Sentences with phrase «standards committee over»

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We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Neiman Marcus, Inc.'s internal control over financial reporting as of July 28, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated September 18, 2012 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Expect it to set the course for the committee, however, as most outlets (including SB Nation) will use the AP's rankings as the standard until the committee takes over in late October.

Most outlets (including SB Nation) will use the AP's rankings as the standard until the committee takes over in November, though.

Along with Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Pat Roberts (R - KS), Stabenow recently helped broker a bipartisan agreement in the Senate which could effectively resolve the long - running battle over weakening school nutrition standards.

On the day letters are sent out to MPs raising questions over expenses claims, a report by the Commons standards and privileges committee orders former home secretary Jacqui Smith to apologise for breaching rules on second home expenses.

So the committee on standards in public life was right to be optimistic by launching an inquiry into the issue trying to move on from the 2007 impasse over Labour's trade union funding.

The former Senate Education Committee chairman said he supports an effort to «address the concerns» raised by parents over the controversial Common Core education standards.

Since the complaints about her expenses related to 2010 before IPSA was established, the complaints were given to the standards committee, a body of MPs whose primary task now is to police and judge the conduct of MPs over issues such as lobbying, and the register of MPs interests.

The Tory party have reaffirmed that all its members were exonerated of any wrongdoing and that the failure to notify the parliamentary register merely reflected confusion over the application of the rules - an interpretation shared by the Commons standards committee.

And, not to be forgotten, there's the actual reason for the by - election in the first place: the resignation of Denis MacShane, in disgrace, after the Commons» standards and privileges committee pilloried him over his expense claims.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

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.

She said a big obstacle was that Sen. Mike Hall, R - Putnam and chairman of the Finance Committee, likely was concerned about the expense the Department of Education estimated for repealing and replacing the standards and other related costs — originally at $ 168 million, despite confusion on the part of department officials and others over exactly what standards the bill would require to be ditched.

Over a few months starting in the summer of 2009, as governors and schools chiefs sought the input of their school boards, Coleman, Zimba and other experts worked on reading and math committees to actually write the standards.

The legislative battle over Common Core standards began Wednesday with divided testimony from more than 60 parents, teachers and education leaders during a committee hearing Wednesday that lasted nearly seven hours and ended in executive action.

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

A bill proposing passenger - car safety standards for light trucks and minivans has been approved by the Senate Commerce Committee and is expected to clear the full Senate this month.The legislation is similar to three highway safety bills the Senate approved over the past seven years, said Sen. Jack Danforth, R - Mo., a sponsor of the bill.

«Link chaired our four - year committee to write over 800 standards you have to adhere to.

Since his symptoms were so typical and similar to those described by thousands of other individuals living too close to large wind turbines all over the globe, I have attached my testimony for the Senate Health Care Committee and encourage you to review it for its very characteristic description of what it is that this board, I trust, hopes to mitigate by recommending more protective sound standards for these industrial wind installations.

A years - long battle over whether Idaho would require its science teachers to teach about global warming was resolved Thursday when the State Senate education committee voted to adopt standards that included sections on human - caused climate change.

Insider emails confirm the undue influence of polluter lobbyists and special interest groups over the controversial Energy Mandates Study Committee report that recommended an extension of the freeze on clean energy standards in Ohio.

Over two days this week the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee heard concerns from scientists, poultry producers, automakers, drivers, restaurant owners, tool makers, store owners, environmentalists and the oil and natural gas industry about problems with E15 and / or the current Renewable Fuel Standard.

In the House, two veteran Democrats - John Dingell of Michigan, who chairs the Energy Committee, and Rick Boucher of Virginia - are pushing a proposal with more modest fuel - economy standards and a provision to remove the states» authority over global warming pollution from vehicles.

said Coeur d'Alene environmental science teacher Jamie Esler, who served on a state committee of award - winning educators, parents, and scientists that developed the K12 science standards.The science standards developed by the highly qualified committee, over painstaking months of work, maintain «integrity around the science of climate,» and will enable Idaho science teachers to fully educate their students about human - caused climate...

For over half a century the accepted test for the standard of care in all professional negligence cases was that articulated in Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 2 All ER.