Sentences with phrase «system the year prior»

Wal - Mart filed a patent application for this delivery management system a year prior to the IBM announcement on November 25, 2015.

Many people have elevated antibodies in their system years prior to having symptoms of autoimmune disease.

Not exact matches

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

With more than 20 years of experience in U.S. Hispanic media, Puig served as VP and General Manager of Spanish Broadcasting Systems prior to joining Univision, where she directed all aspects of sales, marketing, promotions, and business development on the local and national level.

Comparable sales and system - wide sales growth are calculated using the same period in the prior year (December 26, 2015 through March 27, 2016).

System - wide sales growth and comparable sales are measured on a constant currency basis, which means that results exclude the effect of foreign currency translation and are calculated by translating prior year results at current year monthly average exchange rates.

Under Previous Standards, Total Revenues for the quarter grew 9.7 % (6.6 % excluding the impact of FX movements) versus prior year, reflecting growth in system - wide sales.

Donna served as a healthcare administrator for a number of years prior to becoming the CHRISTUS Health system leader for Community Health; in the latter position, she directed their socially responsible investment program.

Prior to joining Zillow, Stan spent five years at Expedia where he ran the advanced analytics team, which applied innovative econometric and data mining approaches to internal business problems, building systems for personalization, pricing, forecasting, and fraud detection.

For some 30 years prior, Canada's immigration system was consistently viewed as of the most welcoming and generous in the world.

«Prior to joining Reading Bakery Systems, [he] was employed by Peters Machinery of Chicago for almost seven years, where he served as president and chief operating officer within the Peerless Group,» the company says.

«The new pre-primary school facilities that Accolade helped fund enable township children of between five and six years of age to start their education prior to entering the official school system at seven.

Prior to that, he spent thirty years in the corporate world as an information systems project manager.

Prior to the 5 / 6 / 7th debate, Party Systems typically last 30 - 40 years and are delineated by major voting shifts.

Prior to Avogy, Ramanathan served as the executive vice president at Cypress Semiconductor for almost nine years, where he managed the company's Programmable Systems Division and its Data Communications Division, according to NexGen's website.

The son of a metalworker and a hairdresser, Carranza, 51, has been the head of the Houston Independent School District since 2016 and led San Francisco's system for four years prior to that.

Prior to his involvement in real estate, he spent 10 years in the technology sector, holding sales and operations management positions with Adobe Systems and Symantec Corp..

Results showed a six percent increase over clinics that did not use the alert system, representing a 37 percent relative increase in vaccinations from the prior year.

«Prior to approximately four billion years ago, no large region of Earth's surface could have survived untouched by impacts and their effects,» says Simone Marchi, of NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute at the Southwest Research Institute.

According to the researchers, prior to settling into orderly layers, Earth's creation — around 4.5 billion years ago, just after the creation Sun and our solar system — was chaotic as bodies of rock and metal would crash, melt and form new bodies.

Its streamlined profile would minimize the drag and damage caused by collisions with the clouds of gas and cosmic dust that populate the interstellar medium through which it may have been travelling for hundreds of millions of years prior to reaching our solar system.

So the basis for any cancer in your digestive system is the damage to your gut flora that begins many years prior to developing a tumor in that area.

But there was a time, only two years prior to the game's release, when Halo was a far different game on a totally different system.

Continuing to buck player expectations, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was not only a prequel that took place 40 years prior, but also introduced a number of new gameplay systems.

Sir Michael Barber, an international education expert who served in multiple senior - level positions in the United Kingdom's government prior to his work at McKinsey and Pearson, was commissioned by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE) to develop a plan that would enable Massachusetts to have the best - performing school system in the world in 20 years.

First, it can allow districts to game accountability systems by rearranging school calendars so that students have more time in school prior to the exam, even as the overall length of the school year remains constant.

This means state accountability systems must also be aligned to individual teacher's classroom goals: Help all students meet proficient or higher performance; help all students make significant progress from wherever they were performing in the prior year; and pay laser - like attention to ensuring struggling students are on track to reach proficiency.

