Sentences with phrase «standards commissioner in»

SDLP assembly member John Dallat is one of the complainants who have contacted the House of Lords standards commissioner in London.

Not exact matches

Newly sworn - in FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb has issued some of his first marching orders to the agency: a reorganization of the FDA's inspection staff, which is tasked with making sure manufacturing facilities hew to regulatory standards and investigating customer complaints.

«The typical state prosecution is for a standard common - law crime,» explains Philip A. Feigin, an attorney with Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons in Denver and a former commissioner of the Colorado Securities Division.

Said Ketchum: «I'm confident that each of the commissioners recognizes the importance of the SEC playing a central role in defining a best interest of the customer standard for the industry.»

Cryptocurrency mining is perfectly legal in Europe and only subject to standard electricity rules, according to an EU commissioner.

While not commenting directly on Coles - whose new free - range standard is 10,000 hens per hectare, almost a seven-fold reduction in space from the voluntary guidelines - ACCC commissioner Sarah Court said the watchdog believed 10,000 hens per hectare was not consistent with consumers» understanding of free range.

Anne Main, MP for St Albans, is still being investigated by the standards commissioner, but managed to survive to fight another day yesterday despite allowing her daughter to live rent - free in her publicly funded second home.

NYSUT had never been big fans of King to begin with, having passed a vote of no - confidence in his tenure as commissioner, including knocking the roll out of the Common Core education standards, which education observers and elected officials had said was was flawed.

«Mr Laws» desire for secrecy led him to act in a way which was not compatible with the standards expected of an MP,» the standards commissioner found.

«Last November, I mentioned to the Government chief whip and the parliamentary commissioner for standards my concern, on behalf of the House, about what many might regard as an inherent incompatibility between chairing a select committee and having commercial interests, even though fully transparently registered, in the sector covered by that committee,» the Speaker wrote.

She is supportive of the Common Core education standards, but at a news conference following her election as commissioner, Elia spoke in conciliatory terms when discussing teachers, whose statewide umbrella union has been especially restive over the changes.

John Lyons, the standards commissioner, is expected to find that Mr Osborne did break the rules but that he acted in good faith, although any sanctions will be announced by the cross-party standards and privileges committee later today.

In addition to a possible police investigation, Vaz, 59, could face an inquiry by the parliamentary standards commissioner, Kathryn Hudson.

ALBANY — Outgoing state education commissioner John King hopes to help school leaders in other states navigate the difficult transition to the Common Core standards and related standardized testing in his new position as the second - highest ranking official in the U.S. Department of Education.

Marc Gerstman, the department's acting commissioner, said government agencies routinely lobby the Legislature on issues they determine are in the state's interest, and NYCO's proposal to mine state land easily met that standard.

The chink in the standards and privileges committee's armour is literally a gap - that between the advice provided by the independent commissioner for standards, Kathryn Hudson, and the decision taken by MPs.

«I told the public, I told you in the media, I told the relevant authorities - the parliamentary commissioner for standards and also the Electoral Commission.»

11:30 - In other news, Labour MP Steve McCabe has demanded the standards commissioner investigate Jeremy Hunt after it emerged he accepted unregistered gifts from media firms.

Following complaints by the Conservatives, Sir Philip Mawer, the Parliamentary standards commissioner, has opened «preliminary inquiries» into why Mr Prescott did not declare the visit to Mr Anschutz's Colorado ranch in July 2005.

Philip Mawer, the parliamentary standards commissioner, has already launched a full investigation into why Mr Prescott did not record his visit to the ranch in the register of MPs» interests.

The parliamentary standards commissioner, John Lyon, announced that he would investigate a complaint about the former defence secretary lodged by Labour MP John Mann, after Mann asked him to examine allegations that Fox allowed Werritty to live rent - free in his London flat, which allowed him to run a business from a property funded by parliamentary allowances.

Lansley told MPs on Tuesday: «Were we to seek to make the standards committee or the commissioner wholly independent, we would end up with the parliamentary commissioner for Standards no longer having access to parliamentary privilege in relation to her investigations.»

