Sentences with phrase «state standards offer»

The March Continues: Five Essential Practices for Teaching the Civil Rights Movement provides a set of principles for educators who want to improve upon the simplified King - and - Parks - centered narrative many state standards offer.

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AT&T (T) filed an attempt to overturn Louisville's law in February, stating that the law oversteps the standard licensing deal it offers Google

New York State's professional standards for lawyers require that they take settlement offers directly to their clients.

«Whether it's helping our customers create gold - standard products, developing prototypes for consumer - qualified concepts or leading ideation and testing in our state - of - the - art innovation center, we offer the sophisticated partnering which our customers increasingly need to better meet the needs of their own customers,» it says.

«Fifteen hundred hens is in line with the best animal welfare accreditation standards that Australia has, it set Queensland up and gave them an actual advantage over the rest of the states and could have offered an advantage for producers against the rest of the country, because they could offer genuine free range eggs to consumers.»

However, as was expected, the interim final rule states that an item sold on a cafeteria snack bar line is exempt from all of the nutrition standards we've been discussing above, so long as those foods are «sold on the day that they are offered as part of a reimbursable meal, or sold on the following school day.»

This report describes the survey findings and panelists» insights and offers recommendations to states, districts, vendors, families, and communities to enhance meal programs» success in implementing updated nutrition standards and encouraging healthy eating among students.

Everything from the standard prenatal tests and PAP smears, to state of the art genetic testing is offered.

School meals will have to offer fruits and vegetables to students every day under standards issued by the United States Department of Agriculture on Wednesday.

«This bill will allow the state to license operators that meet the high standards set by the state and offer limited games of poker which require a high level of skill.»

«About half the items that we currently offer will be gone next year, so we're trying to find products that meet the standards,» said Mark Bordeau, senior director of food services for the Broome - Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), a state - funded entity that offers shared services to 14 school districts in the southern tier.

What is in serious doubt, however, is the ensuing overreaction of the Suffolk County Legislature, which subsequently passed legislation effectively requiring all county residents operating «a pleasure vessel upon the waters of Suffolk County» to take an 11 - hour boating safety course and pass a final exam before being issued a boating safety certificate by «the Commission of the NYS Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; by the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary; or by any other entity that offers a boating course that meets the standards set by the National Association of Boating Law Administrators.»

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

That would give the Coast Guard Auxiliary, United States Power Squadrons and similar organizations offering safe - boating courses that meet the standards set by the National Association of Boating Law Administrators time to «get everyone on board» and receive necessary safety certification.

Mr. Lewis said the awarding of such stipends to vice chairmen was standard practice and supported by state law and the State Constitution, offering documentation that showed that Mr. Flanagan had ordered such stipends — first in a 2016 letter — following the lead of Dean G. Skelos, the disgraced former leader of the Sestate law and the State Constitution, offering documentation that showed that Mr. Flanagan had ordered such stipends — first in a 2016 letter — following the lead of Dean G. Skelos, the disgraced former leader of the SeState Constitution, offering documentation that showed that Mr. Flanagan had ordered such stipends — first in a 2016 letter — following the lead of Dean G. Skelos, the disgraced former leader of the Senate.

In 2009, through the «Race to the Top» program, the federal government offered $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants to states that adopted Common Core standards and developed plans to improve state test scores and teacher evaluation results.

Senate Education Committee Chair John Flanagan criticized state education officials for requiring that the Common Core standards be adopted, before they had even finished the lesson plans, known as modules, that would offer curriculum guidance to teachers.

New York state's education commissioner said Tuesday that new state - specific learning standards will offer several improvements over the controversial Common Core standards.

New York State's education commissioner said Tuesday that new state - specific learning standards will offer several improvements over the controversial Common Core standState's education commissioner said Tuesday that new state - specific learning standards will offer several improvements over the controversial Common Core standstate - specific learning standards will offer several improvements over the controversial Common Core standards.

Overall, the book tries to avoid reheated Blairism since it accepts the Brown and Blair governments both placed too much faith in the value of a globalised market, misread the signals on the squeeze on living standards and offered a top - heavy state that disenfranchised too many communities.

In the waning months of the Bloomberg administration, however, the iZone initiative, and schools like Global Tech — which have benefited from extra funding and support offered through the program — are being buffeted by a series of changes, from budget cuts to city - wide implementation of the Common Core state standards.

«With the offer by Exelon to provide a fuel bridge, Entergy has nothing to lose by joining with other stakeholders and the state to develop a clean energy standard, the resolution of which will occur well before their decision needs to be made to refuel the plant,» Denn said.

