Sentences with phrase «one's legislative mandate»

Trying to implement a plethora of legislative mandates makes it almost impossible to give any measure a chance to be successful.

By legislative mandate, all students have access to some form of public education, and schools are required by law to serve all students.

Today legislative mandates require greater transparency of the nutritional content of menu options.

In the end, the industry was able to produce less than one tenth of one percent of the original legislative mandate, and only 14 percent of the drastically reduced mandated figure.

Schools have been overwhelmed with the sheer number of legislative mandates.

Among Judge Lewis» findings was that state officials had failed to present evidence of a net increase in state education funding for fiscal 1999, once new legislative mandates for schools were factored in.

So via legislative mandate in SB 1882, Texas has now empowered TEA to use gangster moves to force schools into private management.

It has been my view that the American public would resent attempts by EPA to unilaterally impose regulations that would have the effect of greatly increasing the costs of energy use or imposing other constraints on energy - related activities without a new legislative mandate for this purpose, particularly without meticulous and truly independent EPA review of the science rather than depending on UN science.

The moral edicts of religion are best promoted at the family and community level not through legislative mandate.

Paterson is also proposing a three - year moratorium new unfunded legislative mandates on local governments and school districts.

«There is a clear legislative mandate for the Department to implement this program in a manner which enables the delivery of quality full - day pre-K programming to four year olds throughout the state in the 2014 - 15 school year.»

The pilot gave the SCDE an opportunity to gauge the need for and response to the program around the state, as well as the SCDE's strength in supporting other initiatives — such as high school redesign and adult education — and in meeting legislative mandates to give all students access to high - quality instruction.

Legislative mandates express the will of Member States and are the means through which they grant authority and responsibility to the Secretary - General to implement their requests.

Horn's comments came after a meeting with local school board members in Charlotte this week, who, like many districts across the state, say a looming legislative mandate to slash class sizes in the early grades would have dramatic implications without additional funding or a reprieve from lawmakers.

That's despite promises from Republican leaders this spring that they intend to revisit specialty teacher funding next year, when a steep legislative mandate to cut class sizes in grades K - 3 is set to take effect.

In its current legislation, as in previous legislative mandates, Congress has called for an ongoing evaluation of the assessment as a whole.

Pursuant to Public Law 95 - 507, and subsequent legislative mandates, large prime contractors receiving Federal contract awards valued over $ 700,000 ($ 1.5 million for construction) are required to establish plans and goals for subcontracting with small businesses, veteran - owned small businesses, service disabled veteran - owned small businesses, HUBZone small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses and women - owned small business concerns.

There's a reason to keep your hands on the wheel (beyond legislative mandates that drivers keep a hand on).

These accomplishments are the result of policy measures and legislative mandates put into place in the late 1990s and 2000s, effecting long - lasting change in the character and composition of the region's electric generation, supply, and use.

Many risk factors determine your car insurance rates, but marketplace drivers such as legislative mandates that incentivize lawsuits and exorbitant jury awards are key cost drivers.

Regional Educational Service Centers (RESCs) were created more than 30 years ago by legislative mandate to help districts communicate and collaborate.

In more than two occasions, President Buhari has officially, through legislative mandates, handed over power to Osinbajo to act as Nigerian President.

Even in Washington, where reformers place much hope for change, the push is pretty much limited to Race to the Top, an executive - branch initiative lacking a clear legislative mandate.

Following California's 1981 legislative mandate for mediation in child custody disputes, there is an increasing trend for states (or local jurisdictions within them) to offer mediation services to disputing couples.

Such questions may be resolved when the budget's promise of a legislative mandate for the Minister, and for international development and humanitarian assistance, is fulfilled.

In his review of the book, Elliott Abrams observes: «Novick rightly notes that the Holocaust has been institutionalized — in the museum on the Mall, similar museums in New York and Los Angeles, memorials in many cities, legislative mandates to teach it, and endowed chairs and programs.

Known as the «X case,» the decision sparked an ongoing debate about how to interpret the legislative mandate from the court, with successive governments reluctant to touch the issue for fear of upsetting the public.

«The Board has acted within its administrative role and has refused outside calls for it to exceed its legislative mandate,» Briccetti wrote in the letter.

In tackling the rampant cases of corruption, which have become widespread under the Mahama government, he reiterated his commitment to appointing «an Independent Special Prosecutor with a legislative mandate to deal with corruption, who will be appointed and empowered to tackle corruption.»

The New York Civil Liberties Union says transgender students are often harassed in public schools across the state and education officials have failed to carry out a legislative mandate to protect them.

«The Party advises the Senators in question to stop this huge joke and concentrate on their primary constitutional responsibilities of lawmaking and discharging of their legislative mandates to their constituents at the National Assembly.

It asked the lawmakers to concentrate on their primary constitutional responsibilities of lawmaking and discharging of their legislative mandates to their constituents at the National Assembly

In the mid-2000s, with a legislative mandate from Congress and funding from the National Science Foundation, policy - focused engagement efforts in the U.S. expanded to focus on emerging issues related to nanotechnology and synthetic biology, with deliberation taking place «upstream» (i.e., earlier in the development process, before technology hits the market).

Thomas Lickona, the head of the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs (the fourth and fifth being respect and responsibility) at the State University of New York at Cortland and a leading figure in the field, says that two - thirds of the states» schools are now required either by legislative mandate or by administrative regulation to implement programs in character education.

Agencies seeking to regulate — at times, due to legislative mandates for them to do so — must follow a process set forth in the Administrative Procedure Act.

Participating schools were drawn from around the state and, by legislative mandate, included inner - city and suburban schools from larger metropolitan areas (Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, and Chattanooga) as well as rural schools and those from smaller towns.

Kentucky's success was spurred and catalyzed by Senate Bill 1 — «nothing will get you working together like a legislative mandate,» Combs acknowledged with a laugh — but colleges everywhere need to be active participants in the PK - 16 education continuum, even if their state has different standards or education structures.

And lingering controversy over a legislative mandate to cut class sizes left educators and Republican lawmakers squaring off again in 2017 and 2018.

North Carolina public school leaders say a legislative mandate to decrease class sizes in the early grades may have a devastating impact on school systems across the state, forcing districts to spend millions more hiring teachers or cut scores of positions for those teaching «specialty» subjects such as arts, music and physical education.

Additionally, she says school leaders in Guilford, like Forsyth, were frustrated by the legislative mandate because they were forced to pack students in grades 4 - 12 to find personnel for the earlier grades.

Their attitude may not be completely unwarranted, given the continuing cycle of school change, new policies and legislative mandates, and shifting accountability systems.

In response to these legislative mandates, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has established various panels of technical experts to study NAEP, and panels are formed periodically by NCES or external organizations, such as the National Academy of Sciences, to conduct evaluations.