Sentences with phrase «high commissioner on»

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wasn't resting on its laurels in 2017: The agency under new commissioner Scott Gottlieb approved 46 new medicines — i.e., completely new therapies, not just additional indications on already - approved drugs — the highest number of approvals in more than two decades.

This past week, at the Eurofi High Level Seminar in Sofia, Bulgaria, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Brian Quintenz shared his views on the «tokenization revolution» and the evolving US regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies.

António Guterres, the former prime minister of Portugal and UN high commissioner for refugees, took over on January 1 for a five - year term as the United Nations secretary general.

The Hot Sauce Hall of Fame is back and commissioner Steve Seabury of High River Sauces will conduct the induction ceremony live at the 4th annual NYC Hot Sauce Expo in Brooklyn, NY on April 23rd at 2 PM.

Commissioners also agreed to continue following a policy of not charging out - of - district registration fees for programs offered at the new field house on the Lincoln - Way High School Central Campus in New Lenox.

I am writing on behalf of Baby Milk Action / IBFAN UK regarding our concerns about three of the proposed Commissioners for WHO's Independent Global High - level Commission on NCDs.

Instead it calls for the Syrian government to meet their people's legitimate demands, release all prisoners of conscience, lift restrictions on the media and internet and cooperate with the UN high commissioner for human rights.

[3] The last two UN High Commissioners for Human Rights have condemned ISIS brutality, [4] as have the UN's Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and the Special Advisor on the Responsibility to Protect, Jennifer Welsh.

For example, out of 347 expected incoming MPs, a minimum of 47 were to be women, a gender equality measure that had already been viewed as «technically impossible» [vi] by President Kibaki before going on to spark constitutional confrontation between the President and the Kenyan High Court over county commissioner appointments.

Commissioners did say, though, that they would back a «modest» salary increase sometime in the future if the Legislature decides to remain a part - time body and a «substantially higher» increase if lawmakers change their status to full time and adopt strict limits on outside income.

Since Gen. Obasanjo first hit on Nigeria, as Civil War hero, Federal Works commissioner under Gen. Gowon, Gen. Murtala Muhammad's chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters, and later military Head of State, he had always projected public high - mindedness.

Earlier, a High Court hearing on an attempt by the UK's information commissioner to search the office of Cambridge Analytica was adjourned until Friday.

Erstwhile Inspector - General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, was on Thursday arraigned alongside a former police commissioner, John Obaniyi, at an Apo District High Court of the Federal...

The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu while disclosing this in Abuja said already the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan and Nigerian high commissioner in Cameroon had swung into action and were receiving a lot of cooperation from the Cameroonian authorities.

The city's commissioner and assistant director of permits and inspection services told county legislators Thursday afternoon that the city plan focuses on education, collaboration with the county health department and concentrated enforcement in the three highest risk ZIP codes.

The minister telephoned the British high commissioner in Ghana on the issue, according to internal government documents cited by the Sunday Times, despite the fact it involved British business interests overseas, which is outside Mitchell's remit.

Patrick Ryder, Nassau County police commissioner, explained how the Rave system will help improve safety in the schools, on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018 at Carle Place High School.

Success Academy suffered a defeat in a high - profile skirmish with New York City on Friday, when the state education commissioner ruled that the city could require the charter school network to sign a contract to receive funding for its prekindergarten program.

The resolution declares «no confidence» in education department commissioner John King's policies and calls for a three - year moratorium on high - stakes standardized testing.

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Tuesday that a call from teachers» unions for a three - year moratorium on using state exam results for «high - stakes» decisions is a «distraction» from the goal of improving New York graduates» outcomes in college and careers.

In the suit, Mr. Lake claimed his firing was the result of political pressure on the Town Board from an unnamed Jamesport fire commissioner and the town Republican Party's vice chairman in relation to «high - profile arrests» he made during his tenure as a cop.

Her comments to the editorial board came two weeks after she joined the state's education commissioner, John B. King Jr., on a visit to Automotive High School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where, last year, only 1 percent of the students who graduated on time were ready for college.

The task force, chaired by city Human Resources Administration commissioner Steve Banks, Housing Preservation and Development commissioner Vicki Been and Laura Mascuch, executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, will help the city expedite the creation of the new housing units, de Blasio said, as it faces high numbers of homeless people living in city shelters and on the streets.

Despite a rare debate in a veto session, the state House of Representatives failed Monday to override Gov. Dannel Malloy's veto of a high - profile bill on the qualifications of the state education commissioner.

James Wetzler, a former state tax commissioner, has said moving the headquarters would have a minimal effect on GE, but would be a boon to New York because high - paid executives would be subject to state income tax.

On Mahama's assertion that the apology letter issued by Ghana's High Commissioner to the South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, was forced, Mr Afenyo - Markin defended the embattled high commissioHigh Commissioner to the South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, was forced, Mr Afenyo - Markin defended the embattled high commissiohigh commissioner.

Rosa, who has been outspoken on testing and teacher evaluations issues, may clash with state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who was hired under the leadership of Tisch and supports high standards and state testing for data purposes.

