Sentences with phrase «year moratorium from»

And because the Obama Administration has followed up on its waiver gambit with other senseless decisions — including Duncan's move this past June to allow waiver states a one - year moratorium from fully implementing teacher evaluation systems they promised to put into place in order to allay opposition from teachers» unions and others to the use of exams aligned with Common Core reading and math standards — the waiver gambit has also made it harder for reform - minded politicians to push ahead on transforming education for kids.

If these proposals are implemented, there may be stiff penalties associated with companies that don't comply, such as a one - year moratorium from the ability to raise funding via exemption 506, so pay attention and tread carefully.

Not exact matches

Eric Gordon accepted a max four - year contract offer from the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday, giving the New Orleans Hornets three days after the end of the moratorium period on July 11 to match the offer sheet.

Decoupled the state assessments from teacher evaluations and placed a four - year moratorium on the use of student test scores for evaluation purposes;

The de Blasio administration floated a proposal last year to end the decades - old moratorium and require that half the festivals» vendors come from the community board district where they were being held, in an attempt to bring more local flavor.

The Board of Regents, on recommendation from Cuomo's Common Core task force, put in place a moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations through the 2019 - 20 school year.

Alternatively, lawmakers are pushing for a two - year moratorium on using test scores for deciding the futures of educators or students, and Cuomo has refrained from criticizing their plan, simply calling it «premature.»

A four - year moratorium on use of student scores on Common Core state tests to evaluate job performances by teachers and principals gained quick and overwhelming preliminary approval Monday from the state Board of Regents.

The Jefferson County Planning Board on Tuesday voted to recommend that the Clayton Town Board extend its proposed moratorium on wind projects from six months to one year.

A report from UCL's Constitution Unit published earlier this year warned that only a temporary moratorium on Lords appointments could prevent the issue getting worse.

The lawmakers, concerned with a backlash not just from the teachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for two years.

Unions and advocacy groups have pushed legislation that would cut down on testing or dilute the state's reform agenda by enacting a three - year moratorium on using scores from Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes.»

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Tuesday that a call from teachers» unions for a three - year moratorium on using state exam results for «high - stakes» decisions is a «distraction» from the goal of improving New York graduates» outcomes in college and careers.

Written like a press release from New York State United Teachers, the bill pushes for a three - year moratorium on using student scores on Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes» decisions — principally, teacher evaluations.

The Regents, under emergency regulation, imposed a four - year moratorium on the evaluation law in December 2015, driven by backlash from both educators and parents.

The bill places a one year moratorium on the fee from being enacted, but will likely kill the surcharge in its current iteration.

For four years, the Cuomo administration has put off making a decision whether to lift the moratorium that stops drilling companies from using the hydraulic fracturing method of extracting natural gas in New York state.

And New York State United Teachers has called for a three - year moratorium on consequences for teachers and students from standardized test scores.

Japan has long maintained that most whale species are not endangered and began what it called scientific whaling in 1987, a year after an international moratorium came into effect, despite growing global outrage, including from key allies such as the United States.

NORWAY faces strong condemnation from the International Whaling Commission again this year, as its whalers continue their commercial hunt in the face of a world moratorium and in the absence of any reliable way of determining «safe» catch quotas.

The Obama administration did indeed place a federal moratorium on all new coal mining leases on public lands across the country in June — but but only out of concern from environmentalists, Congress, and the Department of the Interior that coal companies have spent 30 years cheating taxpayers out of $ 30 billion in royalties.

The moratorium won't last as long as Disney's, which themselves have been shortened from an inhumane ten - year rotation plan.

In a dramatic turnaround from its previous strong support for charter schools, the Buffalo, N.Y., school board voted last week to impose a one - year moratorium on allowing more of the independently operated public schools.

Notable recently were the Gates Foundation's call for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core to consequences for teachers or students; Florida's legislation to eliminate consequences for schools that receive low grades on the state's pioneering A-F school grading system; the teetering of the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment consortium (down from 24 to 15 members, and with its contract with Pearson to deliver the assessments in limbo because of a lawsuit that alleges bid - rigging); and the groundswell of opposition from parents, teachers, and political groups to the content of the Common Core.

NYSUT's board also withdrew its support for the Common Core standards as implemented and interpreted in New York state until SED makes major course corrections to its failed implementation plan and supports a three - year moratorium on high - stakes consequences from standardized testing.

Instead of making the major course corrections that are clearly needed, including backing a three - year moratorium on high - stakes consequences for students and teachers from state testing, he has labeled everyone and every meaningful recommendation as distractions.»

In addition, during the moratorium year, the state Department of Education should seek feedback on the TEAM model from teachers around the state and make necessary changes as it relates to common core.

Last year, the NAACP passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools until problems with accountability and the loss of funding from traditional public schools are addressed.

Yesterday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced its support for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards to teacher evaluations or student promotions to the next grade level.

California placed a year - long moratorium on the use of Common Core exams to make «accountability» decisions, a modest step that drew threats from Duncan to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education aid.

Strikingly, this report from the nation's premier civil rights organization singles out charter schools and their students for criticism, and underscores the NAACP's call for a moratorium on charters last year.

However, after blowback from teacher union leaders and suburban parents aiming the weapon of test refusal squarely at Cuomo's political aspirations, the Governor folded and declared a four - year moratorium on that linkage.

Last year, the Movement for Black Lives issued an education platform calling for a moratorium on charter schools that was authored by individuals from three organizations that are funded by the teachers unions.

Cuomo, consistent in accepting poorly documented arguments from Audubon New York and the New York Sportsmen's Advisory Council, also for the second year in a row vetoed a bill which would have declared a moratorium on mute swan eradication.

The Food and Agriculture Organization says worldwide hauls of fish have increased since the whaling moratorium began, to 90 million tons a year in the 1990's from 75 million tons in the 1980's.

That was three years after they implemented a logging moratorium to support the carbon project, two years before funding from the carbon sales started to flow into the community in January 2014.

After a one - year uptick in deforestation, forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon resumed its downward trend, falling 18 percent for the 12 months ended July 31, 2014... A combination of law enforcement, government policies, new protected areas, forest monitoring, pressure from environmental groups, and private sector commitments — including a moratorium on deforestation for soy production, which was unexpectedly renewed for another 18 months in late November — are credited for the decline.

The bill removes taxpayer handouts to oil, gas, and coal companies, places a moratorium on almost all major fossil fuel projects, and phases out fossil fuels from the nation's energy system over the next 30 years.

Patient 4: A failed refugee claimant from Libya who has been in Canada for about 25 years due to the fact that Libya had been on a moratorium list had his right leg amputated below the knee in the fall of 2012 due to infection, likely related to diabetes.