Sentences with phrase «as cea»

Despite the group's impeccable Republican credentials — Baker, Paulson and Schultz served as treasury secretaries and Feldstein and Mankiw served as CEA chairs under GOP presidents — the proposal faces long odds.

Some of these issues are still not widely appreciated, and may cause confusion as CEA genetic testing becomes more frequent.

And yet, as the CEA seriously — and finally — engages on this vital issue, along comes the claim that the NWEA MAP test is a valid mechanism for evaluating teachers — a claim that may please Governor Malloy and his anti-teacher friends but is absolutely and completely out of line with the academic evidence and good public policy.

I look forward to leading the Connecticut Education Association during the next three years, using the training, skills and relationships I have developed as CEA Treasurer and Vice President.

As such, the court reasoned that they «fall well - within» the common definition of commodity as well as the CEA's broad definition of commodity, which includes «all other goods and articles... and all services, rights, and interests... in which contracts for future delivery are presently or in the future dealt in.»

Not exact matches

To resolve that issue, the court had to determine whether (1) virtual currency may be regulated by the CFTC as a commodity and (2) the CEA permits the CFTC to exercise jurisdiction over fraud in connection with commodities that do not directly involve futures or derivative contracts.

Krugman recently called Hassett's corporate tax analysis «boneheaded,» and Summers, who led the Treasury under the Clinton administration, tweeted «I no longer take CEA Chair Kevin Hassett seriously as an economic thinker...»

Considering all this, if a Ph.D student submitted the CEA analysis as a term paper in public finance, I would be hard pressed to give it a passing grade.

While at the CEA, Dr. Piwowar also served as a staff economist for the Financial Regulatory Reform Working Group of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

During the financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, Dr. Piwowar served in a one - year fixed - term position at the White House as a senior economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama Administrations.

Judge Weinstein's ruling is important, as it is the first federal court decision to address — and agree with — the CFTC's determination that virtual currencies are commodities as defined by the CEA.

In what the CFTC described as its first action against an unregistered Bitcoin options trading platform, the CFTC charged Coinflip, Inc. and its founder and chief executive officer with failures to comply with the CEA or CFTC regulations for operating a facility for trading or processing «commodity options.»

For example, as an exempt commodity, forward contracts on Bitcoin between commercial market participants could be excluded from the CEA.

The Trust will not hold or trade in commodity futures contracts regulated by the CEA, as administered by the CFTC.

They had tough test on their plates this week as they dropped a nail - biter to Team Watts in the CEA Study Abroad Game of the Day, but showed what is so vital in All Sports Series, the ability to shake things off — defeating Team Liss by 1 point in their second game of the Double Header.

The support of the CEA board is considered key for Malloy, who alienated some teachers with his proposal to overhaul the tenure system, his support of charter schools and his selection of Stefan Pryor as state education commissioner.

The Indian Central Electricity Authority (CEA) only produced its draft plan to install PMUs across the grid in April and, as of 31 May, there were just 14 operating in the country.

«In practice, many experimental challenges have to be met,» explains Agnès Dewaele from CEA, «as the iron sample has to be insulated thermally and also must not be allowed to chemically react with its environment.

The researchers chose two places in the brain — the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) and the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA)-- because both have been implicated in the aversive effects of such emotional processes as fear conditioning and general anxiety.

Claudio Vita and his colleagues at the protein engineering department of CEA, the French nuclear research agency in Gif - sur - Yvette, are using the toxins found in scorpion venom as a chemical scaffold to build novel proteins for use as drugs (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 92, p 6404).

A Franco - chinese team including the Laboratoire des sciences du climat [1](LSCE, CEA / CNRS / UVSQ)[2] has demonstrated, using a new approach, that China's «climate responsibility,» is not as significant as initially estimated.

Researchers at CNRS, CEA and the Université Grenoble Alpes propose an efficient alternative using semi-conductor nanocrystals (also called quantum dots) based on cheaper and less toxic elements, such as copper, indium and sulfur.

«It appears that we have captured this galaxy cluster at a critical stage just as it has shifted from a loose collection of galaxies (protoclusters) into a young, but fully formed galaxy cluster,» David Elbaz from CEA and the study's co-author, said in the statement.

CEA Tech is the technology research branch of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), a key player in innovative R&D, defence & security, nuclear energy, technological research for industry and fundamental science, identified by Thomson Reuters as the second most innovative research organization in the world.

