Sentences with phrase «from key mandates»

(District of Columbia) Much of the nation is engaged in some new form of teacher evaluation, encouraged by billions of dollars in grant money from the Race to the Top competition or by the promise of a waiver from key mandates imposed under the No Child left Behind Act.

Fall 2011 — President Barack Obama offers states flexibility from key mandates of the NCLB law, in exchange for embracing his education redesign priorities.

Not exact matches

Negotiating with politicians is regarded as a key skill for any chairman of RBS because of the stake owned by the Treasury, even though it is held through UK Financial Investments, a body that has a mandate to look after the shareholding at arm's length from the government.

The key point here is that the Federal Reserve's financial stability mandate is derived from what lies in the penumbra, not from any express reference to financial stability in the Federal Reserve Act itself.

«The endangerment finding is key because it obligates the EPA to take regulatory action to cut carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft — it triggers a legal mandate,» said Drew Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation.

As Instructional Designers, we have access to the learning mandate, the business mandate, and key learner aspects (current proficiency, expected gain from the training, etc.).

Regulations issued in November mandate that schools file plans explaining how they will implement key aspects of the law, make supplemental services available in the same year tests are administered, find a way to accommodate students transferring from failing schools, and more.

Among the report's key conclusions was that change can not be mandated from the «top down»; it must be generated from the «bottom up»...

«By combining the research and services from The Leadership and Learning Center and Learning Sciences International, HMH Educational Consulting Services is able to offer Florida an unprecedented holistic solution that is aligned to state legislative and regulatory mandates, and also supports key priorities within the Race to the Top initiative,» said Senior Vice President of HMH Educational Consulting Services Dave West.

Another grave concern for educators is the academic gap that would be left by teacher assistants that are primarily tasked with making sure students read on grade level by the third grade — presumably still a significant goal for Senator Berger who was a key driver in the state's Read to Achieve legislation that mandates all third graders read on grade level or be held back from advancing to the fourth grade.

The legislation «evolved» with hard work by AEA from an original mandate that 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based upon student test scores, Instead, the key features of the new bill include what AEA called «a statewide uniform system of teacher evaluation (beginning in the 2014 - 15 school year) that emphasizes quality assurance and teacher growth»....

As for key - man risk, see my Owner - Operators paragraph above: Neil Record's already in a Chairman role (i.e. he's already stepped back from day - to - day management), senior execs have a very long average tenure, there are no star traders, the company specifically hires young & trains up its employees in the business / culture, and frankly they'd never win a pension mandate in the first place based solely on a single employee or two.

Key factors the study looked at in assigning grades were whether state law mandates the appointment of attorneys for children in dependency proceedings; whether these attorneys represent the children in a client - directed manner; whether the representation continues throughout the case, including appeal; whether states provide attorneys with specialized training; whether the child is given the legal status of a party to the proceedings; and whether rules pertaining to confidentiality and immunity from liability apply to attorneys representing these children.

The award, judged by representatives from five African Law Societies, was in recognition of Stephenson Harwood's and Essex Court's combined expertise in Africa, commitment to training, secondments and knowledge exchange on the continent, as well as the key mandates and cases worked on.

«Having those detailed guidelines and a specific mandate from the Task Force was key to moving forward,» said Heins.

Key mandates included acting in a three - week inquest into two separate deaths arising from misplaced naso - gastric tubes.

However, ICBC's mandate is to keep their costs as low as possible, so a Vancouver personal injury lawyer advocating on your behalf, and helping you to negotiate the process right from the start is key.