Sentences with phrase «where testing policies»

The Policy is structured to explain where testing policies and programs may be unlawfully discriminatory and where they may be justified.

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Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

Why, in circumstances where Canada's security, policies and companies are already as fully protected as they can be, do we maintain a net - benefit test that does not show a bottom - line impact on Canada, imposes an unnecessary burden on investors and gives Canada a dubious (if generally undeserved) international reputation?

When asked by The Associated Press in a separate interview about the government's contention that businesses could enact their own testing policies, the New York Democrat said: «Tell that to the families of the people who died in Spuyten Duyvil,» referring to the neighborhood where the Metro - North train crashed in 2013, killing four people.

The competition is part of the Cuomo administration's high - tech economic development policy for central New York, where the state has established a 50 - mile unmanned drone testing corridor between Syracuse and Rome.

A policy such as this could be misused to test for less serious medical conditions, or for sex selection in countries where there is little regulation, he says.

«NAPLAN is a point - in - time test of a just a few, albeit important — subjects which can be compared to the same data collected at other times and around Australia, to help work out, among other things and alongside other data, the effects of different education programs and policies, and the places where additional resources could make the greatest impact.

Those who were at or above «proficiency» were, from the perspective of test - driven accountability policies (and the classroom practices those policies encouraged), already where we needed them to be.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

Not only have newspapers alleged cheating at a few specific schools in the District of Columbia during Michelle Rhee's tenure as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia, but Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, claims that the results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test where cheating is improbable, reveal her to have been no more effective than her predecessors.

He notes that his policy is based on the efforts of North Carolina, where significant gains were made in test scores last year.

Teachers must fight, politically and legally, against evaluations where the administrators who set policies unilaterally determine whether it was the fault of those policies or the individual teacher for not meeting test score growth targets.

After an intense application process (in which I never again want to mention the three - letter word for standardized test to obtain graduate school admission) * and huge amounts of good luck, it's still incredible to think I'm now writing to you in my apartment from Cambridge, Massachusetts where I've been since September as a student in the International Education Policy program of the Masters of Education.

Because other states look to Massachusetts — where students overall routinely rank at the top of national and international tests — for lessons on academic achievement and innovation, the Bay State's policies on charter schools are being followed closely, former Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson told charter advocates gathered in Boston recently.

Contemporary accountability policies have created the added expectation that districts will differentiate support to schools on the basis of achievement results from state testing programs and other accountability measures, with particular attention to be given to schools where large numbers of students are not meeting standards of proficiency.

But the charters with the highest test scores are typically known not for innovation, but for «no excuses» discipline policies, where students may be fined or suspended or expelled if they fail to follow the rules of the school with unquestioning obedience, such as not making eye contact with the teacher or slouching or bringing candy to school or being too noisy in gym or the lunchroom.

Perhaps one of most widely publicized examples of school boards acting courageously to push back on some of these regressive policies comes from Texas where 520 boards of education and their superintendents fought the implementation of 15 end - of - course high school standardized tests that were part of a state education reform package.

And they constantly test school policies and practices in order to build a culture where love and justice thrive.

«ESSA will directly impact our students» outcomes and this policy gives us the opportunity to think critically about what it means to truly have a high - quality education, where we look beyond test scores to data on student growth, wellness, attendance, engagement and access to enrichment activities,» said Clare Foley, a fifth - grade teacher at Richard R. Green Central Park School in Minneapolis.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

Set up just after World War II to help administer the U.S. Marshall Plan, the OECD now addresses a wide range of social policy matters, including education, where 65 nations and territories currently participate in its PISA tests.

In fact, No Child Left Behind, with its emphasis on standards and hard data, has placed national policy in direct conflict with the prevailing approach of many colleges, where the John Dewey tradition of progressive education holds sway, marked by a deep antipathy toward testing.

It also requires that CPS «develop policies to remedy academic deficiencies in schools where students are testing «at or below 75 %» standards on state assessments, and to include in those policies clear criteria for board actions relating to school facility interventions such as closures.»

Since little has been done concurrent with high stakes accountability to actually support and improve schools with resources and innovative services, the result has been a policy environment where the tests have consumed more and more of the curriculum.

Farley shrugged at the inconsistency of the grading policy and made a career in the standardized testing industry, where he earned plenty of money.

However, where choice and competition are accompanied by other policies such as test - based accountability, the ability of schools to stand out from the pack may be lessened.

The same is true here in Connecticut where the Governor, the Connecticut General Assembly and the State Board of Education need to understand that their policies are turning our schools into little more than testing factories.

It is telling that the judge characterizes New Mexico's system as a «policy experiment» and says that it seems to be a «Beta test where teachers bear the burden for its uneven and inconsistent application.

Lead conversations with school leaders about international tests, such as PISA and TIMSS, and the implications of results for improving policies and practices where applicable.

Although this article deals with minimum competency tests, which were in policy fashion at the time, about seven policy iterations ago, the contents of the article still have much relevance given where we are today — investing in «new and improved» Common Core tests and still riding on unsinkable beliefs that this is the way to reform the schools that have been in despair and (still) in need of major repair since 20 + years ago.