Close collaboration between the OST and other diplomatic divisions, such as the Economic Department, the Cultural Services of the Embassy of France as well as French Research Organizations (CNRS, Inserm, CNES, CEA), allows the OST to efficiently handle the many economic and social implications of current science and technology issues.

When monoclonal antibody technology became generally available in 1978, John Shively in Todd's lab, produced a Mab to CEA that after genetic engineering and radiolabeling went into City of Hope patients as both an imaging and therapeutic agent.

CEA levels are elevated in smokers as well as other non-cancerous conditions such as inflammation from recent infections, inflammatory bowel disease, and pancreatitis.

Charles is a highly sought - after keynoter / presenter at private, national and international events for organizations as varied as the World Economic Forum, UNESCO, World Bank, OECD, Google TechTalk, Gates Foundation, National Science Foundation, World Future Society, NY Times Schools of Tomorrow, International Baccalaureate, ERB, SSATB, ACT, Learning & the Brain, British Council, CEA - ACE, etc..

I have repeatedly urged the leadership of CEA and AFT NOT to endorse Dannel Malloy as governor as it would be a slap in the face to every public school teacher in the state.

As part of this initiative, the CEA will conduct field study research to highlight how innovative educators have succeeded in engaging at - risk youth through culturally - relevant, land - based pedagogy.

As the state scrambles to meet a January deadline to get local school districts to sign on to the State Department of Education's (SDE) proposed education reform plan for funding under the federal Race to the Top (RTTT) grant, CEA held a special meeting for local Association leaders to meet with State Education Commissioner Mark McQuillan.

Donald Williams, CEA director of Policy, Research, and Reform and a member of the Mastery Examination Committee, highlighted a survey of Connecticut teachers, as well as a survey of teachers from other states, outlining serious concerns and issues with the validity, reliability, and fairness of the SBAC test and the harm it is doing to children.

Indisputable evidence from the frontlines of teaching took center stage today at a CEA news conference in Hartford as teachers urged lawmakers to examine the needs of students and reject a test that is not valid, reliable, or fair.

The reason the CEA and AFT as well as the administration of city school systems keep banging away at the SBAC and Common Core is that Danny Boy and his minions are holding the purse strings over their heads.

Now, as Rick knows, I'm a nobody when it comes to posting stuff on Facebook but having spent a fair amount of time researching the issues — I think the CEA is being a bit mild when it says the Governor's bill and strategy is a threat to every teacher in the state.

As the legislative session progresses, CEA will closely monitor the activities of the General Assembly.

She says she has more respect for the CEA, which merely opposed the measure, than for the AFT, which acted as if it was willing to compromise and which has «this hidden agenda of «we're going to get you.

I have also had the pleasure of meeting AFT Randi Weingarten and CEA leadership as well.

PEAC includes representatives of a long list of groups, including CEA and AFT - Connecticut as well as organizations representing principals, superintendents, school boards, and higher education.

As a result of these findings, the CEA has urged legislators:

What's more, the CEA acts as though charter schools aren't subject to any accountability.

«Being part of CEA is so important for me as a professional because of the voice I have at the state and national level,» DiMauro said.

CEA recently pioneered another reform approach known as CommPACT schools.

«CEA would never underestimate the value of charter schools as laboratories of innovation.

As part of its ongoing effort to persuade Connecticut teachers to support Governor Malloy's bid for re-election, the CEA has sent out information to its members including a «Fact Sheet» called EXAMINE THE FACTS.

Even the AFT and CEA have admitted that Governor Malloy's 2012 Corporate Education Reform Industry Initiative sought to eliminate tenure for all public school teachers in Connecticut and replace it with a system of short - term contracts in which continued employment as a teacher would depend, in part, on the test scores teachers» students got on the unfair and inappropriate Common Core Standardized Tests.

CEA has been a strong advocate for teachers as a member of the state Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) that has been meeting for over a year.

CEA leaders said this delay is essentially kicking the can down the road as students and teachers deserve a permanent decision on SBAC's use in evaluations.

Training for evaluators is one area that CEA leaders on the Council have previously highlighted as needing attention, and yesterday PEAC heard from administrators in the Wolcott Public Schools about their efforts to improve evaluator training.

CEA put together the video below with excerpts from the certification hearings and shared it with the State Board so they could listen (as well as read) your testimony first hand.