Sentences with phrase «california state approaches»

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The announcement that the U.S. Department of Justice would no longer adopt a «hands - off» approach to states that have legalized marijuana use initially sent some in the industry into a tailspin, just days after the $ 7 billion California recreational weed market opened for business.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-- This week's announcement that the U.S. Justice Department was ditching its hands - off approach to states that have legalized marijuana initially sent some in the industry into a tailspin, just days after California's $ 7 billion recreational weed market opened for business.

While the California investigators who may have found the Golden State Killer concluded that their novel approach was legal, courts have barely begun to explore these issues.

Ken Wilcox, chairman emeritus of Silicon Valley Bank, said in the past six months he had been approached by three different Chinese state - owned enterprises about being their agent in Northern California to buy technology, though he declined.

Many states, including Michigan and Arizona, have taken a largely hands - off approach, hoping to gain jobs from the new technology, while California and others have taken a harder line.

Unlike California, where Uber had been testing since spring of 2017, Arizona state officials had taken a hands - off approach to autonomous vehicles and did not require companies to disclose how their cars were performing.

Their small venue allows for a curated, detailed oriented approach to food and wines sourced from exclusively from California, Oregon and Washington State.

Storm system heads toward drought - stricken California: Drought - stricken California was set to get some relief from an approaching storm that forecasters said would be unusually strong for this time of year for parts of the state...

Mr Clarke said Treasury Wine would revamp distribution in 15 states in the US, including powerhouse states California and Washington, using a similar approach to what had occurred in China where profits are booming and margins are much fatter after it decided to go direct to the retail market rather than through a distributor.

As 2016 quickly approaches, Republicans are struggling to find top recruits in a trio of competitive House districts in California — a state where the party has suffered defeat at the congressional level for decades.

«California's population is approaching 40 million after growing by nearly 300,000 people during the year ending July 1, 2017, state officials reported Thursday in their annual county - by - county population update......» A lot of people did leave California.

Since most of Schmidt's colleagues were scattered across the globe — in Europe, South America and the United States — the group had developed a 24 - hour relay approach to analyzing their telescope data: Schmidt would work all day in the East before emailing the baton over to colleague Adam Riess, then at the University of California, Berkeley, who continued the study during daylight in the West.

A «harm reduction» approach to public health, rather than an abstinence or look - the - other - way policy, scored another win this month when the California state legislature gave the green light to a bill that would provide condoms for adult prison inmates.

Given that Medicare data from other states are available, the approach could be used more broadly to measure the health impacts of immigration policy nationwide, says Tom Wong, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

Mingfu He, Kah Chun Lau, Yiying Wu, and their team at the Ohio State University, California State University, and Argonne National Laboratory (USA) have now found an approach to solve this problem.

Finally, familial searches should be undertaken only as a last resort after other investigative leads have been tried — an approach that California has adopted and that other states should follow.

Californians are at particular risk from wildfire - related health impacts, because the state has the largest population in the U.S. living in wildland - urban interface (inhabited areas approaching wildland areas) where there is an elevated risk of being exposed to wildfires.14 More than 11 million people, about 30 percent of the California population, live in these wildland - urban interfaces.5

It's an accurate summary of the approach Boies and co-counsel Ted Olsen used in their long, long journey from California all the way to the Supreme Court, in fighting the ruling that eliminated the right for same - sex couples in the state to marry.

Dismal test scores and recent research that warns against a single approach to instruction have spurred California education officials to revamp the state's pioneering techniques for teaching young children to read.

Summit Public Schools, a charter management organization with schools in California and the state of Washington, is taking a similar approach.

In the midst of her first swing through California, the president - elect of the National Education Association praised the Common Core State Standards and California's measured approach in implementing them but warned about the use of standardized tests.

In moving to the Common Core State Standards this year, California school districts had to choose between offering a blended or «integrated» approach to math or a traditional sequence of courses, setting off strong, sometimes passionate disagreements among parents and teachers.

Chronic absence is feasible for inclusion in California's accountability measurement system using the state's approach for rating school achievement based on outcome and improvement, or alternatively through an approach that simply looks at performance in a given school year.

The findings are based on case studies of 12 reforming schools located in six reforming school districts in three states that have taken somewhat different approaches to systemic reform — California, Michigan, and Vermont.

Known as the Local Control Funding Formula, California's approach would allocate each district around $ 7,600 per student, on average, almost certainly putting a great many of the state's districts above the $ 7,500 threshold after adjusting for differences in cost of living.

