Sentences with phrase «include federal testing»

The education regulations include federal testing, annual maintenance of local special education funding, multiple reporting requirements, including twice - a-year county health inspections under the National School Lunch Program and transportation for homeless students.

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WSJ writer John Carreyrou reportedly spoke to four former employees, none of whom are named in his story, including one who «accused the company of failing to report test results that raised questions about the precision» of their tests, which could be «a violation of federal rules for laboratories,» the Journal article said.

What makes the 401 (k) so complicated is something called «discrimination testing,» which consists of federal rules designed to ensure the company isn't giving better retirement benefits to its most highly paid workers, including executives and founders.

Besides, most child - care benefits in Canada are already means - tested, including municipally and provincially run child - care subsidy systems, as well as the federal government's Universal Child Care Benefit.

The Self - Driving Coalition for Safer Streets, which includes companies like Ford and Google, has been pushing for the federal government to pass a comprehensive set of regulations governing the testing and use of self - driving cars.

The provision of the bill that has garnered the most attention is one that would raise the threshold at which banks are subject to certain federal oversight, including stress tests that measure a bank's ability to withstand an economic downturn.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

Wynne also said Ontario is exploring its options, and monitoring how the federal government's new housing rules — which include stricter mortgage stress tests and closing a tax loophole on capital gains taxes for non-residents — will impact the housing market.

The federal government is testing the public's appetite for a variety of potential policies, including a tax on digital content providers like Netflix to help fund Canadian cultural industries.

Microbiological tests are then conducted on equipment and products at chicken plants by companies and federal laboratories, including tests for pathogens like Salmonella, Campylobacter and Listeria monocytogenes.

The newer version still includes the highly - rated Embrace Carseat, which is subject to EvenFlo's 2 - times the Federal Crash Test Standard.

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The Pivot Modular Travel System includes the Evenflo SafeMax ™ Infant Car Seat, designed and tested for structural integrity at energy levels approximately 2x the federal crash test standard and tested to simulate a side impact event and rollover event.

Furthermore, they have been safety tested to exceed all federal safety requirements, including CPSC, ATSM regulations and the most current CPSIA.

Side impact tested, this seat includes EPS energy - absorbing foam and it meets or exceeds federal safety standards.

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After a light hearted beginning, question topics included his expectations concerning Kathy Hochul's separate primary, where he expects votes to come from, his «position» in the John Liu / Tony Avella senate primary, reports of pressure from Cuomo's staff and allies on Democrats to refrain from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, Teachout's comment that her qualifications include «not under federal investigation», whether Teachout is qualified to be governor, whether votes for Teachout are an anti-Cuomo protest, his encounter with Teachout at the Labor Day Parade and Tim Wu's related comment that Cuomo «failed a basic test of decency and civility».

According to Mauro, a much more important finding of Moynihan's report for New York State's Congressional candidates, is that our state ranks near the bottom in the distribution of so - called «discretionary» federal spending — 48th in per capita military spending and 42nd in per capita non-defense discretionary spending — but first per capita when it comes to means - tested assistance programs, including Medicaid, AFDC, Food Stamps, Housing Assistance, and Unemployment Insurance.

Cuomo wants to require water systems with fewer than 10,000 customers be tested for contaminants — including PFOA, the chemical found in Hooksick Falls — that the federal Environmental Protection Agency monitors but does not regulate.

A coalition including cooling industry representatives and environmental activist Erin Brockovich called on the state to enforce federal water regulations, regularly test the water supply and improve New York's water infrastructure, as data show the state has the highest number of Legionnaire's disease cases in the nation.

Advocates in Erie County often complain that the state Health Department is several years behind in releasing lead poisoning data and fails to include children who test within the federal threshold.

As part of New York's Race To The Top federal grant, the state is working with data integration companies to build a database of student information, including demographics, test scores and behavior records.

In 2014 the agency released proposed guidelines that will subject the measures, for the first time, to federal oversight — including having to submit evidence of efficacy to it before the tests may be marketed.

«Despite the fact that the literature describes only correlation between verbal memory tests and hippocampal cell densities in patients with left hippocampal sclerosis, we found a correlation between right hippocampal cell densities and performance on visual memory tests, including both immediate and delayed recall,» says authors Sandra Mara Comper and Anaclara Prada Jardim, students in the laboratory of Dr. Elza Marcia Yacubian at the Federal University of São Paulo.

Two years later a coalition of green groups led by NRDC and including the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the League for Coastal Protection, Cetacean Society International, and Ocean Futures Society upped the ante, asking the federal courts to also restrict testing of more intense, harmful and far ranging mid-frequency types of sonar off Southern California's coastline.

