"The current administration has forced teachers to implement new standards without giving them the curriculum they need to do it successfully," Mr. Thompson, a former city comptroller and Board of Education president, said in a statement.
There are however also problems in implementing new standards in the rail sector, as investments are often costly and the life cycle of infrastructure and rolling stock is very long.
The Port Chicago disaster had helped catalyze the drive to implement new standards.
Brown wants to spend most of it — about $1 billion — on helping the state implement new standards for writing and math.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a law May 30 that requires the state to review the Common Core before Jan . 1and implement new standards by the 2015-16 school year.
At ENSHAA, for our part we are working toward implementing new standards in how our workers' accommodation is set up and run.
Implementing new standards for existing power plants will put us on a path toward climate stability, unleash investment in new clean energy technologies, and help stem the devastating storms, droughts, and floods worsened by climate change.
The cost of developing and implementing new standards could run into the millions of dollars in states like Oklahoma, at a time when the budgets of state education agencies have been "hollowed out," noted Kris Amundson, the executive director of the National Association of State Boards of Education, in Arlington, Va.
Synthesizing and implementing new standards of care can be very demanding.
The WormBase management and curatorial team set standards for data and metadata and implement new standards as they develop.
