Sentences with phrase «testing requirements make»

The twin challenges of meeting standards and testing requirements make it even more important that teachers have tools to help get the most out of time with their students.

Not exact matches

Testing is now due to start in order to make sure the battery is optimized and meets Australian Energy Market Operator and South Australian Government requirements.

Regulators talk sometimes about regulating the big bond mutual - fund complexes as «systemically important» institutions, on the theory that liquidity requirements, stress testing, regulatory oversight, etc. could make them less vulnerable to herding and the shock of redemption requirements.

As part of FDA compliance, the Quality Control team within our manufacturing facilities can not allow any product to leave without batch testing each production run and making sure it meets the nutritional requirements of our product and packaging.

There are also stricter testing requirements to make sure the bath seat won't tip over while in use.

«There are certain requirements in the legislation for the council to convene a couple of times a year — we'll certainly be meeting more often than that the first year — and for the council to make recommendations to the commissioner of health within one year of its first meeting as to the contaminants that should be tested,» says Hutton.

The budget also removed the requirement for individuals in correctional facilities to give written consent for HIV testing, encouraged high - risk populations to use condoms by prohibiting prosecutors from using them as evidence in prostitution cases, and made it legal to possess syringes obtained through a syringe access program.

While P.S. 130 has strong test scores, TriBeCa parents were concerned about the school's stricter rules, including a requirement that students must wear uniforms, and parents also worried their children would have trouble making friends because 70 percent of incoming kindergarteners at P.S. 130 do not speak English as a primary language.

«One requirement of science is that it makes specific predictions, which can be tested in a laboratory,» notes geologist Robert Hazen, author of Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin.

Pharmaceutical companies would make much greater use of them if governments encouraged it, but inflexible requirements for animal tests is a major deterrent.

At the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, neonatologists are developing two informed consent documents — one that meets the legal requirements, the other a much shorter booklet that explains the goals and potential risks of the study in plainer language, with a multiple choice test at the end to make sure trial parents have understood it.

Contact our highly - qualified team at one of our regional labs in the United States, Germany, or Japan for additional information on sample testing requirements and to obtain the latest information, so you can make better informed therapy decisions for your patients.

In settings where oral food challenge is not considered a requirement for making a diagnosis of IgE - mediated cow's milk allergy, a positive SPT and / or ImmunoCAP (cut - off: 0.35 kUI / L) can be used and diagnostic tests in case of high pre-test probability.

Brazil makes HUGE use of ractopamine (look it up... a couple of years ago we had a BUNCH of meat travelling back from Russia to Brazil because they tested and showed presence of ractopamine), growth hormones and antibiotics and there is no label requirement to any of these.

And because many individuals don't know whether they are of that chunk of the population who can't convert vitamin A (many of which aren't in a position to take blood tests), we believe that the prudent course of action is to be safe instead of sorry — or at the very least, for us to make it abundantly clear that for many individuals, any amount of beta - carotene will not satisfy their vitamin A requirements.

We know that it has not been tested because the USDA makes this statement in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines document: «The [USDA] food patterns were developed to meet nutrient needs... while not exceeding calorie requirements.

The great news is that EliteSingles» smart profiling system only puts you in contact with singles that seem to have a high chance of suiting you — tailor - made partner suggestions based on the results of your personality test and extensive partner requirement questionnaire.

The great news is that EliteSingles» smart profiling system only puts you in contact with singles that seem to have a high chance of suiting you — tailor - made partner suggestions based on the results of your personality test and partner requirement questionnaire.

Last but not least in this section is «The Beginning» Making Episode 1, where we take a detailed look at most of the aspects of getting this project off the ground with scenes featuring organising the cast, final screen tests, getting over the daunting requirements for the effects, convincing Spielberg it's going to work, first day of shooting, stunt work and so much more.

Opponents of making the tests a graduation requirement had been concerned that hundreds or even thousands of students might...

South Dakota officials announced this past winter that they were making the state's much - touted online testing program voluntary for districts, and instead requiring new paper - and - pencil tests to meet the requirements of the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001.

These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

Lawmakers in Washington state made education the major subject of their 2007 legislative session, increasing school funding and modifying the requirement that all high school students pass portions of the state's academic test in order to graduate.

State testing makes choice schools look worse than they really are, and there's no evidence that state testing requirements improve outcomes or ensure quality.

Minnesota moved its testing regimen from February to April in the wake of accountability standards, while Colorado legislators have proposed moving their testing window from March into April, with advocates suggesting that the increased time for instruction would make meeting performance requirements under No Child Left Behind more feasible for struggling schools.

