Sentences with phrase «with federal testing»
They have assembled a collection of odd bedfellows — the major teachers unions, which have never been happy with federal testing requirements; civil rights groups; and, interestingly, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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In April, the USDE placed Illinois in what the agency calls «high - risk status» for not complying with federal testing requirements, according to correspondence provided to the Tribune Friday by the Illinois State Board of Education.
The findings are noteworthy, researchers said, because they come as states are gearing up to comply with the federal testing requirements outlined in the No Child Left Behind Act.
Not exact matches
Late last week, Federal regulators delivered a crushing blow to the company, withdrawing certification of its Silicon Valley lab and slapping Holmes with a two - year ban from the lab - testing business.
The Obama administration and former Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx laid the groundwork in January 2016 with a series of voluntary safety guidelines and by offering $ 4 billion in federal funding to foster the testing and development of self - driving technology.
The federal banking regulator's tougher rules, which took effect Jan. 1, now require a stress test to be applied even to borrowers with more than 20 per cent down payment.
The company wants to try the wireless method in non-commercial tests starting in six California cities and six other cities scattered around the country, Google said in an August 5 filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
Accreditation provides business owners, PEOs and PEO state / federal regulators with time - tested verification and financial assurance of all key areas of PEO reliability for both IRS - certified and non-certified entities.
Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.
Volkswagen's former Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn was charged in a Michigan federal court with conspiracy and wire fraud in relation to a probe into the German automaker's efforts to cheat U.S. diesel emissions testing, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday...
Volkswagen AG's former Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn was charged in a Michigan federal court with conspiracy and wire fraud in relation to a probe into the German automaker's efforts to cheat U.S. diesel emissions testing, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
With eurozone inflation surprisingly weak, the ECB's patience risks being tested
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The Federal Reserve was finally able to say Wednesday that U.S. inflation had moved close to its 2 % target.
Apropos Mr. Gnuehs» suggestion that the Federal Reserve just issue credit — with no test of credit - worthiness, it appears — it is worth recalling that this is more or less what Mr. McNamara did a generation ago with all his development loans, creating crushing debts that poor nations are still paying off today.
The public benefit test was recently considered, albeit not in a media merger context, by the Full Federal Court in ACCC v Australian Competition Tribunal [2017] FCAFC 150 (Tabcorp) where the Court applied a broad concept of public benefit consistent with the Fairfax decision in New Zealand:
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However, lab tests have documented that ethoxylated alcohol compounds are frequently contaminated with 1,4 - dioxane, a carcinogenic listed by the federal government as a probable human carcinogen.
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Students in a Brooklyn elementary - school classroom drank from a fountain whose water was more contaminated than Flint, Mich.'s — laden with 1,000 times the amount of lead permitted by federal safety regulations, a December test revealed.
A better, tried - and - tested method through congress is to make certain (significant) aspects of federal funding of local police forces contingent upon compliance with a camera program / policy.
After a light hearted beginning, question topics included his expectations concerning Kathy Hochul's separate primary, where he expects votes to come from, his «position» in the John Liu / Tony Avella senate primary, reports of pressure from Cuomo's staff and allies on Democrats to refrain from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, Teachout's comment that her qualifications include «not under federal investigation», whether Teachout is qualified to be governor, whether votes for Teachout are an anti-Cuomo protest, his encounter with Teachout at the Labor Day Parade and Tim Wu's related comment that Cuomo «failed a basic test of decency and civility».
Cuomo wants to require water systems with fewer than 10,000 customers be tested for contaminants — including PFOA, the chemical found in Hooksick Falls — that the federal Environmental Protection Agency monitors but does not regulate.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew informed the April 15 Delegate Assembly of developments at a federal level that could provide long - term relief for students and educators fed up with high - stakes testing.
But in late 2013 the program was put on probation and disqualified from seeking additional grants after federal officials found fault with the city's testing procedures and quarterly reports.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he agreed with the federal perspective, saying there was a need to «reverse the overemphasis on testing that has become the norm in too many of our schools.»
The state has lost another round in its legal fight against the Indian Point nuclear facility, with a federal regulator rejecting its effort to force the plant to undergo leak rate tests more often.