While states with disparate academic approaches have made some strides over the past few years — notably Florida and California — national averages have varied only slightly, despite billions of dollars invested to improve performance at the national, state, and local levels.

For California to provide all children access to high - quality ECE, state policymakers will need to adopt a comprehensive approach to turn an uncoordinated set of underfunded programs into a true system of supports for children, families, and providers.

25th Anniversary Celebration Reception & Plenary - Making a Difference: Charters Past, Present and Future: Featuring a panel of woman charter public school leaders from across the state moderated by Dr. Margaret Fortune, CEO of Fortune School of Education, who will discuss the diversity of California's charter public school movement, models and theoretical approaches to education as well as where we've been, where we are now and where we are headed in the next 25 years.

Social studies and history teachers say they are encouraged that the creators of the Common Core, a set of English language arts and math standards that California and 42 other states have adopted, weave liberal doses of history and science into the standards» approach to literacy and numeracy.

Interdistrict Collaboration Powered by Open Educational Resources Three districts in three states — California, Ohio, and Wisconsin — were each committed to leveraging technology to improve student outcomes and serve as testbeds for new approaches to teaching and learning.

The report, Reparable Harm: Fulfilling the Unkept Promise of Educational Opportunity for California's Long Term English Learners, calls upon state policymakers and leaders to provide solutions and outlines basic principles and promising approaches for school districts to meet the needs of English Learners more effectively.

«Providing a summative measure does not have to conflict with the multiple indicator approach that California has adopted and can build on it, to ensure that parents have a clear entry point to interact with the richer performance data and the state can clearly identify those LEAs and schools with wide achievement gaps and in need of extra attention,» the letter says.

As my friend [former California state superintendent of education] Bill Honig likes to say, you can summarize NCLB as a «test and punish» approach to accountability.

The California Performance Assessment Collaborative (CPAC) is launching an official state pilot where participants have opportunities to learn from one another and deepen practice; find common ground despite discrete approaches to performance assessment; engage in research and documentation of various practices; and ultimately, inform state policymakers about the supports and conditions needed to broadly implement high - quality graduation performance assessments that can serve as a viable alternative to traditional measures of college, career, and civic readiness.

In 2010, the state board created dual math standards: California's fast track to algebra and the Common Core approach, teaching fewer concepts in depth, leading to Algebra I in ninth grade.

There is great value in having more autonomy and accountability at the state level, and in many ways California has been ahead of this curve in terms of a strong statewide approach that focuses on local control and multiple measures of effectiveness.

She also noted that California's careful approach has helped avoid the backlash over the new standards that other states are experiencing.

This approach is used in districts like Long Beach and San Mateo, California, and is encouraged in states like Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington that call for multiple measures of student learning to be combined in a judgment system with evidence of teacher practice.

Summit Public Schools operates a public school system in California and Washington, and it shares its personalized approach to teaching and learning - Summit Learning - with approximately 330 schools and 54,000 students across 40 states.

Aylon served as Chief Schools Officer at Rocketship Education; leading the highest performing network of low - income schools in the state of California, designing the academic model and blended learning approach, and growing the network from 3 to 7 schools.

While many state funding formulas use a weighted approach to try to account for the higher costs of educating different groups of students, California is taking an extra step.

In contrast to the CORE's top - down approach, California's State Superintendent of Instruction, Tom Torlakson has established a 30 - member Accountability and Continuous Improvement Task Force.

Like the common core standards in English and math, the Next Generation Science Standards are a move back to a more holistic approach to educating kids, said Orange County Department of Education's Dean Gilbert, a member of the California team working with 26 other states to develop the standards.

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the California Charter Schools Act next year, we want to also take the time to highlight accomplishments from our state's charter schools, and their continued commitment to serving generations of students in California.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

Honda says it has close to 100 hydrogen - powered vehicles on the road in California today — the only state in the US with anything approaching a hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

Many US states are deep into deficit spending and are approaching the limit — Florida, California and Michigan are ones that have been in the news as being in deep doo - doo on a debt to tax revenue basis.

For example, California adds a 2.5 % state tax early withdrawal penalty, so it ends up being 12.5 %, plus the normal income tax on the withdrawal... pretty substantial and makes me less inclined to use this approach (at least while living in California).

With Halloween approaching it's hard to not believe in the paranormal, so we went out in search of the most legendary haunted hotels in the state of California.

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