Sentences with phrase «debate over a measure»

At the end of a debate over a measure to institute a monitor in the troubled East Ramapo school district, for example, Silver voted against the bill, which passed.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that he intends to hold a debate over immigration measures, such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, before Feb. 8 — but only if the government reopens.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he intends to hold a debate over immigration measures before Feb. 8 — but only if the government reopens.

For all of the region's protests of the president, tech companies must engage both parties in equal measure if they have any hope of shaping the government's debates over tax and immigration reforms — or the myriad other issues that matter to the tech industry's bottom lines.

Much of the debate over Trump's trade policy seems to miss the point that the economic effects of any trade measure depend on how it affects capital.

Now that the Republican and Democratic Conventions are over with, we can move on to the actual debate portion of the election, which means that your Facebook feed is about to get stormed by a barrage of thoughtful, reasonable, measured political opinions that will never be inflammatory hyperbole packed to the brim with dubious facts.

So let's return for a moment to the ongoing debate over noncognitive skills and how (and whether) to define and measure them.

In the bedsharing debate, there is little concern over the definition of bedsharing (though there is concern about reporting which I will touch on below), but how some of the confounding factors are defined and measured can greatly influence how much of a role they are deemed to play.

Chris Grayling's plans to dismantle judicial review were left in tatters yesterday after a letter emerged showing he misled the Commons over the reforms just as the same measure was being debated in the Lords.

A nervous Vince Cable started debating the measure just after midday, as a packed House of Commons saw emotional MPs argue over the ethics of the decision to try and triple the fees.

The push would reignite a heated debate over the RHA, a measure that is aimed at the codification of Roe v. Wade in state law and is deeply opposed by opponents of abortion, who have argued it's a needless expansion of existing rights in New York.

Injecting Dolan back into the debate over the tax credit comes as both forces for the measure as well as those in favor of the DREAM Act are making a last - minute push to have them included in the budget talks.

He has interviewed dozens of those at the centre and writes about the relationship between Cameron and Clegg, the Lib Dem fall from grace over tuition fees, the «surprise» of Lansley's NHS reform, the clash over AV and Lords reform, the decision to intervene in Libya, the debate over the EU, single - sex marriage, «Plebgate» and above all else the economy and austerity measures.

The racially motivated shooting by Dylan Roof led to a national debate over the prominence of the Confederate battle flag through much of the South, but a conversation over new gun control measures nationally was more muted.

One in five parents opted their children out of the tests in 2016 amid complaints about the rigorous Common Core standards they measure and debate over the tests» usefulness and role in teacher and school ratings.

The reason of course that administrative measures are given priority over political debate is that the «irreconcilables» are even more split amongst themselves and the political discourse would expose this.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo swiftly signed New York's new sweeping anti-gun measures into law, just minutes after the Assembly finished an over four - hour long debate and voted for the bills.

But the governor said the measure was introduced with the goal of having an «informed debate» over the issue.

Qatada's case has also revived the debate over the government's terrorism prevention and investigation measures, the replacement for control orders.

The measure passed the House on Wednesday on a 98 - 49 vote after hours of debate over proposed amendments.

One of the measures the union is watching seemingly has paradigmatic implications in the debate over charter schools and standardized testing.

The state Senate approved the measure over the objections of several senators who engaged in a lengthy debate on Friday.

Following an occasionally tense debate over the fairness of the measure, the vote was almost unanimous, with Legislator Ed Day casting the only opposing vote.

But the debate over the amendment lived on thanks to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who spent the week attacking the amendment as a cheap way to buy votes for the overall measure — and an expensive burden on New York State.

The announcement comes amid a debate over the use of experimental drugs in the outbreak: a leading epidemiologist hopes the announcement will shift international focus toward relying on basic public health measures to control the disease.

The debate over the safety and environmental sustainability of GMOs has intensified in the last year in the United States, with California placing a measure to label food products with genetically altered ingredients on its November ballot.

Schrödinger proposed his «cat» after debates with Albert Einstein over the Copenhagen interpretation, which Schrödinger defended, stating in essence that if a scenario existed where a cat could be so isolated from external interference (decoherence), the state of the cat can only be known as a superposition (combination) of possible rest states (eigenstates), because finding out (measuring the state) can not be done without the observer interfering with the experiment — the measurement system (the observer) is entangled with the experiment.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

We could have a long (and probably pointless) debate over just how that's measured, but one of their claims is that «our general air quality has increased», as «evidence» of which they present their Figure 3 - 3, showing a (slight!)

During the debate over the federal «annual yearly progress» standard, many of the proposals that would have included other indicators as measures of a school's annual yearly progress were simply thinly disguised attempts to eradicate any rigor from the system.

A marathon debate over education funding continues in Ohio, where school groups are already divided over a May 5 ballot measure that proposes hiking the state sales tax by 1 cent in order to raise revenue for schools.

There is no end to the debate over intelligence: how to define and measure it, how much of it is hereditary versus environmentally determined, and the extent to which it can be altered via purposeful interventions.

The debate over school integration now requires discussion of school accountability, parental choice, and measures designed to enhance the quality of the teacher workforce.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

For example, there are still legitimate debates over whether the state government or independent schools should make final decisions about the measures used to define school quality and the credentials teachers should possess.

All of the reviewers recognize a need to inject a measure of reason into the politically charged debate over school vouchers.

Quantitative editor Andrew Flowers argued that a key part of the debate is over, and that recent studies have converged on the finding that value - added measures accurately predict students» future test scores.

The report is certain to add fuel to the fire in the ongoing debate in California and elsewhere over how to measure teacher quality and the effort or resistance of some government bodies to tie teacher evaluations to standardized test scores.

Mathis acknowledges that debates will continue over the new Common Core curriculum and assessments, but he believes that the new K — 12 shift toward measuring students» college and career readiness beginning in grade 3 is the «right thing do for students.

The lawsuits have partly been fueled by debates within the academic community over whether it's even scientifically valid to use these measures to evaluate teachers.

They are sometimes useful measures, and even then, ought to be used and viewed with caveats that are usually missing from the often - heated debates over who's doing what to whom in education.

As Congress begins preparing for debate over the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, state schools chief Tom Torlakson has joined the chorus of voices calling for the replacement of Adequate Yearly Progress with a new growth system - one that not only measures student academic progress but also health and wellness, and school dropout rates.

We acknowledge that in Chile, like in the United States, the debate over what counts as data, how data is interpreted, and the measures that are used to indicate educational achievement and improvement is ongoing and often influenced by broader political and economic ideologies and goals.

In addition to debate over their technical merit, one generally agreed - upon and significant drawback of value - added measures is that they can only apply to teachers in tested grades and subjects.

There are many authentic measures of student learning, including classroom tests, experiments, debates, and written work tied to the curriculum and measured over time.

But in the end, disagreements over how private schools should be held accountable for academic results — as well as legislators» exhaustion after passing a hotly debated gas tax — caused the measure to stall.

Setting aside any debate over the validity — or perhaps lack thereof — of gender roles in society, men and women by some measures have been shown to value different attributes while car shopping.

Setting aside any debate over the validity — or perhaps lack thereof — of gender roles in society, men and women by some measures have been shown to value different... Read more

Why a Busy Fund Manager Isn't Always Best A debate is on over the concept of «active share» — a measure of how much a portfolio's stocks differ from those in its benchmark.

Toronto's housing market shot into the stratosphere over the ensuing months, prompting the Ontario government to put in place a nearly identical measure (city council in Victoria, concerned about an affordability crisis, debated but ultimately rejected a foreign buyer tax recently).