Sentences with phrase «into state testing»

As we move into state testing season, I think we should take a step back and examine why this is an exciting time in our education system.

PARCC and non-PARCC states may license and incorporate the PARCC summative assessment content into their state testing programs through a variety of flexible licensing options.

They're building into their state tests more opportunities for students to write, more opportunities for students to do problem - solving, more opportunities for students to demonstrate the ability to critically analyze text, which is an essential skill for success in postsecondary education.

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Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

The prolonged period of low prices pushed many stressed producer states to the breaking point, and these casualties of the market share war now are threatening to push the market into an acute deficit situation, putting shale's superman status to a serious test.

As marijuana legalization slowly passes state by state and lawmakers discuss national reform, companies are calling into question prohibition - era policies like employee drug testing.

Under third - generation North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the reclusive state has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile and threatened to send missiles into the waters near Guam.

Monday's accident may also call into question new regulations from states like California and Arizona that are letting auto and tech companies test self - driving vehicles without human backup drivers that can intervene if the vehicle makes a mistake.

State Street's experiment comes as financial firms prepare to bring more blockchain systems out of testing and into implementation in the new year.

The Honest laundry detergent, which comes with an «honestly free guarantee,» as stated in the company's web site, came into question when two independent lab tests commissioned by The Wall Street Journal reportedly determined that the product contains sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS).

Heins said the BlackBerry's launch into the United States, the company's biggest customer base by far, is coming later because of the extensive testing required by the U.S. carriers and the regulatory process.

Under third - generation North Korean leader Kim, the reclusive state has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile and threatened to send missiles into the waters near the U.S. territory of Guam.

The growing list of companies with state approval to test autonomous vehicles on city streets and highways highlights the race to turn the sci - fi technology into reality.

As the investigation into last week's fatal crash where an autonomous Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., the state's governor has suspended Uber's permission to test its cars there.

«You have a psychological advantage when you can go into a morning meeting with suppliers or distributors, having tested various pricing assumptions the night before,» says Maytag, whose 15 - employee operation — one of the few surviving small breweries in the United States — produces 25,000 barrels of premium beer a year.

For us to come into this world to undergo God's test it had to be through Adam and Eve, and that could not have happened if they were in a state of innocence and had not eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and because of that we are brought into this world for a limited time as mortals and while as mortals we take the test God has given us to see if we are willing to follow God and not simply made to follow God.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

(b) The Administrator, applicable State organic program's governing State official, or the certifying agent may require preharvest or postharvest testing of any agricultural input used or agricultural product to be sold, labeled, or represented as «100 percent organic,» «organic,» or «made with organic (specified ingredients or food group (s)-RRB-» when there is reason to believe that the agricultural input or product has come into contact with a prohibited substance or has been produced using excluded methods.

«Orlando has been very important for us because we wanted to test the market to see if we could do a crossover into the states.

Once a sweet - tempered Ohio State quarter - miler who set the 400 - meter world record of 43.29 in 1988, Reynolds was transformed into a zealot by the IAAF announcement in 1990 that he had failed a drug test.

Statue of libertyplay was never seriously tested as Cardinal linemen fell into bemused state andGaslight U.'s Tony LeMay forgot and passed.

The next morning (day 8 post-due date) I went to an antenatal test appointment at my back - up hospital, St. Lukes, where my nervousness transformed into a more acute state of anxiety.

Many factors go into determining what makes a newborn screening test worthwhile, and states come to their own conclusions about which tests make the most sense.

In 2006, state lawmakers passed legislation establishing a Farm to School grant program, which helps fund school gardens, teacher professional development, farm field trips, local food taste tests and the integration of nutrition into the curriculum.

Wayne State University researchers have developed a test that may be able to screen for birth defects as early as five weeks into pregnancy.

If you watched Trump 2016 digital director Brad Parscale's 60 Minutes interview on Sunday, you got a glimpse into the large - scale, automated content - testing that may have helped the campaign win key states and the White House.