Before his work at Trinity, he was a Senior Policy Fellow in K - 12 Education for CT Voices for Children where he published reports on Connecticut's testing system, public school choice, and K - 12 education data and pPolicy Fellow in K - 12 Education for CT Voices for Children where he published reports on Connecticut's testing system, public school choice, and K - 12 education data and policypolicy.

The lack of consistency means that access to college courses — credit - bearing courses that students need in order to transfer to four - year colleges — is determined not only by students» performance on the test, but also by the policies at the college where they enroll.

School officials in at least three towns reported that when they called the State Department of Education for guidance about the sit and stay policy they were told that the mandatory SBAC Test Administration Manual was a set of guidelines and it was up to the town to decide whether to require children who have been opted out of the SBAC test to sit and stay in the classroom or whether to relocate students to the library or some other safe location where they could read or do homewTest Administration Manual was a set of guidelines and it was up to the town to decide whether to require children who have been opted out of the SBAC test to sit and stay in the classroom or whether to relocate students to the library or some other safe location where they could read or do homewtest to sit and stay in the classroom or whether to relocate students to the library or some other safe location where they could read or do homework.

Polls showed that his most unpopular issue was education, where only 22 - 26 % of voters approved his harsh and punitive reform policies of closing public schools, grading schools, rating teachers based on student test scores, opening hundreds of small schools, and favoring charter schools with free public space.

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.

In the animal welfare field, where imitation is not only the highest form of flattery but a highly encouraged method for spreading effective programs and policies, Rich's game plan and out - of - the - box thinking have been renamed and reconfigured but have stood the test of over two decades of real world application.

«In addition to year - round prevention, the American Heartworm Society recommends an annual heartworm test for all dogs, regardless of where they live or whether they are on preventive,» says Andrea Sanchez, Senior Manager of Veterinary Policies and Standards for Banfield Pet Hospital.

Some years ago, the veterinary surgeons on the Falklands Islands, suspecting that the cats who lived there were already FCoV free, instituted a policy where all cats being imported to the Islands had to test negative for antibodies to Feline Coronavirus, the virus which cases Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP).

I think a good idea would be some kind of Apple like policy where games are physically tested, before they are even allowed on green light.

Key areas of focus include getting more waste to treatment, and improving treatment effectiveness where needed; improving the testing to target hormonally active substances in waste waters; and agricultural and chemical policy reform.

Where a drug and alcohol testing policy is required to maintain a safe workplace, employers should take a proactive approach to implementing and carrying out the testing, and design policies so that they avoid or eliminate potential discrimination.

Even where drug and alcohol testing policies are found to be discriminatory, they can be justifiable where an employer can establish that the testing is a bona fide (i.e - legitimate) requirement of the job for safety purposes.

The employer's policy encouraged employees who were concerned about their use of alcohol or drugs to seek assistance voluntarily but provided for the possibility of discipline where an employee tested positive for drug use after an accident or other significant incident.

Ultimately, Suncor demonstrates that random testing may be a justified safety measure where there is evidence of a general problem with drugs and alcohol in the workplace that can not otherwise be effectively addressed through other reasonable measures (i.e. education, training, supervision and / or other forms of testing and a sound policy).

Where there are no policies and procedures in place, it can often make it difficult to decide what is or is not gross misconduct, whereas a policy outlining what is will make it easier to make the decision and will provide solid supporting evidence should that decision be tested moving forward.

The Supreme Court of Canada has concluded that a workplace policy which provides for random alcohol testing is not justified when there is an absence of evidence of an existing problem with alcohol use in the workplace, even where the workplace is considered inherently dangerous.

This case highlights the contextual approach arbitrators will apply to assessing the reasonableness of post-incident testing, even where there is a clear and reasonable policy.

Julian Wilson's appearances in conflicts of law cases include: Sanders v Trigor One Limited [2014] EWHC 1646 (Comm); [2014] All ER (D) 187, a case on whether a Gibraltar Fund Investment Prospectus contained a concluded English jurisdiction agreement under Council Regulation (EC) 44/2001, Art 23; Goldstone v Goldstone & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 39 on the test for territorial jurisdiction where disputed ownership and control is a preliminary issue in ancillary relief proceedings; Duarte v Black & Decker Corporation [2008] All ER (Comm) 401 on the role of English public policy as the law of the forum in cases involving restrictive covenants; and Foote Cone & Belding v Theron [2006] EWHC 1585 (Ch) a worldwide freezing injunction case concerning the test for domicile and residence for the purposes of territorial jurisdiction.

However, if you don't like needles or don't want a medical exam, we offer a life insurance policy where NO MEDICAL TESTING IS REQUIRED!!!! For this type of policy, we only need to gather some brief info and (within 24 hours), you find out if you qualify.

Vikas, There are few points 1) Online policy would come just for life insurance + accidential insurance, whereas offline policy comes even with riders like permanent disability etc. 2) Online life insurance generally do not require medical tests, where as offline would need to be undergo 3) Online policy premiums are less than offline policy.