Sentences with phrase «test each policy against»

Not exact matches

Some services such as Coinbase claim that all the currency that they hold in their exchange are insured against theft and that this insurance policy would cover any customer funds lost, but it's probably not something that you want to put to the test.

Neither does it survive a basic common - sense test: Buying insurance against a market crash from other market participants is no different than buying a policy against a crash of the insurance industry from an insurance company.

Our transfer policy always get tested against Chelsea, Man city, Man utd and Liverpool.

He has been up front in discussing the seasonlong feud with the Patriots that involved his violating the NFL's substance abuse policy by missing a drug test, New England's withholding $ 8.5 million of his $ 11.5 million signing bonus, and his filing a grievance against the Patriots and a lawsuit against the league (both of which, along with the team's countergrievance, were dropped when the trade was made).

For example, a new policy was recently passed that requires an oxygen saturation test be performed at the time of the newborn screening to help prevent against congenital heart disease.

What Thatcher provided was a sense of direction, a set of values against which such policies could be tested.

Dr. Rosa's election is an indication of how much both politicians and the public have turned against the policies promoted by Dr. Tisch, including the evaluation of teachers on the basis of state test scores.

The vote — an abrupt about - face in policies pushed by Cuomo and the Regents in recent years — was the latest in a series of state responses to rising public opposition against Albany's direction on school curricula, testing and educator evaluations.

The charter school network, which routinely outperforms district schools on standardized tests and maintains strict disciplinary policies, has faced off against similar criticisms in the past.

The state Board of Regents, which sets education policy, already decided in February to advise school districts against using results of Common Core tests in decisions regarding students» promotion and class placement.

Among his many failures Blair did not establish clear ministerial oversight of post-conflict strategy, or ensure ministers took decisions to address it, or seek adequate reassurances that the UK could meet its obligations, or test British strategic objectives against anything but best case scenarios, or press Bush for definite assurances on US policy or seek advice on the absence of a satisfactory plan for UK objectives.

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

The Green Party candidate is strongly against Common Core standards and high stakes testing, as well as distribution of school aid policies that rank New York among those states with the poorest records.

Most of the chamber's Republicans voted against the bill, arguing that the policies increased standardized testing and gave too much power to the Board of Regents in implementing the new evaluation system.

Former leader Charles Kennedy rebelled against the leader's desire to scrap the unaffordable policy of scrapping tuition fees and Steve Webb MP rebelled against the suggestion that child benefit might be means - tested.

Here we find curriculum organizations, teacher education organizations, and educational policy organizations working together against standardized testing, the privatization of public schooling, the school to prison pipeline, advocating for parent and community involvement in schools.

«But it's the policies associated with the testing that I'm against.»

Despite the minute share of teachers unfairly affected by these policies, they helped fuel a backlash against testing in general.

Professional educators and their organizations were largely absent from the education summits, and complaints against policy shifts that encouraged «narrowing of the curriculum» and «teaching to the test» began to crop up.

For example, although there is evidence of test score gains, our committee cautioned against premature causal explanations or policy advice based on impressionistic evidence.

Beyond elements of the test design that will militate against the risk of cheating, the Smarter Balanced test administration policies will call on states to conform to best practices with regard to independent monitoring and proctoring.

(While we prefer state assessments as policy, we think any widely respected test that allows for ready comparison against other schools or districts is a reasonable compromise);

Teachers must fight, politically and legally, against evaluations where the administrators who set policies unilaterally determine whether it was the fault of those policies or the individual teacher for not meeting test score growth targets.

We have been especially aggressive fighting against the misuse and overuse of high - stakes standardized tests and CPS's harmful, ineffective, wasteful elementary student promotion policy.

Don Williams, CEA director of Policy, Research, and Reform, pointed out that education researcher James Popham has strongly cautioned against misusing standardized tests designed for one purpose to fulfill a completely separate purpose.

The organization's director of public policy, David Griffith, says the group is not against testing, but that it opposes «tests for that specific set of consequences.»

But he's worked before with the Latino Caucus which, like PEAC, pushes for a tougher stance against certain district policies, like reconstituting schools and using student test scores for teacher evaluations.

