Sentences with phrase «with nationwide efforts»

The sad reality for surrendered animals is that even with nationwide efforts to enact low - cost vaccines and spay and neuter programs, shelters may be forced to euthanize due to overcrowding issues.

The NGLC grants, combined with nationwide efforts to bridge the technology gap in schools, will help educators discover ways to use technology — and as more than just an end in itself.

With the nationwide efforts to raise graduation standards and the increasing use of standardized testing, the idea of basing promotion and graduation decisions on portfolios of students» work has fallen out of fashion as swiftly as slide rules gave way to calculators.

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In support of the Administration's priorities to advance domestic energy production, generate revenue, and increase job opportunities nationwide, BOEM is moving forward with wind energy planning efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and west).

In support of the Administration's priorities to advance domestic energy production, generate revenue, and increase job opportunities nationwide, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is moving forward with wind energy planning efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and west).

Hazeem Pudhiapura is asking his Atlanta, Georgia, congregation to personally hand out pamphlets with that message in a nationwide effort to reach two percent of all Americans this year.

The organization created a first - of - its - kind proposal to address the challenges in North Minnesota with a goal of «closing the food and health gap and becoming a model for similar efforts nationwide.»

Towne Park, America's premiere provider of hospitality, healthcare and commercial parking staffing solutions has significantly strengthened its nationwide growth efforts with the appointments of Jeff Stokes and Leslie A. Rumora as Business Development Managers.

Towne Park, America's premiere provider of hospitality, healthcare and commercial parking staffing solutions has significantly strengthened its nationwide growth efforts with the appointments of Jeff Stokes and Leslie A. Rumora...

Her latest effort is Severe adverse maternal outcomes among low risk women with planned home versus hospital births in the Netherlands: nationwide cohort study.

Effort to raise up to $ 50,000 underway baby + co., a network of women's health + family wellness centers, has partnered with National Diaper Bank Network (NDBN), a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to eliminating diaper need in America.

The committee is also coordinating efforts nationwide to create a databank which would put defenders in touch with attorneys who have experience defending women accused of crimes while suffering from postpartum mental illness.

Last year, the NFL Foundation — with the National Athletic Trainers» Association and Gatorade — expanded this effort through a contest open to high schools nationwide.

The U.S. Senate defeated an effort to set aside $ 600 million in emergency funds to address the nationwide opioid epidemic, with top Republicans arguing that the extra money wasn't needed because lawmakers had addressed the issue in an earlier spending bill.

The bomb threat that forced the local Jewish Community Center to evacuate both its buildings, on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo and North Forest Road in Amherst, late Monday morning was part of a nationwide effort that saw at least 10 such centers targeted with similar threats, according to local and national officials.

Sanders is a prominent critic of efforts to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, while O'Malley has vowed to make a nationwide shift to renewable energy his top priority, with a full transition to clean - energy - powered generation by 2050.

She applied for permanent research and university positions, which in France are won through nationwide competitions, but her efforts came to no avail, leaving her increasingly frustrated with the French research system.

Sherman says the study was a collaborative effort involving participants with Down syndrome, their families and assessment sites across the United States, including those mentioned above along with Kennedy Krieger Institute, Children's National Medical Center and Ohio Nationwide Children's Hospital.

A similar effort for heart attack care nationwide could start with looking at what differentiates hospitals from one another, and what the low - cost / low - mortality hospitals can teach their peers.

Despite the wide availability of effective treatments for depression and a growing effort nationwide to detect and begin treating depression during primary care visits, only about one - third of individuals newly diagnosed with depression start treatment, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Using data from a nationwide survey, conducted in partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers, the authors examined the early outreach and enrollment efforts of 606 community health centers across the United States.

For example, offsets need to be designed and implemented as part of a coordinated, national offset strategy where each one is integrated with other conservation planning efforts nationwide and / or regionally to give them the best chance of success.

NASA Nationwide also provides NASA scientists who are interested in participating in education and public outreach (E / PO) efforts, or have a need to incorporate E / PO efforts into missions and projects, a means to learn more about these groups, get involved, and partner with member networks.

The organization is making an increasingly aggressive effort to exercise some measure of control over each of these factors through partnerships with at least 20 colleges nationwide designed to create a pipeline to four - year colleges able to offer the greatest possible commitment and support to KIPP alumni.

With only approximately 3 percent of American teachers currently Board - certified, Doctor is leading nationwide efforts to make certification the norm.

In particular, Jed offers a wide variety of programming, including The Jed Campus Program, a nationwide initiative designed to empower schools with a framework and customized support to enhance student mental health and help with substance abuse and suicide prevention efforts, and Set to Go, a program to emotionally prepare high schools students for impending transition.

The information in these synthesis reports was collected from practicing administrators and teachers in reentry programs nationwide, and is designed to assist state departments of education, school districts, and community - based organizations interested in redesigning or initiating efforts to help youth with disabilities return to the education system and become successful school completers.

