Sentences with phrase «absence rates from»

This effort has led to a decrease in kindergarten chronic absence rates from 12 % in 2014 - 2015 to 10 % in 2015 - 2016.

The Oakland Unified School District in Oakland, California, is a leader in tracking and addressing chronic absence, using a city - wide approach that has reduced chronic absence rates from 16 percent in 2005 - 06 to 11.9 percent in 2013 - 14.

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!

Not exact matches

The absence of Tiger Woods at this year's Masters continues to have a negative impact on TV ratings, with ESPN reporting that viewership for Friday's second round was down significantly from that of last year when Woods was in the hunt for his 15th major.

In general, the bed - sharing practiced in cultures with low SIDS rates is often different from that in the United States and other Western countries (eg, with firm mats on the floor, separate mat for the infant, and / or absence of soft bedding).

«There are already scores of British businesses who are saying that the living wage makes sense from them because it improves staff retention and reduces absence rates,» Ed Miliband said at an event promoting Labour's use of the living wage today.

Let me quote directly from my first article, «In 2015 and 2016 for instance, Nigeria «erected» two structural barriers against foreign investment - one, the structure of multiple exchange rates reaching as many as 13 according to some reports and the huge variance between the rates at a point rising to a difference of over N200 between the lowest and the highest rates; and the absence of clarity over economic policy.

«There are already scores of British businesses who are saying that the living wage makes sense from them because it improves staff retention and reduces absence rates,» he said.

A critical absence from the recent «cesarean section debate» has been the long - term health impact of excessively high c - section rates — including increased risk of miscarriage, unexplained stillbirth...

The unauthorised absence rate in state - funded primary, state - funded secondary and special schools was 1.3 per cent in 2016/17, an increase from 1.1 per cent in 2015/16 — the rate of unauthorised holiday absence also increasing from 0.3 to 0.4 per cent.

There have been less fines for poor school attendance than last year, despite the absence rate in state - funded schools increasing from 1.1 per cent to 1.3 per cent.

One of several reasons this could have contributed to a rise in the high school graduation rate is that involvement with the criminal justice system typically results in a marked increase in absences from school.

Even if some college admissions officers revert to racially biased assumptions in the absence of criminal history, explicit rejections appear to play a relatively small role at many institutions, compared to the high rates of application attrition resulting from paperwork burden, confusion and discouragement.

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.

We know from the legislation that districts with high chronic absence, out - of - school suspension, and dropout rates will be given priority when grants are awarded.

The attendance rate is increasing, chronic absences are down, and even teacher attendance increased from 69 percent to 79 percent.

It was no surprise that the acute illness rates were also remarkably similar across districts, with nurses from both districts reporting the highest absence peak as a flu outbreak and the second highest peak as a stomach flu outbreak.

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.

In this sense, this novel measure tracks conventional rates of absence constructed from teachers» daily absence records.

The cost associated with smart incentive plans can be covered by the savings realized from reduced absence rates.

Mississippi KIDS COUNT partnered with the Mississippi Department of Education to track chronic absenteeism across the state.Screen During the 2014/15 school year, the statewide chronic absence rate dropped to 13 percent, down from 15 percent during the 2013/14 school year.

Superintendents from the districts with the highest truancy rates signal a larger difficulty: Many schools struggle to understand what are excused absences and how to consistently record the data.

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.»)

In the absence of an express contract, interest rate is equal to the prime rate at the largest bank in Nevada on Jan. 1 or July 1 immediately preceding the date of the transaction, plus 2 percent upon all money from its due date.

It is superstitious and wishful thinking to assume that the market will perform strongly simply because of two Discount Rate cuts, despite elevated valuations, high levels of bullishness, absence of a recession, and an S&P 500 index that is only about 2 % from its all - time high.

No matter how much attractive a particular mortgage rate is; absence of assistance from a professional broker and lack of proper planning can prove to be hazardous down the road.

The Department does Start Printed Page 63327not have data to determine if borrowers who would have been considered to have an adverse credit history in the absence of the regulations have a greater incidence of default or repayment difficulty but, if a subsidy rate were available for this subgroup of PLUS borrowers, it would likely differ from the overall PLUS subsidy rate.

In the absence of due - on - sale provisions, sellers could pass their low - rate mortgages to buyers, thus preventing the lender from earning a higher market rate on its repaid funds.

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..

Similarly, Pembroke Welsh Corgis, also, reported high rates (19 %) of reproductive problems including: irregular heat cycle, pyometra, infertility, and cryptorchid (absence of one or both testes from the scrotum).

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.

And from NOAA:» The simulations rule out (at the 95 % level) zero trends for intervals of 15 yr or more, suggesting that an observed absence of warming of this duration is needed to create a discrepancy with the expected present - day warming rate.»

Importantly, if you were right to say that the warm spot «is a prediction that follows from the basic physics of moist adiabatic lapse rate theory and is expected independent of the mechanism causing the warming» then its absence would be evidence for absence of warming.

Using feedback parameters from Fig. 8.14, it can be estimated that in the presence of water vapor, lapse rate and surface albedo feedbacks, but in the absence of cloud feedbacks, current GCMs would predict a climate sensitivity (± 1 standard deviation) of roughly 1.9 °C ± 0.15 °C (ignoring spread from radiative forcing differences).

Morbidity indicators include chronic disease incidence / prevalence, rates of hospitalization, primary care consultations, disability - days (i.e., days of absence from work), and prevalence of symptoms.

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.

(In this statement, I'm putting aside exotic cases like the scattering greenhouse effect on Early Mars from dry ice clouds, which can indeed work in the absence of a lapse rate).

Insurers are prohibited from considering an absence of credit information or an inability to determine credit information in underwriting or rating a policy, except under certain circumstances.

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.

While vicarious trauma will never be eliminated from trauma - exposed workplaces, it is possible for organisations to effectively manage it, which has been shown to reduce attrition rates and unplanned absences, and boost the workplace culture.