In our voluntary system, it is the consumers who have the power to make this choice.
The unions say the tests should be replaced with a voluntary system based on teachers' assessments.
"I think where Neel is coming from, he's asking for a more voluntary system, " he says.
Tumlinson said that maintaining the voluntary system would do little more than preserve the unworkable status quo.
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Ministers have agreed to introduce a voluntary system in the coming years.
California argued that the voluntary system isn't good enough, because some minors manage to purchase mature-rated games anyway, and some publishers don't submit games to the ratings board.
Prime Minister David Cameron has described lobbying as "the next big scandal" and the UK government is consulting on whether the current voluntary system should be replaced by a legally binding register.
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He sees the root of the problem in the high-school dropout rate among dalits and tribals, but backs a voluntary system in which the government would offer tax or other incentives to firms that meet employment targets.
This is the year in which a seismic change to the voluntary reporting system for corporate taxpayers is implemented.
But experts say this voluntary reporting system is useless for my quest.
In addition, a voluntary rating system is used by all television networks to warn viewers when material that might be offensive will be aired.
The FAA said the voluntary reporting system for controllers has provided nearly 10 times the data during the past three years compared to the traditional reporting system.
The uptick in enforcement is all for the greater good of maintaining a voluntary tax compliance system, the report says.
Cuomo said lawmakers have strong, philosophical opposition to some measures, including a Democratic proposal to use public funds to pay for election campaigns in a voluntary matching fund system.
Lord Justice Leveson's call for a system of voluntary independent self-regulation of the press posed a problem for the politicians - how to make any new system independent enough to satisfy the victims whilst at the same time making it not so independent as to convince the press to walk away and refuse to take part.
While many countries mandate the use of the metric system by law, the U.S. Congress has repeatedly passed laws that encourage voluntary adoption of the metric system.
Obama Care moves us from a system of voluntary to involuntary health uninsurance, and it is the thirty million uninsured who probably need it the most.
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Due in part to traditional beliefs and distrust of the medical system, voluntary donations are rare in China, where the need for organs far exceeds the supply.
The system is voluntary, but 84% of the U.S.'s pork producers have gotten certified under the program, representing 75% of the U.S. pig inventory, according to the pork board.
For the last 12 years, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, which operates with private, foundation, and federal funds, has been working to build a system of voluntary national certification for outstanding teachers.
Our organ-donor system depends on voluntary donors, and the network maintains the waiting lists.
Holders of the patents would reap windfalls and this would undermine a tax system based on voluntary compliance.
We also have a long tradition of voluntary standards and our bilingual system of measurement is part of that tradition.
We replaced that system with largely voluntary 401(k) and IRA savings plans.
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Holders of the patents would reap windfalls and besides, they assert, allowing tax patents would undermine a tax system based on voluntary compliance.
Participation in the new regulatory system would be voluntary for British newspapers, his report said, though there would be incentives for membership in the form of reduced legal costs in privacy and defamation cases.
Voluntary "refers to our system of allowing taxpayers to determine the correct amount of tax and complete the appropriate returns, rather than have the government determine tax for them, " the IRS declares in a statement.
The measure, a piece of the 2010 health reform law, was supposed to create a new national, voluntary long-term care insurance system.
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