A public forum on the Common Core curriculum scheduled with New York Department of Education commissioner John King will not be held at Riverhead High School, as previously reported, State Senator Ken LaValle said on Friday.

Tensions were high at last week's Buffalo School Board meeting as members voted on a petition calling on the State Education commissioner to remove Carl Paladino.

Things changed after the Barbados high commissioner, Guy Hewitt, revealed that Downing Street had rejected a formal request from 12 Caribbean heads of government to discuss the problem with May at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting, which opened in London on Monday.

He cited as one potential model the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, whose 11 commissioners are appointed by the governor, the four legislative leaders and the chief judge of the state's high court.

The esteemed experts included: Lene Wendland, the advisor on business and human rights in the office of the United Nations» high commissioner for human rights; Pamela Gillies, president and vice chancellor of the Glasgow Caledonian University; Cherie Blair, a leading human rights lawyer and campaigner for gender equality; Phillipe Fornier, general secretary of the Swiss Better Gold Association and Nöella Coursaris, the founder and chief executive of Malaika, a foundation focused on educating and empowering girls in the Congo.

Maine's commissioner of education said last week that his sudden decision to pull the plug on a statewide test stemmed from his belief that questions about suicide were too sensitive a topic for high school juniors.

«The establishment of higher standards is critical to improving Florida's system of public education,» said Frank Brogan, the state education commissioner, who is now appealing to individual districts to approve the standards on their...

New Jersey's Abbott Districts,» on Thursday, March 16, Gordon MacInnes, assistant commissioner for Abbott implementation, and Fred Carrigg, special assistant to the commissioner for urban literacy, discussed how they helped move Union City from the second lowest - performing system in New Jersey to the highest among the state's larger systems.

If, after a time period established by the commissioner in consultation with the appropriate nonpublic school officials, the nonpublic high school under registration review has not demonstrated progress on the registration criteria in question, the commissioner shall formally notify the appropriate nonpublic school officials that the school is at risk of having its registration revoked.

Continuously enrolled means, for grades 3 - 8, students whose latest date of enrollment occurred after the date prescribed by the commissioner on which BEDS forms are required to be completed and, for grades 9 - 12, students in the high school cohort, as defined in paragraph (16) of this subdivision.

students under the age of 21 who complete 150 hours of instruction who receive a high school equivalency diploma if the student upon entering the program is assessed on an instrument approved by the commissioner to have a reading and mathematics level at or above grade nine;

The commissioner shall designate a school's overall accountability status as the most advanced phase for which it has been identified on an accountability performance criterion / accountability indicator and, within that designated phase, shall assign the highest category, provided that such category may not be reduced in a subsequent year of a phase.

A nonpublic school, other than a registered high school, shall be placed under department review when the school scores below one (or more) of the review criteria on indicators of student achievement specified in paragraph (7) of subdivision (p) of this section, has not shown improvement on such indicators over the preceding three school years, and has not otherwise demonstrated satisfactory performance on other student achievement indicators determined by the commissioner in consultation with the appropriate nonpublic school officials.

For high school students, participation rate means the percentage of designated students in at least their fourth year of high school, as designated by the commissioner, who received a valid score on the required assessments for high schools, as set forth in subparagraph (v) of this paragraph.

Regional schools commissioners will be responsible for doling out the cash, and will also provide support to MATs to take on new schools with «high levels of disadvantaged pupils and significant performance gaps».

Lord Nash, the academies minister, told the House of Lords this morning that several documents would be on the government's website by the end of the month, including a «high - level outline» of the decision - making framework followed by England's eight regional schools commissioners.

The commissioner said the grant would allow Connecticut to move forward on some significant education reform proposals, such as the high school reform plan proposed last year but never approved because of state budget problems.

Previously, Dan served as a commissioner on Lt. Gov. Cherry's Commission on Higher Education and Economic Growth, which led to major accomplishments like the Michigan Merit Curriculum, universal access to a college entrance exam (now SAT) for all juniors, creation of promise zones and launch of MCAN.

Yet a separate survey by the Center on Education Policy at George Washington University found that education commissioners in 35 of the states that have signed onto the Common Core report major or minor challenges in working with higher - education institutions on the transition to the new standards.

And we see the pushback happening in community after community... High schools are organizing — they're organized in Providence, where they've got the superintendent of schools on their side, arguing with the state board of education... They're saying don't use a standardized test as a high school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of kHigh schools are organizing — they're organized in Providence, where they've got the superintendent of schools on their side, arguing with the state board of education... They're saying don't use a standardized test as a high school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of khigh school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of kids.

And the state has certainly stepped away - the state Dept. of Education and the commissioner, Mary Ellen Elia, have done a lot to step away from an overreliance on high stakes testing.

Sir Martin Ewans, who was high commissioner in Harare at the time, went on camera to say that his instructions from London were «to steer clear of it» when speaking to Mugabe.

A policy with a higher deductible may be less expensive to purchase, but the National Association of Insurance Commissioners points out that a higher deductible may have a more significant impact on you when it comes time to file a claim.