Sentences with phrase «meet the public test»

According to the Electoral Commission, activities and communications «aimed exclusively at your members or committed supporters will not meet the public test and so will not be considered regulated campaign activity».

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Sen. Mark Warner, D - Va., who urged the SEC in September 2016 to investigate whether Yahoo met its obligation to inform the public, said Tuesday that the company's failure to do so «didn't pass the smell test.»

Single men and women account for nearly 30 percent of all households in the United States, but yet the public perception of eating alone remains negative.I inadvertently tested the social reaction of being a solo diner at a local restaurant / bar this past weekend while waiting to meet friends after work.

As a public charter school, we meet Arizona State Standards and testing requirements, and comply with health and safety regulations and educational laws applicable to Arizona Charter Schools.

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

Concerned about children's exposure to lead found in drinking water, lawmakers met with reporters today at the state capitol in Albany to discuss a last - minute push to require lead testing in all public schools.

A public meeting last night concerning an update on the PFOS water contamination issue in Newburgh brought a formal announcement about the launch of a blood testing program for the city.

The formal announcement of a blood testing program in Newburgh garnered the most attention during a public meeting Monday concerning an update on the PFOS water contamination issue.

The district is offering free blood testing to students and staff that may have drank the water and is hosting a public meeting at 7 p.m. Monday to discuss test results with parents.

Pataki said Cahill meets two basic tests for any public official: He has integrity, and he is not interested in obtaining office for power's sake.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday called on the Wisconsin Legislature to pass a sweeping welfare overhaul package that includes requiring parents on food stamps to meet a work requirement, imposes new drug testing on public housing applicants and lays down a photo - identification requirement for food - stamp recipients.

«This clause provides a power to establish filtering arrangements to facilitate the lawful, efficient and effective obtaining of communications data by relevant public authorities and to assist a designated senior officer in each public authority to determine whether he believes the tests for granting an authorisation to obtain data have been met.»

ROBERT O'ROURK FILE PHOTO State Senator Ken LaValle is hosting a public meeting somewhere in his district Nov. 26 with New York education department commissioner John King to discuss Common Core curriculum and standardized testing.

The program has been controversial in New York, where parents and teachers have confronted the state's Education Commissioner, John King, in public meetings, saying the children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

Parents and teachers have confronted state Education Commissioner John King in public meetings, saying children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

Although academics don't warrant a «class privilege,» she said, academic - participant confidentiality can be awarded on a case - by - case basis, provided it meets the criteria of an existing four - step legal principle, known as the Wigmore test, which balances public interest in maintaining confidentiality against the court's interest in getting at the truth.

Having already taught in a private school and the test preparation industry, Steele felt drawn to public schools based on the students she met and her own secondary education experience.

In their report, Miron and Applegate conclude that Edison Schools do improve from year to year on norm - referenced tests, which measure gains in students knowledge over time, but on criterion - referenced tests, which measure whether or not students meet state standards, Edison students fared no better than students from surrounding public schools.

If test results show that students are not making AYP in a school, and if eligibility criteria are met, supplemental services and / or public school choice must be made available that same school year.

In 1998, the courts increased funding to the district, but also made specific demands including making public education available to children by the age of three, meeting targets on assessment tests, and requiring specific facility and class size targets.

Burt Carney is worried not only that other public colleges might follow the University of California's lead, but also that groups like the Educational Testing Service are considering classroom visits to make sure that teachers and curricula in AP courses, for instance, meet certain standards.

We also collect data on public school - transfer options generated by NCLB, which required schools that received Title I funds and failed to meet minimum requirements on standardized tests for two consecutive years to offer students the option of transferring to a local school that did meet the benchmark.

Due to the highly technical nature of the Race to the Top Assessment Competition, the Department sent invitations to two groups of individuals to serve as peer reviewers: 1) experts who served as panelists for the Race to the Top Assessment public meetings (these were nominated by the director of the National Academies of Sciences» Board on Testing and Assessment, by the U. S. Department of Education's National Technical Advisory Council chair, and / or by Department experts); and 2) persons experienced as peer reviewers in the Title I review of State assessment systems (all recruited on the basis of assessment expertise).

At a public meeting last month in Royal Palm Beach, Fla., Lisa Curl said her children were struggling with testing requirements.

States participating in Title I are required to meet a variety of requirements for assessing the achievement levels of public school students, reporting results of achievement tests to parents and the public, and taking actions intended to improve the performance of schools where achievement results are deemed inadequate.

For the 2002 - 2003 through the 2005 - 2006 school year test administrations, for purposes of the commissioner's annual evaluation of public schools, public school districts, and charter schools, the following limited English proficient students may be considered to be meeting performance criteria in elementary or middle - level English language arts if they demonstrate a specified increment of progress on the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) for their grade letest administrations, for purposes of the commissioner's annual evaluation of public schools, public school districts, and charter schools, the following limited English proficient students may be considered to be meeting performance criteria in elementary or middle - level English language arts if they demonstrate a specified increment of progress on the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) for their grade leTest (NYSESLAT) for their grade level.

A new voluntary national test of eighth grade mathematics would stimulate change by raising the public's awareness of the more challenging standards all students should meet.

After the states have set their yearly performance goals, the Department of Education will have to monitor the performance of the nation's 92,000 public schools to see whether each demographic group in each grade being tested is meeting the state performance goals.

If a school fails to meet annual state test - score goals for two years, students can transfer to another public school in the district.

While public schools must report test scores and take action when they don't meet goals, private schools participating in the D.C. voucher program are insulated from such interference.

