Sentences with phrase «policies mandating annual»

The last two years have seen a dramatic increase in state policies mandating annual teacher evaluations.

Not exact matches

Since April, the Bank of Canada had been talking about a potential rate increase in the context of an «economic expansion» that failed to achieve the velocity that policy makers expected, keeping a lid on inflation, which the central bank is mandated to contain at an annual rate of about 2 per cent.

The Advisory Board, which is mandated by the Older Americans Act, helps conducts annual public hearings; represent the interests of older persons; and reviews and comments on community policies, programs and actions, which affect older persons.

Of course party policy has to evolve over time, and there is a place for the annual conference in that process, but every single Labour MP also has an individual mandate directly from the electorate, based on a combination of their personal qualities and the manifesto on which they stood.

Regardless of the relative merits of standardized testing, federally mandated annual testing would continue to have a real effect on local school policy.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

That's not to say it isn't possible that federal policies can shift: Congress is working to revamp the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)-- the Bush - era version of the act, called No Child Left Behind, ushered in the age of federally mandated annual tests.

In addition to coordinating mandated annual RD&T reporting to Congress, the program promotes excellence in research management, develops guidance concerning access to research results, the peer review processes and research ethics and coordinates Departmental participation in initiatives of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).

Given that the NIH has an annual budget of $ 28 billion leading to 80,000 articles annually, this particular mandate has all the makings (and weight surely) of a tipping point (with credit going to Heather Joseph, Director of SPARC, who led the fight in Washington on the NIH policy, as well as other strong archiving advocates, such as Peter Suber and Stevan Harnad).

However, just to give you an idea as to the price of a bare bones (read: cheap) policy, here's a breakdown of the average annual cost of liability insurance in the states that only mandate that type of coverage, per NAIC.

In the case of unit - linked policies, Irda mandates a minimum sum assured guarantee of roughly 10 times the annual premium (in case of death).

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