Sentences with phrase «standard policies like»

Of these policies, the HO - 3 is the most common nationwide, but other standard policies like the HO - 8 for older homes and the HO - 1 for those who want the most affordable coverage are also available.

The variety of life insurance products they offer are great, with options for standard policies like term life, whole life, and universal life.

Of these policies, the HO - 3 is the most common nationwide, but other standard policies like the HO - 8 for older homes and the HO - 1 for those who want the most affordable coverage are also available.

Not exact matches

«When you have evidence of a problem like this, regardless of what the standards say, automakers should develop a better approach,» says David Friedman, who served as NHTSA's acting administrator in 2014 and is now director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization division of Consumer Reports.

A standard business owner's policy should cost around $ 1,000 annually, and covers some basics like liability, business property, and loss of income due to a disaster.

They are asking for policies that most well run companies have adopted; things like majority vote standards, so directors are only elected to the board if a majority of shareholders want them there.

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

Because of the raising of the standard deduction and other changes like the reduction of the SALT deduction only around 5 % of filers will itemize deductions under the new Republican tax plan, (7 million filers estimated in linked Tax Policy Center report, page 7, in analysis of previous House version).

The signatories of this letter warn against the potential for trade agreements like NAFTA to restrict Canada's ability to enforce its own environmental regulations, maintain labour standards, and keep jobs and pollution from leaking to other states with weaker policies.

The most important policy priority with respect to the Fed is protecting it from stone age monetary ideas like a return to the gold standard, or turning policymaking over to a formula, or removing the dual mandate commanding the Fed to worry about unemployment as well as inflation.

Strong state policies like the California Renewables Portfolio Standard enabled developers to enter into above - market power purchase agreements.

Other athletes use their dogs to erect stockades, garrisons, barbed - wire fences, moats in which the dogs themselves serve as the alligators... and some athletes, like Kenny Norman of the Atlanta Hawks, assign their dogs the intricate task of enforcing a policy of exclusion while at the same time setting the standard for admission.

My contact there was kind enough to investigate for me and then told me that the USDA had apparently revised its policy and that «districts may now release leftover food to charitable nonprofit organizations under the following conditions...» I've attached these conditions in a Word document here but to summarize, a district has to (1) take care not to create waste in the first place by over-ordering; (2) be sure that health codes are followed, and (3) enter into what looks like a pretty standard written agreement with the charity.

The Macy's saleswoman told us they had a standard policy: «10 percent off is when we have any damage or something is missing something like this.»

So it looks like I won't have to «flip out» on the district (as you so nicely put it) as they are beginning to create policies that parallel the healthy eating standards they are already trying to teach the children by eliminating junk food as a way to celebrate birthdays and opt for healthy treats or goodie bags instead.

TTIP's objective is to facilitate market access for goods and services across the Atlantic by cutting tariffs and trade restrictions (like the Buy American Act), harmonizing regulatory standards, and setting common trade rules, including on custom policies and protected geographical indications.

Leading conservative voices — including The Wall Street Journal's editorial page and The Weekly Standard and the talk show personalities Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck — took on the Republican nominee, Assemblywoman Scozzafava, who supports gay rights and abortion rights and had embraced some Democratic economic policies like the federal stimulus package.

By any objective standard, Labour has some big policies that many business leaders should like.

Michael Gove has been described as an education tourist, spending his time shopping around southeast Asian and Scandinavian countries looking for policies he can claim will raise standards and which fit with his own dogmatic perception of what schools should look like.

They look for a strong economy, for their own rising living standards, and for other policy changes that go in a direction they like.»

Wigley also assumed no energy policy changes from current standards, like renewable energy incentives or carbon taxes.

The Market - Power Renewables Act and the Renewable Energy Credit Act: ALEC and other Koch - funded State Policy Network groups like the Heartland Institute haven't had much success with their attempts to repeal state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) laws through the ALEC / Heartland Electricity Freedom Act.

If you purchase Tommy Bahama products through our websites or by placing a catalog order by phone or mail, we may share your name, postal address, and shopping history with like - minded organizations whose privacy policies meet the Direct Marketing Association's privacy standards, for their direct mail marketing purposes.

Should the Supreme Court strike down disparate impact, it would end the most mischievous and destructive policies imposed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and would also stop pernicious lawsuits (like one just decided in New York) that seek to eliminate basic standards for new teachers.

