Sentences with phrase «decision rules system»

Table 2 below illustrates a simple decision rules system using this approach.

Decision rules systems do not normalize or mathematically combine indicators, an attribute that may improve transparency and make it easier for parents to understand how a school is performing on each indicator.

Not exact matches

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said its ruling stemmed from a 2008 decision in which it held that Cablevision Systems Corp. could offer a remote digital video recording service without paying additional licensing fees to broadcasters because each playback transmission was made to a single subscriber using a single unique copy produced by that subscriber.

The court's ruling was a backhanded decision that favored the theater circuit but added that if the city were to improve its system, such cases might be decided in its favor in the future.

This framework identifies which key internal and external stakeholders provide inputs, approve, perform, and decide on decisions regarding standards, policies, rules, the assurance system, appeals and other decisions.

This reflected a key strategic decision on Labour's part to accept the existing financial system and (to a large extent) the rules of corporate governance.

2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»

Decisions about the rules of the political game — including the geographic delineation of electoral districts, rules about campaign financing, and voting systems such as plurality election and proportional representation — are frequently made by legislative bodies.

The governor says the rules of the tax cap do not take away local decision making, but he says it does end the previous system, which the governor says was on «automatic pilot» as school taxes went up year after year.

«However, owing to our principal's decision to abide by the rules of the game, we have continued to keep faith with the system by allowing them to vote their candidate of choice.

This comes after several court decisions ruling in favor of the New York State Teachers» Retirement System have kept those names out of the public eye.

The decision upholds a March ruling from a lower court, and is a blow to the Bloomberg administration's attempts to revitalize the city's education system by shutting down failing schools.

System 2: The prefrontal cortex, which is the seat of the brain's executive function, and the hippocampus — crucial to memory storage and recollection — work together as the foundation of explicit, rule - based decision - making.

Decisions on how much to spend on education are not scientific questions, and theycannot be answered with methods that effectively rule out all discussion of reforms that might make the school system more efficient.

However, to be democratic, it would be necessary, however, that the governance of these systems count on the active participation of the population and civil society organizations in formulating goals (performance standard) to be pursued, as well as in policy or decision rules seeking to correct deviations between what was planned and carried out.

Coming in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold race - conscious admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin — a case in which Garces authored briefs on behalf of 444 social science researchers — the Schuette case will rule on changes to the admission system at public postsecondary institutions in the state of Michigan.

The Texas Supreme Court last week ended the state's five - year legal ordeal with its school - finance system, ruling in a split decision that the system imposed by the legislature in 1993 passes every constitutional test.

The bigger the bureaucracy, the harder it is to get decisions made at all, much less get them made quickly.The public education system is notorious for having antiquated work rules and bloated bureaucracies.

(Calif.) Reversing a prior decision, an appeals court ruled this week that private communications sent on personal electronic devices and saved on private data systems are not subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act.

In the wake of District Judge John Dietz's ruling that the current system is in violation of the Texas Constitution, the scramble is once again underway to fix the problem politically, while awaiting the inevitable appeal of the decision by the State to the Texas Supreme Court.The primary issues remain those of «equity» and «adequacy», as those are vaguely defined by the Constitution, amplified by the Edgewood vs. Kirby decisions and subsequent legislation.

The suggested rating criteria and decision rules may be changed in the future as the model teacher evaluation system continues to be implemented in Virginia.

The ruling was a stunning, wholesale reversal of trial and appeals court decisions that found for the plaintiffs, with damages to the Orleans Parish school system and the state estimated as high as $ 1.5 billion to pay the employees» back pay and benefits.

In California, education reform advocates are suing the state's school system over rules that require layoff decisions to be based solely on seniority.

The ruling stays the use of the New Mexico value - added system and should be a wake - up call to Gov. Susana Martinez and state Education Secretary Hanna Skandera who promoted this system, despite warnings from major educational research organizations and others about using value - added measures for high - stakes decisions.

MALDEF Decries Latest Decision of Texas Supreme Court — Ruling Abandons Low - wealth Districts and Upholds Glaring Inequities in the School Finance System, by Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

A 2011 Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision which forced the struggling city of Scranton to adhere to a $ 21 million arbitration ruling in favor of employees is now also helping drain the city's deeply indebted pension system.

While the case has received national attention and previous rulings have set legal precedent, this particular Supreme Court decision will not affect other suits working their way through the court system, said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond.

This past April, the California Court of Appeals unanimously struck down the controversial Vergara v. California decision, in which a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled that five longstanding teacher protections — including a two - year probationary period for new teachers and a layoff system based on how many years one's been teaching — violated students» constitutional right to an equal education.

