Sentences with phrase «absence rates including»

The district has implemented several key initiatives to successfully reduce their chronic absence rates including their innovative use of Teachers on Special Assignment (TOSA) as dedicated attendance liaisons.

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Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

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.

The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74

In the absence of any external rating system, experts recommend that parents look for signs that their pediatrician is giving quality care, including:

Reasons for the attrition rate included absence of effective drugs, timing of genomic testing in the course of a patient's disease, less - than - optimal access to targeted drugs or clinical trials, and patient and provider preferences.

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...

«In the absence of a summative rating for a school, it becomes very difficult for families to hold schools accountable for what happens within the walls,» said Seth Litt, executive director of Parent Revolution, an organization that helps parents push for better educational opportunities in their neighborhoods including using the «parent trigger» law to take over low - performing schools.

Graduation rates (along with test score growth data) is a critical component of No Child's AYP system, while any overhaul of No Child should include using school discipline data along with chronic truancy rates (ideally, based on 10 or more days of unexcused absence, as used in Indiana) as a component of accountability.

Released in September 2013 and updated in September 2014, this brief describes the steps that states can take to reduce chronic absence including: building public awareness, tracking and publicly reporting chronic absence rates for schools and districts, using attendance as a metric in school improvement efforts, sharing best practices with educators and parents, and enabling interagency efforts among schools, public agencies and community groups.

In SY 14 - 15 and SY 15 - 16, outcomes included significant increases in student and faculty attendance, reduction in chronic absences and suspension rates, increases in family events and participation rates, improved scores on staff, student and community feedback surveys, and academic increases.

And most important for all of us who are committed to raising achievement for all students — including low - income students, students of color, English learners, and students with disabilities — is that in the absence of ratings built around the performance of all student groups, it is all too easy for schools and districts to sweep these students» outcomes under the rug.

Be that as it may, the Avalon's interior is otherwise exemplary: first - rate materials (including supple dove gray leather in my fancy XLS test car), plenty of head and elbow room (thanks to those small dimensional increases), plenty of places to stow small items, easy ingress and egress and excellent seats, despite the absence of lateral support.

NerdWallet's ratings for personal loans awards points to lenders that offer consumer - friendly features, including: soft credit checks, no origination fees, payment options, short time to funding, interest rate caps of 36 %, and absence of prepayment penalties.

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).

Which one is more likely: All basic thermodynamics and stat mech textbooks are wrong, including the ones that make showing that there is no lapse rate a homework problem or that do it in the actual text, or some people who have a really hard time understanding what a degree of freedom is or how to do an integral or mess with logarithmic expansions have made a mistake, the biggest of which is assuming that the DALR worked out in climate systems is stable in the absence of a driving thermal gradient and that air is locally truly «adiabatic», instead of just having a thermal conductivity that is slower than convection?

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.

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.

Law schools are confronting an unholy Trinity of factors: (1) huge student debt (the national average — not including undergraduate obligations — is $ 120K); (2) abysmal post-graduation employment rates (nationally, almost half of law school products do not have jobs requiring legal licensure nine months after graduating); and (3) an absence of skills required for the legal marketplace (and this is coupled with the decline of mentorship / on - the - job training).

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.

But so far in 2017, CMBS issuers have had perfect conditions for lending, including tighter spreads than those seen in 2016, low interest rates, yield - hungry investors, an absence of volatility, and an ample volume of loans in need of refinancing.