What will give those community groups their power are written performance standards.

The performance standards were developed by a committee of teachers and test company officials.

In fact, the use of common performance standards is not required.

Students at Levels 1 and 2 fall below performance standards.

Less easy to control, perhaps, is variety in the standard of performance.

Small problem: Your current equipment doesn't exactly meet public performance standards.

It had failed to meet a single one of the 18 performance standards set down by the state.

"You're in effect holding up a standard of performance for an organization," he said.

Degree to which a local authority is meeting the standards of performance.

Especially when you consider that we're held to a higher performance standard than other athletes.