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Some insurers may even have this medical test mandate for young applicants.

Such political pushback has prompted several states to begin cutting the number of standardized tests mandated for accountability.

Not exact matches

Second, White focused on the SEC's plan to improve its grasp of portfolio composition risks and operational risks by: requiring better data reporting and risk controls, particularly with respect to derivatives; mandating that investment advisers create transition plans to prepare for major business disruptions; and requiring large investment advisers and funds to submit to annual stress testing.

In essence, you are mandating a religious means test for elected officials.

As the divinely mandated ruler of all other life on Earth, man is free to eat, hunt, wear, domesticate, exploit for labour, and test on all the critters of the sea, air, and whatever moveth on the ground.

These seeds are grown under conditions mandated by the National Standard for Organic Agriculture, including rigorous soil testing and use of approved fertilizers and pest controls.

What improbably worked for Vincent Chase in the last, terrible season of Entourage has also worked to beat tests mandated by sports» governing bodies.

In that light, sports leagues» tests for cannabis can look somewhat like a charade: After speaking with several current and former athletes, it became clear that many of them weren't really scared of getting caught for cannabis use, because they believed the people who mandate the testing didn't really want to catch them.

Previously, pre-competition testing involved only the higher - level Pro Tour and Pro Continental teams, which are already subject to the biological passport program mandated by the UCI and thus have to submit riders» whereabouts for testing.

The law, aimed at keeping lead - filled merchandise away from children, mandates that all products sold for those age 12 and younger — including clothing — be tested for lead and phthalates, which are chemicals used to make plastics more pliable.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

Their crash tests are conducted at twice the federal mandates for impact force, and each product must pass these standards before going to market.

This year, NASCAR has mandated baseline cognitive testing for its drivers — a move applauded by some (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) and questioned by others (Brad Keselowski).

The latest fight between the Buffalo Teachers Federation and Buffalo Public Schools is heating up, this time over incentives like ice cream socials to persuade kids to take state - mandated tests and threats of punishment for those who don't.

Hutton says the legislation mandates that the Department of Health require testing for PFOA, PFOS and 1,4 - dioxane, for starters.

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

Known as a «big ugly» in Capitol jargon, the bill extended rent regulations and the 421 - a real estate subsidy program, authorized $ 1.3 billion in property tax rebates, renewed mayoral control of New York City schools for another year, released $ 250 million for mandated expenses of non-public schools and demanded more transparency for controversial state testing.

Southern Tier Republican Sen. Tom O'Mara has launched the second TV ad of his re-election campaign, which focuses on his success in getting a bill passed through the Legislature and signed into law that mandates the testing of public school water for lead.

Success also outlined its academic goals for all its students in its application, as mandated by SUNY application requirements: the network is aiming for 75 percent proficiency rates for second - year students in both math and English on state tests.

Last night a spokesman for Mr Watson dismissed any call for regular re-elections for the deputy leadership, saying: «Jeremy has been consistent in saying that a mandate shouldn't be tested every year.»

The Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Brian Jones, a teacher and union member from New York City, strongly criticized the temporary moratorium until 2017 on including student performance on Common Core - aligned test scores in the state - mandated teacher evaluation system.

The Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Brian Jones, a teacher and union member from New York City, added strong criticism of the temporary moratorium on including student performance on Common Core - aligned test scores in the state - mandated teacher evaluation system until 2017.

Other bills that were introduced, but not voted on, included measures to create new penalties for those who fail to report construction fatalities, a requirement for construction companies to give the city detailed reports about scheduled construction activities months in advance, and a mandate for drug and alcohol testing of construction workers at certain job sites.

It was unclear if the Senate would take up a bill that passed the Assembly making it easier for residents of Hoosick Falls and other communities to sue for damages related to water pollution, or if the Assembly would pass a bill mandating testing for lead in school districts.

The join legislation will mandate timeframes for maintaining and testing cooling towers, set fines for failure to comply, and create a statewide registry of cooling towers.

