Federal tests sample student achievement periodically across the country to determine trends but are separate from annual state tests the No Child law requires to rate schools.
Not exact matches
The
Federal Trade Commission issued a striking holiday missive last year: If you're thinking of buying an at - home DNA
testing kit, make sure to consider the privacy implications: «Although most
tests require just a swab of the cheek,» the agency wrote, «that tiny
sample can disclose the biological building blocks of what makes you you.»
Consumer Reports
tested samples of apple and grape juice and found that 10 percent of the
samples had total arsenic levels that exceeded
federal drinking - water standards of 10 parts per billion (ppb) and 25 percent of the
samples had lead levels higher than the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) bottled - water limit of 5 ppb.
«The
federal program, which is known as the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, only required systems that served 10,000 users or more to
test for certain unregulated contaminants, and then a really small random
sample of other systems are
tested,» Hutton says.
The emails also show that state employees were aware that the
federal EPA had a recommended level of 400 parts per trillion and that multiple
samples of Hoosick Falls water
tested in the fall of 2014 exceeded that amount.
Federal prosecutors said the son of Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous should go to prison for underreporting his income, accusing him of failing to fully repay the IRS and «tampering» with a urine
sample used in a drug
test.
She said one of the pregnant women was confirmed positive when her blood
sample was sent to a specialist hospital in Irua in Edo State, while the other died on her way to the hospital after
testing positive for Lassa fever at
Federal medical center Makurdi.
Lead levels in nearly all water
samples tested in the city and throughout Onondaga County are below the limit established by the
federal Environmental Protection Agency.
... and hence, a
test by Consumer Reports on 88 juice
samples found that 10 % had arsenic levels higher than the U.S.
federal drinking - water limit.
Federal law also mandates the periodic administration of
tests in selected subjects to a representative
sample of students in 4th and 8th grade as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called «the nation's report card.»
To calculate how states stack up under the new criteria, the department is using a complex matrix that weighs several factors, including how well students with disabilities perform on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, a
test the
federal government gives to a
sampling of students in every state every two years.
The only other standardized nationwide
test is the NAEP, which is a
federal test that is statistically inaccurate and only
tests a random
sample in the 4th and 8th grades.
They also were not the only signs proving the city had been making progress, he said: On more difficult
federal tests given to a
sample of fourth and eighth graders, the city had steadily improved.
Grade span
testing or semi-annual of student
samples would give state and
federal officials sufficient data to know when a closer look at a district or school is warranted (although, just like with annual
testing, it does not remotely explain what will be found when looking).
According to NBC News, «
Federal Food and Drug Administration officials unexpectedly posted summaries this week of lab results of nearly 300 jerky treat
samples collected and
tested in the U.S. between April 2007 and June 2012.»
Specifically, though the Menominee Tribe had previously voluntarily submitted
samples of their hemp crop for reliable laboratory
testing of THC levels, the crop was destroyed by
federal agents after first
testing negative in a narcotics field
test, and then
testing positive on a second narcotics field
test.
Adherence of U.S. employers and administrators of drug -
testing programs to guidelines for
federal programs, requiring that urine
samples that fail a screening
test be confirmed by GC / MS.
A majority of Canadians oppose the
federal government's plan to give greater powers to police officers to obtain breath
samples from drivers in roadside
tests, a new poll has found.
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