Sentences with phrase «onerous provisions»

Invariably, the public are invited to submit only loan agreements entered into before the 6 April 2007, with reliance upon the onerous provisions then in force, by which the courts have no jurisdiction to order enforcement of a loan in breach of the «prescribed terms».

There are slightly less onerous provisions for those aged less than 18 years of age.

[37] The Mayor appears to be advocating that, at least, the termination clause's onerous provisions would be a means of discouraging a future council from exercising its right to terminate Mr. Bunn because of the large cost to the municipality.

States across the country have followed the District's lead, many in pursuit of rewards — such as billions of dollars in federal Race to the Top funds and waivers from the most onerous provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind law — that the Obama administration granted to states that agreed to use student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Rather than applying for and accepting a waiver from some of the more onerous provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in exchange for adopting a series of education reforms as 33 other states have done, Texas submitted a notice of intent to apply for a waiver via a different mechanism on the last day of the most recent application period, Sept. 13, 2012.

Opt Out Groups and Common Core Opponents Oppose Senate Bill to Reauthorization NCLB Parents and teachers have long awaited the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), with the reasonable expectation that the onerous provisions of federally mandated, high - stakes testing would be removed.

Recognizing that schools couldn't continue to operate under NCLB's significant flaws, the Obama administration has offered states flexibility from the law's most onerous provisions in exchange for specific reform commitments focused on college and career readiness, improvements in the lowest - performing schools, and teacher effectiveness.

The Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers have provided welcome, albeit temporary, relief from the most onerous provisions of the law but, as Carter notes, have led to a «haphazard patchwork of state progress» and have neutralized the administration's urgency for a longer - term, more comprehensive solution.

Criticizing Congress for months of inaction in updating No Child Left Behind, President Obama on Friday offered to lift the law's most onerous provisions, including its 2014 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency in reading and math, for states that promise to follow his administration's own school improvement agenda.

In a package of five separate bills — a «step - by - step» approach rather than one mega-measure — the senators offer a proposal that would fix all of the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind without abandoning its focus on reform.

The U.S. Department of Education will not reverse its decision that Oregon is at «high risk» of failing to use student test scores to help evaluate teachers, a step it promised to take to get out from the most onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind.

Louisiana received more than $ 17 million through Race to the Top, and it has a waiver from No Child Left Behind, allowing the state to avoid some of the more onerous provisions of the law.

Following the introduction of Common Core, the Administration offered $ 4.35 billion in federal Race to the Top grant money, along with waivers from the onerous provisions of the widely derided No Child Left Behind Act.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has made awarding waivers from certain onerous provisions of the No Child Left Behind law contingent on states evaluating teachers in a manner he judges acceptable.

Nearly all the states committed to a federal timeline in order to compete for federal Race to the Top funds and to get out from under NCLB's most onerous provisions.

, these onerous provisions fall by the wayside.

As a fix, Obama's education secretary, Arne Duncan, waived for most states the law's most onerous provisions.

Last week, 11 states applied for waivers from many of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's most onerous provisions.

The deal contains several onerous provisions and reforms that still need to be approved by the Greek Parliament and then implemented.

The deal contains several onerous provisions and reforms still need to be approved by the Greek Parliament and then implemented.

«We couldn't have had this onerous provision stricken without their help.»

Not exact matches

The majority of the ACA's provisions go into effect in 2014 — and they are much more onerous than I expected.

Ms. Clifford's initial deal has struck legal experts for its onerous terms, including its provision that she would be responsible for «liquidated damages» of $ 1 million for each breach of the agreement.

The provision is the most potentially onerous of three MTA provisions that seem to target the mayor, in what appears to be the latest front in Cuomo's effort to foist responsibility for the failing subway system onto de Blasio.

Simply put, the Tier VI provisions would be onerous on working people and undermine middle class security and the governor ought to be more concerned about that.

Republicans agreed to modify their original bill, which was officially introduced only 1 day before yesterday's markup, to remove a few provisions that Democrats felt were especially onerous.

He also believes that its provisions requiring NSF to explain why a particular project was funded are less onerous.

In exchange for the states» acceptance of the administration's «principles» set forth in its Blueprint for Reform, they will be exempt from some of the more onerous NCLB timetables and yearly - progress provisions.

He also pressed for reform of the onerous work rules in the teachers» contract, including eliminating the seniority provisions, making it easier to fire incompetents, and establishing a system of merit pay.

The waivers themselves cover more provisions than expected, but the new conditions for receiving them have frustrated educators who prefer a clean break with NCLB's more onerous mandates rather than swapping them for new requirements.

New Mexico is now the 11th state to be excused from meeting several of NCLB's most onerous and problematic provisions.

The Obama administration has provided waivers to states to release them from the most onerous testing requirement provisions of the bill.

Is an arbitration clause which does not violate fundamental fairness rights a provision which is so unduly onerous that steps must be taken to draw it to the attention of other contracting parties?

Stretford asserted that the arbitration provision was so onerous that the FA was required to bring it to his attention specifically.

The Court identified a number of «onerous» terms, including in particular indemnity provisions and a clause which precluded the plaintiff from seeking and / or accepting any alternative employment with any other employer for a lengthy period of time following cessation of employment.

It is worth noting that whether a TOS is enforceable at all depends on quite a few things and in the US the courts have (from what I've seen / read) mostly been siding with customers against companies when TOS disputes had been litigated in cases where the provisions of the TOS were onerous for the customers.

The latter are designed to be less onerous to meet and additional transitional provisions will make compliance with those requirements easier for the next three years.

In Telus, Moldaver J. explained at para. 80 that the general warrant should only be used in circumstances where the «investigative technique is truly different in substance from an investigative technique accounted for by another legislative provision» and, further, that 487.01 (c) serves to ensure that «general warrants may not be used as a means to circumvent other authorization provisions that are available but contain more onerous pre-conditions.»

The burden of establishing that a domestic law provision breaches the «effectiveness» principle is even more onerous.

Comment: A few commenters were concerned that the research provisions would be especially onerous for small non-governmental entities, furthering the federal monopoly on research.

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt centered on two TRAP provisions: a mandate that all abortion providers comply with onerous and medically unnecessary building requirements for ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), and an unfair, also medically unnecessary requirement that doctors who provide abortions obtain hospital admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

The case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt centers on two TRAP provisions: a mandate that all abortion providers comply with onerous and medically unnecessary building requirements for ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), and an unfair, also medically unnecessary requirement that doctors who provide abortions obtain hospital admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

Both the trial court and the appeal court dismissed the company's action as the circumstances did not really involve the customer assenting to the boilerplate provision and therefore the company could not rely on unusual and onerous printed terms in the contract that were not drawn to the customer's attention.