Sentences with phrase «absence rates by»

School districts can upload attendance data and receive an analysis of chronic absence rates by school, grade and racial / ethnic breakdowns, as well as a list of absentee students.
From the 2009 — 2010 to 2013 — 2014 school years, these community schools increased average attendance by 1.6 percent, compared with a 1.8 percent decrease for noncommunity schools, and decreased chronic absence rates by 4.1 percent, compared with a 3.6 percent increase for noncommunity schools.19 (For more on Baltimore's community school initiative, see «Where Community Schools Are Strong.»)

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The fact that official purchases of financial assets are determined by different factors than those influencing private investors suggests that we would probably see a somewhat different combination of capital flows, exchange rates and interest rates in the absence of official intervention.
As a result, retail sales taxes raise the Canadian METR [marginal effective tax rate] by approximately 2.5 percentage points, compared to the 9 percentage points that would prevail in the absence of any exemptions.
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Given an absence of inflationary pressures and weak economic conditions, the ECB cut its key policy rate by 50 basis points to 2 per cent in June.
It's the absence of productive real investment, which since 2000 has slumped to a small fraction of its historical growth rate, along with the encouragement of rank yield - seeking speculation by the Fed, that has repeatedly injured the U.S. economy, and is likely to insult the economy with further crises before any durable lessons are learned.
After a reasonable interval to seek work in their own occupation, workers are currently expected to take a job «at a rate of earnings not lower and on conditions not less favourable than those observed by agreement between employers and employees or, in the absence of any such agreement, than those recognized by good employers.»
The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.
Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.
Unusually for an infectious disease even at very low rates of infection, and in the absence of the dramatic die - offs witnessed in other amphibian populations impacted by this disease, infected populations of Darwin's frogs are destined for extinction.»
There are quite a few other indicators that this is a new game, like the absence of Bandai Namco in the copyright, the difference in logo, and that this one hasn't even been rated by the ESRB.
Statistics released by the Department for Education also show that the rate of unauthorised holiday absences is also increasing.
He concludes that Massachusetts schools may be well - equipped to handle disruptions caused by cancellations but not those caused by high absence rates.
The contract teachers were much more likely to be found in school and teaching (74 percent versus 45 percent for the civil - service teachers), and their absence rate was unaffected by tracking (see Figure 2).
A report issued by the Independent Financial Review Panel in November 2015 recommended that the district work to improve its chronic absence rate not only to improve academic outcomes for students, but because the district's average daily attendance rate is the biggest factor in district revenues.
The LCAP does note that while the overall chronic absence rate has increased across the district, the rate for foster youth has decreased by 4 percent and for long - term foster youth it has declined from 23 percent to 15.8 percent.
The chronic absence rate goal for 2016 - 17 is 11 percent, then decreasing by 2 percentage points each year through 2018 - 19.
According to the school district African - Americans account for the highest absence rate at 28 percent followed by Latinos at 16 percent.
Their chronic absence rate dropped, and for long - term foster youth, it fell sharply, by 30 percent — the result of targeting specific supports to these students, district staff said.
Districts with high rates of chronic absence, out - of - school suspensions, and school drop outs will be given priority for these grants aimed at improving student outcomes by reducing truancy and supporting students who are at risk of dropping out of school or are victims of crime.
The current Problem Based Learning (PBL) Regional Summer School program has led to a decrease in discipline referrals and absence and an increase in passing rates and engagement, as shown by action research.
Within the course of one school year, the combination of a data - driven focus on attendance, personalized early outreach, support from community partners, and a generally healthier school climate has helped cut Roosevelt's chronic absence rate from 15 to 8 percent, as the school's Academic Performance Index (API) score climbed by 30 points!
A new survey by researchers shows that secondary students don't really know how many days they miss from school each year, or how their absence rate compares with their peers.
An updated analysis of state - wide data by Mississippi KIDS COUNT, released in February 2016, found that chronic absence rates start high in kindergarten, decrease through elementary school years, and increase again in middle and high school.
The cost associated with smart incentive plans can be covered by the savings realized from reduced absence rates.
To see how chronic absence rates break down by state and by grade groupings, you can check out the report's interactive map, which uses the most recent national data.
According to Roughton, the district's focus on chronic absence was prompted by a New York Times article on the impact of chronic absenteeism on student outcomes.1 The article made clear that all absences, not just unexcused absences, can negatively impact reading rates and can increase dropout rates for students.
By coordinating these services, community schools can reduce chronic absences due to poor health, decrease disciplinary issues and truancy rates, and help create a more stable living situation for children at home.
