Sentences with phrase «pass federal testing»

Why to bank Loan Officers not have to go to school, pass federal testing, or meet the same educational requirements?

«There's no limitation in the bill that says (the schools) have to pass this federal test,» said Kirsten Keefe, senior attorney at the Empire Justice Center.

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The swap was made possible by Bank of America's decision in June to boost its dividend 60 %, after the Charlotte, North Carolina - based lender passed a Federal Reserve «stress test» of its ability to navigate tough markets.

The Self - Driving Coalition for Safer Streets, which includes companies like Ford and Google, has been pushing for the federal government to pass a comprehensive set of regulations governing the testing and use of self - driving cars.

On Tuesday, Bank of America announced that after passing the Federal Reserve's latest stress test — an exercise implemented after the financial crisis that requires big financial institutions to prove they have the capital to sustain operations in a recession — it would raise its dividend to $ 0.48 per year.

Even before you apply for a driver position you need to first have a commercial driver's license (which requires they pass a specific federal test), clean driving record, pass a drug test and a physical examination by a medical doctor (not a chiropractor or holistic healer).

All of the strollers we tested, and for sale in the United States, have passed federal safety standards for carriages and strollers.

Their crash tests are conducted at twice the federal mandates for impact force, and each product must pass these standards before going to market.

In a win for ultra-orthodox Jewish sects, a federal appeals court ruled a NYC regulation, which requires parental consent before a mohel is allowed to suck blood from an infant's circumcised penis, must pass a stricter constitutional test than was applied by the lower court.

The officers filed suit Thursday against the city in Manhattan federal court, a month after The Post exclusively reported that a cheating scandal was running rampant within the department — one where make - up test - takers passed at rates eight times higher than those who took the original exam.

One safety bar that the Dreamliner's jet engine, the General Electric GEnx, had to pass was the Federal Aviation Administration's «bird strike» test.

Starting in 1996, when Congress passed the new Food Quality Protection Action with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Amendments, it told EPA to develop a screening program using tests and other scientifically relevant information to determine whether substances have hormonal activity.

The Federal Government has announced all new teachers will need to pass a performance test before they can graduate in 2018.

Federal civil - rights officials are weighing a complaint that the test all Texas students must pass to get a high school diploma unfairly discriminates against minority youths.

That's a daunting challenge for any test maker, but it's further complicated by widespread fears of soaring failure rates and their political consequences, as well as by Arne Duncan's stipulation (in the federal grants that underwrite the assessment - development process) that the states belonging to each consortium must reach consensus on those passing scores (in government jargon, «common achievement standards»).

State efforts to improve teacher quality by requiring that candidates pass a test before receiving their licenses may weed out only the most incompetent teachers, according to the coordinator of a new federal study.

Eight states have raised their standards for passing elementary - school math and reading tests in recent years, but these states and most others still fall below national benchmarks, according to a federal report released Wednesday.

The House of Representatives also passed a reauthorization bill requiring that states maintain annual testing regimes, but its version differs from the Senate's in one key respect: it allows parents to «opt out» of state tests, despite the fact that the federal government does not require that the tests be used to evaluate the performance of individual students.

It is perhaps surprising, then, that in July a bipartisan Senate supermajority of 81 — 17 passed a revision of NCLB that keeps the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in grades 3 to 8 and again in high school.

On a day when party labels had the other chamber in turmoil, a surprisingly unified House overwhelmingly passed a version of President Bush's education reform plan last week that would for the first time tie federal aid to school performance on annual math and reading tests.

The initial bill, passed by the House, was identical to the federal amendment, which bars schools from involving children in certain federally sponsored programs of research or psychological testing without parental consent.

Since 2003, schools have been issued a yearly federal rating based primarily on whether enough of their low - income, minority, special education and limited - English students passed state reading and math tests.

Some states made the standardized tests so easy or set passing scores so low that virtually all students were rated proficient even as they scored much lower on federal exams and showed up for college requiring remedial help.

