Sentences with phrase «what standards the bill»

She said a big obstacle was that Sen. Mike Hall, R - Putnam and chairman of the Finance Committee, likely was concerned about the expense the Department of Education estimated for repealing and replacing the standards and other related costs — originally at $ 168 million, despite confusion on the part of department officials and others over exactly what standards the bill would require to be ditched.

Not exact matches

This is a far cry from what Liberal MP John Mackay had in mind in 2009 when he tabled a private member's bill that would have charged the Department of Foreign Affairs with investigating complaints, holding mining and energy companies to legalistic standards and withholding government support from those found to be offside.

But that is what happens under the global Treasury - bill standard.

«Because it is such a massive economy and so important, it has the power to create what becomes, in a way, a global standard,» former Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Bill Kovacic told me.

The group has proposed amending the bill, the AV START Act, to set standards for those vehicles - for instance, requiring a «vision test» for automated vehicles to test what their different sensors actually see.

Because regardless of what happens with SNA's desired one - year waiver language in the pending 2015 appropriations bill, the 2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) is looming large and the SNA clearly views the CNR as its best chance to permanently roll back key HHFKA nutrition standards relating to sodium, whole grains, fruits and vegetables and a la carte offerings.

«The bill also would mandate that the Department of Agriculture develop nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools, not just what is served in the lunch line.

... That's what my mother always said,» said Davis, who has signed on to a March bill calling for higher nutritional standards in all food served in schools.

Regardless of what actually may have happened, the North Carolina state senate has now unanimously passed a bill which would prohibit schools from supplementing home - made lunches that don't meet minimum nutritional standards.

«The hallmark of his career is the bill that put some really tough standards into financial institutions — banks, security firms, insurance — to make sure that what happened a few years ago doesn't happen again, and I think that's how he'll best be remembered,» the senator replied.

The Standard billed this as a major story yesterday, so I thought others here might have views about what Johnson's strategy is.

Not sure what your motives are but you're way off on the replacement electricity and by your standards we should all brace for blackouts and higher utility bills.

Children, schools and families bill The bill will raise educational standards by providing guarantees - a series of specific entitlements for parents and pupils on what they can expect from a 21st century schools system and a means of redress if expectations are not met.

Senate Democrats aren't the only ones seeking changes to what was approved in the budget: Republicans and Democrats in both chambers have introduced bills aimed at extending the deadline for developing regulations for the teacher evaluations as well unlinking the enactment of the standards on the local level to a boost in school aid.

Another bill would tighten the standard for what's considered too much lead in a child's blood.

But if it is just that the President did not give assent, we have to look at the merit of the particular bill if it meets the standards and if the court matter is not going to impede what we are going to do.

Forest advocates are also pushing for offset standards in the Senate bill to be relaxed, since they say the restrictions around what type of credits could be counted for companies» investment will effectively block company investment in forest conservation.

It's wearying, the endless scenes of Peter weeping piteously; exhausting when the standard pussy - whipped, sarcastic best friend (Bill Hader) does the standard sidekick in a scatological two - step tango; and just woeful when Paul Rudd makes his perfunctory appearance as a burner beach bum with no other function than to be to this little ejaculate of flicks what Rob Schneider is to Happy Madison joints.

The issue is probably too complex to resolve, though: Bringing issues like billing order or screen time into what is supposedly an artistic judgment of people's acting work would be too crass an acknowledgement of the awards industry, even by Oscar standards.

In 2009, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers formed a consortium that established the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), curricular standards that outline what students should know and be able to do at each grade level.

Synopsis: The bill to renew the federal preschool program for five years would authorize a 7 percent increase in its budget, to $ 4.66 billion in FY 1999, strengthen Head Start's educational component by adding new standards for what children should be learning, and require most teachers to have a college education by 2003.

The State Board of Education will be able to disentangle competing math standards that have been creating confusion over what should be taught in eighth grade, under a bill headed to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk.

The bill changes the definition of «academic standards» to include what a student should know and be able to do in a «course, program, or at each grade level.»

After state lawmakers passed a complex bill pausing Common Core rollout in Indiana, Supt. Glenda Ritz says it was up to her office to decide what academic standards second grade teachers would use in the fall.

Bill Would Overhaul Student Testing in California A key hearing is set today for consideration of what may prove to be landmark legislation that would replace the state's existing statewide student performance testing program with one that is designed to be taken online and is also aligned with the new common core curriculum standards.

Bill Evers, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute, has been fighting the new math standards, which he says are inferior to what Indiana, California and many states have now.

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi legislators passed with wide support a bill Thursday that proponents say will give the state more control over public education standards but even they admit it would have no effect on what schools currently teach.

The package of bills in the house would tie pay to performance and student growth, which sounds reasonable until you ask: By what standard?

Of course, using standard operating procedure, a «final» draft of the bill was only issued yesterday which means few legislators will even know what they are voting on in the 1,000 page bill.

Bill Gates called the Common Core academic standards a «very basic idea» to set national standards for what students should know at various grades.

It comes with a four - seat cabin, six driven wheels, low range gearing, five differential locks and a tire - control system for its standard 37 - inch wheels, providing what the German car maker bills as «the last word in forward thrusting power for the beaten track.»

You're automatically thrown into that standard and saying — hey, pay this bill monthly; we don't care what your expenses are; this is what it is, because this is the money that you're borrowing.

We are holding our field to a very high standard, and that's as it should be, but the transgression here pales to the point of disappearance compared to what has been routinely perpetrated by the likes of Milloy, Crichton, Lindzen, Bill Gray and the like.

As the group put it in a news release, the bill «would not have met even the minimum standard of what science has urged to combat global warming.»

Before billing by the hour became the standard, guess what the ABA considered to be a full year's - worth of billable hours for a full - time attorney?

Keith's colleagues seem enamored these days with looking at overall realization rates, which are the amounts actually collected as a percentage of what was worked at standard billing rates.

So your physician gives you a clean bill of health, but the life insurance company gives you a standard or sub-standard health class rating, what the heck?

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you'll want to see what potential employers and your car insurance company will see when they check your Utah driving record, which employees will do as part of a standard background check and to ensure you won't run up repair bills on the company car or injure someone in your own car on company time.

For instance, if you pay via electronic funds transfer (EFT), you can save $ 6 a month on your hybrid auto insurance over what you might pay if you do standard paper billing.