Sentences with phrase «set at the state level»

These laws are set at the state level.

Rather than being locally negotiated, the «scoring bands» for both components would be set at the state level under the proposal, and if a teacher is rated «ineffective» on either portion, he or she may not get a score higher than «developing» overall.

Or do you mean that you oppose any standards, even those set at the state level?

Moreover, if a policy is set at the state level, even a majority of parents may be powerless to change it at the local level.

This amount is set at the state level with government insurance departments around the country.

Every state differs, as car insurance law is set at the state level.

And though property rights are set at the state level, the ruling has bearing on a number of real estate — related matters that involve federal law.

Not exact matches

In addition, many government agencies at the state and federal levels have created set - aside programs that specifically help women - owned businesses in the bidding process.

Several states have set their minimum wage rates at a higher level than the federal rate, including California, which has a current rate of $ 10 per hour.

Big, national employers are currently subject to only one set of health insurance regulations (federal), while small firms» plans are regulated at both the federal and state level (this is one of many reasons why individual and small group plans are so much more expensive than corporate plans).

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

For some reason fans feel that Pitt should be performing at an Ohio State / Michigan level in athletics and it's just not reasonable with the way college athletics are set up.

Over the last five years, Florida has performed at a lower level than UCLA and Boise State, while Texas has failed to reach a mark set by Arizona State and NC State.

Interscholastic Athletics: State Board of Education Regulation 13A.06.03.02 (1994) sets the eligibility requirements for student participation in interscholastic athletics at the high school level.

This article is intended to illuminate the scientific evidence for I - ECMH policies; examine issues faced by national, state, and local program directors and mental health practitioners in providing I - ECMH services; and propose a set of recommendations for policy improvements at the federal level.

In 2012, the home birth rate in Oregon was 2.4 %, which was the highest rate of any state; another 1.6 % of women in Oregon delivered at birth centers.11 Before licensure became mandatory in 2015, Oregon was one of two states in which licensure was not required for the practice of midwifery in out - of - hospital settings.12 Although the 2003 revision of the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth distinguishes planned home births from unplanned home births, at the national level there is still no way to disaggregate hospital births that were intended to occur at a hospital and those that had not been intended to occur at a hospital.

As of now, regulations regarding nutrition and physical activity practices in child - care settings are limited and vary widely among and within U.S. states (the regulation of formal child - care settings primarily occurs at the state level though Head Start programs, which are subject to federal performance standards).

Peggy Garland, CNM, MPH is a retired midwife who worked for 30 years in home and hospital births, participated in maternity care research, taught midwifery students in a variety of settings and held many leadership roles in professional advocacy for midwives at the national and state level, including with MANA and NACPM.

School districts are typically responsible for top - level decision - making when it comes to food: they oversee the food services group that determines breakfast and lunch menus; they set the district - wide wellness policy, which usually covers the food that may be sold or distributed during the school day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of education).

Ayorinde explained that as the election that would bring on board a new set of public officers for the next four years at the local government level, the restriction of movement will allow the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) and the security agencies to distribute electoral materials in good time and ensure a seamless electoral process.

It is common for the constitution of a country — determined at the level of the state — to set the conditions for secession.

Deeply cut the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), whose dollars go toward protecting our drinking water, open space and recycling; Close state parks and campgrounds and slash staffing levels at our environmental enforcement agencies; and Steal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Fund, which was set up to invest in our clean - energy economy, not serve as a piggy bank for politicians.»

The state's new Excelsior program is out of reach for many students because of the scholarship's credit accumulation requirements, which are set at elite levels, critics note.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

«Back in 1992, New York State set a blood level at 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood as the action level — child tested at 10, the public health people would spring into action to ensure they were fully evaluated,» remarked Ryan.

Meanwhile, worried by the festering crisis among top party members ahead of the 2012 governorship election in Bayelsa State, the PDP at the national level has set up a reconciliatory committee, with the mandate to resolve all the differences within the party, Nigerian Tribune investigation has revealed.

A recent round of state tests on 145 water wells in the town of Hoosick and village of Hoosick Falls showed slightly less than a third indicated a presence of a toxic chemical at levels exceeding the safety threshold recently set by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The former governor of Kaduna State added, «You must brace for enormous responsibilities, which include the setting up of local government and ward caretaker committees as well as preparations for the congresses at the ward and local government levels.

