Sentences with phrase «federal standards dictate»

Federal standards dictate that car seats be evaluated for safety at speeds of 30 mph, but some companies will even go above and beyond this.

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The new standards, which go into effect July 1, mark the first time the U.S. Department of Agriculture program will directly dictate nutrition for any food sold in schools during the school day — not just the traditional lunches and breakfasts long subsidized through the federal school lunch program.

Ironically, however, it is not clear that these growth models would fulfill the more simplistic federal requirements for adequate yearly progress, which dictate that the performance of students at each grade level be measured against a fixed standard of proficiency.

The passage of the NCLB is a landmark moment for federal control in education, as, for the first time, Washington was to dictate state standards, while mandating state testing and yearly progress goals — even the breaking down of scores by sub-groups of students.

They combine new federal dictates over the timing of improvement with continued state control over the standards for improvement, perhaps providing perverse incentives for states to lower the academic standards they recently adopted.

The bill specifically prevents the federal government from requiring that states evaluate teachers at all, much less use test scores to rate them, and says the education secretary can not dictate any specific academic standards to states.

Despite fears that the standards are a federal dictate controlling what happens in American classrooms, the Common Core only contains broad guidelines about what students should know, not directions about how textbooks should be written or how teachers should teach.

In addition to the shock of the initial test results, there has been growing concern about whether implementation of the standards will reduce local control of schools and make it easier for the federal government to dictate what schools teach.

At present, there are no Federal standards that dictate the circumstances where relocation would be appropriate.

Guidelines simply dictate a set of federal standards regarding the visibility and location of signs.

Traditionally, the divide between federal and state governments as related to motor vehicles has been simple: the feds dictate safety standards and issue recalls, while states license drivers and regulate behavior and enforce speeds limits.