Sentences with phrase «balanced states took»

Teachers, parents, higher education faculty, business leaders, and other community members from all of the Smarter Balanced states took part in a highly inclusive, consensus - based process that asked participants to closely examine assessment content and detailed Achievement Level Descriptors to determine threshold scores for each achievement level.

«Teachers, parents, higher education faculty, business leaders, and other community members from all of the Smarter Balanced states took part in a highly inclusive, consensus - based process that asked participants to closely examine assessment content to determine threshold scores for each achievement level.

While hundreds of thousands of parents and students, aware of the shortcomings of these tests and dismayed by the relentless testing their children were being subjected to, took the matter into their own hands and opted out of the testing, more than 90 % of students in Smarter Balanced states took the test as planned.

Not exact matches

It took some painful cuts and some reorganization of state agencies to balance the budget, and Texas is one of only seven states — mostly oil - producing ones — that saw revenues decline last year, according to the National Association of State Budget Offistate agencies to balance the budget, and Texas is one of only seven states — mostly oil - producing ones — that saw revenues decline last year, according to the National Association of State Budget OffiState Budget Officers.

The global financial system threatens once again to break apart, deranging the world's trade and investment relationships — or to take a new form that will leave the United States isolated in the face of its structural long - term balance - of - payments deficit.

«It is heartening to observe that the leadership in various states has taken cognizance of feedback from public and other relevant associations on draft RERA and modified it to give a balanced view.»

In the United States, there is growing concern that the recovery may not be taking hold, as the economy struggles under the continuing burdens of balance sheet restructuring and extremely weak employment growth.

Still, and notwithstanding considerable costs in blood and treasure, the creators of the postwar internationalist consensus also thought it vere dignum et iustum, «truly right and just» as the Roman Missal says, that the United States take such a leading role in world politics, for, on balance and considering the alternatives, American power was a positive force in the world.

Obviously, the frugal Franciscan Friars who take a vow of poverty and who run the topic University need to balance the school budget, something our federal, state and local government obviously are not capable of regarding their own budgets.

«With the civil rights of New Yorkers hanging in the balance, Donovan needs to state publicly: Does he take his cues on intolerance from his mentor and political patron Guy Molinari, or does he stand with principled New Yorkers — and now, thankfully, a federal court — who view marriage equality as a fundamental right?»

The CBC weighs in on whether the state budget is balanced (based on actions taken up to this point and those expected to be taken, which are now in flux).

Now that NATO is committed to transfer security responsibility to Afghanistan, withdraw its combat forces from there and commit itself to long - term security of the war - torn country, what remains are steps that the alliance, and America as its lead player, need to take to co-opt Pakistan and other regional states in an Afghan - led and Afghan - owned peace process to secure an ethnically - balanced and all - inclusive political structure in Afghanistan.

That is why we are offering a realistic budget for 2018, which takes a balanced and pragmatic approach towards solving the developmental challenges of our State and take it to the next level of transformation.»

In 2014, legislators did not take her advice to cut down on the county's workforce, instead opting to increase the tax levy over the state tax cap, and pull $ 1 million from the fund balance.

As an increasing number of women and mothers participate in the workforce, federal and state laws and policies have not met the needs of both male and female workers who must balance taking care of themselves and their families with the responsibilities of work.

After a run of presidential elections in which Democrats took the state by massive margins and some snooze-fest off - year contests, the Empire State is sure to make a difference in determining the balance of Congstate by massive margins and some snooze-fest off - year contests, the Empire State is sure to make a difference in determining the balance of CongState is sure to make a difference in determining the balance of Congress.

Few believe the Democrats will gain a majority in the Senate this year, leaving Spitzer with two years to amass a record of success on his governmental - reform agenda of lowering taxes and balancing the state budget before attempting to take on a controversial social issue.

After Cuomo, the second - largest recipient of hedge fund - contributions was New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany — an independent expenditure committee created by the pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY — that spent $ 4.2 million to help Republicans take control of the state Senate.

Democrats had hoped that that they might be able to take full control of state government with this special election — but the balance of power in Albany will remain unchanged.

The Personal Income Tax (PIT) actions taken by the governor and the Legislature this month should reduce projected deficits in the near - term, but balancing next year's budget will again be a struggle, and current conditions add risk to the upcoming state budget.»

Mayor Bloomberg is taking some heat for the full - color mailer he sent out to NYC residents that slams Albany for trying to balance the state budget for «cutting billions of dollars» from the city and touts his own efforts to hold the line on taxes, create jobs and protect «vital services.»

