting California schools off the hook for testing students while the state transitions to a new curriculum and testing model.

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China's huge state - owned infrastructure companies, hampered by their own country's gradual slowdown, need projects that will keep their foundries blazing and their workers paid while the nation makes the transition to a less industrial, more consumer - driven economy.

While Uber, the global leader in on - demand transportation, relies on thousands of independent drivers, Uber's business platform enables the transition to self - driving cars, one of the company's stated strategic priorities.

His transition website, meanwhile, states: «The big banks got bigger while community financial institutions have disappeared at a rate of one per day.»

Nicole Garcia is a transgender Latina who began her gender transition in 2003 while employed as a law enforcement officer for the state of Colorado.

Over the last two years Coach Von Vogt worked relentlessly to usher in a new era of Warrior basketball as he transitioned the team from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Division II to NAIA Division I while also joining the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC); arguably, the most competitive conference in the NAIA.

While this may come across as a harsh verdict to the many organizations, governments and individuals, sometimes well - meaning, who since 2011 have been flocking in and out of the country in an attempt to secure its transition to state - hood, it is the case that many of those transactions remained confined to the surface of Libya's socio - political transition.

In his address to the American people on March 28, 2011 and following the NATO intervention in Libya, President Barack Obama stated that while he acknowledged that «transition to a legitimate government that is responsive to the Libyan people will be a difficult task» and while «the United States will do our part to help», «it will be a task for the international community and — more importantly — a task for the Libyan people themselves».

I played an important role in achieving New York State's pioneering ban on fracking, while also urging our rapid transition to renewable sources of energy.

«It is incumbent upon New York State to step up and protect New Yorkers, with legislation such as the Climate and Community Protection Act, transitioning into 100 % renewables with many new good union jobs, while boldly standing forward to save our communities and our salvage our future.»

A coalition of the state's top nonprofit social - service providers presented Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday with a plan for protecting funds for their neediest clients while reducing public spending, and asked for seats on his transition committee.

ALBANY — David Paterson spent his first day as governor - in - waiting at his Albany - area home, reaching out to state leaders while his top aides planned for a lightning - quick transition and dealing...

Robert Nobles, assistant vice chancellor at the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, transitioned from a state government agency into university administration while maintaining a role in research.

While the hospital advocates transitioning Charlie to end - of - life palliative care — officials have stated that «he has no quality of life and no real prospect of any quality of life» — his parents want him to undergo a highly experimental treatment in the United States called nucleoside bypass therapy.

Understanding how parents cope while their child is in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) could lead to better support for the family and a more successful transition to home when their baby is healthy, according to Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Harrisburg researchers.

While this property ensures that molecular ions offer more options than atomic ions insofar as storing and converting quantum information is concerned, it also makes observing transitions in their quantum states without destroying them an extremely daunting task.

Shoving all your stuff into one medium sized back pack while traveling makes the transition from one state to another SO.MUCH.SMOOTHER.

While the assessment elements in ESSA are somewhat more discrete than some other parts of the law, the transition to ESSA presents state leaders with an opportunity to evaluate their comprehensive assessment system and to contemplate how information from that system helps the state to achieve its overall vision.

We also currently have four advisory states; some of those states may choose to select different assessments while others may transition to governing status.

Senator Murray called the next 12 months a «year of transition» while the Dept. of Education and the states define the standards for student success.

States were transitioning to the Common Core while simultaneously implementing new teacher evaluation systems, sparking frustration among parents and teachers over how these policies were intersecting on the ground.

Evers, 65, has held his post as head of the Department of Public Instruction during eight years of significant transition in the state's education landscape, which began while he was still recovering from esophageal cancer.

While some Cohen supporters agreed with the state that the school is in dire need of dramatic change to its dismal, lowest - in - the - state performance, many remain skeptical about what they see as a painful transition with an uncertain outcome.

While we are working on improving resources, we have also heard concerns from teachers about being evaluated during a transition to a new state assessment.

Now that President Obama has signed the «Every Student Succeeds Act» into law, states and local district leaders are moving ahead to craft plans to transition to the new Title 1 and other areas of the new law, while the U.S. Department of Education has taken the first steps in setting new Title 1 regulations.

