Sentences with phrase «opted out of the nation»

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These questions arise most obviously out of our situation of belonging to a social framework that has already opted for an economic system whose policies often have questionable implications for the poor within our own country and in other nations.

While the majority of school districts are working hard to comply with the new standards, some school districts across the nation are refusing to adopt the new lunch standards, instead choosing to opt out of the USDA School Lunch Program.

It also came one year after a vocal opt - out movement led one of the largest test - refusal movements in the nation last spring.

Most of the city is built on Seneca Nation land, and Native American residents can opt out of paying property taxes.

The four points were reportedly: an opt - out of «ever closer union»; an explicit statement that the EU is «multi-currency»; a «red card» system to allow a number of national parliaments to join together to reject legislation from Brussels; and a reorganised system for euro and non-euro nations, which has been read by some as giving the UK «associate status».

Lawyers for Phoenix Elementary School District 1 said they believe the recent ruling by Judge Michael D. Jones of Maricopa County Superior Court was the first in the nation to uphold a school - uniform policy with no opt - out provision.

Shaun Johnson, an education professor at Towson University in Maryland and administrator of a national Opt Out Facebook group, tells StateImpact that few other nations use test scores to so closely dictate education policy as officials in the U.S do.

Across the nation, tens of thousands of parents opted their children out of standardized tests in 2014, and this year, many more have or will do so.

As the head of the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization, I believe that calling for Latino families to opt out of annual assessments that provide important information about our students» educational progress is at best unfair and at worst disgraceful.

Skeptics of longer school days point out that high - achieving nations such as Finland, Singapore, and China have chosen not to take this route, opting instead for maximizing learning and collaboration time during the traditional schedule.

This 18 minutes includes information on the educational policies supporting the history of high - stakes standardized tests in the U.S., how educational policymakers (including U.S. Presidents G.W. Bush and Obama) have unwaveringly «advanced» this history, how our nation's over-reliance on such test - based policies have done nothing for our nation for the past ten years (as cited in this clip, even though they have really done little to nothing for now more than 30 years), how and why the opt - out movement is still sweeping the nation, and the like.

It took the power of parents in the nation as part of the «opt out» of standardized testing movement to realize that the use of standardized tests in public education is a dismal failure.

With the federal government yelping about the «high» number of parents across the nation who opted their children out of the destructive Common Core tests, the Malloy / Wyman Administration recently announced that they will punish school districts that «allowed» parents to fulfill their legal right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC testing.

«And I saw that throughout the nation, other parents are opting their student out of taking the SBAC.»

Parents throughout Connecticut, and across the nation, continue to inform local school officials that they are opting their children out of the Common Core Testing program because they understandably refuse to have their child take the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory tests.

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The U.S. government is changing the rules for opting out of imaging machine scans at the nation's airports.

According to the New York Times, the nation's first test of the concept in Ohio has been an unmitigated success with 126 municipalities participating in 67 CCAs, providing power to about 800,000 customers with only a 5 % opt - out rate.

Just like an individual state in the US can not opt of EPA regulations, developing nations should not be able to opt out of the restrictions of Kyoto.

After all, the US opted out of signing the Kyoto Treaty (repeatedly) on the grounds that it set no targets for developing nations like China and India, which now account for a sizable share of the world's carbon emissions.

Section 7 allows First Nations to opt out of the FHRMIRA by providing a process to establish their own matrimonial real property laws (MRP Laws).