Sentences with phrase «nation report notes»

On the last point, the 2016 Building a Grad Nation report notes that alternative, charter, and virtual schools comprise only 10 percent of high schools nationwide, but they make up more than 50 percent of high schools with graduation rates at or below 67 percent.

A 2007 United Nations report noted that 20 percent of the globe's mangrove forests had vanished in the 25 years between 1980 and 2005, a rate that the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's director called «alarming.»

Not exact matches

That major media repeated the report's finding without noting its lack of credibility is symptomatic of a Nation held hostage by power and money.

A report from houstonproperties.com, which tracks the metro's single - family market, notes that Houston topped the nation in new construction starts of single - family homes in 2013...

A report by the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute noted that European nations included offshore wind in national energy policies and established feed - in tariffs to provide incentives for deployment.

Though the report is certainly plausible, as this article notes, there are also some reasons to question it; China may be attempting to undermine Kim by perpetuating the story, as tensions between the nations have recently intensified.

The UK is a nation of snackers according to Snack Foods, a new Market Update from market intelligence provider Key Note, which reports that the snack foods market grew by 29.7 % between 2010 and 2014.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

Statement noted, «The captioned news item in several newspapers including The Vanguard, Nigerian Tribune, The Guardian and The Nation of Thursday, 16 June, 2016 wherein it was reported that the Chief Judge granted an Order of Mandamus compelling the State Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to provide information about the debt profile of Osun State and its defrayment modality among other orders is patently false.

Noting recent reports that New York is the most segregated state in the nation, gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins advocated a different approach to public housing in a brief speech to a small crowd of local residents at Swallow Coffee, 433 Warren St., Hudson, Wednesday afternoon.

«New York's cost is exceptionally high because... the state combines the nation's highest average teacher's salary and relatively high staffing levels (reflected in a well - below - average average pupil - teacher ratio),» the report notes.

Speaking at his home in Abuja while receiving a report from the Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he said that he had the strong belief that for a nation to grow, its institutions must be very strong noting, that is what we need in Nigeria presently.

Editor's note: This slide show is part of a four - part series that Anne Casselman, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Scientific American, reported in early June during a rare opportunity to conduct field reporting on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk First Nation traditional territory in British Columbia.

Editor's note: This post is part of a four - part series that Anne Casselman, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Scientific American, reported in early June during a rare opportunity to conduct field reporting on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk First Nation traditional territory in British Columbia.

Global Cancer Facts and Figures, 2nd Edition, a report released in 2011 by The American Cancer Society, notes that cancers related to changing lifestyles as nations become wealthier, including lung, breast, and colorectal tumors, continue to rise in the developing world http://www.cancer.org/Research/CancerFactsFigures/GlobalCancerFactsFigures/global-facts-figures-2nd-ed

Those voices include, as this column noted in early July, two recently published reports: Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, from the U.S. National Academies, which urges universities to «restructure doctoral education..., shorten time - to - degree and strengthen the preparation of graduates for careers both in and beyond the academy,» and the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which advocates «additional training and career development experiences to equip students for various career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period.»

«Key users of this data are environmental agencies [that] have to report on things like greenhouse gases,» says Claus Zehner, an ESA Earth observation application engineer, noting that the European Union (E.U.) continues to keep tabs on air quality over its member nations.

But the report does not abdicate poorer countries of responsibility, noting that their emissions now exceed those of high - income nations and that slowing that growth is «essential to avoiding dangerous climate change.»

DOD now employs just about 2 % of the total U.S. STEM workforce, the report notes, and is «a small and diminishing part of the nation's overall science and engineering enterprise.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) has bluntly titled its new report Blind Spot and notes in its first sentence that focusing on boys and men may seem «counterintuitive» given the gender inequalities that often put girls and women at a disadvantage when it comes to infection and treatment.

In their report released 25 November of this year, the authors noted that many nations had publically recognized the importance of this 2 °C limit.

But alcohol taxes across the nation have declined in inflation - adjusted terms at both federal and state levels, and those taxes don't cover the costs of alcohol - fueled harms, the report noted.

This has taken the eastern European nation from below to above the OECD average, as noted in the Education Policy Outlook: Poland report.

The nation's score of 74.5 is about the same as last year, when it posted a 74.2, also a C grade — continuing years of flat performance noted in the annual report, which weighs a host of academic, fiscal,...

