Sentences with phrase «get federal mandates»

No word yet on whether other modern safety technologies will get federal mandates in the future, but it's hard to deny the effectiveness of features like Blind Spot Monitoring and Lane Departure Warning systems.

While liberals got some «guardrails» around state accountability systems, they failed to get a federal mandate on equalizing school funding — though Obama education secretary John King is now doing his utmost to devise one via executive branch regulations.

Not exact matches

With presidential candidates from both major political parties proposing a federal mandate on paid parental leave, some companies have chosen to get ahead of any potential new regulations.

The move comes as almost 30 states have considered imposing privacy rules on Internet service providers similar to the now - revoked federal rules, which, among other mandates, required that companies get permission from customers before collecting sensitive data.

A New York City taxi driver challenging the constitutionality of mandated GPS - tracking of cabs has gotten a red light from a federal appeals court.

This law is so weak, critics say, that an EPA effort to ban asbestos — a class of fibrous minerals known to cause the deadly lung cancer mesothelioma — got struck down by a federal court in 1991 because the agency had failed to comply with another TSCA mandate that the agency pick the «least burdensome» way of regulating a substance.

Get out of educators» way: Federal statutes have spawned a paralyzing web of rules, regulations, and mandates that hamper teachers, principals, and schools.

The No Child Left Behind Act imposes the wrong kind of testing on schools, educators need better systems to interpret the test data they get, and the federal government should help pay for the mandates it imposes, according to several advocates who last week addressed a private panel studying the education law and how to improve it.

I got to look over the president's shoulder and sign the end of No Child Left Behind's federal mandate to support high - stakes testing.

The data we get from federal - and state - mandated tests are usually old by the time we get them, so they aren't useful for making instructional decisions on the current year.

I should clarify districts may get some money for the state but it never covers all the unfunded state and federal mandates and to pull off all the test prep, testing, software, hardware, etc... there will be cuts and it is never at the top... always the front line workers, including paraprofessional, secretaries, aides, etc..

Rather than a politics that seeks to exert control over the system from the federal level (too many cooks, too great a focus on data - driven accountability models = too many mandated assessments), the provinces get to spend the transfer payments where they believe it will make sense.

«On one side, you have a group of reformers who say that getting rid of federal mandates for annual testing would be apocalyptic, and that's crazy,» she said.

I've got a friend in New York who wants me to call on every parent in America to Opt Out of state mandated standardized tests which are, of course, the mother's milk of the No Child Left Untested federal testing feeding frenzy.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

Dodge's two - seat supercar will be getting stability control for the first time — although that's probably due more to a new federal mandate than marketing.

Federal law mandates that every consumer have the opportunity to get a copy of their credit report for free each year from each of the major credit bureaus.

They are still mandated by federal law for those with incomes under 250 % of poverty level (and the gold plating gets thicker as your income drops!).

Third, Illinois nuclear plants never got anything like the federal production tax credit, or the federal investment tax credit, or state - mandated REC purchases, or renewable portfolio standards that force utilities to buy renewable power at a premium.

«You're not going to get results from big changes if you don't have federal executives with a mandate to make the changes,» Bronk told TechNewsWorld.

Without this approach, you fall into the federal government mind - set; that is, gosh, it's the first day of the fiscal year, so everybody gets a mandated percentage increase in salary.