Sentences with phrase «allow laggard»

Maybe even more important however, was Eric's sheer determination to not allow the laggard technology culture within the insurance industry to slow him down.

Your editor has long criticized the law's Highly Qualified Effective Teacher provision for being a rather wishy - washy element that merely allowed states and districts to simply allow laggard teachers to keep their jobs by magically certifying them as high quality.

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The report reveals leaders and laggards among Canada's major cities when it comes to transparent budgeting that allows comparison between budget promises and actual spending over the ensuing year.

In this case, disaggregating by race allows us to identify some additional laggards: Austin, Houston, and Jefferson County, all of which saw statistically significant declines for their Hispanic students.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

The fact that they work among laggards also allows them to hide in plain sight; once the poor performers are weeded out, the definition of high quality is raised; this can change their status and that may be a bridge they don't want to cross.

Thus, the table not only lays out two decades» worth of performance history for a broad swath of investments, it also allows you to see which of those investments have been leaders or laggards from one year to the next.