* Choice and Competition — This area of reform has been a nationwide battleground for many years and this session will see a revival of a range of serious efforts in Texas to expand robust education choices to meet the needs of students and their parents, with funding following the child.

Last year, new high school equivalency exams were introduced nationwide in an effort to update the decade - old General Educational Development (GED) test and align it with new high school standards, known as the Common Core, adopted by a majority of states.

As New York state schools chief from 2011 to 2014, King clashed with parents and teachers over his efforts to implement the same policies — including new teacher evaluations and new Common Core standards and tests — that the Obama administration has pushed hard nationwide.

Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, nationwide efforts to dismantle segregation and integrate schools through anti-discrimination lawsuits, although modestly successful on occasion, have ultimately foundered, producing neither dramatic racial integration nor significant improvements in academic outcomes for black students.

Almost half of 2015 Teach For America, or TFA, corps members identified as people of color, 46 compared with less than 20 percent of teachers nationwide.47 The candidate acceptance rate between 2009 and 2012 averaged below 15 percent, making Teach For America one of the most highly selective teacher training programs in the country.48 Additionally, some residency - based teacher programs also are putting more effort into recruiting diverse, high - achieving candidates.

On August 21, 2012 at a Los Angeles, CA press conference held at Chuco's Justice Center, the Dignity in Schools Campaign stood together with the Opportunity to Learn Campaign to call for a moratorium on out - of - school suspensions in an effort to address the nationwide pushout crisis facing our schools.

With DeVos now the head of the U.S. Department of Education, any study touting purported benefits of vouchers will be seized upon as Gospel by DeVos and Trump in their effort to expand vouchers nationwide.

Once considered a rarity, the opt - out push has prompted high - profile boycott efforts and meetings in large districts such as Chicago and led more parents nationwide to join forces with anti-testing advocates in arguing that the assessments are unnecessary, excessive, and, in some cases, even harmful to students.

In addition to the digital and social campaigns, THE GREAT AMERICAN READ has sparked nationwide community engagement efforts that will offer stations opportunities to create complementary content; stage community events; partner with libraries, booksellers, charitable organizations, schools, and other entities; and deepen the conversations and connections among people around the country.

U. S. Postal Service Federal Credit Union joined together with other credit unions, nationwide, in a cooperative effort to bring members a new choice in financial convenience, The CO-OP Shared Branching Network.

HSI supports Chinese groups in their efforts and works with our partners in South Korea on eye - catching, nationwide PR campaigns.

A Life to Live is a proud participant of this collaborative effort to ensure consistent and accurate reporting to assist with life - saving efforts nationwide.

We felt it was an important movement to join to support this nationwide database, and assist them with their data capture efforts.

PETA also fights reform efforts nationwide, including legislation introduced by animal lovers in several states mandating simple, common sense procedures which would protect shelter animals: such as requiring shelters to provide prompt and necessary veterinary care rather than allow animals to suffer, to work with qualified non-profit rescue organizations rather than killing animals who have a place to go, and to end convenience killing for savable animals when there are empty kennels or cages.

Through our adoption efforts in more than 1,500 Petco stores nationwide, we've brought more than 5.5 million pets together with loving families.

We have consulted with and supported several other jurisdictions in the Chicago area and nationwide in their efforts to pass companion animal legislation, including efforts in Naperville, Illinois; Oceanside, California; Joliet, Illinois; and Sarasota County, Florida.

Since 2006, Macy's Shop For A Cause Event has partnered with non-profit organizations nationwide to raise more than $ 50 million for their ongoing charitable efforts.

In Chicago in the early 1970s, we had our own third and best - known generation of alternative spaces (each city can claim its own artist - run history, probably with a fair share of boosterism thrown in), such as ARC, Artemisia (both were feminist galleries formed from West - East Bag, a nationwide network of women artists), and N.A.M.E., with the much - heralded Randolph Street Gallery opening in 1979.7 This is not to mention still - running artist - driven efforts such as the Hyde Park Art Center, founded in 1948, and the South Side Community Art Center, the only surviving Federal Arts Center from the WPA era and the oldest African American art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 1940.

(Sec. 204) Requires the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish a building energy performance labeling program with broad applicability to the residential and commercial markets to enable and encourage knowledge about building energy performance by owners and occupants and to inform efforts to reduce energy consumption nationwide; (2) develop model building energy labels for new residential and commercial buildings; and (3) conduct building energy performance labeling demonstration projects for different building types.

Ultimately, regulation of GHG emissions under Section 115 would provide EPA with the opportunity to develop a comprehensive, market - based, nationwide platform that would increase the scope of emissions covered, streamline administrative efforts, and maximize market efficiencies.

Thanks in part to his efforts, the Philippines became the first country ever to pass a nationwide ban on waste incineration with the Clean Air Act in 1999, followed shortly thereafter by the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act in 2001.

The efforts of Jessica Gabel Cino to obtain a new trial for a man convicted of a 1998 murder will be chronicled with the nationwide release this winter of a podcast series called Conviction.

With the efforts of OSHA, and countless workplace safety campaigns popping up nationwide each year, this substantial increase is sobering.