Sentences with phrase «evaluation report said»

«Labour's own evaluation report said that Jobs Growth Wales locked people into low wages and that 73 % would've found work without it.

In WA, the State Government came under fire for halving funding for Aboriginal health programs in its most recent budget, despite an evaluation report saying existing programs were delivering good value for money in terms of Closing the Gap on Aboriginal health outcomes.

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«Over the next few weeks, ministers will finish reviewing a number of reports relating to the evaluation of options, industrial benefits, costs and other factors related to the decision to replace our CF - 18 fleet,» Finley said.

Sometimes, the report says, the price evaluations are done remotely: outsourced to India and conducted by real - estate agents using online listings and Google Earth searches.

«Implementation of these reforms, along with ongoing evaluation of export processes and identification of further opportunities for improvement may assist the Department of Agriculture to develop a more efficient and cost effective system for ensuring welfare of exported livestock,» the report said.

«Outcomes will include a collaborative culture in the program, effective reporting, evaluation, support and rigorous monitoring of scientific effort to promote high quality targeted research to meet the objectives of the program,» the tender document says.

I / we agree that if any material change (s) occur (s) in my / our financial condition that I / we will immediately notify BSHFC of said change (s) and unless Baby Safe Homes Franchise Corporation is so notified it may continue to rely upon the application and financial statement and the representations made herein as a true and accurate statement of my / our financial condition.nI / we authorize Baby Safe Homes Franchise Corporation to make whatever credit inquiries / background checks it deems necessary in connection with this application and financial statement.nI / we authorize and instruct any person or consumer reporting agency to furnish to BSHFC any information that it may have to obtain in response to such credit inquiries.nIn consideration of the ongoing association between Baby Safe Homes and the undersigned applicant (hereinafter u201cApplicantu201d), the parties hereto have entered into this Non-Disclosure and Non-Competition Agreement.nWHEREAS, in the course of its business operations, Baby Safe Homes provides its customers products and services which, by nature of the business, include trade secrets, confidential and proprietary information, and other matters deemed material or important enough to warrant protection; and WHEREAS, Applicant, by reason of his / her interest in Baby Safe Homes and in the course of his / her duties, has access to said secrets and confidential information; and WHEREAS, Baby Safe Homes has trade secrets and other confidential and proprietary information, including procedures, customer lists, and particular desires or needs of such customers to which Applicant has access in the course of his / her duties as an Applicant.nNow, therefore, in consideration of the premises contained herein, the parties agree as follows Applicant shall not, either during the time of his / her franchise evaluation with Baby Safe Homes or at any time thereafter either directly or indirectly, communicate, disclose, reveal, or otherwise use for his / her own benefit or the benefit of any other person or entity, any trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information obtained by Employee by virtue of his / her employment with Baby Safe Homes, in any manner whatsoever, any such information of any kind, nature, or description concerning any matters affecting or relating to the Baby Safe Homes business, or in the business of any of its customers or prospective customers, except as required in the course of his / her employment by Baby Safe Homes or except as expressly authorized Baby Safe Homes Franchise Corporation, in writing.nDuring any period of evaluation with Baby Safe Homes, and for two (2) years thereafter, Applicant shall not, directly or indirectly, induce or influence, divert or take away, or attempt to divert or take away and, during the stated period following termination of employment, call upon or solicit, or attempt to call upon or solicit, any of the customers or patrons Baby Safe Homes including, but not limited to, those upon whom he / she was directly involved, or called upon, or catered to, or with whom became acquainted while engaged in the franchise evaluation process of a Baby Safe Homes franchise business.

The American Chemistry Council denied last week's report, saying in a statement that it was «distinctly at odds with the findings of other comprehensive evaluations of the safety of bisphenol - A, in which government and scientific bodies worldwide examined the same scientific information.

After a comprehensive and transparent evaluation of the bids of the five applicants on the 23rd January, 2015 the NCA Board of Directors considered the evaluation report and the recommendations contained therein and endorsed the said recommendations.

Instead, Mulgrew said, the UFT has received reports of principals in different parts of the city using it not just for discussion but for evaluation.

That followed a Newsday report that said the portion of teacher evaluations controlled by districts is weighted in most Long Island districts toward ensuring teachers score high enough to get favorable evaluations.

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources says the evaluation report on the work of the inter-ministerial task force will be made public after it is officially presented to President John Mahama.

«On the whole, children in NC Pre-K exceed normal expectations for the rate of developmental growth, both while in the program and afterward in kindergarten,» said Ellen Peisner - Feinberg, director of FPG's National Pre-K and Early Learning Evaluation Center and lead author of the report.

«Since residents may be repeatedly exposed to these peak concentrations of benzene,» the ATSDR report said, «the concentrations... warrant careful monitoring and exposure evaluation.»

Security procedures can vary according to the specific needs of an institution and existing legal boundaries, the new report says, but it adds: «In general, programs include suitability based on educational and work verification, competency, criminal background check, and medical evaluation.

A focus on scientific responsibility «has long been a part of personnel security programs in the defense sector,» the report says, as has the use of behavioral and psychological evaluations.

«Without these resources, administrators and responsible officials struggle to identify the most relevant information on which to base their evaluations,» the report says.

