Sentences with phrase «mandates lead testing»

Flanagan said the bill sponsored by Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chairman Thomas O'Mara (R - Elmira) is the first in the nation to mandate lead testing of water in schools.

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UFC actually is leading the way as far as mandated year round drug testing (similar to Olympic sports) in the realm of professional sports.

The law, aimed at keeping lead - filled merchandise away from children, mandates that all products sold for those age 12 and younger — including clothing — be tested for lead and phthalates, which are chemicals used to make plastics more pliable.

State mandated drinking water testing has found high lead levels in eleven local school districts.

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

MaryEllen Elia, tapped seven months ago to lead New York's education department, now finds herself wedged between a federal mandate to test students and a groundswell of parents in this state who refuse to let their kids take the tests.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz stopped short of requiring his health department to mandate tap water sampling in homes where children are already diagnosed with high lead levels, but he did say that «maybe we do need to take additional steps, such as testing the water.»

Southern Tier Republican Sen. Tom O'Mara has launched the second TV ad of his re-election campaign, which focuses on his success in getting a bill passed through the Legislature and signed into law that mandates the testing of public school water for lead.

It was unclear if the Senate would take up a bill that passed the Assembly making it easier for residents of Hoosick Falls and other communities to sue for damages related to water pollution, or if the Assembly would pass a bill mandating testing for lead in school districts.

De Blasio has repeatedly defended NYCHA Chair Shola Olatoye even after it was revealed that she told the feds her agency conducted mandated lead - paint tests when she knew it had not.

Over the past seven years, my district has mandated quarterly and mini-testing leading up to the state test at the end of the year, homogeneously - leveled classes according to test scores, double - blocked reading and math classes for students who do not pass the state tests, detailed lesson plans aligned to tested reading skills, and a strict pacing guide designed to cover all skills on the state test.

During Lewis - Carter's four years as principal, she has led these children — disadvantaged by every conventional measure and further handicapped by the hardships of Katrina — to a stunning performance record on state - mandated standardized tests, one that compares favorably with the city's selective - admissions schools.

The Lee County School Board led the charge in August when it voted to opt out of state - mandated standardized testing during an emotional meeting in Fort Myers.

Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute expressed concern that without any clear limiting principle, mandating state tests could easily lead to mandating «certified teachers, a state - approved curriculum, state - approved facilities, a state - approved plan of emergency services,» etc..

As an advocate for the Indiana State Teachers Association prior to her election, Ritz said she spent more than 150 hours working behind the scenes with legislators and Bennett's office in 2011 crafting language for the law that mandated all teachers have annual performance reviews that include student test scores as a factor and lead to one of four ratings — highly effective, effective, improvement necessary and ineffective.

Connecticut's superintendents should follow the lead of their New York colleagues and demand that Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly repeal the law they developed mandating that student achievement data from standardized tests be used as part of the educator evaluation process.

Even though NCLB mandated 17 federally required tests, the high stakes attached to them led states and districts to start administering multiple interim benchmark tests to see how well students would do on the federal tests.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

The results of IIHS» testing led the U.S. government to mandate changes to the way car seat headrests are designed.

What he wants to avoid: mandated point - of - sale home inspections and real estate transaction fees to fund lead - testing programs.