Sentences with phrase «using model legislation»

HB 719: using model legislation from Colorado, all tenured teachers start out as non-probationary.

Not exact matches

The final rough analysis for the legislation came from a new report from the University of Pennsylvania, using its Penn - Wharton Budget Model to assess the budgetary effects of the bill.

A coalition of at least 74 investors have filed proposals at 50 companies asking for lobbying reports that include federal and state lobbying payments, payments to trade associations used for lobbying, and payments to any tax - exempt organization that writes and endorses model legislation.

The organization has also created model legislation with intended loopholes that allow energy companies to withhold names of certain chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

When asked in Buffalo if New York's SAFE Act should be used as a model for the rest of the nation, Schumer replied: «No, I think we ought to stick to the federal legislation.»

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

Modeled after similar legislation from Maryland, the Honey Bee Protection Act would prohibit the consumer use of insecticides that have been linked to the decline in honeybee populations as well as other pollinating insects.

«The Left's campaign on payday loans is precisely to use legislation to put Wonga out of business, probably by capping interest rates in a way that makes its business model impossible.

He said he used a model resolution and added language specific to the city of Kingston to draft the legislation adopted by the Common Council, adding that while the resolution does not «have teeth» with which to be enforced, the legislation adds Kingston to the list of other municipalities opposed to the pipeline.

Cuomo also asked the Education Department for legislation to allow a state takeover of New York's 178 failing schools, based on a model used in Massachusetts.

However, for use with integrated assessment models, energy balance models, and — most importantly — for writing of treaties and legislation — it is still generally necessary to translate all GHG's into some equivalent in terms of CO2.

Here's why: The same legislation that requires state education officials review the Common Core also says the State Board of Education must use the nationally - crafted standards «as the base model» for any new standards they might write.

Naming North Carolina as one state of several where new «parent choice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public education.

Prior to being an employee of CEC, Brian had the privilege of using the organization to foster his own understanding in student growth legislation, teacher evaluation, teacher mentoring, assessment analysis, and designing a school transformation model.

Numerous provisions contained in S. 1177 represent a huge step forward from current legislation: the elimination of adequate yearly progress and the 100 percent proficiency requirements, tempering the test - and - punish provisions of No Child Left Behind; the continued requirement of disaggregated subgroup data; removal of the unworkable school turnaround models required under the School Improvement Grant and Race to the Top programs; clarification of the term school leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effective.

It is now being used as a model for legislation in other states, including New Jersey, Colorado and elsewhere.

Together, Jones and the Show - Me Institute — backed with Sinquefield cash, and using ALEC model legislation — have pushed an education privatization agenda in the state.

Using Texas» Model, More States Mull «Religious Viewpoints» in School Law Tennessee becomes second to enact legislation treating religious expression same as nonreligious

We can add Missouri to the growing list of states wrangling with legislation that would inhibit Tesla's ability to operate using its direct - to - consumer model.

Together, Sen. Padavan and Assemblywoman Rosenthal sponsored legislation signed by Gov. Patterson in July that requires the use of alternatives to animal models in product testing.

However, for use with integrated assessment models, energy balance models, and — most importantly — for writing of treaties and legislation — it is still generally necessary to translate all GHG's into some equivalent in terms of CO2.

The new bill, which has passed through the MEC committee and is headed for ratification in the State House of North Carolina, included a requirement to use the FracFocus website, following the ALEC fracking model legislation passed in multiple states.

The current attacks on the EPA Clean Power Plan appear to use the same playbook: publish a BHI report and amplify via an SPN affiliate to push ALEC model legislation.

Method: We used consistent climate — air - quality — health modeling framework across three geographical scales (World, Europe and Ile - de-France) to assess future (2030 — 2050) health impacts of ozone and PM2.5 under two emissions scenarios (Current Legislation Emissions, CLE, and Maximum Feasible Reductions, MFR).

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper thinks the state's legislation will become a model for other states, according to the Denver Post, because it goes further than other states with disclosure laws by requiring all chemicals to be named (or in cases where the oil and gas commission is convinced a specific chemical should be kept a trade secret, then the chemical family needs to be named), as well as the concentrations in which they are used.

Sanders» bill, in fact, uses those incentives as a model for his legislation.

After the study, the team drafted model legislation for states to use in order to ban microplastics.

The purpose of the Model Law and the Uniform Act, and thus of most Canadian legislation, was to remove barriers to the legally effective use of electronic communications.

The classic bell curve that models the normal statistical distribution of many human qualities, from IQ scores to height, to the likelihood that the bus will arrive on time, can also be used to model the impact of family law legislation on dissolving families.

The proposed FISA legislation provides a comprehensive regulatory regime that uses economic disincentives to protect electronic commerce and is modelled on international best practices.

As part of this commitment, CAPL has adopted Privacy and Anti-Spam Policies as set out below and has established ten privacy principles to govern its actions as relating to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information based on the Canadian Standard Association's Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information, Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation.

Model legislation from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, often used as the basis for state laws, only requires disclosure of commissions if a customer is also paying an agent directly.

The current CECE program proposes a means by which members can document their professional learning using a self assessment and reflective model that reviews a member's «recent professional learning activities, performance reviews, changes in relevant legislation, policy and procedures or other information relevant to... (an individual's) continuous professional learning» (College of Early Childhood Educators, 2013, p. 6).

The legislation would help many families achieve homeownership by instructing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to update their requirements so that lenders might be able to use other credit scoring models that are empirically derived and both demonstrably and statistically sound.

If the civil case determines that S&P was not acting independently from business concerns, experts say legislation could be enacted to force ratings agencies to alter their business models, ensuring that they no longer profit from the companies whose bonds are rated but by the investors who use the ratings.