The SEC - CFTC joint committee's report contains 14 recommendations, many of which have been in
place on a pilot basis since the committee began its work last year.
Thompson is hoping for an agreement on a stand - alone bill that would allow the empowerment plan to be put in
place on a pilot basis at at least two schools — UB and SUNY Stony Brook (that's for Sen. Brian Foley, who faces a tough re-election fight this fall)-- and possibly UAlbany, too, (that would be for Sen. Neil Breslin).
Not exact matches
In its first round of funding for the PFF program, the NSF sought to reward institutions that already had
pilot projects in
place and allow them to» continue innovative work
based on past achievements.»
Among the
places considering,
piloting, or implementing teacher - evaluation systems
based at least in part
on a set of performance -
based standards are Ann Arbor, Mich.; Chicago; the District of Columbia; Elgin and Rockford, Ill.; Prince George's County, Md.; and select districts in states such as Idaho, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
LAUSD has been negotiating with UTLA to try to put in
place a
pilot program with three percent of district teachers, who would be evaluated in part
on student performance
on the state's standards -
based tests.
For example, in 2012, Long Beach City College (LBCC) in California was one of the first to develop and
pilot an alternative placement algorithm
based on high school coursework and grades, which increased the proportion of students
placing directly into college - level coursework by 21 percentage points in math and 56 percentage points in English, without significantly lowering the average performance of students in these courses.
Any annual evaluation system should be
piloted and adjusted as necessary
based on field feedback before being put in
place state - wide.
Community forest monitoring
pilots in
place and operating in indigenous communities,
based on the development and strengthening of local capacities.
I would support a decrease in the number of benchers but frankly I think that there are better issues to focus
on — alternate business structures, law firm & outcome -
based regulation and getting the articling
pilot in
place / being effectivelty assessed are some of those issues.