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The Programme for International Student Assessment tests run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have been seen as driving education policy and stirring education ministers to measure themselves against international standards.

While our new Commissioner is preparing to go on a speaking and listening tour of the state, she would do well to try to understand exactly why New York is the current leader in the nationwide Opt Out movement against today's standardized testing policies, having seen test refusals jump from nearly 60,000 in 2014 to 200,000 in 2015.

Similarly, what Louis C.K. said about current education policies like standardized testing and the Common Core occurred against a backdrop of popular dissent.

At the same time, the test's administrators and analysts cautioned against reading too much into one snapshot of the data or blaming any particular policy or party, keeping in mind that scores have improved significantly over the years.

Read PURE's 2010 Office for Civil Rights complaint against CPS's high - stakes testing and retention policy here.

They also correctly noted that the backlash against testing is justified — even if they only tangentially admit the central role of federal policy across two administrations in getting us to this point.

Constantly changing tests (or using tests as a convenient scapegoat when political blowback against Common Core gets too strong) is a policy response that undermines the goals of standards - based reform in all the ways I have identified above.

The one positive aspect of Duncan's legacy is that his policies have sparked the largest uprising against high - stakes testing in U.S. history.

Some see the refusal to participate in SBAC testing as an act of courage and conviction; they see it as willful push - back against flawed education reform policies that since the passage of NCLB have failed to improve education in America's public schools and yet continue to be promoted by special interests who seek to profit at student, parent, and taxpayer expense.

Critics of policies pushed by the Obama administration and many state policymakers — such as adopting the Common Core, revamping teacher evaluation and expanding charter schools — may seize on the latest NAEP results, but researchers warn against using national test scores to judge specific policies, a practice sometimes called «misNAEPery.»

Despite their combative rhetoric at in - house meetings and their better - late - than - never rally against egregious and unproven standardized testing, CEA leadership continues to negotiate and accept minor revisions to reformist policies and promote these as victories with membership.

Call on state lawmakers and school districts to formulate and pass legislation and policies that allow school employees to provide parents with their opinions on whether students would benefit from exclusion from a state / and or district standardized test and that no adverse action or discipline would be taken against employees who engage in such discussion.

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).

The creation and maintenance of a compliant drug and alcohol testing policy is essential for employers hoping to maintain a safe and productive workplace in addition to protecting themselves against costly litigation.

For many catteries, a regular testing policy for FeLV is preferable to vaccination alone, and may replace the need for vaccination against FeLV altogether.

To this end, a number of SRM governance proposals will be tested against a range of «Climate Response in 2030» scenarios constructed by a multi-disciplinary group of participants consisting of a core group of 10 - 12 researchers from multiple disciplines, practitioners from policy and NGO backgrounds, and a revolving set of figures external to the SRM research community.

«Policy carrying potential costs in the trillions of dollars ought not to be based on stories and photos confirming faith in models, but rather on precise and replicable testing of the models» predictions against solid observational data.»

The court was concerned that the UK policy set the threshold so high against the applicants from the outset «that it did not allow a balancing of the competing individual and public interests and a proportionality test by the secretary of state or by the domestic courts» because the applicants had to demonstrate as a condition precedent to the application of the policy, that the deprivation of artificial insemination facilities might prevent conception altogether.

It was also successful in getting an injunction order from the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench against Suncor, which has the effect of stopping Suncor from implementing its random testing policy until the matter is heard by a different arbitration panel.

Legal and public policy acceptance or accommodation of these religious symbols depends on a variety of factors, but is most often rooted in a constitutional proportionality test that balances the right to freedom of religion against the possible threat to safety, security and public order.

The Court seems to require random testing to be supported by evidence of significant numbers of incidents involving alcohol (or drugs) and particularized evidence of the deterrent effect of the random testing policy balanced against the serious implications on the workers» rights to privacy (CEP at paras 45 - 51).

When the matter was first dealt with by an arbitration board, it weighed the employer's interest in random alcohol testing against the harm of the policy to employees» privacy interests.