But there is another requirement that has made testing more difficult in Florida.

He said this week he wants to see how far away students are from graduating, whether they can make up ground by re-taking the tests after tutoring and what different changes to requirements will mean.

Mobilizing employers and business leaders to insist that states align high school standards, assessments and graduation requirements with the demands of postsecondary education and work and show graduates that achievement matters by using high school transcripts and exit test results in making hiring decisions.

[REF] To date, no state has applied, with one observer saying «states realized just how difficult it would be to comply with some of the «guardrails» around the pilot, including a requirement to make sure the results of any new assessments are «comparable» to the state test.»

Don't parents need state testing requirements for consumer protection and to get information to make intelligent choices?

As practice is built around the integration of global themes in everyday learning, you will begin to find that you no longer have to make a difficult either - or decision between test results and global know - how, or between fulfilling mandated curricular requirements and bringing the world to your students.

Senate leader Darrell Steinberg unveiled a far - reaching education package Wednesday that would make career technical education a critical component of standardized test scores, college entrance requirements, and teacher training.

The Coalition Makes Recommendations Regarding the Board of Regents» Testing Reduction Report In May 2015, the Coalition wrote two letters [PDF] urging the Chancellor and Board of Regents to address modifications to the Regents exam requirements as part of their report on reducing state testing and improving test qTesting Reduction Report In May 2015, the Coalition wrote two letters [PDF] urging the Chancellor and Board of Regents to address modifications to the Regents exam requirements as part of their report on reducing state testing and improving test qtesting and improving test quality.

And the answers make clear that bureaucratic burdens and testing requirements were much greater negative factors in LA than FL..

But the Obama administration made test - based evaluations a requirement for any state that wanted to compete for Race to the Top grant money or win relief from the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Benally said the testing is the first phase of making sure the exam will fullfil the federal requirements in the «No Child Left Behind Act» and peer - reviewing for a standards - based assessment system.

«Every teacher and parent is asking that question, and if there's going to be a requirement for 17 tests in reading, math and science, we need to make sure that's justified.»

Tenth - graders made across - the - board improvements on the MCAS last academic year, and 84 percent of students have already met the state's minimum testing requirements needed to earn a high school diploma on their first try.

To hold states to that requirement, the feds required them to make AYP — adequate yearly progress — effectively requiring states to make sure test scores, year over year, are always going up.

It preserves the annual math and reading testing for students and the requirement that scores, broken down by race, income and special needs, be made public.

Key elements of NCLB — annual testing of students and the requirement to make public test scores broken down by students» race, income and other categories — were retained.

Most notably, it eliminates NCLB's uber - intrusive requirement that numerous groups of students make «adequate yearly progress» on state tests lest schools be subject to a cascade of punishments.

Although No Child make requires states to improve graduation rates and test scores — including the aspirational goal that all children (and actually, based on safe harbor and other caveats, 92 percent of them) are proficient in reading, math, and science — states are given plenty of leeway when it comes to interpreting how to meet certain requirements (like the one assuring that all teachers be «highly qualified» for instruction) and develop their own solutions in order to achieve them.

In particular, the study found severe accountability problems with both programs, most notably: they do not serve students in rural areas where there were virtually no private schools or scholarship organizations (SOs) present; they fund primarily religious schools, which are not required to be accredited or adhere to the same standards for curricula as public schools; they do not require the same testing requirements as public schools, making it impossible to gauge student achievement; and they do not require reporting by schools or SOs.

While the NEW SAT will make its appearance in all of Connecticut's high schools in March, the truly unsettling reality is that the Connecticut General Assembly passed and Governor Malloy signed into law a requirement that every high school junior take the NEW SAT next spring and that those students be judged by a test that is being redesigned and aligned to the Common Core, that no one has seen and that will almost certainly test students on content that they haven't even learned.

Not only have the Vo - Tech schools been required to implement the new Common Core standards without the appropriate resources to make it happen, but the system's state administrators have been among the worst offenders when it comes to misleading students and parents about the Common Core SBAC testing requirement.

New civics test graduation requirements: The Education Commission of the States (2017) reports that since 2015, 8 states have made passing a high school civics exams modeled on the 100 - question immigration citizenship test a graduation requirement: Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota and Utah.

As a requirement of graduation, Relay requires that its teachers show that their students can make progress on standardized tests.

If state testing requirements don't necessarily make schools better and fail to capture the bulk of the benefits choice schools are producing, then imposing state testing requirements on choice schools just to do something is a really bad idea.

The new law maintains the old requirement that test scores be made public and that those results be disaggregated.