Going back to the famous 1983 Reagan administration report «A Nation at Risk,» education experts have noted how students in the United States are falling behind those in other countries and have called for a new focus on «content» and «more rigorous and measurable standards.»

As interest in China's economic potential grows in the United States, educators should take note of the significant educational growth made in recent years in the world's most populous nation, according to a report by the Asia Society.

National reports such as A Nation at Risk noted the failure of schools to provide the nation with a more literate populace as evidenced by allegedly declining verbal SAT scores and less than encouraging results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessNation at Risk noted the failure of schools to provide the nation with a more literate populace as evidenced by allegedly declining verbal SAT scores and less than encouraging results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessnation with a more literate populace as evidenced by allegedly declining verbal SAT scores and less than encouraging results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessments.

Though Wisconsin's high school graduation rate remains one of the highest in the nation, reading test scores have stagnated over the last two decades, the report notes.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

Note: The 2010 NAEP Assessments are underway now in civics, geography, and U.S. history For additional information see: The Nation's Report Card — 4, 8th and 12 gr — 2010 Assessments

The report also noted that since California has the most students in the nation who are English learners and a high level of students from low - income families, and research shows that educating English learners and students from low - income families requires even greater investment.

By 2004, the Council of the Great City Schools, a national nonprofit, published its own report, noting that D.C. remained one of the lowest - performing urban school districts in the nation.

Thus, the AASA report noted, the across - the - board cuts threatened in the looming sequestration will have dramatic impacts on the nation's schools — especially those serving at - risk students.

McAllen, Texas leads the nation's metropolitan statistical areas with 51.7 % of its people having a collection process noted in their credit reports - yes, that is more than one in two.

A recent report from the Brookings Institution concluded that «the domestic clean economy already employs some 2.7 million workers,» which is more than the fossil fuel industry.9 In addition, it noted that newer «cleantech» segments produced «explosive job gains» that «outperformed the nation during the recession» and that the clean economy is «manufacturing and export intensive.»

The report notes that while many individual UN entities have adopted assessment policies and practices, the United Nations System acting together can do even more, including by developing a common sustainability framework and relevant indicators.

At one point, Enting's document notes how one chart in Taxing Air is taken from a leaked draft of the not - yet - published United Nations IPCC Assessment Report 5 (due out in two weeks).

A significant segment of opposition, the report notes, is from First Nations in Canada who are raising sovereignty claims and other environmental challenges.

«In 1999, when Houston's ozone levels were the highest in the nation, the state of Texas conducted several studies that found large industrial leaks,» the report notes.

In a report released late last year, the United Nations Environment Program noted that mangrove forests are still being cleared three to five times faster than terrestrial forests.

But due to the erosion of the rule of law due to civil wars, other nations that have deliberately sought to weaken the country, and impunity of the executive, the Report also noted that this was impossible in Sudan,

The Commission notes that consultations were conducted by the Murray - Darling Basin Commission with the Murray - Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations to report to the Ministerial Council on community engagement.

Noting that the Commonwealth Senate on 31 August 1999 rejected one such regime, the Committee recommends that similarly close scrutiny continue to be given to any other proposed state and territory legislation to ensure that protection of the rights of Indigenous peoples will not be reduced further» Concluding Observations on Australia (24 March 2000, see United Nations document CERD / C / 304 / Add.101, para 8) See also Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission Native Title Report (2000), page 158

For example, as noted in my Native Title Report 2005 [90], «rights to carbon credits in any trading are currently presumed to accrue to the nation state, not individuals or communities.

The right to equality and freedom from discrimination have special implications for Indigenous groups.3 As noted in the report of the United Nations Seminar on the Effects of Racism and Racial Discrimination on the Social and Economic Relations Between Indigenous Peoples and States:

It is worth noting that the leaders of these three nations and the SPP are to receive a report from a group called The Center for Strategic and International Studies in September.

However, new and unproven formats also offer risk, especially in a nation that, as the report noted, already provides 20 sq. ft. of retail space per person, compared with 2 sq. ft. across Europe.

However, new and unproven formats also offer risk, especially in a nation that, as the report notes, already provides 20 sq. ft. of retail space per person, compared to 2 sq. ft. across Europe.

The REIT, which is one of the nation's largest owners of regional and super-regional malls, noted in its annual shareholders report that: