Sentences with phrase «weakening the state tests»

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Since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) pegs its accountability mechanism to state test results, rather than NAEP, there is a natural incentive for states to maintain or even weaken their already - low standards.

Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw - Hill and dozens of other companies have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying to weaken privacy laws or stop the federal and state governments from reducing their access to student data.

In its recommendations for the terms of reference of the Grenfell Enquiry, the Fire Sector Federation, a broad alliance of fire and rescue organisations, fire protection companies, building control bodies and product manufacturers, said: «the outcomes of product testing building materials is commercially sensitive... and as a consequence is never available in a raw state publicly» thus «weakening the UK's ability to identify serious concerns and undermining national protection.»