Sentences with phrase «test the policy because»

We did not have to test the policy because we did not need to file a claim.

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We can now test this proposition, because the Clinton and Sanders tax proposals have been thoroughly analyzed by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

Finally, the topic of condom ads needs to be addressed, not because it is more important than (probably it is not even as important as) other public - policy questions such as mandatory AIDS testing or contact notification, but because it has provoked such extensive discussion among evangelicals.

A total of 16 pupils were affected by the school's policy of «grade exclusion» because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

But it ruled that the school board nonetheless passed muster under the secular purpose test of Lemon because the school board stated two other valid secular purposes for its policy: «disclaiming any orthodoxy of belief that could be inferred from the exclusive place of evolution in the curriculum, and reducing offense to any student or parent caused by the teaching of evolution.»

The UFC looked bad, because it had exempted Lesnar of four months of drug testing prior to his comeback fight, exercising a loophole in its anti-doping policy.

The Britax seats were ranked first among the car seat companies tested because of Britax's comprehensive policy regarding chemicals in our products and our elimination of halogenated flame retardant chemicals.

Some foreign policy experts have taken Kim's announcement last week that North Korea would no longer test nuclear weapons as a positive sign, but the leader also said his country didn't need to continue the testing because he already knows how effective the weapons he has are.

«Harm» tests act as a thin end of the wedge for a liberal drug policy, because once you show that a drug is essentially harmless, as laughing gas is, you have to accept its legitimate use.

Because to do so brings back evidence and testing to a law which is intended to eradicate them from drug policy.

The Fiscal Policy Institute points to safety benefits by having undocumented immigrants get a license, because they would need to take state tests and learn the rules of the road.

«It is a bit inappropriate for us as Erie County to comment simply because it's a state park and the state's prerogative in testing,» Mark Cornell, the county director of policy and communications, said in an email.

In fact, some of them didn't even mention it, being far more upset by a comment attributed to Watson a couple of sentences earlier: He was «inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa,» Watson had told The Sunday Times, because «all our social policies are based on the assumption that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.»

College communities make sense as test beds for gigabit networks because they include highly concentrated population of heavy Internet users as well as institutions already connected to Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR) and other high - speed Internet backbones, says Gig.U Program Director Elise Kohn, a former policy advisor in the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau.

In a statement released this week by Patrick Perrine, the founder of myPartnerPerfect.com and creator of its «Partner Perfect Compatibility» test, stated that he started the site «partially because of the discriminating policy of eHarmony.»

Because the state has not yet identified students for retention, the test scores of students the first time they are in the 3rd grade are not affected by any change in the student cohort resulting from the retention policy.

Haney and others have concluded that this policy change artificially drove up 4th - grade test scores, because it removed from the cohort of students tested those who were retained in 3rd grade, the very students most likely to score the lowest on standardized tests.

Putting a finger on exactly which policy changes produced the test - score improvements is remarkably difficult, because the state adopted a wide array of policies that may have had a beneficial effect.

Murray's earlier books — Losing Ground in 1984, on welfare policy, and The Bell Curve (with Richard Herrnstein) in 1994, on the significance of differences in intelligence as measured by intelligence tests — aroused controversy, because, implicitly or explicitly, they focused attention on black Americans, who play a disproportionate role in welfare policy, and as a group score lower than whites on IQ tests.

A fifth set of sensitivity tests was possible because I have information on other policies that lead to differential pay among teachers.

Again, it can't be Common Core, or testing, or school accountability policies, because those are almost universal.

The state PTA argued that setting cut scores after test results were known reduced trust among parents and teachers because «policy makers can set proficiency levels to make any case they choose.»

However, because such a policy is likely to be controversial in a country dedicated to open access, and might have unintended effects, it would be best to test it out in a small - scale program, under a state waiver as allowed by the president's proposed Race to the Top Fund for higher education.

The study has received a great deal of attention, in part because it is one of the few evaluations of school resources based on random assignment of students to test policy effects while controlling for other conditions, a method that is generally thought to be a high - quality research design.

People can debate whether the flood of international, comparative data is helpful, but we can agree that, because educational systems have historically been locally controlled, international test results have had little effect on state and local educational policies and practices... until now.

