Sentences with phrase «key state standards»

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India - based drug manufacturing facilities have been criticized by the FDA in recent years for violating quality standards, as the agency increases oversight of key suppliers to the United States.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

When it comes to starting a standard and large scale cleaning company with several outlets in key cities in the United States of America, a cleaning company that can carry out pressure cleaning and any other form of cleaning services on a commercial level and a company with the intention of selling franchise, then you should look towards budgeting well one million, five hundred thousand dollars ($ 1.5 million).

These are the key expenses you are expected to make when starting a medium scale but standard cleaning company business in the United States of America;

States that have recently adopted higher standards are seeing growth in key content areas such as reading and math.

With a steadily growing business, Silva says the key is to maintain the Muscle Maker Grill standard state to state while keeping costs under control.

· Allow charities to set to up new state schools; set up a new independent educational standards authority; and abolish testing at key stages 1 and 3, and allow more in - school testing at key stage 2.

Business and enterprise is the key to better living standards says Cameron, adding that he wants «a big society not a big state.»

A coalition of groups including the New York Public Interest Research Group and Food & Water Watch announced Wednesday the launch of a campaign aimed at blocking a planned surcharge on utility bills that was a key component of the state's new Clean Energy Standard regulations.

The voters deserve an honest campaign, but Breslin is stooping to a despicably low level, even by the State Legislature's low standards, so he can avoid telling the truth on key issues,» Morse said.

«As a Council of Europe member state, Russia has an obligation to uphold key democratic norms and standards.»

The governor's executive orders also suspended other sections of state finance law that enable standard procurement processes to be waived by the commissioner of general services, a key state procuring agency, and the commissioner of transportation.

In five of the state's key races, the GOP standard - bearer is a combat veteran.

King says stricter learning standards are the key for United States students to compete with other countries.

In light of the Clean Energy Standard mandate, and recognizing the enormous potential renewable energy resource that exists off of its Atlantic coast, New York has set its sights squarely on offshore wind energy as a key component of the State's clean energy strategy.

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

The Next Generation Science Standards do a better job overall of covering genetics than most previous state standards, but are missing some key content, according to a new study by science education specialists at the American Society of Human Genetics.

But passing rates remained below state standards in several key areas — a key factor in the state board's decision to extend the...

Among other things, this authenticity addresses the call in the Common Core State Standards for students to «learn to appreciate that a key purpose of writing is to communicate clearly to an external, sometimes unfamiliar audience» and an emphasis in the Michigan second - grade social studies standards on the local community context.

In its discussion of accountability, the task force rightly lines up behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (and, not incidentally, the Risk report itself) in calling for coherent academic standards in every state, in key academic subjects (regrettably omitting the arts, which Risk mentioned and which the National Education Goals expressly included).

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.

• Work with client schools to administer NAEP (or some other matrix - based test aligned to the standards) to 2,000 students each year in key grade levels; use their performance to set the curve for the summative test (think of this as «Curriculum NAEP,» the equivalent of the current state NAEP testing).

The measure for this reform is testing — tests designed by the states, keyed to standards of what children ought to know.

Although teachers carefully plan what their students need to know in accordance with Indiana state standards and Key Learning's own competencies, the best way they have found for students to acquire information and critical - thinking skills is through projects.

Experts in the various disciplines would develop national standards for what students should know and be able to do at key points in their schooling; a federal council of distinguished citizens would review and certify the standards as worthy of emulation; states and school districts would voluntarily adopt them; teachers would teach to them; and students would achieve them.

In other words, a key objective of the CCSS consortium — the raising of state proficiency standards — has begun to happen.

Experts in the various disciplines would develop national standards for what students should know and be able to do at key points in their schooling; a federal council of distinguished citizens would review and certify the standards as worthy of emulation; states and school districts would voluntarily adopZwcm; teachers would teach to them; and students would achieve them.

