Sentences with phrase «number of other states»

Both seemed to agree that Common Core was better than the standards previously in place in most states but worse than in a non-trivial number of other states.

In New Jersey — and a growing number of other states — owners of solar energy systems are able to sell things called solar renewable energy credits (SRECs).

Then so are Georgia and a number of other states, which have had the same rules in place for years with nary a peep from the Catholic Church or those who are now clutching their pearls.

Apparently, a number of other states have tackled this issue in recent years, but New York hasn't gotten around to it yet.

However, a number of other states have developed nuclear weapons since the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty, including India, Pakistan and Israel.

It is legal in a number of other states, including Pennsylvania.

This also adds to a growing list of conflicts of interest situations in which the Finance Minister seems to be entangled - the USD 2.25 billion bond, as well as the appointment of close relatives and his business associates to key positions at the Finance Ministry, the Bank of Ghana and a number of other state institutions.

Following his investigation — and charges against — former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Bharara is reportedly looking at the outside income of a number of other state lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Jonathan Walters, Executive Editor of Governing Magazine, said, «A number of other states including Washington, Virginia and Georgia have undertaken streamlining and efficiency initiatives similar to the one proposed by Governor Cuomo.

Roque De La Funte will also be on the ballot in a number of other states including, but not limited to, Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Minnesota, Utah, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

New York joined a number of other states that already turned down the panel's request, including California, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Other states have stricter rules «There are reasons why Utah would be different from the rest of the country,» he said, including the fact that a number of other states have stricter regulations on how wells are completed.

Two rules for a giant reed According to Smith, a number of other states including Idaho and Mississippi had asked for information about their model in hopes of replicating Florida's approach.

«I don't think that Texas is any worse than a number of other states, but pointing out the problem and the solution is important,» she wrote in an email.

A number of other states also have merit - based scholarship programs that are open to all students, but the awards are typically less generous and are based not on tests developed by the states, but on grades or college - admissions test scores.

And in a number of other states, voters approved education - related ballot items, suggesting a high level of local support for public schools.

Utah, like a number of other states, still has extensive «school trust» lands, which were given to it by the federal government at statehood to produce a continuing source of income for education.

The U.S. Department of Education began giving out waivers to states allowing them to push back high - stakes aspects of the new system, and a number of other states took steps on their own to delay full implementation (see Figure 1).

A number of other states are considering similar bills.

Over the past five years, the school had watched as a number of other states, such as Colorado and Pennsylvania, conducted audits and investigations to root out mismanaged programs, casting doubt on quality programs in the process.

Partly because of Wisconsin and partly on their own, a number of other states entered into active discussions of state restrictions on teaching.

Because of the mounting political pressure and a certain amount of test anxiety, a number of other states are considering ways of distancing themselves from the Common Core and the new assessments.

But they and their counterparts in a number of other states are finding this year's odds of winning to be considerably longer.

The law was taken up by ALEC and has been pushed in a number of other states with generous financial backing of the Walton Foundation (which is sponsoring «Teacher Rocks») and other corporate school reform funders.

So far, the transition to the new Common Core standards and the Smarter Balanced tests have gone forward without the kind of heated debates and doubts that have raged in a number of other states.

Although I am urging the adoption of a growth - based approach to NCLB school evaluation, I am not advocating the adoption of «value - added» evaluative models, such as those first used in Tennessee but now adopted by a number of other states.

But in a number of other states with conservative leadership, progress on ESAs has been much slower.

Although there have been no formal discussions with federal officials about the novel idea, Sigman said there are a number of other states exploring the same approach.

A review of the April 17 letters by Education Week, a national newspaper that focuses on K - 12 education, found «Wisconsin was strong in an area noted as a weakness for a number of other states — helping special populations, such as English Language Learners transitioning to the Common Core state standards.»

A number of other states / districts, such as Ohio, North Carolina, and New York City, include such indicators in school report cards or other public reporting systems, without tying it to enforceable school accountability

Not only is the nation's biggest state calmly implementing the Common Core State Standards that have roiled the waters in a number of other states.

Most recently Alabama and a number of other states have banned use of these cruel, medieval devices.

«We have been in discussions with our counterparts in a number of other states who are also considering how to address this issue» Lee said.

But a number of other states, including New Jersey, Nevada, and Arizona, are ramping up their solar capacity as well, driven by programs and incentives at the state and federal levels.

Significantly, the department concludes what a number of other states have found and are demonstrating — that advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling to develop natural gas and oil from shale and other tight - rock formations can be conducted safely and efficiently.

The state's first LLLT began practicing last year and number of other states have also begun exploring similar programs.

It serves as a natural fit for many parties, according to Tarek Badawy, an attorney at Shahid Law Firm in Cairo, who points out that «Egyptian law [has] served as the foundation of the legal systems of a number of other states in the region».

So I suspect that pretty soon we're going to see a number of other states and I wouldn't be surprised eventually if they all do.

To be sure, a number of other states have enacted similar laws to help ensure that consumers can have important information about hazardous products that could cause personal injuries.

Significantly, their average age is only 49, which is nearly a decade younger than the sitting judges of a number of other states.

In a number of other states, bar associations conduct polls of the most frequent court users — attorneys — about judges on the ballot (and in states with partisan and nonpartisan elections, their challengers) and share that and additional information with voters.

Such a proposal was turned down by Florida voters in 2012, and similar measures have failed narrowly in a number of other state legislatures in the last decade.

Iowa follows the «tort» system for their car insurance laws, like a number of other states across the nation.

Maryland, like a number of other states, follows a «Tort» system when settling error claims after accidents.

These coverage plans are fairly typical insurance policies, and are needed in a number of other states to consider yourself «fully insured».