Sentences with phrase «exempt from the test»

Nolan's bill (A. 6777) enables children to be exempted from the tests but it does not require schools notify parents of their right of refusal without penalty as Tedisco's measure does.

It requires a biometric entry and exit system to be built at all border crossings, but American and Canadian citizens would be exempted from those tests.

While the achievement results are encouraging, schools could have improved results in ways that would be unlikely to benefit students in the long run — such as reclassifying students to exempt them from testing or outright cheating.

Neither truck is rated by the EPA as they're exempted from testing due to their heavy weight.

Pellet stoves and fireplace inserts using pellets for fuel that are exempt from testing by the Administrator but meet the same standards of performance as wood stoves are considered certified for the purposes of this section.

Only those agreements which include a payment for goodwill, such as often exists in the sale of a business, will be exempt from the test.

Not exact matches

Scott's office has said that the governor does not have the legal authority to issue an executive order exempting students from state testing requirements.

Among the likely changes to Dodd - Frank: raising the threshold for tougher oversight from the current $ 50 billion in assets to $ 250 billion; exempting small banks from the so - called Volcker rule, which currently bars them from speculative trading; reducing the amount of financial reporting, particularly racial and income data on mortgage holders; lowering the frequency of regulatory exams; and easing the conditions of stress tests.

State lawmakers exempted Stoneman Douglas students from some standardized tests to give them time to recover from the trauma.

Shannon Fest started an online petition, which has so far gotten more than 2,700 signatures, calling on Scott to sign an executive order exempting the students from the testing requirements.

The Broward school district is also asking the state to exempt Stoneman Douglas students from the testing requirements.

It would also appropriate from «Berlin» its disciplines of critical and self - critical inquiry that assume nothing is exempt from critical testing.

** Under 16 C.F.R. Parts 1615 & 1616, Underwear and diapers are not children's sleepwear and are therefore exempt from flammability requirements testing (https://www.cpsc.gov/PageFiles/98883/regsumsleepwear.pdf) **

Department of Agriculturewas exempting it from routine safety tests — industry experts say new government and company testing protocols have made it a safe and incredibly efficient product for the food industry, which commonly adds it to ground beef.

Here is a quote from the USDA, «In 2007, the USDA determined the disinfection process was so effective that it would be exempt from «routine testing of meat used in hamburger sold to the general public.

Lawmakers in both houses in recent weeks have introduced bills designed to ease aspects of the education policies in the budget, ranging from a codification of students opting out of state tests to exempting top - performing school districts from the new teacher evaluation criteria.

The Act includes 23 separate Sections of exemptions, which fall into two categories: «class» exemptions, which disqualify all information of a certain type from the disclosure regime; and types of information which may be exempt subject to a «prejudice» test.

It's tested now, though, in the contention of those agencies that they're private organizations exempt from open government laws.

Ironically, with much talk currently over EU Type Approval regulations, it is Article 4 (2) of EU Directive 2009 / 40 / EC, that allows governments to exempt pre - 1960 vehicles and in fact brings requirements into line with the unladen pre-1960 manufactured HGVs, which are already exempted from the MOT testing.

State officials responded by refusing to comment or release documents, while maintaining Gallagher Beach was exempt from beach testing requirements prescribed in New York's bathing beach code.

Upon dissolution or winding up of said corporation's affairs, whether voluntary or involuntary, all of its assets then remaining in the hands of the board of directors shall, after paying or making provision for payment of all of said corporation's liabilities, be distributed, transferred, conveyed, delivered, and paid over only to educational, scientific, literary, or charitable organizations that are exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and which are not private foundations within the meaning of section 509 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, on whatever terms and conditions and in whatever amounts the board of directors may determine, for use exclusively for educational, scientific, literary, or charitable purposes, except that no distribution shall be made to organizations testing for public safety.

In order to be exempted from the need to pay employees overtime, salaries must be above this level, and certain job duty tests must be met.