The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Pediatric Radiology Department offers for children, from newborns to teens, standard CT studies as well as state - of - the - art high resolution and 3D CT angiography (to see inside the blood vessels), all supervised and interpreted by board - certified pediatric experts.

Full priced orders will be offered free standard shipping within the contiguous United States.

Over the past two years, state legislators across the country have launched an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at lowering labor standards Education and parenting articles offer expert tips and information on raising kids.

The court set forth a new standard for IEPs that applies to all states receiving IDEA funding: To meet its substantive obligation under the IDEA, a school must offer an IEP reasonably calculated to enable the child to make progress appropriate to his or her circumstances.

The new state assessments (along with old standards like the SAT, ACT, and AP credits) are diagnostic enough, it seems to me, to have real explanatory power, offering answers to such questions as «Why do only a third of young Americans complete four year college degrees?»

Back in 2011, states chafing under the badly outdated No Child Left Behind Act leapt at the Obama administration's offer of relief from the mandates at the center of the law — and the chance to forge a new and innovative partnership with the federal government to bolster standards, pinpoint good teachers, and fix low - performing schools.

The level of activity states are engaged in, the possibilities offered by technology and cross state collaborations, and the extraordinary effort to develop new assessments all suggest that the common core standards might generate some real changes in classroom instruction.

For students with milder learning or behavioral challenges, the standard academic programs that many charter schools offer may help to reduce the need for special services and thus the number of students classified under federal and state special education rules.

He offered two reasons for embracing common standards: 1) students must compete with those in other states and, indeed, with students all over the world, and 2) companies need common standards in order to compare job applicants.

South Dakota is one of 12 states offering standards - based tests in every core subject — English, math, science, and social studies — at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

The state offers tests aligned with those standards in every grade span in English and math.

But it provides a science test aligned to state standards in middle school only, and it offers no standards - based test in history / social studies.

They rail against state standards and accountability systems, but offer few practical alternatives for ensuring that all public schools perform at a high level.

The department is offering NCLB waivers to states that agree to teach all students, including ELLs, to high - level «college and career - ready» standards, such as the Common Core and Next Generation Science standards.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

These sites all offer users the ability to compare their school with others in the same school district or state (because standard tests in each state vary, it's difficult to make such comparisons across districts in different states), and a few rank schools based on test performance or other factors.

Today, NBU, a research - oriented institution that offers degree programs in telecommunications, computer and social sciences, the humanities, and the arts, is 10,000 students strong and, in many cases, sets standards for the state - run universities.

Among them: requiring at least one art class for high school graduation; adding arts education standards to those the state is adopting in language arts, math, science, and social studies; and offering tax breaks to arts and entertainment companies that volunteer time, expertise, and other resources to schools.

Many are fully capable of going beyond what's reflected in their state's standards, but teachers simply aren't able to offer them that opportunity because they're accountable for performance on the grade - level test.

If that wasn't complicated enough, it appears that the state board of education has the responsibility to set standards for the state, so it's not clear that the governor can do anything other than offer his opinion (or appoint board members that advance his agenda).

This year, the Technology Counts data section shifts its focus from a state to a district lens, offering a host of charts showing how local schools and districts are using standard and emerging technologies to improve education.

ExamView offers a bank of thousands of test items aligned to state standards across subjects which teachers can use to create and administer online quizzes and tests, and which refreshes with new items if the same student takes the quiz again.

Solution: Describe how the upcoming week's curriculum meets state standards, and offer the parents a textbook to use as an at - home reference (almost all classrooms have a few extra copies lying around).

For history, science, and technical subjects, the standards offer 10 areas of key literacy skills to overlay onto already existing state content standards.

Earlier in 2009, also through Race to the Top, the administration had offered $ 4.35 billion in funding through a competitive grant program designed to encourage states to enact the feds» preferred school - reform policies — including the adoption of better standards and assessments.

At Daugherty Elementary, a public school in Garland, Texas, the architecture and design firm Corgan created a learning courtyard that offers a variety of educational zones connected to Texas state standards.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday defended the state's decision to suspend state standardized tests this year and instead offer students a practice test in the Common Core standards that's now being developed.

Leveraging the federal role by using the Higher Education Act to offer students incentives to graduate ready for college and the workplace, support state efforts to raise high school exit standards and strengthen postsecondary accountability, and by aligning the 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress to ADP's benchmarks; and,