Sentence examples similar to states to defined from inspiring English sources

The bills leave it to the states to define proficiency and to say how they will measure it.

The law allows states to define their own achievement standards, but imposes sanctions on schools whose students fail to make adequate progress.

A11 New Rules Grant Fetus Rights The Bush administration issued final rules allowing states to define a fetus as a child eligible for government-subsidized health care.

The Bush administration issued final rules today allowing states to define a fetus as a child eligible for government-subsidized health care under the Children's Health Insurance Program.

The brake will apply only in "tight" markets, a term which it is up to the 16 federal states to define.

The autonomy of states to define rural and urban, along with the haphazard nature of many areas newly classified as urban, makes for muddy statistical analysis.

He says that the "central theme of Windsor is the right of States to define marriage for their community" — and, implicitly, that Windsor imposes no requirement of marriage equality on the states.

It leaves states to define the minimum that children need to know, but outdoes Texas in toughness by requiring all children in each subgroup to reach mastery in a dozen years, a goal the White House now deems impossible.

The bill, the legislative answer to President Bush's initiative on education, allows states to define minimum levels of proficiency on reading and math tests and gives them 12 years to do so at a more or less steady pace.

The plan continued to allow states to define proficiency, as either mastery of a given body of knowledge or as a measure of a child's performance relative to the average of others taking the test.

The Bush administration has drafted a new policy that would allow states to define "an unborn child" as a person eligible for medical coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program.