His balancing act as governor has been very deliberate: When Cuomo takes rhetorical stances to placate progressives constantly nagging at him from the left, he almost as quickly cuts deals with the state's Republicans, who he has never truly fought to dislodge, and then blames them for not getting what he had claimed he wanted.

«Everyone is excited he is willing to take on this challenge — the balance of the entire Republican Party in the State of New York may rely on this.»

I applaud the Governor for directing State agencies to take this balanced approach to eliminate unnecessary and onerous red tape.

«I think it's so important that we take back the Senate for the balance of the state.»

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«That's a decision our states have made and we balance that economically,» Cuomo said, noting he has lowered taxes since taking office in 2011.

In order to keep the budget in balance, Cuomo said the state will take $ 120 million out of the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities and an additional $ 380 million in changes to the state's Medicaid cap.

They also took issue with Cuomo's proposal to unload one - third of CUNY's budget, nearly $ 500 million, from the state's balance sheet and transfer it to the city's.

The state's budgetary «gap elimination adjustment» is among the reasons to blame, as it allows the state to take a percentage of funding from all school districts to balance its own budget.

Budget officials say state - related debt has been cut by $ 2.9 billion since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office, down to $ 52.7 billion, with the sixth straight balanced budget proposal while limiting spending growth to two percent.

He's opened up political space for a middle way, for Labour to triangulate and offer a deficit reduction path that does not necessitate taking a meat cleaver to the welfare state but does show a clear route back to a balanced budget.

«As the 2nd most conservative member of the New York State Assembly in rankings by the New York State Conservative Party and the # 1 Legislator in scoring by Unshackle Upstate, a New York reform organization, I know we need to slash federal spending, balance the budget, end the bailouts, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit and support repealing Obamacare.

The proposed spending plan would take $ 14 million from the district's fund balance and borrow $ 3 million from future state aid — and would still require state legislators to provide the nearly $ 10 million aid boost.

While in that instance money was routed through county committees in what election enforcement officials suspect was an effort to circumvent contribution limits, both the Republican State Leadership Committee and Balance New York are outside, independent groups that can take and give unlimited donations.

While costs for the $ 500,000 project will be taken from available fund balance in the current year, Osborne said, state aid on the project has to be factored into the tax cap calculation.

it properly balances the desire of prospective patients to take advantage of a safe and effective therapy, while preserving the regulatory oversight of the state.

The purpose is to bring balance to these energy centers and take the person into a state of peace and calm.

As Ben himself states — «no matter what you are taking, if your body isn't treated as a whole organism, maximizing recovery, controlling inflammation, and balancing hormones, it's going to BREAK DOWN very, very quickly.

«When the sadhaka [practitioner] has reached the state of balance, attention, extension, diffusion, and relaxation take place simultaneously in body and intelligence, and they merge in the seat of the soul.»

I think people make this way too complicated... If you are just to focus on a good balance between fats, carbs, and proteins, and make sure to eat only natural unprocessed organic foods (as close to their natural state as possible) instead of packaged, processed foods, a lot of the problems that most people have with cravings, a sweet tooth, overeating, blood sugar swings, etc all take care of themselves.

Taking you on a personal journey into a very peaceful and profoundly deep state of relaxed awareness, this sequence brings together 4 Tibetan Massage Protocols in a seamless rhythm, designed to balance the subtle energies of the body.

Takes more than progesterone to balance estrogen and I warn about the effects of progesterone in cases Hashimoto's as it can cause the thyroid gland to unload too much thyroid hormone leading to a transient hyper - thyroid state.

In older people it takes much longer for the levels to reach a balanced state again.

As Lissa writes, there are a lot of things that take us away from a state of balance.

Once we understand the objective evidence, we take a more holistic and natural approach to create a custom tailored program of care that involves targeted supplementation, diet, exercise and other lifestyle modifications to bring the body back into a state of balance and harmony.

Armenia under Sargsyan has taken advantage of this dynamic by balancing relations with both the United States and Russia to further its own interests, as have Kenya and Malaysia, although with China instead of Russia.

Half of the Common Core states still use Smarter Balanced or PARCC assessments, which we at Fordham found to be first - rate, while other states have at least ratcheted up their definition of what it takes for students to be considered «proficient.»

«The logic of taking a baseline measure as early as is practicable, so that the impact of the reception year is properly recognised, is inescapable,» the National Association of Headteachers» (NAHT) Redressing the Balance report, published in January 2017, states.

The data — taken from The Key's annual State of Education report to be released in May, and weighted by Ipsos MORI — reveals that only eight per cent of school leaders expect to either achieve a surplus or to balance their budget without making any savings in the next financial year.