The convention will take place at sites in Central New York and the Mohawk Valley that are affiliated with NUAIR Alliance, a nonprofit consortium that runs one of six national test sites for drones authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration, the sources said.
Alhough students» scores on the Common Core - aligned state tests won't be used for teacher and principal evaluations, the growth scores will still be calculated and used for school accountability to comply with federal law, a state Education Department official said.
As part of New York's Race To The Top federal grant, the state is working with data integration companies to build a database of student information, including demographics, test scores and behavior records.
In March, the NYS Education Department requested a waiver from the federal law, allowing for developmentally appropriate testing standards for child with serious disabilities, and a second year of prep time for English Language Learners for children just starting to learn English.
The state's education commissioner, Mary Ellen Elia, said she's fighting a proposal by her predecessor, now the federal education secretary, John King, to punish schools with a high opt - out rate from the standardized tests.
Three New York lawmakers — Schumer, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — are calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to immediately test the city of Newburgh's water supply, which has been found to be contaminated with a toxic chemical.
Federal prosecutors said the son of Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous should go to prison for underreporting his income, accusing him of failing to fully repay the IRS and «tampering» with a urine sample used in a drug test.
Village Mayor David Borge waited months to request outside federal assistance to help with the pollution after concerned citizens showed him private test results with high levels of contamination.
Jimino says along with public water supplies, private wells are being tested in the two communities as federal and state initiatives continue in Hoosick Falls to ensure people have safe drinking water.
Education groups, dismayed by the federal education secretary's threat to punish schools in New York with high opt - out rates for standardized tests, say he's re-igniting controversy that state education officials have been trying to calm for the past year.
According to federal statistics, inmates have the highest rate of HIV in New York, compared to any other state, and many of those inmates are co-infected with hepatitis C. To fight that, the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS has a campaign that emphasizes public awareness, education and access to testing and treatment.
Some school districts are reporting that 60 to 70 percent of students boycotted statewide English tests, raising questions about whether the federal government could withhold funds from schools with high opt out rates.
Among the 25 projects authorized by the federal Department of Energy, First Energy plans to install a new carbon capture technology on its R. E. Burger power plant in Ohio and then partner with engineering firm Battelle to test pumping it 7,000 feet beneath the surface.
In March, researchers, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Ultragenyx, completed the first part of a Phase III clinical trial in adults with XLH — the final test of a drug before federal approval.
«Despite the fact that the literature describes only correlation between verbal memory tests and hippocampal cell densities in patients with left hippocampal sclerosis, we found a correlation between right hippocampal cell densities and performance on visual memory tests, including both immediate and delayed recall,» says authors Sandra Mara Comper and Anaclara Prada Jardim, students in the laboratory of Dr. Elza Marcia Yacubian at the Federal University of São Paulo.
Lancaster is a vice president of Guardian Technologies International, one of several companies working with the federal Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL), where new technologies that may improve airport security are tested against actual explosives and not just safe substitutes.
With the exception of mammography, there is no federal regulation of radiation dose for medical tests, leaving the appropriate use of heart imaging in the hands of clinicians and imaging facilities.
Starting in 1996, when Congress passed the new Food Quality Protection Action with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Amendments, it told EPA to develop a screening program using tests and other scientifically relevant information to determine whether substances have hormonal activity.
The tests confirming the spectral properties were conducted in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology (Martinsried) and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Berlin).
MD Anderson is working closely with Guardant to expand a highly specialized CLIA - accredited lab (CLIA labs comply with federal standards known as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments that regulate all clinical laboratory testing on humans), and pre-CLIA labs, where Guardant's digital sequencing technology will be used to create disease - specific assays that will be transferred for use in the CLIA - accredited lab to help detect cancers early and guide treatment.
The Institute actively seeks gifts of all sizes to support promising «high - risk» concepts with potential for «high payoff» medical application, but which are not yet sufficiently developed and tested to qualify for federal or foundation grant support.
Gosselaar plays a federal agent charged with protecting a young girl named Amy (Saniyya Sidney), the test subject for a new government virus.
Rather than starting with a federal mandate, a consortium of states and private organizations (such as some combination of Achieve, the state school «chiefs,» and the governors) could develop the curricula and tests, ideally with initial support from major national foundations.