Sentences with phrase «testing policies faced»

Even before the release of the Suncor and Irving Pulp decisions, employers seeking to implement random testing policies faced an uphill battle.

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Their arrival could test Bangkok's international pledges to treat the Rohingya humanely, two years after Thailand faced international condemnation over secret policies of towing Rohingya back out to sea in unpowered boats with little food and water.

Certainly the university's efforts to turn Erickson into a scapegoat for the failure of your drug - testing policy is itself a plea of guilty to the most - dreaded charge a university administrator can face from the NCAA: «lack of institutional control.»

«The challenge facing the Government is to create an aviation policy that stands the test of time — not a policy for five years, but one for thirty years.

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.

But, the network has also faced much criticism for its harsh discipline policies and heavy emphasis on testing.

But, before those policies can be implemented, the new system faces a big test — literally — later this month.

If the plans are announced before the end of the year, May will likely face a stiff test to pass such a major policy, which will undoubtably have major implications for England's education landscape.

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

For starters, we faced inaccurate criticisms of our policies, like the assertion that we were forcing teachers to be fired based on a single test score.

Ira Nichols - Barrer and Brian Gill of Mathematica Policy Research sit down with Marty West to discuss an important testing decision faced by Massachusetts: whether to keep the MCAS assessment or switch to the PARCC assessment.

Cambridge, MA (October 5, 2015)-- On October 5, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will release findings from the Best Foot Forward project, an initiative testing whether video technology can help address the challenges faced by teachers and school leaders in implementing classroom observations that are part of teacher evaluation systems.

His proposals are the clearest sign yet that Republicans have executed an about - face from the education policies of President George W. Bush, whose signature domestic initiative, the No Child Left Behind law of 2002, required uniform state testing and imposed penalties on schools that failed to progress.

But as it has been put into place, it has faced increasing backlash, both from politicians, who argue that it infringes on states» independence to determine education policy, and from parents and teachers, who object to the more stringent testing that has come with the new guidelines.

Notably, policies and guidelines that pertain to test accessibility vary across states, and some, such as those for read - aloud features, face controversy as states strive to balance equity and maintaining the meaning and integrity of test scores.

Reception pupils will once again face a «baseline assessment» when entering school, Justine Greening has announced, two years after the government climbed - down over its failed policy to bring in such tests.

The problem with these early policy directives is that both research and experience show that students living in poverty face significant obstacles to learning — and their test scores reflect this reality.

By design, under ESSA, the role of the federal government in education is greatly diminished, and states face critical and substantial policy decisions in framing school accountability and the academic standards and testing systems that underpin those structures.

While recognizing that public education continues to face major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that support, not undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.

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.

Indeed, they were so confident in their position that one, in response to a rather pointed cry in the face of this no - test - drives policy, invited me, in the harshest terms, to sodomize myself, immediately.

The only policies available were guaranteed issue policies (no health questions and no medical tests) with very limited face amounts, and few simplified issue policies where there were no medical tests and a short series of health questions.

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.

She focused primarily on public schools and the challenges they face in testing, demographic change, race relations, preparing and evaluating teachers, school discipline, technology and government policy.

Both the Policy on Ableism and Discrimination based on Disability and the Policy on Drug and Alcohol Testing provide timely guidance for employers facing a range of human rights obligations in the workplace.

In such a case, you may buy the policy but it could face a claim rejection due to missing medical test in future.

This process may involve reviewing your medical records, having bloodwork and a urinalysis done at the insurance company's expense and, depending on the face amount of the policy and your age, getting an electrocardiogram and stress test, also at the company's expense.

That's why we have outlined the importance of medical test in term insurance, so that you don't have to face any problem after buying the policy

The only policies available were guaranteed issue policies (no health questions and no medical tests) with very limited face amounts, and few simplified issue policies where there were no medical tests and a short series of health questions.