Enrolled Agents (EAs), Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and attorneys are exempt from the new testing and education requirements since the IRS believes that these groups already have stringent guidelines in place.
Daschle continued his push for national education testing, stressing the importance of having a report card on schools.
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Under the new rules, attorneys, CPAs and enrolled agents (EAs) are exempt from the competency testing and continuing education requirements.
So the IRS dreamed up a new designation, RTRP (registered tax return preparer) which would require testing, ongoing education requirements and registration with IRS in order to prepare returns.
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When the IRS finally announced how paid preparers would register and who might be exempt from testing and continuing education requirements, I listened as my colleagues howled in protest.
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As a nod to the upcoming rules on continuing education and testing, the IRS is asking tax preparers to identify who they are and what exactly they do.
In accordance with this order, tax return preparers covered by this program are not currently required to register with the IRS, to complete competency testing or secure continuing education.
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"We just completed our five year plan, here" said Wendell Hicks, executive director of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, an organizations whose mission is to provide compassionate medical care to people with HIV and, and to help prevent the spread of HIV through education and testing.
New requirements take effect on January 1, 2011, and include mandatory preparer tax identification numbers, continuing education, competency testing, ethical standards and electronic filing.
Continuing education and competency testing are expected to follow next year.
Of these three, only Enrolled Agents have been subject to the direct oversight of the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility as to their return preparation practice, testing and mandatory Continuing Professional Education (CPE).
The venture which benefits from Yale's pedigree and complete funding from the Singapore government will create Singapore's first liberal-arts college, testing whether American-style liberal-arts education can take root in parts of Asia where critics complain about limitations on free expression.
Testing is boring, and teaching to tests makes education meaningless, and creates all sorts of bad incentives.
Look for the watering down of No Child Left Behind testing standards, as a favor to the National Education Association.
Supplementary services mainly testing, coaching, training and pre-school education are one boom area.
The testing ground for his drive for accountability will be education.
"We are testing these ideas to see if it enhances environmental education in terms of recalling information and encourages people to change their behaviour, " she said.
Either better health education, he proposed, or widespread testing.
School testing is not only about improving children's education.
The decentralisation of American education also makes it impossible to introduce national testing standards.
The current testing and accountability regime does nothing to make schooling and education more self-driven or creative.
Now some, led by Jeb Bush in Florida, are pioneering education reforms school vouchers, stringent school testing that could have the same impact.
As such it has been suggested that Mr Bush will "de-couple" his education package, pushing ahead with the proposals on testing as soon as he enters office, while returning to school vouchers at a later date.
The Garden State's new education commissioner, William Librera, is cutting back school testing, claiming that tests stress students and prevent teachers from employing "creative" methods.
Some politicians believe there is a single silver bullet that will solve all of our problems in education, be it vouchers, merit pay, standardized testing, charter schools, a particular curriculum, or simply more resources.
When it comes to the modern education reform movement, I am much more concerned with the testing regime and the top-down approach of many school reformers than I am with the idea of school choice.
And I sort of have the feeling that we're, you know, we're testing a lot of skills and a lot of data sets and looking at education that way.
This focus on teachers not only turns people off to becoming teachers in the first place, it leads to a system of testing and accountability that is really anathema to a good, well-rounded education.
"The GED was in dangerous position of no longer being a reflection of what high schools were graduating, " said Randy Trask, president and CEO of GED Testing Service, which previously was solely operated by the nonprofit American Council on Education.
Not even an independent testing cohort staffed by educators outside the purview of the New York City Department of Education.
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