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.

In 2004, McCown served as lead author of the commission's bipartisan report, Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action, which recommends policies to overcome existing barriers and make improvement efforts on school issues like low standards.

From these findings one might conclude that the Obama administration is having a huge policy impact by getting states like Tennessee and Delaware to set standards they have been unwilling to establish in the past.

When Chester took up his role as commission of elementary and secondary education in 2008, he may have seemed like somewhat of an «outsider» in Massachusetts, coming from Ohio, with an impressive track record, where he worked as senior associate state superintendent for the Department of Education and oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning for the state.

Policies like top - down accountability, No - Child - Left - Behind style, are «hard,» but they have a «thin» theory of change — namely that if we set standards and hold people accountable for meeting them, they will figure out how to hit those benchmarks.

The standards developers at SAP have met with union representatives like the NEA's director of education policy and practice Donna Harris - Aikens and AFT's Ucelli - Kashyap every couple of months, according to Alberti, to share activities, get feedback, and take a look at what needed to be done next.

Resistance to the Common Core State Standards may be spreading in parts of Red State America, but Californians are learning more about the new math and reading standards and generally like what they have heard, according to a new survey by the Public Policy Institute of California.

Because the main difference between the two groups is their access to different loan policies, any differences in default rates are likely due to tighter bankruptcy standards and wage garnishment policies rather than other factors, like changes in borrower profiles or the economic environment.

I'd like the state to have the best system of standards and assessments and the best policies for educator preparation, evaluation, tenure, and compensation.

Examples of this iatrogenic phenomenon in education include certain aspects of policies and practices like achievement - level tracking, the assignment of homework, the standards movement, and compulsory education.

In general, we see policy researchers concerned with broad reforms involving standards, assessments, reorganization, governance, and the like; literacy is simply one of the subjects, and standards and assessment are two of the «tools» or levers of reform they study.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

At the same time, new educational policies like the Common Core State Standards, intend to increase the «college and career readiness» level of high school graduates through a set of «fewer, higher, clearer» standards.

Because my MP (who knows who I am and that I know a little about education policy post 2010) sent me a something that read very much like a standard letter in response to my email objecting to mass academisation.

And indeed, the adoption of college - and career - readiness (CCR) standards in all 50 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.), like the flap of the butterfly wings, jumpstarted the implementation of scores of other policies designed to support administrator, educator, and student acclimation to these rigorous learning expectations.

He should not substitute his opinions about what constitutes good policy (like eliminating tutoring for struggling students or mandating national standards) as a quid pro quo for federal waivers.

Still others don't like the idea of any kind of national standards and testing, saying that education approaches and policies should left to local communities to decide.

SIA protects and advances its members» interests by advocating pro-industry policies and legislation at the federal and state levels; creating open industry standards that enable integration; advancing industry professionalism through education and training; opening global market opportunities; and collaboration with other like - minded organizations.

There are a ton of education reforms and policies tackling this problem through things like charter schools, college - and - career ready standards, targeted professional development, wrap - around services and more — all efforts that have made progress to closing the Black - white achievement gap.

These enhancements, like those in the new CAEP standards, should go beyond independent accreditation into state law and policy that includes transparent data linkages of students with their teachers and the preparation program from which they graduated, and with meaningful «teeth» for accountability.

We're now in the implementation season, and things have heated up a bit, but the main arguments against the standards are more about issues like federalism, test policy, President Obama's education preferences, data mining, and so on (Strauss, 2013).

It seemed like a great idea: offer $ 4.35 billion to states in exchange for adopting a host of educational policies --- including «common standards» — designed to transform America's K - 12 education.

This optional coverage is useful since vehicle upgrades, like subwoofers and chrome rims, aren't usually covered under the standard insurance policy.

Rather than pay extra for the feature — again, around 30 % more than with a standard policy — you could invest the difference and rather than get a guaranteed return with no upside, you can get a return thanks to a few decades» worth of compound interest through something like an IRA or an investment platform like Betterment or Wealthfront.

Don't forget that life insurance policy is not like property insurance whereby there are standard rules governing the policy.

With personal property coverage, you're protected against risks like fire, theft, and vandalism and you know you'll be able to replace the property if it suffers a loss because policies come standard with replacement cost coverage