Because we didn't ask for complete control or mandate performance benchmarks, we found plenty of groups eager to participate and willing to experiment.
Despite a similarly grim portrait of conditions in Colombia last year, President Clinton waived a series of human rights benchmarks mandated by Congress in order for the military aid to flow.
Moreover, it also came down to whether local boards could trust the state and federal bureaucracies to release them from the MOU if districts opted out at a later date or if they didn't meet all of the benchmarks mandated and if released, whether they would have to pay back any disbursed grant funds.
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With its successive coverage announcements for heart, liver, and lung transplants [ 5- 7], Medicare has mandated similar volume standards, thereby linking benchmarking to reimbursement for all major solid organ transplants.
The Government Accountability Office, in a draft assessment reported yesterday, determined that Iraq has failed to meet 15 out of 18 benchmarks for political and military progress mandated by Congress.
Some students must take separate state-, district-, and school-level benchmarking assessments on top of their federally mandated annual tests.
In August 2014 the United States enacted the Assessing Progress in Haiti Act, which mandated the establishment of a three-year plan for meeting reconstruction benchmarks in Haiti and the provision of annual reports to the U.S. Congress by the State Department.
The academy study, requested by governors of the Western states and mandated by Congress during the Clinton administration, established a clear benchmark for appropriate environmental protection.
We also examined the effects of staffing by utilising a contemporary paediatric staffing benchmark of no more than four patients per nurse based upon the state of California's mandated minimum nurse staffing ratios.
