Sentences with phrase «federal assessment even»

Thus, there is potential for projects to be made subject to Federal assessment even if they entail no Federal money or land and require no Federal decisions to be made.

Not exact matches

Evidence is mounting that federal employees and their agents may have directed or even pressured states to choose specific assessments, consultants, and the criteria for evaluating core reading programs as conditions for getting funding under the Reading First initiative, possibly in violation of federal law.

But Tennessee earned almost full marks (98 percent) on the section of the competition (weighted a substantial 14 percent of all possible points) devoted to «adopting standards and assessments,» even though its standards have remained extremely low ever since the federal accountability law took hold.

This message comes through even in the area where CCSSO is asking for new and important flexibility from federal rules (permitting states to allow districts to pilot new approaches to assessment).

Given that many states have been slow to implement the statewide assessment and accountability systems required by NCLB, one might even argue that in some instances federal spending growth has overshot the target.

Federal law requires states to provide «alternate assessments» for students with disabilities who can not take regular state tests, even with accommodations.

«In light of the recent federal guidance on assessment, it's even more critical for teachers to have programs and resources that foster an understanding of how to use assessment to provide every student with an equitable K - 12 education.»

The Gordon commission also urges that the next iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — the federal government's centerpiece education law, currently called the No Child Left Behind Act — encourage states and districts to experiment with new, even «radically different» forms of assessments.

It remains critically important to «ensure that schools are held accountable for the academic achievement of all students, including ELs and students with disabilities...» [iv] ESSA's federal assessment regulations [v] provide an even stronger basis for rejection.

White House and Climate Change Science Program officials have never offered an honest public explanation of why the terms of that dismissal would have legally required (as distinct from an unofficial, secret political agreement) that the White House and the federal agencies suppress a taxpayer - funded, scientifically based assessment sponsored by the federal global change research program, even for purposes of using it as a scientific document or in program planning for research and future assessments.

Even at the federal level in the US, sole reliance on numerical risk assessment is slowly fading.

They are acting as if they are in the midst of a federal or provincial environmental assessment process but they are not — they haven't even filed any detailed plans with the National Energy Board.

At this time, private developments on Provincial Crown land which are subject to Provincial environmental assessment and control must undergo the screening process even if no Federal permits or other actions will be required.

Even then, the project scoping phase often restricted the ambit of the assessment to portions of the project that were related to the Federal trigger.

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