Sentences with phrase «federal standards as»

Academically, while being expected to meet the same exact state and federal standards as traditional schools, charters must go above and beyond.

Play yards that are designed to function as a bedside sleeper are also required to meet these federal standards as of 2014.

Not exact matches

There are also forums dedicated to policy issues such as drug pricing and medical standards — last year, former Vice President Joe Biden announced a federal Genomic Data Commons to expedite cancer research during a keynote address.

Several years ago Liberal MP John Mckay introduced a private member's bill known as C - 300, which would have compelled the federal government to determine whether Canadian companies were upholding certain environmental and human rights standards when operating abroad — and withdraw federal support from offenders.

For now, the new rules are limited to specific defense contractors, but it may not be long before the government implements more regulations on all federal contractors as it pushes for companies to adopt higher security standards, cybersecurity experts said.

A 2008 federal government panel suggested Canada adopt a similar standard, citing lower fares and better service as likely benefits.

THE Federal Privacy Commissioner has effectively set a new standard for the debt collection industry as a result of a settlement with Alliance Factoring.

And that, in turn, would considerably delay an approval, especially if NAS recommends new rules — which might or might not be essentially the same as the 57 safety specifications above the federal standard to which TransCanada has already agreed.

In his dissent, Pai's main complaint was with what he saw as a double standard: He said that the order unfairly stuck ISPs with stricter rules than internet companies like Google, which are able to harvest and monetize personal data more freely under looser guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission.

Author Elizabeth Royte writes in her book, «Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it,» that 92 % of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled water.

For instance, James Comey, who heads the Federal Bureau of Investigation (and who is often painted as an encryption bogeyman), told the Senate last year that «it is important for our global economy and our national security to have strong encryption standards.»

While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.

Each member of the Audit Committee shall meet the independence standards and expertise requirements of the New York Stock Exchange corporate governance listing standards, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and rules promulgated thereunder, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA), and other applicable laws and regulations, in each case, as of the Firm's most recent annual meeting.

The hotel lease includes a standard GSA provision barring members of Congress or other elected federal officials - such as the president - from having any part of it.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

109 For most of the last century, enforcers reviewed vertical integration under the same standards as horizontal mergers, as set out in the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act.

The FHA also mandates that homes meet minimum property standards as prescribed by local, state, and federal guidelines.

But the prescription offered by the Taylor rule changes significantly if one instead assumes, as I do, that appreciable slack still remains in the labor market, and that the economy's equilibrium real federal funds rate — that is, the real rate consistent with the economy achieving maximum employment and price stability over the medium term — is currently quite low by historical standards.

Second, there needs to be some mechanism, such as the cost - shared financing programs established by Tom Kent and Lester Pearson with the support of Tommy Douglas, to guarantee on - going federal investment conditional on provincial obedience to national principles around minimum standards.

[fn.3] As a result, this taxpayer previously taking the standard deduction but now itemizing could donate $ 10,000 to the state infrastructure program and save at least $ 11,120 — $ 10,000 in state taxes and $ 1,120 in federal.

Despite its obvious importance, federal policy makers and regulators still have not affirmed or promulgated a view of the «Best Interest» standard as drawn from the Advisers Act and common law.

As federal agencies like FEMA and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development were waiting for final approval, Trump nixed the standards.

At the federal level, the Department of Education can implement STEM as a requirement in America's classrooms, and fund more initiatives like Race to the Top, a $ 4 billion dollar program that to incentivizes states to develop next - generation educational standards.

The Standard & Poor's U.S. - Issued High Yield Bond Index is down only 1.73 percent in the fourth quarter, as expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike rose.

For that they need programs such as the federal «Goals 2000» Act, which sets up national standards in education for «gender - equitable and multicultural» teaching.

Those four words are not legally or constitutionally required, unlike other federal oaths that invoke them as standard procedure.

When a board from the American Psychiatric Association recently inspected 273 private, state, and federal mental hospitals, only 75 were approved as meeting minimal standards.

Certified organic growers follow strict guidelines for organic food production and, as with all food producers, they must comply with local, state and federal food safety and health standards.

It also conforms to all federal regulations and U.S. pharmacopeia standards as well as all EPA standards.

CSPI supports the recently passed federal law for mandatory disclosure of GMOs, and believes there should be a national standard for non-GMO labeling enforced by the USDA and not a consensus - based standard such as the Non-GMO Project Verified seal seen on many labels.

That federal standard is currently defined as the «lacteal secretions from cows,» which could also prevent alternative mammal milks, like goat and sheep, buffalo, or camel milk from being labeled as milk as well.

IDFA's Regulatory RoundUP is geared toward dairy company and plant professionals who are responsible for understanding and complying with dairy regulations, as well as the suppliers who work with dairy plants to meet and exceed federal, state and local standards for dairy food manufacturing.

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The ship has been languishing in Fremantle Port as it undergoes improvements to meet new airflow standards implemented by the federal government.

«The draft standard they have put out for free range eggs is going to protect farmers from federal court action for selling eggs as free range, when they're not really, while reducing consumer protection.

The judge also found it «abundantly clear» that the regulations sought greater consistency with international standards and described the argument that they did not aim to achieve greater harmonisation of federal regulations as «simply untenable».

Connected fresh produce importers with charitable institutions USDA has worked to help increase donations of wholesome fresh imported produce that is subject to destruction or rejection because it does not meet the same or comparable federal marketing order standards as the domestic product.

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

«The assurances that you have been receiving from your water utility that say that your water meets or exceeds all federal safety standards - these assurances in no way should be interpreted as your water is safe to drink,» says Lambrinidou.

While the filler has long met federal food safety standards, critics have questioned its safety, and companies such as McDonalds Corp and supermarket chain Safeway Inc stopped buying the product..

Britax has taken this seriously and has developed technology that exceeds the federal standard for head excursion as well as performing twice as many tests as required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

US manufactured car seats with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard sticker FMVSS 213 are also permitted for use as a restraint device.»

As such, these child seats fail to conform to the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 213, «Child Restraint Systems.»

For those of you too young to remember the early 80s, President Reagan once caused a ruckus by attempting to lower school food nutrition standards as a means of reducing federal spending on the program.

A third method lets schools design their own weekly menu cycles as long as they conform to federal standards and are fully documented.

As a reference, the Davinci Crescent Mini meets the federal flammability standard CFR - 1632.

Look for JPMA Certification, which shows that the item complies with ASTM safety standards, as well as other federal and state requirements for juvenile products.

Overhead shield car seats, which feature a horizontal bar or a tray that comes down to rest in front of the baby, meet the minimum federal safety standards, but in crashes, they do not protect babies as well as a 5 - point harness.

I was so appalled by a system (called the «nutrient standard» method of meal planning) that would lead to this bizarre result that I began to learn as much as I could about the federal school meal program.

As the executive director of NYSHEPA, Nancy ran an 800 member - strong coalition and advocated at the local, state and federal level for numerous nutrition and physical activity measures including school nutrition standards, calorie labeling, trans fat ban, Complete Streets, breastfeeding bill of rights, nutrition standards for fast - food kids» meals sold with toys, Safe Routes to School, nutrition standards for foods marketed to children, and the sugar - sweetened beverage tax.