Additionally, while not taking over George Washington and Broad Ripple Magnet High Schools, the state appointed «lead partners» to assist in the transition.

Colorado, while mandating that 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student growth, allows districts to choose their own student learning measures — including state assessment results — and decide how to weight them.66 In addition to adjustments to how much student growth factors into evaluations, some states, including Georgia and Connecticut, have opted to delay full implementation of their evaluation systems while they transition to the more rigorous Common Core standards.67 68

While transition is nothing new in this space, this particular transition is causing uncertainty as educational professionals face complete redefinition of their standards and outcomes, and redefined roles of federal, state and local education agencies.

That test is aligned to the state's old standards, not to the Common Core — meaning teachers were doing double duty, transitioning students to new standards while ensuring that they also had a grasp of the old benchmarks.

While the report's authors conclude that too few districts in the state are adequately transitioning English learners to these new standards, they spotlight 11 California school districts that have been particularly successful in boosting achievement for these students and describe the specific practices tied to the Common Core that have made the most impact.

While this type of transition often has industry watchers concerned about the state of publishing in its various forms, this move is actually quite positive.

While The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature states that modernism ended by c. 1939 [91] with regard to British and American literature, «When (if) Modernism petered out and postmodernism began has been contested almost as hotly as when the transition from Victorianism to Modernism occurred.»

Many have transitioned to four - year academic institutions such as UCLA, UC Berkley, UC Santa Barbara, Cal State L.A., Cal State Long Beach, and Otis College, while others that have completed their undergraduate educations have done so with aplomb.

While «nothing» refers to the lack or absence of a place or thing, Havel's numerous renderings present the concept as unfixed, as though in a state of transition.

Mission Transition US is a resource and catalyst for building resilient communities across the United States that are able to withstand severe energy, climate or economic shocks while creating a better quality of life in the process.

And he stressed that while our economy still has to rely on oil and gas during that transition, we should rely more on domestic production than importing from foreign counties who do not have the same environmental or safety standards as the United States.

This can help the United States to meet ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets while minimizing the cost of transitioning to a clean energy future.

While some of the world's biggest markets, including the United States, Japan, and EU, are already beginning to transition to HFC - free refrigeration and air conditioning, the decision makes business sense for India too.

While sectoral economic transitions are largely outside the domain and impact of energy policy, and deindustrialization is hardly a global strategy for rapid decarbonization, it appears that history presents at least one replicable strategy to accelerate the pace of decarbonization: the directed decarbonization of global energy supplies via the state - led development and deployment of scalable zero - carbon energy technologies.

«While I won't be president at the time of your meeting and while the United States has only one president at a time, I've asked members of Congress who are attending the conference as observers to report back to me on what they learn there,» Obama said in a taped message this morning to attendees gathered for the Schwarzenegger event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel (also posted on YouTube and the official transition Web sWhile I won't be president at the time of your meeting and while the United States has only one president at a time, I've asked members of Congress who are attending the conference as observers to report back to me on what they learn there,» Obama said in a taped message this morning to attendees gathered for the Schwarzenegger event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel (also posted on YouTube and the official transition Web swhile the United States has only one president at a time, I've asked members of Congress who are attending the conference as observers to report back to me on what they learn there,» Obama said in a taped message this morning to attendees gathered for the Schwarzenegger event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel (also posted on YouTube and the official transition Web site).

While it's true the longer the forcing and more convolved the new state from the old the longer it takes to restore the natural state, and the more complex the phase transition to return to old stability, it is the dominant outcome.

This transition has gone very smoothly, and while several major power outages that were caused by storms have been, without justification, blamed on the state's renewable energy, South Australians have suffered no inconvenience from the transition.

The proposed rule would also replace the one - year period with ongoing recognition of State high risk pools as minimum essential coverage, which would facilitate transition of enrollees into QHPs through the Exchange or into other forms of minimum essential coverage, while ensuring continued access to coverage.

This would facilitate the transition of State high risk pool enrollees into QHPs through the Exchange or into other forms of minimum essential coverage, while ensuring continued access to coverage.

I think it is only supposed to be in this state while the button is depressed, but somehow it misses the up transition and remains in that state.

You can also state your willingness to provide any help the employer might need while transitioning to a new employee.

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