In the case of Miller, the standards committee rejected the commissioner's findings about the location of her second home, pointing out the commissioner had said the case law and evidence was «finely balanced».

The standards commissioner will now investigate whether Cable and Munt should have declared them in their register of interests.

• John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, has launched an investigation into allegations that Maria Miler, the culture secretary, broke parliamentary expenses rules in relation to her second home.

Senior coalition sources say his return will be «fast tracked» — as long as he is not censured heavily in an up - coming report by parliament's standards commissioner.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

ALBANY — State education commissioner MaryEllen Elia said that her agency and Gov. Andrew Cuomo need to be on the same page as the department and a Cuomo - created commission both push to review the Common Core standards and complete their reports before the governor's State of the State message in January.

JCOPE commissioners who opposed the exemptions on Tuesday expressed concern that the standard of evidence in the applications — which detailed episodes of perceived threats — was insufficient.

Observer editorial: the culture secretary should bow her head in contrition after her contemptuous treatment of the parliamentary commissioner for standards

FDNY firefighters who were fired for allegedly racist behavior blasted the city for its «double standard» in hiring the ex-fire commissioner's son following his bigoted outbursts.

Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no experiments were conducted either with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

One instance: When there was an attempt in the Kentucky state legislature to «blow up» what had been accomplished and start over, Adkisson appeared before a senate committee with the head of the state teachers union and the state commissioner of education, with all three calling for the state to stay the course on the standards.

For Angus MacBeath, former school commissioner in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, however, setting high standards in his home province allowed him to «tell the ugly truth,» and it was the necessary first step toward Alberta's journey of educational improvement.

In Massachusetts, the commissioner of education is recommending that the state replace its highly regarded academic standards with the Common Core Standards.

The key players in the state's education department, including its commissioner, had all been replaced; the new administrators were issuing challenging curriculum standards, requiring new statewide tests, and demanding more accountability.

Most governors, state commissioners of education, state boards of education, and Chambers of Commerce seem to have an unshakable confidence in Common Core's standards as the silver bullet that will make all K - 12 students college and career ready.

«Since 2014, the three Commissioners have ensured providers are held to the highest quality standards while also assisting in the transition to the updated Higher Education Standards Framework, providing outstanding support for Australia's international education sector and tackling important issues including first year student attrition rates.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

State education officials adopted the revised standards in April 2012 after a regular review of curriculum showed a need to better prepare students for high school and college, said Monica Martinez, an associate commissioner at the Texas Education Agency.

November 3, 2015 — Richard Freeland, former state commissioner of higher education from 2008 to 2015 and president of Northeastern University 1996 - 2006, and John Davis, chairman and CEO of the American Saw and Manufacturing Company, cite high remediation rates, and an increasingly globalized business environment in support of assessments aligned to higher standards, rather than a measurement system designed nearly 20 years ago.

In 2013, the Texas Charter Schools Association took a strong stand and supported the Texas Legislature's passage of Senate Bill 2, which requires the commissioner of education to close charter schools failing to meet state financial and academic standards for three consecutive years or at the time of charter renewal.

The DfE and the regional schools commissioner are now working closely with the schools and have asked The Streetly Academy, in Walsall, and Wood Green Academy, Sandwell, to help to improve standards.

After allegations of extremism in some schools the government appointed former chief inspector of schools Sir Mike Tomlinson as the city's education commissioner to drive «improvements to the standards of education».

Nicky Morgan has overruled one of her regional schools commissioners who told a council boss not to meet with academy heads over standards in their schools.

The association argues that as regional schools commissioners will have a role in raising standards in under - performing schools, effective dialogue with parents is crucial.

The commissioner said the number of pupils reaching level four or above in reading, writing and maths had fallen by 20 % and was «significantly below the floor standard».

The CCSI is a common core of state standards in English - language arts and mathematics for grades K - 12 developed by Governors and state commissioners of education from 48 states, 2 territories and the District of Columbia.

The government has introduced school commissioners to monitor academies and Labour is proposing directors of school standards who would have oversight of all state - funded schools in their local areas.

In January, the New York State United Teachers withdrew support for the standards while calling for removal of the state's education commissioner.