A health department spokesman, on background, said the state was acting on the belief that the EPA sets health advisory levels at levels far lower than a level expected to cause health effects.

The REC and her team were also at the Government House to pay a courtesy visit to the governor, where she commended the efforts of the state government in setting up committees at different levels to sensitize the citizenry on the CVR.

The political party has to set up a party secretariat in virtually every ward, state, and at the national level, pay staff, promote its brand and its agenda, organize meetings, pay sitting allowances, support candidates, run media advertisements, arrange receptions and entertainment, pay for logistics, buy vehicles, pay for air travels and road transportation, the organization of rallies and campaigns, reserve some tidy sum for lobbying at all levels including the lobbying of the media and other groups in civil society.

«Sweeping simplification of the state pension system is needed so that everyone can expect a decent, flat - rate pension, set at a level high enough to help most people avoid poverty without recourse to means - tested benefits.

Molinaro also said that, despite state - mandated costs at the local level, «most our municipalities stayed under the [state - set] property tax cap, and Dutchess County has had three successive years of property tax reductions.»

Assemblyman Phil Steck noted that most industrialized nations provided some degree of socialized health care, though the panel noted the challenge of setting up a plan at the individual state level.

Governor Cuomo directed the State to engage community members, environmental advocates, and government partners at all levels to create the New York Offshore Wind Master Plan.2 Then, as part of his 2017 State of the State Address, Governor Cuomo set a nation - leading offshore wind energy development goal of 2,400 MW by 2030, enough to power up to 1.2 million New York households.

Last week, at the unveiling of the Jobs Task Force — a new ministerial level committee set up to address the urgent tasks of saving jobs and helping the unemployed with training and job - matching — the Minister of State for Education and Manpower, Mr. Ng Eng Hen, warned that many more professional, executive, and managerial positions may face the axe in the year ahead.

Dose Matters Tired of hearing what light at night may or may not do, younger scientists are clamoring for greater precision — beyond the laboratory setting — in measuring light exposure, melatonin levels and their relationship to disease states.

«From that perspective, as well, for cap and trade and setting a carbon price in other states and at the national level, we're really looking to California.»

Other environmental laws like the Clean Air Act set the federal level of regulation as a minimum, not a maximum, for the states, says Rena Steinzor, a law professor at the University of Maryland.

If the cuts are realized, «you will totally undermine the ability of EPA and its research arm to set standards at a level that science can rightfully be confident is protective of public health,» predicts William Becker, executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, a Washington, D.C., organization representing state and local air pollution agencies around the country.

We now have to set down the kind of governance — very light governance, where we have representatives of the member states, members of parliament and so on at the top level.

Future research at the federal and state levels should evaluate different educational instructional models, innovative strategies to implement information technology in the classroom and instructional quality in correctional education settings, Bozick said.

The process of reintroduction will require considerable regulatory dialogue at community, state, and federal levels, which could set significant precedent for de-extinction and genetic rescue practices.

The stated goal is to help Americans reduce sodium intake to levels recommended by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2004 and 2005, termed AI (for adequate intake), which were set at 1500 mg per day (3.7 grams salt) for adults up to age fifty, 1300 mg per day (3.3 grams salt) for adults between fifty and seventy, and 1200 mg per day (3 grams salt) for adults older than seventy.

In setting up the rudiments of this situation, the film can't be faulted, at least on the level of its script (Rafael Yglesias adapting his own novel), direction (Peter Weir returning to a relatively serious mode after the claptrap of Dead Poets Society and Green Card), and performances (Bridges and Perez give uncharacteristic, highly arresting portraits of people in a sustained state of shock).

Most states have set their proficiency bars at much lower levels, perhaps because it causes less embarrassment when more students can make it across the proficiency bar, or because it was the easiest way for states to comply with the NCLB requirement to bring all students up to full proficiency.

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Many states have been defining «proficient» at levels dramatically below the bar set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress and, more to the point, below the level that would indicate that kids are on track for college and career.

In this, the fifth in a series of Education Next reports, we compare the proficiency standards set by each state to those set by NAEP, which has established its proficiency bar at levels comparable to those of international student assessments.

Many of these new standards were set at lower levels than those set by 2003 (see «Johnny Can Read... in Some States,» features, Summer 2005).