Sentences with phrase «act under any test»

Method Test Prep regularly holds practice tests at its New York centers, where students are able to take a full - length SAT or ACT under test - like conditions.

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Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

During CES, Goetgeluk says Virtuix is conducting a «testing - the - waters» campaign on SeedInvest under the new mini-IPO rules of Regulation A of the JOBS Act, which allow the general public for the first time to potentially invest in tech startups.

In order to be eligible for the Army's Loan Repayment Program, the applicant is required to enlist in the Army with at least a high school diploma, score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, hold a loan that is guaranteed under the Higher Education ACT, agree to serve in a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollment.

Numerous traders need a demo account to familiarize with the trading platform, to experiment a few trading strategies, to perceive how prices act in this present reality and to test how their own mental trading theories work while they are under pressure to hit the right choice if the market prices of an asset hit the target or when the time lapses.

Scientific investigation does not require complete recapitulation or direct observation of an event to be applicable, e.g. a genetic paternity test is reliable despite not having observed or directly recapitulated the act of conception under investigation.

The strict scrutiny test you're referring to here would apply under a direct challenge of the const - itutionality of the ACA as well as under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, i.e. Compelling State Interest, Narrowly Tailored to the interest, and Least Restrictive Means.

The agency will test whether andro fits the definition of a controlled substance under the Anabolic Steroids Control Act.

On Long Island, Simon said that the USOC, using powers granted it by Congress under the Sports Act of 1978, would assume full responsibility for the testing of American athletes.

Catherine Farmer, of the National Board of Medical Examiners, responded in a faxed statement: «We do provide a wide variety of accommodations to test - takers with documented disabilities under the Americans With Disabilities Act.»

Our amendment introduces an exemption for organisations which are deemed to be small by the test under the Companies Act.

He told MPs on the Business Select Committee: «The framework which we have under the act, as you know, confines the public interest test quite narrowly and, of course, all of that takes place within the framework of European merger law.»

According to the Environmental Working Group, «many of the 250 - plus contaminants detected through water sampling and testing are at levels that are perfectly legal under the Safe Drinking Water Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.»

The new definition reads: «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a person if, by stimulating or depressing the person's central nervous system, it affects the person's mental functioning or emotional state; as measured by the production of a pharmacological response on the central nervous system or which produces a response in in - vitro tests qualitatively identical to substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and references to a substance's psychoactive effects are to be read accordingly.»

The agency has ordered testing on just 200 compounds and restricted or banned only five since it gained the authority to regulate new chemicals in 1976 under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

And with the future of Obamacare looking shaky, the free preventive services women have had access to since the Affordable Care Act went into effect — like zero - copay birth control, STD testing, and breast cancer screening — are under attack.

The budget includes money for the state to continue testing students in reading, mathematics, and science, as required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Providing appropriate tests for English - language learners is one of the biggest challenges that states face in complying with requirements for that group of students under the No Child Left Behind Act, concludes an issue brief by the National Council of La Raza.

At the start, parents seemed to be on board, or at least oblivious to the slow increase in testing that would be required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

It was worse than she feared: New test results showed her school had failed to meet almost every one of its improvement goals under the No Child Left Behind Act.

A bipartisan group of House education leaders signed a letter to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings that raises concerns over why the test scores of some students are apparently not being counted under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Under the law, a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, states must test students in reading and mathematics annually in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school,...

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.

Test Drive: New Hampshire Teachers Build New Ways to Measure Deeper Learning (The Christian Science Monitor) Dan Koretz discusses performance - based assessments as states adopt new plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools are ranked by the trend, not the absolute level, of their students» performance on the standardized reading and math tests.

Under that law and continuing under its successor, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the U.S. Department of Education has required states to test students in math and reading in grades 3 through 8 and again in high scUnder that law and continuing under its successor, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the U.S. Department of Education has required states to test students in math and reading in grades 3 through 8 and again in high scunder its successor, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the U.S. Department of Education has required states to test students in math and reading in grades 3 through 8 and again in high school.

The money is in addition to the $ 370 million in grants provided last summer to all state education agencies to help meet the testing requirements under the law, a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states will give annual tests; the results will be published and released; schools will receive some form of rating, based largely on those results; and the very lowest - performing schools will be subject to some form of intervention.

Labeled as chronically under - performing under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, all electives had been stripped away to make more time for reading and math drills in an effort to boost state test scores.

The U.S. Department of Education's latest move to grant more flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act, this time aimed at helping schools that narrowly miss the law's requirement for high participation on standardized tests, was generally welcomed last week.

Under pressure to cut back on testing time, many opted for other, shorter tests, or chose to use the SAT or ACT in high school instead.

For all of this year's debate about the future of testing, accountability, and other policy issues around the No Child Left Behind Act, virtually no one has brought up the question of how best to give out billions of dollars a year under the law.

This, too, is not surprising in an era of high - stakes testing under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, state education leaders have a lot of flexibility to design and test new interventions for struggling schools.

Especially now that the federal government is returning power to states under the Every Student Succeeds Act, signed into law by President Obama on December 10, 2015, federal research efforts should be refocused to more effectively help states and districts develop and test their initiatives.

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For the past four years, the Center on Education Policy has annually collected results from all 50 states on tests required for accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Further, New York's proposal to selectively provide students with disabilities who are below grade level a different test from students without disabilities who are below grade level unjustly discriminates and violates these students» rights under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 [viii] since it deprives these students with disabilities equal educational opportunities and benefits as those available to non-disabled students.

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For five years, the Center on Education Policy followed efforts in six states to improve schools repeatedly missing state test targets under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

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Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, states and districts do have opportunities to collect and use data that go well beyond the traditional standardized tests.

Following the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, states paid millions of dollars annually to companies to develop and administer the standardized tests required under the law.

Justin Haskins, executive editor at The Heartland Institute, comments that under ESSA, schools have the option of using the ACT or SAT for their standardized testing.

In a statement Friday, state schools chief Randy Dorn reiterated his view that if fewer than 95 percent of Washington students take the state tests, the U.S. Department of Education could withhold education funding under the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandates annual testing.

Standardized test results have been the defining measure of student achievement and school quality under the No Child Left Behind Act.

FairTest has created a PowerPoint presentation on how to organize testing resistance and reform under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

Under its new plan to comply with the federal law called the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA: for explainers, see here and here), New York has requested a waiver to let it give students with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities tests that are not at their grade level but at their developmental level.

For children of color, annual test data (as required under the No Child Left Behind Act and state laws) is helpful in the fight for ensuring their civil rights.