Sentences with phrase «year moratorium pushed»

In June, both the NEA and AFT endorsed a two - year moratorium pushed by the Gates Foundation, proposing a delay in high - stakes consequences tied to Common Core exams for students and teachers.

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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.»

The unions» petition follows their aggressive push for a three - year moratorium on using tests aligned to the rigorous Common Core standards for «high stakes» decisions affecting teachers and students.

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.»

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.

Two years ago, the annual gathering of the state political committee was marked by fireworks as some of its liberal members pushed resolutions calling for a moratorium on natural gas hydrofracking and the extension of higher income taxes.

He faces a tough dilemma in an election year: Blocking lawmakers» push for a moratorium would be unpopular, but allowing them to move forward would take the teeth out of a law that he has presented as one of his crowning achievements.

In the wake of the BP PLC Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, a rising tide of public push - back against the gas industry, resulting in a temporary moratorium on exploration in New York, prompted the White House to get involved.

Democratic legislators, buffeted by New Jersey's largest teachers» union, were pushing for a two - year moratorium on using the standards but were satisfied with Christie's commission.

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.

The union is supporting a separate slate of candidates, including incumbent Steve Zimmer, who helped push through the new teacher evaluation system and who last year proposed a two - month moratorium on the approval of new charter schools.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

And the draft climate legislation by Waxman and Markey — who only a year ago pushed for a moratorium on new coal plants — offers the industry a pathway forward and provides billions for clean coal research.

Japan abandoned commercial whaling in accordance with an international moratorium in 1986 but conducts what it calls «scientific research» whaling every year and is pushing for the resumption of commercial whaling.