Sentences with phrase «california placing a measure»

The debate over the safety and environmental sustainability of GMOs has intensified in the last year in the United States, with California placing a measure to label food products with genetically altered ingredients on its November ballot.

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Most recently, California approved a measure to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels within 15 years, and Washington State placed a cap on emissions from specific industries.

Diagnostics supplied by the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the University of California, Los Angeles measured the resulting turbulence, or random fluctuations and eddies, that took place in the plasma.

In place of using student test scores, the state Department of Education wants federal officials to permit California districts to use high school graduation rates and the participation rates of students in this spring's 11th — grade Smarter Balanced tests as measures of Adequate Yearly Progress in high schools.

These results stem from a range of measures now in place at the school, including an intense focus on creating a nurturing environment inside and outside of the classroom, along with new scheduling and staffing arrangements and a unique partnership with the University of California, San Diego.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

It measures individual creditworthiness on a scale of 300 to 850, and its 2015 rankings placed California 16th among the states.

Although a number of California cities and counties already have similar measures in place, California is the country's first entire state to limit store sales of commercially bred pets.

California's second largest isle, Santa Rosa Island measures a whopping 84 square miles — if you're looking for isolation and adventure, this is the place.

To your knowledge, does California have enough regulatory authority to demand PG&E replace Diablo Canyon only with the renewables and with energy conservation measures; and further, to directly and explicitly prevent PG&E from placing greater reliance on natural gas for servicing California's electricity demand?

Does California have enough regulatory authority to demand PG&E replace Diablo Canyon only with the renewables and with energy conservation measures; and further, to directly and explicitly prevent PG&E from placing greater reliance on natural gas for servicing California's electricity demand?