Sentences with phrase «testing mandates in»

At DFER we partnered with the civil rights community and with congressional Democrats to preserve federal testing mandates in national education policy through the recently enacted Every Student Succeeds Act.

With the continued testing mandate in this ESSA, the federal government should anticipate an opt - out showdown.

Not exact matches

The European Union has moved forward with plans, already on track before the scandal, to mandate on - the - road testing in 2017, supplementing the all - too - easy - to - fool lab testing.

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

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

It is not an act of humility but one of mutilation to amputate one's faith in order to fulfill some secular political mandate — whether it be a bureaucratic directive or a party's litmus test.

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.

In the US American collegiate NCAA athletes or professional sport leagues like the NFL, NHL, MLB, or NBA do not spend money on mandated USADA testing.

UFC actually is leading the way as far as mandated year round drug testing (similar to Olympic sports) in the realm of professional sports.

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.

As a result, even if a private sports program that uses town fields, rinks, diamonds, or courts is required to comply with state mandates regarding concussion safety, I believe that there is a huge sports safety gap which, absent voluntary implementation by a private sports program of youth sports health and safety best practices, such as those we are pilot testing in Grand Prairie, Texas this fall as part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permit.

First it must forget challenging the ambiguous nomination requirements and test Corbyn's oft - mentioned mandate in a new leadership election.

State mandated drinking water testing has found high lead levels in eleven local school districts.

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.

Democrats who back the Affordable Care Act — known as Obamacare pejoratively — point to the multiple tests the law has withstood: It was approved legislatively in 2010 when Democrats controlled both chambers, withstood a Supreme Court challenge (which, in simplistic terms, Chief Justice John Roberts determined the individual mandate is a «tax») and then it survived the ultimate referendum, President Obama's re-election.

MaryEllen Elia, tapped seven months ago to lead New York's education department, now finds herself wedged between a federal mandate to test students and a groundswell of parents in this state who refuse to let their kids take the tests.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said Wednesday that students in grades three to eight will have as much time as they need to complete their state - mandated tests this year — as long as they are «working productively.»

Passed in 2010, the state's first teacher evaluation law mandated that test scores contribute at least 20 percent of some teachers» ratings.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz stopped short of requiring his health department to mandate tap water sampling in homes where children are already diagnosed with high lead levels, but he did say that «maybe we do need to take additional steps, such as testing the water.»

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.

Flanagan said the bill sponsored by Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chairman Thomas O'Mara (R - Elmira) is the first in the nation to mandate lead testing of water in schools.

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.

Widespread publicity of the opt - out movement last spring, when about 20 % of New York students in grades three through eight boycotted the federally mandated tests, made more families aware of the option.

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 new law expressly forbids the federal government from mandating the use of tests scores in teacher evaluation and from mandating the use of Common Core standards.

Over the last several months, discussions of the Common Core State Standards have been eclipsed by the public's reaction to major issues which have arisen in their implementation — issues such as declining student test scores, and the role of such test scores in teacher evaluations, evaluations mandated if a state was to receive its share of federal money from the «Race to the Top» funds.

In addition, anyone with nuclear weapons duties, in any branch of service, must routinely pass a Pentagon - mandated evaluation called the Personnel Reliability Program — a battery of tests that assess several areas, including mental fitness, financial history, and physical and emotional well - beinIn addition, anyone with nuclear weapons duties, in any branch of service, must routinely pass a Pentagon - mandated evaluation called the Personnel Reliability Program — a battery of tests that assess several areas, including mental fitness, financial history, and physical and emotional well - beinin any branch of service, must routinely pass a Pentagon - mandated evaluation called the Personnel Reliability Program — a battery of tests that assess several areas, including mental fitness, financial history, and physical and emotional well - being.

Part of the increase in statistical testing comes from regulatory mandates, but Pierce also says, «This helps us know if a result is significant and biologically meaningful.»

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 enactment of No Child Left Behind in 2002, parents» and teachers» opposition to the law's mandate to test «every child, every year» in grades three through eight has been intensifying.

Given that behavioral tests can take up to two months and mice usually live four to five months in the lab, the mandate's costs add up quickly.

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.

Fanos concludes: «never should cystic fibrosis carrier testing be mandated, even in families of people with cystic fibrosis».

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.

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.

It will be somewhat useful but I know from taking the GED test in Ohio not to long ago that the test here has definitely changed in recent years, I believe due to some Federal mandate.

And the film even has the perfect bittersweet conclusion, which it then, unfortunately, ignores in favor of a completely unbelievable and illogical happy ending that feels as it had been mandated by studio test - screenings where the audience was unhappy with the original outcome.

CER could have been tougher regarding school autonomy, especially on Florida and states that mandate NNR tests, but in general the high marks were warranted.

Orfield noted, «Congress has just voted to greatly expand mandated state testing, requiring the development of 213 additional state tests, the expenditure of billions of dollars, and the loss of a great deal of instructional time in schools across the country.

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 a generally well - meaning effort to impose «accountability,» some policymakers have attempted to regulate school choice programs as they regulate district schools, including by mandating state tests.

Because most students enter charter schools before the 3rd grade when state - mandated testing begins, only 36 percent of applicants in our study have prior test scores on record and this group is not representative of all applicants.

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 provisionIn 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 provisionin 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.