Sentences with phrase «system at the state level»

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

Achieve, which normally assesses accountability systems at the state level for «quality and coherence,» praised the Montgomery County assessments as rigorous, high - quality measures that are good predictors of students» performance on state - level tests.

Achieving those results, however, will require the support of higher education not only throughout the development of theexams but also into their full implementation.As a first step toward encouraging higher education systems to endorse and base judgments aboutstudents» college readiness on the new assessments, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundationand Lumina Foundation requested the National Center for Higher Education ManagementSystems (NCHEMS) to identify the conditions that help build consensus between K - 12 andpostsecondary systems at a state level.

State Family Outcomes Measurement System (S - FOMS) Framework and Self - Assessment This framework, originally developed by the Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO) Center, identifies 7 key components of a high - quality family outcomes measurement system at the state level.

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And certain things are better done on the federal level than at the state level: national defense, a monetary system, interstate commerce (including highways and aviation), the National Park System, and international diplsystem, interstate commerce (including highways and aviation), the National Park System, and international diplSystem, and international diplomacy.

Just some examples of the financial system in an awkward state of unease: Velocity of money has been muted, pension funds have been impaired by burdensome discount rates, insurance companies haven't been able to write business at reasonable levels and savers have been penalized.

It matters when they get legislation passed at the state level to mandate illegitimate «science» be taught in schools, such that refutes big bang cosmology, evolutionary biology and an 11 billion year old universe / multiverse and 4.6 billion year old solar system.

IIts a noble gesture to suggest we «live and let live» but the facts are that religious biggotry permeates our political system at the state and federal level.

Under the system, each of the 28 EU Member States has two quotas - one for deliveries to processors and the other for direct sales at farm level.

The River Murray system is a key focus of efforts to improve environmental outcomes through the collaborative management of environmental water at federal, state and local levels.

The firm has a wide - ranging litigation practice at both the trial and appellate levels of the federal and New Jersey state court systems, having successfully litigated cases up through and including the United States Supreme Court.

This same bureaucratic divide occurs at the state and county level, where, with rare exceptions, early - childhood and school - system administrators do not collaborate or even communicate much.

Local - level: State Board of Education Rule 160 -5-1-.22 (2000) requires each school system to employ at least one full - time school nutrition program director.

What we'd like to see with the passage of the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act is a concerted effort by schools — whether at the state or local level — to find the best practices that work for their system, their resources, and the type of programs they already have in place.

Home visiting initiatives at the state level should seek to coordinate across all home visiting programs being implemented within the state (whether federally funded or not), while also embedding home visiting within a broader state early childhood system.

However, states like Pennsylvania have stringent laws where approval must be given at the state level before your child can leave the public school system.

Implementation may occur locally (at a church or place of business) or on a larger scale, such as a hospital system or a state - level organization.

Reacting to Mrs. Saraki Keynote address, Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire said: «Nigeria loses up to $ 1bn every year to medical tourism, as a result of the loss of faith in our medical system, at various levels.

The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 stLevel and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 sStates, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 stlevel (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 statesstates.

As a guiding paradigm, Symbiotic realism argues that state interest must now be accommodated within frameworks of cooperation that balance between power - maximization and the reality of a very complex global system, populated by actors that operate at multiple levels bothbelow and above the national level.

In the U.S. the states are the fundamental building blocks of the federal system and so, since senators represent states at the national level, they are pivotal in creating policy.

Governor Cuomo released his 30 - day amendments to the Executive Budget where he outlined his plan for the state's tax system redesign in response to the tax changes at the federal level.

APDA also requested that all payment of workers» salaries in the states should be done through the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) as being used at the federal level.

Though the proposal has echos of the «Buffalo Billion» — a program that targeted private - sector job growth through specific state investment — this program Miner backs is aimed at upgrading Syracuse's roads, bridges and sewer systems which are increasingly costly to maintain on the local level.

Conversely, PEF is heavily composed of state employees and UUP members in the SUNY system have educational demographics that are way above CSEA's and generally so above NYSUT's and even PEF's (PEF has a big range between bachelor's degree and below to doctoral level and NYSUT generally requires a master's degree for tenure while UUP is generally a doctorate, at least at the four year institutions and above).

The number of state school students entering the university system is at record levels, and the vast majority of universities are very grateful for this.

But Cuomo, in his veto message, said the state has been funding its public college systems at an «unparalleled» level.

«I would bring local control back to town government, take advantage of our local resources, especially our water system, fight for the taxpayer at every level, especially state and federal, and get water and sewer projects back on track to be in the best interests of the town, not just a cost burden directed by others.»

At the Association for Better New York's breakfast this week, the mayor vowed to address the city's «wildly inconsistent system,» noting that it would likely take a few years and legislation on both the state and city level.

David Weprin: Well, clearly when you're dealing with an opponent that is not part of the system, who has unlimited funds, as the recent election we just went through with the mayor of the city of New York, I would remove the individual cap on contributions for donors and go to a much higher cap similar to the one that's at the state level for the governor of the state of New York.

We all want a quality educational system for the state's children, but we can not continue to spend at levels far above the rest of the nation.

The system of regions and states preserving their autonomy in relation to local matters such as education, healthcare, language, chieftaincy, local government, intra-state commerce, local policing etc. while federating together regarding matters such as currency, defence and national security, foreign relations, customs and excise etc. liberates diverse peoples by removing the fear of obliteration of their local identity while allowing for synergies at the national level that benefit everyone.

The United States operates federal system of government where government is separated between two independent sovereignties at the federal and state level.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

Congressman Brian Higgins said he's prepared to work at the federal level to provide the state funding to expedite the institution of cashless tolling throughout the New York State systate funding to expedite the institution of cashless tolling throughout the New York State syState system.

A fourth study looks at EPA tests of two - thirds of the drinking water systems in the United States, and finds the drinking water of six million people has levels of the highly fluorinated chemicals that are above the current EPA limits.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«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.

A dividend withholding tax credit system is much more difficult to implement logistically in a massively multi-jurisdictional situation at the state level.

A fourth study looked at EPA tests of two - thirds of the drinking water systems in the United States and found the drinking water of 6 million people has levels of highly fluorinated chemicals that are above the current EPA limits.

Keeping the ethics monitoring groups at current levels comes at a time when Mr. Cuomo, lawmakers and other state officials are all floating various ideas to strengthen existing ethics laws, including heightened disclosure requirements, increased penalties and an overhauled per - diem system.

The Democrats already use the proportional system, although the idea of allowing states to go the winner - take - all route has been broached at the national level.

«You see that in New York and you don't see it at the state level because you have the highest campaign contribution limits of any state that has limits in the country, coupled with a rigged system of redistricting and the normal powers of incumbency.»

At a March 16 appearance on WNYC's Brian Lehrer show, he said, «I believe we should go to full public financing of elections on the city level, on the state level, on the federal level... I think the system is fundamentally broken.

The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

Preston studies how adaptation efforts can reduce risk from climate change, especially at the state and city level (such as impacts to critical energy, water and transportation systems).

«Despite the fact that the United States, Denmark and Argentina have very different welfare systems, we still see that — at the psychological level — individuals reason about welfare redistribution in the same way,» says Petersen.

At the federal level, the Diplomatic Security Service, a unit of the State Department, used a newly installed facial recognition system in 2014 to find Neil Stammer, who skipped bail in 2000 on charges including sex with a male minor.

«In short, this is a fully biocompatible smart system that responds, when needed, to normalize glucose levels in the blood,» says Zhen Gu, co-corresponding author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC.