Sentences with phrase «citizen test by»

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All that a Religious Freedom Restoration Act does is initiate a balancing test when a private citizen feels that their religious freedom has been infringed upon by the federal government.

[6] He authored the 2004 Home Office book Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship, which forms the basis for the new citizenship test required by all people naturalising as British citizens.

Means - tested pensioner benefits will be swept away to fund this new «citizen's pension» and the reform will, it is said, be funded by the later retirement age and abolishing the complex bureaucracy that administers the humiliating process of form - filling that stands between pensioners and top - up benefits.

On five of the seven tests analyzed, citizen science data corresponded closely to what had been produced by labs at Duke University and elsewhere.

In other words, citizens appear to be evaluating schools based on local comparisons or on information provided by their state testing system without taking into account the relative rigor of state standards.

These responses, by teachers and citizens alike, could be just temporary negative responses to the difficulty of adjusting to a new system where some tests are being administered over a computer and, in many states, being used for the purpose of evaluating teachers» effectiveness.

They just didn't mislead their citizens by making their state test a lot easier.

However, because standardized testing is a matter of public concern, a local speaking as a union, or an individual member speaking as a parent or citizen, about educational concerns over standardized testing, for instance, in a letter to the editor or in a statement to the Board of Education, is protected by the U.S. Constitution at least so long as they are not encouraging other parents or students to opt out from a test.»

As educators, parents, and citizens, we believe those hopes have been eroded by the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

Over a span of almost two months, we're offering these selfless citizens an opportunity to stop by our Ford dealership serving Asbury Park, NJ and test drive the Ford vehicle (s) of their choice.

We respond by creating the «AKC GOOD CITIZEN» test to humor them - a test that produces revenue for the registry but does nothing for the breed or breeder.

The only thing I can figure is it's free radicals or other substances created by the irradiation process, but that kind of testing and research is so far beyond the means of production labs and private citizens as to be laughable.

TokyoTreat's 15 person (possibly 14 people and 1 horse) team is based in Tokyo, Japan, which means access to candy and snacks tried and tested by true Tokyo citizens.

What kind of responsibility do the states have to act — not only by instituting better testing and evaluation of older citizens, but also by helping to plan for options and substitute services that will be needed as millions of the elderly become unable to drive?

(«We have always held that the constitutionality of a State statute may be tested only by one personally aggrieved thereby... an unaggrieved citizen - taxpayer, such as appellant, lacks standing to challenge a statute's constitutional validity.»)

Many countries around the world have developed more modern and progressive «public interest standing» tests that allow their citizens to stand up for the public interest by bringing cases to stop unlawful activities.

Since senior citizen health insurance plans come with limited coverage and many exclusions, compare insurance quotes online for the following: co-payment — where policyholder bears a portion of risk amount and balance is borne by insurer resulting in lower premium rates, maximum renewability age, lowest waiting period for pre-existing diseases and terms related to medical check - ups where least number of medical tests are required and cost reimbursed by insurer.

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Since BRIL has cleared the Howey test, it is available for purchase by citizens of all countries except China.