Requirements Quotes
[More than a quarter of U.S. schools did not make] adequate yearly progress ... It is absolutely unconscionable for the president to demand that states pay for federally required programs without properly funding them. Since NCLB passed, we have been hearing horror stories from states desperately looking for money to meet requirements.
- Howard Dean
[Chattanooga-based Dixie Group has used WorkKeys several years.] Almost immediately after we implemented WorkKeys, we were getting a better picture of where the basic skills of our people were, and through profiling, what the requirements of the jobs were, ... Within a year, we were able to pinpoint what basic skills training was needed and target those skill areas.
- Derek Davis
[Bush's priority is redistributing money from the bottom up, Herbert says. It's a harsh criticism, but some of the facts support Herbert's claim.] One of the first things the president did in the aftermath of Katrina was to poke his finger in the eyes of struggling workers by suspending the requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act, ... This is one more way of taking money from the working poor and handing it to the wealthy. A construction laborer in New Orleans who would ordinarily be paid about $9 an hour, the prevailing wage in the city, can now be paid less. So much for the president's commitment to fighting poverty.
- Bob Herbert
[Allowing states to enforce their own standards would lead to a confusing patchwork of requirements, NHTSA spokesman Rae Tyson said. Tyson added that a recent Supreme Court decision on a lawsuit exonerating Honda Motor Co. from liability in an air bag case made clear NHTSA has the authority to pre-empt state measures.] Congress has given us the authority to set safety standards... We're merely restating our authority. We're the agency that sets standards. Our standards are not minimum standards.
- Rae Tyson
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