Sentences with phrase «prescriptive requirements»

In California they have been part of prescriptive requirements of the Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards since 2005 for all new nonresidential, flat roof buildings (including alterations and additions).

However, in an effort to address No Child Left Behind's unrealistic definitions of school progress and overly prescriptive requirements for state and district actions, the Senate went too far.

Unfortunately, the new law's prescriptive requirements for identifying the bottom 5 percent of Title I schools for intervention could lead states to assume they must replicate the old accountability metrics from No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

«Any code would need to contain meaningful obligations, not just high - level principles and aspirational statements, but on the other hand not impose prescriptive requirements that might unduly hinder commercial flexibility with resulting adverse outcomes for consumers.»

«However, it is made significantly more difficult when states must meet prescriptive requirements — in this case a de facto requirement for charter school legislation — to even compete for available funding.»

The law was scheduled for revision in 2007, and, over time, NCLB's prescriptive requirements became increasingly unworkable for schools and educators.

One of my concerns as an educator was that in too many places there was not necessarily clarity about the ends, but there were a lot of prescriptive requirements about the means.

«In this spirit we will not be setting overly prescriptive requirements in relation to qualifications - instead we will expect business cases to demonstrate how governing bodies intend to guarantee the highest quality of teaching and leadership in their schools,» he said in response to a question in the House of Commons last November.

Building codes contain a lot of prescriptive requirements, mostly to ensure safety and structural stability.

Additionally, the 34 states — plus the District of Columbia — that received a waiver last year from certain outdated and overly prescriptive requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act by the U.S. Department of Education were directed to design and implement an evaluation system for teachers and principals and to indicate how that information would be used to improve educator performance and student learning.

A spokesman for Coles said: «It would be inappropriate for a voluntary Australian code to impose prescriptive requirements that would prevent genuine commercial negotiations.»

And they also become aware that there are many websites selling injectable HGH that mention nothing of the prescriptive requirements, and are also selling other forms of HGH with drastic differences in pricing from the injection prices.

«NSBA applauds lawmakers for restoring local governance and working with our public education stakeholders to end the prescriptive requirements under the No Child Left Behind Act — strengthening the ability of states and local school board members to act in the best interests of students, parents, and local communities,» said Gentzel.

Gentzel calls for the elimination of overly prescriptive requirements, urging Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to «grant autonomy and relief for school districts to successfully administer school meal programs by enacting policy to make implementation feasible within available federal resources.»

Note: This course is not intended for people who want to learn energy modeling or how to use COMcheck or REScheck, but will teach you the prescriptive requirements that underlie those programs.

The two layers of rigid insulation above the roof deck control the temperature of the condensing surface — and even better — meet the prescriptive requirements of the Model Codes for unvented roof assemblies.

The discussion paper proposes 3 possible models for CPD with the preferred option, which they call Option 1, removing «the prescriptive requirement for solicitors to undertake CPD through specific regulations.