The testing and packaging (TAP) facility is still on track to be built by summer 2017, and Duffy expressed confidence that corrective actions being taken by Empire State Development President Howard Zemsky will bring companies like Phontonica back into the fold.

A citizen can not claim means - tested benefits without proving habitual residence, they can not marry a non-EEA national without verifying the partnership's legitimacy in the eyes of the state, and they can not bring this spouse into the UK without earning over a minimum income threshold.

So Mr. Obama's re-election team is sifting through reams of data available through the Internet or fed to it by its hundreds of staff members on the ground in all 50 states, identifying past or potential supporters and donors and testing e-mail and Web - based messages that can entice them back into the fold.

Facing what could be the most powerful storm to slam into the United States in more than a decade, Trump and the team he has put in place at FEMA were bracing today for one of the most important tests of his presidency.

ALBANY — The state will declare the polluted water of Hoosick Falls a Superfund site, conduct a health risk analysis of its residents and test more water wells to address toxic chemicals that have leached into a town water well, Cuomo administration officials announced alongside local elected leaders during a press conference Wednesday.

Under this program, all new handguns sold in the state must be test fired and the shell casing imaged and entered into an electronic databank for possible crime scene identification.

If you were a local school board member would you like to enter into a teacher removal legal proceeding knowing (1) Pearson's tests are flawed, (2) NYSED's use of test results is inappropriate, and (3) major professional groups like the American Statistical Association have stated that value added measures can do great harm?

It also called for all states to refrain from conducting nuclear test explosions and to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as possitest explosions and to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as possiTest - Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as possible.

The former president will inject himself into a race The Washington Post called «the country's marquee statewide election this year,» a critical swing - state test for his party and the Trump resistance.

Regent Judith Johnson of Rockland County, left, named Monday to lead a «work group» looking into issues with the state test system, speaks to members of the state Board of Regents during a meeting at the Education Department in Albany on Monday, April 18, 2016.

Their implementation came at the same time a new teacher evaluation system went into effect across New York state, using some of the test results from the new curriculum as a measure of a teacher's effectiveness and ultimately job security.

The Board of Regents» new leaders launched an inquiry Monday into the validity of the state test system and its links to teacher evaluations, citing the need to rebuild public trust following a second annual round of massive exam boycotts on Long Island and across the state.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

«Back in 1992, New York State set a blood level at 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood as the action level — child tested at 10, the public health people would spring into action to ensure they were fully evaluated,» remarked Ryan.

The testing question also figures prominently into the debate over teacher performance evaluations, as the governor has proposed making state test results 50 percent — instead of the current 40 percent — of the evaluation system, a move that is strongly opposed by the teachers unions that are closely allied with the Assembly Democrats.

The Board of Regents is launching an investigation into the validity of a testing system that is linked to teacher evaluations, citing the need to rebuild public trust following yet another opt out wave of state testing in schools.

The state will declare the polluted water of Hoosick Falls a Superfund site, conduct a health risk analysis of its residents and test more water wells to address toxic chemicals that have leached into a town water well.

The state Education Department's review of teacher evaluations and how student tests scores are used in that process will continue into 2016, state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said.

But her stance on Common Core could factor into Rosa's relationship with state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who has supported the move toward higher standards, as well as the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Cuomo's address — far shorter than his father's in order to fit into a jam - packed program, and delivered to a distracted room that at times forced him to bellow — offered a reprise of a concept that the governor had been field - testing all week: that New York, the home state of both 2016 major - party candidates, was the laboratory and proving ground of progressive ideas.

The Republicans are tapping into an anger among many parents in New York state over the botched rollout of a more rigorous curriculum that relies more on standardized tests, and is tied to teacher evaluations.

The governor in New York does not directly control education policy, but earlier this year Cuomo inserted into the state budget the requirement that new teacher evaluations be more dependent on standardized tests.

Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says parents absolutely have the right to opt their kids out of state standardized tests, but she says she still wants to talk to them to try to bring them back into the fold.

But — after last week saying the state was «taking matters into our own hands» by offering free cooling tower testing — Mr. Cuomo eventually jumped off - topic to offer his own update on Legionnaires» disease.