The army report found no evidence of wrongdoing but says that PTSD evaluation practices are poorly organised and could be improved.

«The current analyses reported here were performed to update the earlier evaluation by expanding the diagnosis years from 2004 to 2011, and including data on 100 percent of the Appalachian and non-Appalachian populations,» Wilson said.

«This evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the report, the second of two AAAS reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.

But there is no sure way of knowing if these programs are effective, the report says, since evaluation efforts to date have been insufficient.

Findings from its evaluation of a number of youth problem areas indicate, the report says, that «there is human suffering on the part of young people, and it is growing worse.»

The first report, released last year, termed the Danielson Framework «a reliable tool for identifying low - quality teaching» and said it «has potential for improving teacher evaluation systems.»

The report affirms the thrust of the Los Angeles Unified School District's new teacher evaluation system, said Supt. John Deasy.

Deasy said the Gates report has «strengthened» his inclination toward counting test scores for about 30 % of the evaluation, with observations making up the greatest share.

The decreases occurred even though overall appropriations for education research increased in the same period, according to Lois - ellin Datta, director of human - services program evaluation for the gao She said the situation had improved only marginally since the agency reported a signficant decline in the quality and quantity of federal education data nearly two years ago.

In Waterford's case in Los Angeles, Julie Slayton, an analyst in LAUSD's Program Evaluation and Research Branch and one of the authors of the Waterford evaluations, says Pearson did not try to tilt the evaluators» basic data, «but they did their best to make the report come out favorably.

«In light of these limitations,» the LAUSD evaluators said in their first report, in 2002, «much of the information from these evaluations should be interpreted with caution.»

Michigan could lose its waiver from federal No Child Left Behind requirements if the state legislature does not adopt proposed changes to the state's teacher evaluation system, U.S. Department of Education officials said in a report.

And in New York, the chancellor of the state board of regents, Merryl Tisch, has said her state won't compete if unions and state lawmakers don't agree on changes to improve the state's charter school sector and teacher - evaluation system, local media reports said.

Further complicating matters, Hayes says, are the many bureaucratic rules and traditions enforced at the school, district and state level, including teacher evaluations based on student test scores, extensive federal reporting requirements, and curricula that «tell teachers what to teach and when and for how long no matter who the students are in front of them.»

«While the last five plus years have seen most states make significant changes to their teacher evaluation policies, California has not been part of the national movement to connect teacher evaluation to classroom effectiveness,» Sandi Jacobs, senior vice president for state and district policy for NCTQ, said in an email to LA School Report.

The Tennessean reports that Metro school officials said at a school board meeting this week that 195 out of about 6,000 Nashville teachers got a score of 1 out of 5 on state - mandated evaluations during the 2011 - 2012 school year.

«Interestingly, there is no report yet about administrator evaluation, which is where many believed the implementation would have been most appropriate to begin prior to teacher evaluation,» said Richard Bozza, director of the New Jersey Association of School Administrators.

«Teacher evaluation policy should reflect the purpose of helping all teachers improve, not just low - performers,» the report says.

What it says: The report focuses on states» capacity to implement new teacher - evaluation systems mandated through the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the Race to the Top competition, which provided funding to states to develop such systems with strict conditions for what would be permitted.

However, teachers should be trained in using common evaluation criteria, the report says.

Reporting from New York — The New York City teachers union argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the nation's largest school district should not follow through with its plan to disclose evaluation information about some 12,000 teachers by name, saying it could do serious harm.

78 percent of teachers reported that their evaluations are at least somewhat helpful, although just 21 percent said that evaluations are very helpful; 22 percent stated that their evaluations are not at all helpful.

It reflects an emerging national consensus on the importance of studying teachers» work before giving job security or raises, said Timothy Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit group that published a report last year calling attention to weaknesses in teacher evaluation systems.

«It's impossible to overstate just how significant this [Colorado] bill is,» said Tim Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a national nonprofit that released a report last year revealing how the vast majority of teacher evaluation systems fail to distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones.

That will likely change this school year as the Tennessee report cards begin to reflect scores from the state's new teacher evaluation system, which includes multiple classroom observations, said Miller.

Right now they are wrong 26 percent of the time,» she said, referring to a 2010 report on value - added measures by Mathematica Policy Research that said there is about a 25 percent chance of an error if three years of test scores are used in the evaluation.

Overall, the principal said, the report reflected an even - handed approach to the issue of principal evaluations.

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Thomson said his order prevents PED from enforcing its evaluation system until «a trial on the merits where the court can be assured of the statistical validity of the data collection and reporting that feeds into the system.»

The Christie administration seized on the CREDO report's overall findings, so much so that they will now stand as state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf's own long - promised evaluation of the state's charter network, his office said.

A recent report from the NC General Assembly's Program Evaluation Division (PED) found that certain start dates are favored more than others, but none poll at a rate high enough to say with...

Matt David, a Republican strategist and the measure's sponsor, decided to wait until 2016 to bring the measure to the voters because of the high start - up costs associated with new annual teacher evaluations, the KXTV report said.

The report quotes one teacher as saying the new rating system would ensure an evaluation is focused more on students and less on whether administrators «like me.»