The download includes: - A full lesson PowerPoint Presentation designed to the highest professional standard - A complete lesson plan, stating: differentiation, key - words, objectives and a detailed timeline of activities.

In short, the Common Core consortium has achieved one of its key policy objectives: the raising of state proficiency standards throughout much of the United States.

Two local mathematicians, Jim Milgram of Stanford and Hung - Hsi Wu of Berkeley, became key players in the rewriting of California's math standards and the elimination of NSF - funded books from the state's curriculum.

However, a review of evidence relating to the accessibility of the 2016 key stage 2 reading test, which acknowledges concerns raised by teachers, states that «while standards were set appropriately in 2016, the review suggests that the test seemed to be more challenging than the sample materials provided».

As we work with states in developing these systems, one of the key components is making sure the information is translatable for parents, that they can understand what percentage of students in that school who are mastering standards and achieving grade - level expectations and whether or not those students are going to be ready to graduate from high school and be successful in college.

January 22, 2016 — The Common Core State Standards (CCSS), adopted by 43 states and the District of Columbia in an effort to establish a set of common educational objectives and standards for assessing student proficiency in reading and math, are accomplishing one of their key goals.

As Harvard University's Paul Peterson recently wrote in Education Next, «the Common Core consortium has achieved one of its key policy objectives: the raising of state proficiency standards throughout much of the United States.»

The key players in the state's education department, including its commissioner, had all been replaced; the new administrators were issuing challenging curriculum standards, requiring new statewide tests, and demanding more accountability.

And there's plenty of substance for the president to brag about: Forty - six states and the District of Columbia signed on to rigorous common standards; dozens of states got serious about teacher evaluations; key jurisdictions removed caps on charter - school expansion.

No Excuses teachers may find it intellectually challenging to craft their own curricula, pacing charts, lesson plans, curriculum tests, and the like, all keyed to state standards, but these demands also contribute to long hours and high teacher turnover.

Hindsight suggests that implementation of the assessments might have been more successful, and politically sustainable, if the new standards and tests had not been connected to states» K — 12 accountability systems, and especially teacher evaluations, until key stakeholders had become acclimated to them.

For history, science, and technical subjects, the standards offer 10 areas of key literacy skills to overlay onto already existing state content standards.

The results indicate that most states are further along in their planning than they were one year ago in key areas widely considered to be necessary for successful implementation of the new standards.

Sixty - one CSSS members across 38 states responded to our survey and reported that their work most frequently involves activities that attend to key components of their state's education systems, including: reviewing and developing state science standards, designing state science assessments, and designing or conducting teacher professional development.

A series of five modules that address the key mathematical strands or domains of state standards in grades K - 8

The other $ 4 billion was intended by Congress to fund grants to help states improve in four key areas: building data systems, adopting «career - and - college ready» standards and tests, hiring great teachers and principals, and turning around low - performing schools.

Nor, evidently, did the state's education reporters — Heather could find literally no press coverage of the key moment when Indiana's Board of Education abandoned its fine state standards and well - regarded state tests in favor of Common Core.

This introduction to the Common Core state standards provides a good background on why and how the standards were developed and key features for ELA / Literacy.

Achieve's «On the Road to Implementation: Achieving the Promise of the Common Core State Standards» seeks to identify the key areas that state policymakers will need to consider to implement the new standards with fideState Standards» seeks to identify the key areas that state policymakers will need to consider to implement the new standards with fidestate policymakers will need to consider to implement the new standards with fidelity.

The authors address the anxiety - inducing world of Common Core State Standards, distilling from those standards four key ideas that help hone teaching practices both generally and in preparation for assessments.

Quality Counts 2005, the ninth annual edition of the report, continues to track state policies and information across key areas of education: student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and financial resources.

It's among the key recommendations made in the report released by the Michigan School Finance Research Collaborative, which launched an effort more than a year ago to determine how much money Michigan schools need to meet state standards.