Yet governments continue to mandate animal tests, despite the lack of a formal demonstration of fitness for purpose, and a growing global realisation among scientists that animal toxicity tests are inadequate and must be replaced.

As testing of drinking water supplies for PFOA and PFOS becomes broadly mandated, as recently legislated in the state of New York, the detection of trace amounts of PFOA, PFOS and other PFASs is expected to be widespread in the years ahead.

Since the late 1990s, Huntingdon Life Sciences — a company that conducts testing of substances on animals mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration — has become a proving ground for increasingly aggressive tactics by animal - rights militants.

«These findings underscore the need for increased awareness for HCV testing among healthcare providers and baby boomers and other innovative strategies such as state - mandated HCV testing.»

A big reason for the surge in interest is the growing number of monitors capable of picking up reverberations from nuclear tests, a mandate of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

There's already some mandated neurological testing [after suspected concussions], but this needs to be expanded for balance and [coordination] testing.

All newborns receive «Newborn Screening,» a state - mandated heel stick blood test shortly after birth in order to screen for approximately 30 heritable, treatable conditions such as blood, endocrine, and metabolic disorders.

The Environmental Protection Agency has mandated safety testing for only a small percentage of these chemicals.

Next, according to a mandate from the U.S. Center for Disease Control, require that he / she do susceptibility testing to determine if the antibiotic they are prescribing will be effective against the bacteria discovered in the first test.

Though a recent Friedman Foundation report showed that Florida has the most regulated of all the STC laws — including a standardized testing mandate, licensure requirements, and copious paperwork — the CER report gives it a near perfect Autonomy score, deducting only one point for «other provisions that encroach on autonomy.»

In today's test - driven environment, it is easy for educators to limit our vision to how students perform as a whole on state - mandated tests.

In the end, it may well turn out that the president's mandate that states annually test all children in grades 3 through 8 will prove to be much more burdensome and troubling for states than the new accountability provisions.

The Jefferson County, Kentucky, contract, for example, mandates that the district may not use student test scores «in any way to evaluate the work performance of employees unless they agree voluntarily.»

Though he sees potential in the «commonness» of the Common Core, he argues that true learning gains will only follow if states turn more demanding ELA standards into a mandate for knowledge - rich curricula and if test makers understand that «close reading» of texts could make things worse unless those texts are integrated with such a curriculum.

Both program supporters and opponents cite evidence from an ongoing congressionally mandated Institute of Education Sciences (IES) evaluation of the program, for which I am principal investigator, to buttress their positions, rendering the evaluation a Rorschach test for one's ideological position on this fiercely debated issue.

Over the past seven years, my district has mandated quarterly and mini-testing leading up to the state test at the end of the year, homogeneously - leveled classes according to test scores, double - blocked reading and math classes for students who do not pass the state tests, detailed lesson plans aligned to tested reading skills, and a strict pacing guide designed to cover all skills on the state test.

NCLB mandated reading and math testing in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in high school, and it required states to rate schools on the basis of test performance overall and for key subgroups.

The U.S. Department of Education so far has granted conditional waivers to 26 states from mandates such as the 2013 - 14 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency on state tests and the NCLB law's teacher - quality requirements.

For 21st century success, students will need skill sets far beyond those that are mandated in the densely packed standards — and that's evaluated on bubble tests.

Rothstein ardently dislikes the board's execution of a 1988 statutory mandate to establish «appropriate student performance levels for each age and grade in each subject area to be tested» under the National Assessment.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

The state of Massachusetts introduced a system of standardized testing in its public schools three years before the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 mandated such practices for all 50 states.

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability systFor example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability systfor reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

Now, some of you believe that the answer is for the federal government to stop mandating that kids take tests.

The reform law mandates annual ratings of schools and funding to test students of all ages, shrink class sizes, and pay for professional - development courses.