The federal government has increased spending on education by 300 % since ESEA was passed with nothing to show for it; student test scores have remained flat.

The law was passed in 2015 and in 2017 states drafted their plans, which included new accountability systems based on multiple measures that include factors other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges in order to tailor support and intervention when needed; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

«The tests we see today are a result of the General Assembly's requirements that were passed into law over the past several years, and the result of the federal No Child Left Behind law.

«The tests we see today are a result of the General Assembly's requirements that were passed into law over the past several years, and the result of the federal No Child Left Behind law,» State Superintendent of Public Schools Dr. June Atkinson told N.C. Policy Watch last year.

To qualify for the distinction, schools must exceed all state and federal accountability benchmarks for two consecutive years and achieve pass rates on reading and mathematics SOL tests at or above the 85th percentile.

Under the federal education bill passed in 2015, states are permitted to forgo single end - of - year subject tests and use more nuanced measures instead.

Last month, I noted how states such as California and Tennessee have pushed to qualify for federal Race to the Top funding by passing measures lifting caps on the number of charter schools and allowing the use of student test data in measuring teacher performance.

Heavier sanctions required for schools that do not boost test scores have previously been shown to be counter-productive; • The requirement that limited English proficient students score «proficient» on English exams is self - contradictory, as is the provision that most children with special needs demonstrate competency in the same manner as other students; • Education is being damaged as students are coached to pass tests rather than taught a rich curriculum that will help prepare them for life in the 21st Century; and • The federal government has failed to adequately fund the law.

Title I Highly Distinguished schools must exceed all state and federal accountability benchmarks for two consecutive years and have achieved pass rates on English and mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) tests at or above the 85th percentile.

New York State first passed a law tying teacher evaluations to test scores in 2010, as part of its application for federal Race to the Top funds.

Over the last six years, prodded by federal requirements to publish test results, teachers» colleges have begun screening students before or soon after admission for the ability to pass state certification exams.

Those debates may have dissipated a bit with the newly passed Every Student Succeeds Act that reduces the role of the federal government in requiring test score accountability in teacher evaluations.

Though some may have wanted most tests to go away, Lisa Gray of Philanthropy Ohio reminded people that the new federal law passed last year requires states to test students in English and math in grades 3 - 8 and at least once in high school, along with requiring a few science tests.

For obvious reasons, when a federal law is passed, such as one mandating annual tests, all states and districts are legally compelled to comply.

This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test scores and graduation rates.

Task Force members need to look afresh at the federal testing mandate required by the recently passed Every Student Succeeds Act.

The outcome of the talks matters to the 85 percent of Texas school districts that would be deemed failing under federal standards that require more than 90 percent of students to pass the state's standardized tests in reading and math.

Last spring, the state won a hard - fought waiver to set aside the test scores for federal accountability purposes largely because of the widely held belief that with all the new content, a huge number of students statewide will fail to pass the CAASPP.

Leaders of the Committee for a Fair Licensing Procedure in New York City have filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging that the demotion of many minority teachers for failure to pass the Educational Testing Service's NTE (formerly the National Teachers Exam) violates federal civil rights laws.

The federal legislators who overwhelmingly passed this act into law apparently assumed that high - stakes tests would improve student motivation and raise student achievement.

«The Senate bill, passed unanimously by the HELP committee, is a much - needed reset in federal education policy and creates the oxygen that schools need to actually teach children, not teach to tests.

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A few years ago, the federal bankruptcy laws changed so that debtors who want to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy have to first pass a means test to file.

With a team of dedicated Reverse Mortgage Professionals who go through a comprehensive American Advisors Group Loan Officer training program and licensing process, and must pass federal and state tests to earn their licenses, you have a powerfully knowledgeable professional working with you.

The rules put into place after the crash REQUIRE non-bank Loan Officers to go to school, pass difficult state and federal testing, and have mandatory continuing education.

To qualify to file a Chapter 7, you normally have to be able to pass a Means Test devised by federal law, or you have to be at or below the median income for a family your size in the state in which you live and are filing.