However, you can file for a driving license in Dubai and be exempted from a certain portion of the procedures and go straight to the actual road test thus saving you money and time.

Because these low - scoring students are either exempted from taking the standardized test, or re-take the same grade - level test two years in a row, the districts test scores appear much higher overall than they actually are.

Indeed, we find strong evidence that some schools trying to attain a Recognized rating did so by exempting students from the high - stakes test.

Furthermore, studies in Texas and elsewhere have found that some schools raised their published test scores by retaining low - performing students in 9th grade, by classifying them as eligible for special education (or otherwise exempting them from the exam), and even by encouraging them to drop out.

The legislation didn't exempt the Davidson Academy from state reading and math tests or core - curriculum requirements; it didn't provide any funding, either.

Public schools receive additional resources for students labeled learning disabled, and they may be able to exempt learning disabled students from accountability testing.

He rejected a measure that would have exempted the state's growing Latino population from testing in English until they had been in California's schools for three years, a proposal he said would give the schools less incentive to teach English quickly.

In Florida they have exempted anyone with an IEP from having to pass ANY tests.

The commonwealth's secretary of education, Rafael Aragunde - Torres, wrote a letter earlier this month asking that U.S. officials allow it to be «permanently exempted» from participating in the test.

An additional 51 students were exempted from the examination because they scored at least 1,000 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Levin became so confident of his progress at Bastian Elementary School that he defied a principal's order to exempt several of his low - scoring Hispanic students from state tests, a popular technique for getting the school's average scores up.

• Exempts voucher schools from oversight such as: high stakes testing, school grades, teacher accountability, school accreditation, hiring certified teachers and following state curriculum standards

When panelists noted that MCIEA would eventually seek a federal waiver to be exempt from state testing, a majority of the room burst into applause.

Once fully built, the consortium seeks to request of the state department of education to apply for a federal waiver to enable the consortium to adopt the MCIEA model and be exempt from state testing except in «dipstick» grades.

Although charter schools generally are more independent of their chartering authorities than regular public schools are of their districts, and are exempt from most of the state's regulations, they must participate in state testing and comply with federal laws.

Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt's bill would expand existing law to ensure parents of students in grades 3 through 12 have the right to exempt their children from standardized testing.

If one of Rusnock's students performs well on computerized tests, he might exempt the student from the written portion.

[1] Students in the U.S. for one year or less are exempt from taking the ELA test, but not the math test.

Those who score at Level 3 are deemed «conditionally ready» and will be encouraged to take an approved English class, including the CSU - designed Expository Reading and Writing, or math class above Algebra II in their high school senior year and earn a grade of C or higher to become exempt from having to take placement tests.

Students who score at Level 4 will be exempt from having to take English or math placement tests after they gain admission to a California State University campus.

Some states exempt more students with special education needs from taking the tests than others.

Guess that exempts charters not just from teacher and principal certification requirements, reasonable discipline and suspension policies, honest and full financial reporting, and all sorts of other standard educational requirements, but also from truth in testing.

However, high school juniors who score a Level 3 or higher on the English Language Arts and math summative assessments are exempt from placement testing.

And Connecticut teachers — you need to note — that despite what teachers were told by their union, the Foundation of Reading Tests results WILL NOT BE confidential although they are exempt from the state's Freedom of Information Act.

Former superintendent John Deasy, who resigned on Oct. 16 amid controversy over billion - dollar technology blunders, had declared a ban on the law this past August, claiming the law didn't apply to Los Angeles Unified because the district had received a federal waiver exempting it from No Child Left Behind improvement goals in the temporary absence of statewide tests.

Teachers who have already passed the Foundations of Reading test for certification eligibility are only exempt from completing the «survey» on reading instruction this year.

Not that the latter is shocking; two months ago, state officials sought approval from the administration to delay using the evaluation system in rewarding high - quality teachers and sacking laggards, as well as to exempt kids taking trial versions of Common Core reading and math tests being rolled out in the next couple of years from having to take the current battery of state exams.

These charter schools are not exempt from federal testing regulation.