As per an email I received earlier today from Bruce (i.e., Sheri's husband / attorney who prosecuted her case), the Court otherwise «declined to make an overall ruling on the [New York growth] rating system in general because of new regulations in effect» [e.g., that the state's growth model is currently under review]... [Nontheless, t] he decision should qualify as persuasive authority for other teachers challenging growth scores throughout the County [and Country].

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There are no emotional decisions to make when strictly following a rule - based system.

Financial planner Jonathan Guyton and software developer William Klinger proposed a somewhat similar, although far more complicated, system in a research study titled Decision Rules and Maximum Initial Withdrawal Rates.

Systems trading entails coming up with a set of precise, hard - coded rules that help you to make buy or sell decisions, like «buy when the price exceeds the average of the past 20 days».

The court ruled that PC Box's software is not inherently illegal since its intent is to allow for playing otherwise legal content on the systems; however, Nintendo will continue to appeal the decision, as the software, intentionally or not, does also allow for playing of some pirated games, as well.

The turned based format means you get unlimited time to make a decision that would take a split second in a real time stealth game, but because of the extra space for consideration, Invisible Inc. piles on the systems, making every infiltration a true challenge, but one comprised of fair, transparent rule sets.

Clarity and predictability are the essence of the system of precedent (see also Rule of Law, Tom Bingham (alias Lord Bingham)(2010), Chapter 3); and this means that junior courts «have to accept» decisions on points of law of higher courts says Tom Bingham.

The new rules on budgets and sanctions nearly destroyed the reputation of our civil justice system for fairness with the disastrous Mitchell decision when # 506,000 of costs was disallowed from a budget because it was filed the day before the hearing, not seven days before (Mitchell MP v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 1537, [2014] 2 All ER 430).

Ultimately, the reappointment process itself, and the way it helps the system of investor - State arbitration to adapt to the evolving expectations of the international community, can therefore be a source of legitimacy in aligning the decision - making of arbitrators with the wider public and its values, including the rule of law and democracy.

The opposition will be far more familiar with the system, statutes, rules and regulations, not to mention significant court decisions.

However, in order to avoid an «eye for an eye» justice system and maintain the rule of law, we need to support and acknowledge judges such as Justice Kevin Coady and the tough decisions they must make.

The Library of Congress explains that, as a civil law country, Chinese judges make rulings based on statutes without deference to other court decisions — unlike the U.S. common law system, which is based on judicial interpretations.

In particular, as part of a more qualitative approach, one needs to have a look whether the current perceived «turbulences» have also by now reached the more fundamental layers of international law, i.e. meta - rules such as the ones on sources, State responsibility, State immunity, treaty interpretation, or res judicata effect of international court decisions must be abided by the parties involved, to name but a few, the general acceptance of which is indispensable for a functioning international legal system.

If a judge in a civil law system is in doubt about the fact whether its decision is creating new legal rules, it should leave matters to the legislator.

Given that the European Union's own resources include, as provided in Article 2 (1) of Council Decision 2007 / 436 / EC, Euratom of 7 June 2007 on the system of the European Communities» own resources (OJ 2007 L 163, p. 17), revenue from application of a uniform rate to the harmonised VAT assessment bases determined according to European Union rules, there is thus a direct link between the collection of VAT revenue in compliance with the European Union law applicable and the availability to the European Union budget of the corresponding VAT resources, since any lacuna in the collection of the first potentially causes a reduction in the second» (para. 26).

A «culture shift is required in order to create an environment promoting timely and affordable access to the civil justice system,» trumpets the unanimous ruling in Hryniak v. Mauldin, released Jan. 23, along with a companion decision Bruno Appliance and Furniture Inc. v. Hryniak.

As government lawyers who help ground decision - making in the international rule of law we have a crucial role to play in ensuring that the short - term and expedient solution to any given problem — which may be legally arguable - is set in the wider political and legal context that protects the UK's longer - term interests in having a responsive but robust international legal system.

Robert Greene Sterne, director of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, who represented Amberwave Systems Corp. as an amicus, tells Legal Times in an e-mail: «This decision has far reaching implications for inventors and patent owners because it could result in these rules being eventually adopted which would place an unwanted and negative burden on the patent process.

The full story is in today's Pacific Daily News and a month ago in the Marianas Variety Guam's court system wants to improve public access to local laws, government rules, executive orders, court decisions and attorney general opinions.

For such, the lawyer shall also be an agent forming strategic partnerships, able to prevent problems and find future solutions, even more that Brazil has a complex legal and licensing system, in addition to a set of rules and decisions that take into account excessive rights transmitted to the consumers, including removing rules contracted in detriment to the economical - financial balance of the system.

LORD JUSTICE JACOB: (GIVING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT): His lordship accepted that the special circumstances arising from the creation of the European patent system and the central importance given to decisions of the Boards of Appeal required the Court of Appeal to recognise a further exception to the rules laid down in Young.