Sentences with phrase «official public test»

However, PC / Mac players may give it a try in January on the official Public Test Server (not currently available on consoles).

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Now, California's motor vehicles officials face an end - of - year deadline to write regulations that will allow driverless cars to go from testing to use by the public in June 2015.

While Air Force officials knew the UFO sightings were U-2 tests, they couldn't really tell the public.

In September, California officials started requiring companies testing autonomous vehicles on public roads to get permits.

Based on the Model S sedan, the larger crossover design has been seen testing on public roads, though its official launch date has been repeatedly postponed.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

The research provides insight into the policy options under consideration in Ottawa and how federal officials are testing various ways that those ideas could be sold to the public.

Officials are waiting for more test results to confirm what materials are present, said Sean Mahar, the DEC's assistant commissioner of public affairs.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

Elevated levels of lead caused officials in New Jersey's largest school district, Newark Public Schools, to shut off water fountains at 30 school buildings until more tests could be conducted.

More than a month after New York City began offering free lead testing to nearly 3,000 children living in public housing apartments in the wake of a lead - paint scare, only 73 children have been tested under the initiative, city officials said.

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.

Public officials announced that Doctor Craig Spencer has tested positive for Ebola.

A coalition of 41 groups developed the litmus test, which was sent out to 143 «elected officials and those seeking public office.»

Do you think that, in the interest of fairness, investigative bodies should be allowed to conduct integrity tests in order to undercover wrongdoing by public officials?

«Your Excellency, while hosting a delegation of World Bank officials, you announced to the whole world that 21,780 teachers will be disengaged in Kaduna State Public primary and secondary schools for not scoring up to 75 per cent in the competency test, while 25,000 will be recruited in their stead.

OWASCO — With Auburn and Cayuga County officials concerned about tests showing low levels of blue - green algae toxins in the public water suppl...

New York State officials are continuing to test public and private wells in the Rensselaer County community of Hoosick Falls as the village is beginning to flush contaminants from its water system.

After public pressure, local officials decided to test the water for PFOA anyway, finding that some of the village's municipal wells contained water with dangerous levels of the compound.

EPIDEMICS • Transportation officials and public health experts are pilot testing a Web site that calculates the risk that passengers coming off any given flight are carrying an emerging infectious disease.

A new variant of an influenza virus that circulates in pigs has been jumping occasionally into people, providing a surprisingly early opportunity for public health officials to test out some of the lessons learned from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

For example, when researchers developed a simple urine screening test for neuroblastoma — a childhood cancer that arises in immature nerve cells — officials in Japan launched a public health campaign to screen infants.

Public health officials sprang into action and tested further samples from the area that triggered the system, but turned up negative results.

The identification of diagnostic tests or biomarkers that predict progression to active TB disease would greatly enhance TB control efforts in the United States and globally and allow physicians and public health officials to focus efforts on treatment of latent TB infection of those at greatest risk of progression to active, transmissible and potentially fatal disease.

«A network test is a preliminary verification test that allows a general public to play games as a tester prior to the official service start», the official Japanese blog post reads.

The study included survey data from 70,000 students in 1,015 public and private secondary schools, student achievement tests in mathematics and language arts, and survey data from school officials.

The Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools turned to more frequent assessments in part because officials reportedly noted that in some schools minority students were scoring lower on standardized tests than non-minority students.

In announcing the 2000 test results last week, Virginia education officials said that 22 percent, or 406 of the state's 1,874 public schools, had posted acceptable passing rates on the state's rigorous Standards of Learning exams administered to students last spring.

State officials announced last week that 84 percent of the state's more than 1,800 public schools earned full state accreditation, based on last school year's test scores.

Take testing critic Alfie Kohn, who writes, «As proof of the inadequacy of U.S. schools, many writers and public officials pointed to the sputtering condition of the U.S. economy.

In its much - anticipated report, the National Council on Education Standards and Testing, a 32 - member panel of educators, business leaders, and public officials, concludes that creating such standards and assessments is both highly desirable and feasible.

Arriving at common ground in one of the most fractious fields in education, a group of educators and public officials has developed a draft framework for the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress test in U.S. history.

«Democracy Prep provides a test case of whether charter schools can successfully serve the foundational purpose of public education — preparation for citizenship — even while operating outside the direct control of elected officials,» the Mathematica report concludes.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Policies requiring private schools to administer the official state tests, which are aligned with the public - school curriculum, appear to discourage distinctive private schools from participating.

Before New York students sat down to take their first Common Core tests, state education officials were preparing the public for bad news.

Instead of forcing every public school to administer the same test, Arizona officials will give public schools a menu of tests to choose from according to their instructional practices.

Maryland education officials this week will test a novel strategy — a «telethon» — for recruiting volunteers to work in the public schools.

We develop, test, and support evidence - based solutions to create new possibilities for the parents, educators, and public officials who strive to improve America's schools.

For two years, teachers and public school advocates have been warning elected and appointed officials about the impending disaster that will be caused by the rollout of the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and the teacher evaluation program.

If the state's legislators, legal officials and public believe teacher performance should be tied to tenure, then performance on state tests will undoubtedly matter in future years.

And more importantly, a farce of a forum undermines the rights of the students, teachers, school administrators, parents and citizens who make up Connecticut's public education community and need elected officials who are better informed about the Common Core and Common Core testing.

A lengthy investigation into who altered Beacon Hill International School students» answers on standardized tests has come up empty, Seattle Public Schools officials announced Tuesday.

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In low - wealth districts, officials are warning the public that they should expect low grades for their schools, even if they have succeeded in bringing students up on test scores over time.

Gov. Larry Hogan could untangle Baltimore County Public Schools officials from their technology quagmire by simply eliminating the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers testing (PARCC) they use to justify their obsession with...

The organization develops, tests, and supports evidence - based solutions to create new possibilities for the parents, educators, and public officials who strive to improve America's schools.

-- Montana's state Office of Public Instruction has hired a private firm to investigate accusations that education officials falsified student test scores: The Billings Gazette.

When our state education officials impose an educational program that does nothing to develop our children's intellectual abilities, intentionally mislead parents about what the law on testing permits, then waste scarce taxpayer dollars, not on educational services, but rather on a media blitz to further snow the public, we know that they do not have the best educational interests of our children in mind.

Fewer than a third of students in public schools passed the new tests, officials reported.