The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: when schools are ranked by the fraction of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch, schools in the poorest quartile averaged almost one extra sick day per teacher than schools in the highest income quartile, and schools with persistently high rates of teacher absence were much more likely to serve low - income than high - income students.
This report found that bringing classroom ventilation rates up to the state - mandated standard may reduce student absences due to illness by approximately 3.4 percent.
It measures school improvement by assessing such factors as standardized tests, graduation rates, suspension, expulsion, chronic absences, English learner improvement and campus «culture and climate.»
An analysis conducted by Attendance Works found that chronic absence in first grade predicted later chronic absence, poor academic performance and higher suspension rates in the sixth grade.
The infotainment system is dated, assistance systems are conspicuous by their absence, and the ergonomics can only be described as second rate.
In the absence of mainstream book reviews — and those easily manipulated by readers — IR's curated reviews will make it possible for readers to find a trusted rating system for self - published titles.
Due to an absence of costs associated with holding brick and mortar locations, online - only banks are able to relay these savings to customers by offering some of the most competitive interest rates and fee schedules of all the banks.
The success rate for cataract surgery is case dependent and can range from 60 - 90 % for a postoperative visual and comfortable eye dependent upon the age of the patient, the breed, the presence or absence of concomitant major medical issues, the duration of the cataracts, the presence or absence of pre-existing adverse ocular manifestations caused by the cataracts, etc..
The relatively high occurrence of one or more of these cancers in intact male Goldens, coupled with the relative absence of an effect of neutering, except with regard to LSA, points to a relatively high underlying rate of cancer occurrence in this gender and breed that is not affected by gonadal hormone removal.
There are no examples of a euthanasia rate being humanely lowered by a primary effort aimed at an increase in adoptions in the absence of effective spay / neuter programs.
I'd like to take this moment to bemoan and speculate on Earthbound's absence from the Virtual Console, considering that it was rated by the ESRB several months ago and has already been released on the Japanese VC.
Too many of our brothers and sisters have chosen to silently acquiesce, to stand by and allow the absence of necessary constraints on the gigantic scale and growth rate of the global economy to produce the probability of a colossal ecological wreckage in the future.
If convection is enhanced for any reason then the warmed gases will reach higher before condensing because the speed of uplift distorts the lapse rate locally but once the uplift is cut off as it must be on a rotating sphere illuminated by a point source of light (the sun) the heights revert to what they would have been in the absence of the uplift.
Further, we find that current projected future energy supply rates are far below the supply needed to fuel a global demographic transition to zero growth, suggesting that the predicted leveling - off of the global population by mid-century is unlikely to occur, in the absence of a transition to an alternative energy source.
Indeed: — Absence of accelerating warming — Existence of 30 years long cooling periods [1880 — 1910] then [1940 to 1970]-- Similitude of warming rates (about +0,15 °C per decade) during both [1910 — 1940] & [1970 to 2000] periods, whereas anthropogenic CO2 emissions have been multiplied by 5 here between, formally disproved AGW theory and IPCC claims.
In the absence of absorption of terrestrial radiation by the atmosphere (and with the other caveats about still having the same albedo and such), that average temperature would have to be 255 K at the surface because of radiative balance and then the temperature would decrease with height at the lapse rate from there.
These scientists have found that, in the absence of any significant CO2 concentration changes or human influence during the Holocene (i.e., the last ~ 10,000 years), the deep oceans naturally warmed by more than 2 °C in a span of just 200 years, which is several times the rate in which they are alleged to have warmed in the last ~ 60 years of the supposedly dominant anthropogenic influence on climate.
Given the narrow characterization of the «comparator group» in Auton, the case would seem to preclude reliance on section 15 by persons seeking unproven treatments which are not included in the existing public insurance scheme, in the absence of evidence that other groups receive coverage for unproven therapies at greater rates.
In our view, the principle that a litigant should be able to see and hear all the evidence which is seen and heard by the court determining his case is so fundamental, so embedded in the common law, that, in the absence of parliamentary authority, no judge should override it, at any rate in relation to an ordinary civil claim, unless (perhaps) all parties to the claim agree otherwise.
Unlike an investment plan, a term plan will not provide a return to you when you are alive but it will secure your family's future in your absence by providing a high coverage at a nominal rate.
Home visiting has been promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics as an important complement to office - based practice.1 It has been advocated as a way to improve the outcomes of pregnancy, 2 to reduce the rates of child abuse and neglect, 3 and to help low - income families become economically self - sufficient.4 The background of visitors, however, seems to affect program success.5 — 8 When examined in randomized trials, paraprofessional home visitors (those with no formal training in the helping professions) have produced small effects that rarely are statistically significant.5 — 8 Is the absence of their effect attributable to lack of professional training or underdevelopment of the program models they delivered?
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