Using enrollment of thousands of people in a California blackout prevention program as an experimental test bed, a team of researchers that included Erez Yoeli, a researcher at the Federal Trade Commission, Moshe Hoffman, a visiting researcher at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), David Rand, formerly a post-doctoral fellow at PED (now a professor at Yale University), and PED Director Martin Nowak, showed that while financial incentives boosted participation only slightly, making participation in the program observable — through the use of sign - up sheets posted in apartment buildings — produced a three-fold increase in sign - ups.

The next set of testing begins in a few weeks and will include federal and district prosecutors, regional and national law enforcement and multiple NGOs.

The budget includes money for the state to continue testing students in reading, mathematics, and science, as required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Some key reforms live on, including the federal requirement that states test their students in reading and math from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, disaggregate the results, and report the information to the public; and the requirement that states intervene in the bottom five percent of their schools.

Many states need to revamp their policies for including limited - English - proficient students in state tests and accountability systems if they want to continue receiving all of their federal Title I aid, according to the Department of Education.

This includes state - level teacher evaluation, report card, or school ranking policies that rely heavily on summative assessments; but also the federal ESEA's emphasis on once - yearly tests that shaped state policy with the induction of No Child Left Behind.

Both the testing consortia that received federal grants included commitments in their proposals that they would develop national curriculum materials.

A story in the March 31, 2004, issue of Education Week about efforts to meet the test - participation mandate in the federal No Child Left Behind Act included an incorrect statistic («Schools Seek Participation on Test Days&raqutest - participation mandate in the federal No Child Left Behind Act included an incorrect statistic («Schools Seek Participation on Test Days&raquTest Days»).

Test search: Results for «drugs» included informative sites about both street and prescription drugs, including that of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and sites administered by the federal government, such as StopDrugs.org, and organizations.

That is a sharp break with the U.S. where federal grants and loans are provided without regard to test scores or grades, although some programs offered by states and universities often include a merit requirement.

As I've argued before, the federal requirement that is driving the over-testing concern isn't the mandate that states test students annually in grades 3 — 8; it's the mandate (dreamed up by Arne Duncan as a condition of ESEA waivers) that states develop teacher - evaluation systems that include student achievement as a significant factor.

Students with disabilities: New federal rules make it easier for states to test students with the most severe cognitive disabilities and include their test results in schools» performance ratings.

The student data include test scores, race and ethnicity, eligibility for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program, and status as an ESL or special - education student.

Proposed federal rules about how to test students with the most significant cognitive disabilities and include those results in ratings of schools are still not final, eight months after the Department of Education released a draft version.

Our data included each student's answers on each year's test; which school and classroom each student was in; each student's previous and future test scores; and demographic variables including each student's age, sex, race, and eligibility for the federal school lunch program, a widely used proxy for family income.

She does this with her colleagues by providing teacher professional development for K - 14 educators in science, mathematics, reading and writing, and modeling and testing new designs within college outreach programs — including statewide Early Academic Outreach Programs (EAOP) and federal TRIO programs such as Upward Bound.

To entice a presidential signature of the legislation — which would create tax breaks for parents» public and private education expenses — House and Senate negotiators have included a new reading program in it and deleted language that would have blocked plans for new national tests and transformed most federal education funding into block grants.

Includes updates on state and federal legislation, reports on test misuse and efforts to stop it and profiles of promising new assessment systems.

The federal government's Race to the Top competition had states vie for cash by doing such things as formalizing their teacher evaluations to include student test scores.

Until federal law insisted that our children be included in these assessments, schools would try to sweep disparities under the rug by sending our children home or to another room while other students took the test.

To get one of the federal waivers, states had to submit plans that included adopting curriculum standards geared toward college and career readiness, developing teacher evaluation systems that incorporated student testing data and tracking and narrowing achievement gaps between groups of students.

Past federal policies, including No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, pushed corporate - styled, top - down reforms such as high - stakes testing and draconian accountability schemes.

In March 2013, the governing states of Smarter Balanced endorsed a sustainability plan that included instructions for the Smarter Balanced executive director to enter into negotiations with the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA to serve as a partner and host for the Smarter Balanced Consortium after the completion of the federal grant in September 2014.

This evidence, along with a new federal requirement that state accountability systems include an indicator of school quality or student success not based on test scores, has sparked interest in incorporating such «non-cognitive» or «social - emotional» skills into school accountability systems.

And finally and perhaps most importantly FairTest, explains that it is, «not aware of a single school that lost federal Title I funds due to low test - taking rates, including many in New York that had large numbers of opt outs last year.»