But a study of the State University of New York (SUNY) system found that nearly 3,000 applicants in a single application cycle checked a box indicating they had a prior felony conviction, before SUNY removed the question from their application this year.

The base grant calcs will still use ADA the way the old system did — which will give declining enrollment districts the choice of using current year or prior year ADA, I believe.

State regulations for the California English Language Development Test and the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress System each include, as a condition to be eligible for apportionment reimbursement, an annual deadline for the return of a certified State Testing Apportionment Information Report for prior year testing.

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

Director Davis Guggenheim first started his research ten years prior while covering a public school classroom and from there gained insight into the problematic system now in place to educate the nation's children.

Each individual selected by the district as a peer mentor must hold a valid professional certificate issued pursuant to this section, must have earned at least 3 years of teaching experience in prekindergarten through grade 12, and must have earned an effective or highly effective rating on the prior year's performance evaluation under s. 1012.34 or be a peer evaluator under the district's evaluation system approved under s. 1012.34.

But even if the scores are fine, the state's grading system this year isn't fair, he said, because it does not count «learning gains,» or how much a student improved from the prior year.

For example, imagine providing the latest medical imaging technology to first - year medical students and asking those students to interpret complex images of anatomical systems prior to studying human anatomy.

The State Board shall then adopt guidelines and criteria to be effective no later than July 1, 2011, allowing implementation of the new evaluation system prior to the 2011 - 12 academic year.

Prior to joining DreamBox, he spent over 10 years in public education, first as a high school math teacher and then as the Mathematics Curriculum Coordinator for a K — 12 school system of over 17,000 students, where he also helped facilitate the system's long - range strategic planning efforts.

Previously, prior to entering government service she was a certified she was a certbiology teacher and department chair in the parochial and private school systems for ten years.

After the market slumped in 2000 and remained in trouble for the next several years, the system kept up the illusion that it was well funded by using smoothing techniques which blended the recent performance of the fund with prior years when the market was doing well.

Prior to her current position at AIR, Dr. Gandhi spent five years as an independent consultant, providing research and evaluation services to local school districts, including the New York City public school system, the District of Columbia public schools, Ithaca and New York public schools, and several large urban districts in Massachusetts.

That is, the state system not only helped with (1) the more accurate identification and labeling of even more ineffective teachers, it also helped with, albeit in contradiction, (2) the improvement of other teachers who were otherwise accurately positioned the year prior.

Ten years prior to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Tennessee enacted its Value Added Assessment System (TVAAS).

Prior to his work at America Achieves, Peter also served four years as executive director of New Leaders for New Schools Maryland, where he launched programs in Baltimore City and Prince George's County to recruit and train principals for both systems.

Directly related to the Review of Article # 4 prior (i.e., # 4 of 9 on observational systems» potentials here), these researchers found that Chicago teachers are, in general, positive about the evaluation system, primarily given the system's observational component (i.e., the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching, used twice per year for tenured teachers and that counts for 75 % of teachers» evaluation scores), and not given the inclusion of student growth in this evaluation system (that counts for the other 25 %).

Prior to coming to Connecticut, most of Donnelly's experience was with political campaigns in New Jersey and Long Island although she did spend nearly two years in 2010 - 2011 with 1st Light Energy Inc, where she, «Oversaw residential and commercial photovoltaic (solar system) installations for the entire scope of the project.»

Also, to be eligible for a Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarship, a child was previously required to have spent the prior year in the public school system.

These problems existed prior to the budget cuts in recent years, although those cuts have highlighted the starkness of how thin the margins are for some districts, and the breadth of the problem — how many districts are challenged because of Pennsylvania's flawed system of funding.

Prior to Tennessee's new system, created because of the Race to the Top grant program, teachers were only evaluated every five years.

The state requires that each local school system design a program incorporating components established by the state, including: an orientation program for new teachers prior to the start of the school year, mentor support such as regularly scheduled meetings during non-instructional time, opportunities for new teachers to observe and co-teach with skilled teachers with follow - up discussion of the experiences, ongoing professional learning activities, and ongoing formative review of new teacher performance such as classroom observation.

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