Because other states look to Massachusetts — where students overall routinely rank at the top of national and international tests — for lessons on academic achievement and innovation, the Bay State's policies on charter schools are being followed closely, former Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson told charter advocates gathered in Boston recently.

Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general.

For example, policies specifically geared towards equity, such as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), have created a narrowed curriculum, because reaching equity is reaching proficiency on state standardized tests.

LL: I initially picked testing and assessment because I thought teachers could really take a stand on the policies surrounding testing, whereas not so much on climate and culture.

After years of tinkering with the state's education policy, including withdrawing from the national Common Core standards, the decisions by the GOP - majority Legislature now pose a political liability, because parents and educators have become increasingly weary of high - stakes testing.

This trend is worrying because we are quickly reverting back to having each state enact its own testing policy.

Although the ruling only relates to the admissions policy of one school, Schools Week understands it could have wider implications, because the same 11 - plus test, designed by the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex (CSSE), is used by 10 other schools in the county.

In the interview, she said that her policy was not to suppress discussions about the tests within schools, but that she felt «any conversations have to be balanced, because in the past it was more of the opt - out movement.»

For instance, districts are concerned that their placement policy may disadvantage low - income and minority students because these students tend to have lower test scores and because of potential bias in teacher recommendations.

Because current state policy requires that refused tests be given the lowest possible score, the scores of 1 given to refused tests are calculated into the growth rates used to evaluate individual teachers.

So that's — and the third one is just getting the research into the hands of the policy makers, because I believe that teachers and educators, when they see these connections that it's true that you can keep kids in school, pursue an alternative method of discipline and improve test scores, improve climate, improve graduation rates.

Choice B: Young college grads with degrees in their desired career area — who complete 5 weeks of education training which includes teaching a class 1 hour daily and a small group 1 hour daily, pass the state required tests, continue basic education classes after they begin teaching, are hired with the district paying a minimum of $ 5,000 per teacher to a private organization, are paid salary and benefits negotiated by the district's union, are sought by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, after 2 years get discounts and benefits from grad schools and employers, after 2 years receive $ 11,000 toward further degrees in education or that initial career choice, and after 2 years are now «experts» in education seeking positions in government to influence education policy.

California hasn't done away with data altogether — school level test scores are publicly reported and several large districts together known as CORE have worked to create more robust data systems — but several researchers and advocates say they can't fully judge the education policies of the most populous state in the country because of a lack of accessible data.

But according to Mathematica, policy assessments based on raw test data is extremely misleading — especially because year - to - year comparisons measure different groups of students.

Putting aside the fact that the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Test is not a true mastery exam because it does not measure «grade - appropriate skills in reading, writing...,» the actual truth is that there is absolutely no federal or state law, regulation or policy that allows the state or local school district to punish a child (or parent) who opts their children out of the Common Core SBAC exam.

Well, he needs to apologize to about 125,000 Chicago Public School students who have been flunked because of the high - stakes testing policy he started in 1996 as CPS CEO.

The release of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, caused quite a stir in the education community because in it Ravitch does an about - face, criticizing the education policies she had fully supported over the years, including when she served as assistant secretary of education and counselor to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander from 1991 to 1993.

The new law restricting benchmark exams had not affected district policy, Cruz said, because the district already required only two midyear full - length tests.

Some insurers appear like good candidates but fail the test because of rigid «rules» that prevent you from utilizing your policy to its fullest potential.

Because of our role in making monetary policy, the Fed brings unparalleled economic and financial expertise to its oversight of banks, as demonstrated by the success of the stress tests.

We believe this criticism fails the test upon implementation because stock companies are not noticeably cheaper on average than mutual companies — their premiums are roughly the same, but the profit (the amount above the cost) goes to stock holders instead of going to policy holders in the form of dividends.

These types of policies are horribly misguided, because not only is it possible for FIV - positive cats to live long, happy and healthy lives, but cats who have been vaccinated for FIV will likely test positive and ultimately face a death sentence despite the fact that the animal may be perfectly healthy and incapable of contracting that disease.

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.

[ix] In Martin, the worker had argued that the policy conflicted with Charter values because it imposed a more rigorous test for entitlements on workers with psychological injuries as opposed to workers with physical injuries.

This is unfortunate, because, as noted by a number of the expert witnesses in random testing cases, these policies can function as an effective method of deterring substance abuse and removing offenders from the workplace.