I am holding an organizational meeting for parents and educators to opt out of standardized testing at Hartford Public High School on Saturday, Feb 1, at 12:00 in my classroom, room 272.

In Mississippi, where test scores are among the country's worst, participants in one particularly vituperative public meeting complained that the Common Core is akin to «a Muslim takeover» of schools.

This year it resulted in shadow education secretary Tristam Hunt being turned away from an east London school, amid concerns they were breaking the law, and failing schools had to meet «public interest tests» before getting Government help.

He says that initially the public met the new test with resistance, but that the state remained steadfast with its implementation and eventually communities stepped up to support it.

It published a list of 12 reasons its opposed to the test, including PARCC's financial burden, and its members have testified against PARCC testing at state Board of Education meetings and other public hearings.

Madison school officials corrected an error in data about student scores on reading tests, and that resulted in Sherman meeting the standard for showing improvement over the previous year, said Patrick Gasper, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Like all public schools, charter schools participate in state testing and are responsible to meet AYP accountability requirements.

Tom Horne, Arizona's state superintendent of public instruction, told Edutopia that arts education can even help raise test scores and meet government mandates.

blog post entitled, «Malloy - Wyman Administration ramp - up attack on parents who opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC testing fiasco,» a group of targeted Connecticut public school superintendents and principals were ordered to attend a mandatory meeting at the Department of Education to discuss their failure last sprin, to stop enough parents from opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing scheme.

Then later, as the Deputy Commissioner of Education was announcing that the «roundtable» meeting was over, a parent diplomatically and respectfully stood up, thanked the Department for its presentation and began to explain why parents were understandably concerned about the Common Core SBAC and NEW SAT testing and our accurate concern that that our public schools are being turned into little more than testing factories.

article, Incredulous: Watching CT Department of Education officials lecture school administrators on how to mislead parents, reported on the incredible meeting in which public officials from Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education lectured a group of school administrators about how to STOP parents from opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing scheme and then quickly shut down the meeting when a parent stood up to explain why many people feel so strongly about the significant problems associated with the SBAC testing craze,

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

The notion that parents understand that Common Core SBAC testing is undermining public education was just too much for the State to handle and last Thursday, after communications that the State Department of Education has yet to release a response to a Freedom of Information request, the Sherman Board of Education held a «special meeting» to «focus solely on a presentation to the Board of Education by our superintendent, Don Fiftal, and a panel of educational experts to provide direct and up - to - date information about the Connecticut Common Core Standards and the SBAC Assessments.»

Despite the documented failure of the assessments to meet basic standards of testing and accountability, [invalid] scores are scheduled to be released to the public on September 9th.

(v) Students in charter schools shall be required to meet the same performance standards, testing and portfolio requirements set by the board for students in other public schools.

«But,» says Miron, «on criterion - referenced tests — those that measure whether or not students meet prescribed state standards — Edison students» gains or losses mirror those of students in the comparison groups examined, which included students from surrounding public school districts.»

Boutrous and Lipshutz cite several historic U.S. Supreme Court cases in their argument that public education meets the fundamental - right test, including Washington v. Glucksberg, in which the Court found that public education is «deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition» and «implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.»

Since all school districts and public schools in Connecticut have already failed to meet the 2014 NCLB requirement of 100 percent proficiency of their students, why are we moving forward with an unproven, untested, and experimental test protocol for our students?

There are over 45,000 active public school teachers who have meet Connecticut's certification law and nearly an equal number of retired teachers who meet the law, a law which includes getting the proper education, taking the proper tests and paying the proper fees.

(1997) E652: Current Research in Post-School Transition Planning (2003) E586: Curriculum Access and Universal Design for Learning (1999) E626: Developing Social Competence for All Students (2002) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E608: Five Homework Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities (2001) E654: Five Strategies to Limit the Burdens of Paperwork (2003) E571: Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans (1998) E628: Helping Students with Disabilities Participate in Standards - Based Mathematics Curriculum (2002) E625: Helping Students with Disabilities Succeed in State and District Writing Assessments (2002) E597: Improving Post-School Outcomes for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (2000) E564: Including Students with Disabilities in Large - Scale Testing: Emerging Practices (1998) E568: Integrating Assistive Technology Into the Standard Curriculum (1998) E577: Learning Strategies (1999) E587: Paraeducators: Factors That Influence Their Performance, Development, and Supervision (1999) E735: Planning Accessible Conferences and Meetings (1994) E593: Planning Student - Directed Transitions to Adult Life (2000) E580: Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment (1999) E633: Promoting the Self - Determination of Students with Severe Disabilities (2002) E609: Public Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E616: Research on Full - Service Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E563: School - Wide Behavioral Management Systems (1998) E632: Self - Determination and the Education of Students with Disabilities (2002) E585: Special Education in Alternative Education Programs (1999) E599: Strategic Processing of Text: Improving Reading Comprehension for Students with Learning Disabilities (2000) E638: Strategy Instruction (2002) E579: Student Groupings for Reading Instruction (1999) E621: Students with Disabilities in Correctional Facilities (2001) E627: Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention for Students with Disabilities: A Call to Educators (2002) E642: Supporting Paraeducators: A Summary of Current Practices (2003) E647: Teaching Decision Making to Students with Learning Disabilities by Promoting Self - Determination (2003) E590: Teaching Expressive Writing To Students with Learning Disabilities (1999) E605: The Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)(2000) E592: The Link Between Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs)(2000) E641: Universally Designed Instruction (2003) E639: Using Scaffolded Instruction to Optimize Learning (2002) E572: Violence and Aggression in Children and Youth (1998) E635: What Does a Principal Need to Know About Inclusion?