Sentences with phrase «annual state of the nation»

→ Action → Establish a report card for the nation that uses indicators of what the public deems important and make the findings know in an annual State of the Nation's Schools with corresponding State of Our State schools reports.

As of this year, over 11 million Americans spend over half of their income on rent, according to the annual State of the Nation's Housing Report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.

That was the big takeaway from the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies» annual The State of the Nation's Housing report, released via webcast late last week.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) recently released its annual state of the nation report on housing.

Not exact matches

Just because the State of the Union normally refers to a speech given to discuss the year's upcoming priorities from the president's perspective, don't think that only a nation can derive benefit from an annual address of this sort.

This has been confirmed by the fourth annual State of Independence in America workforce study from MBO Partners, though this transformation of the nation's workforce is going a bit slower than some initial boosters anticipated.

The Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at Cal State Fullerton provides both an Annual (in October) and Mid-Year (n April) Economic Forecast for the nation, Southern California and Orange County, current data can be found HERE.

During his recent annual state - of - the - nation address, President Rodrigo Duterte commanded that the US give back the bells of Balangiga.

The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance in the United States held on the first Thursday of May, inviting people of all faiths to pray for the nation.

Every year, representatives of Member States, United Nations entities and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with ECOSOC gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York for the Commission's annual session.

«In this city, a married couple pays 13 percent of their annual income — higher than any other state in the nation.

At their recent annual summit in Ireland the Group of 8 rich nations — including the United States — formally agreed that opening up government data is good policy.

«Though the annual burdens report won't reflect the effects of recent changes for several years because of a lag in the availability of data, New York's 2011 state - local tax burden — the highest in the nation — shows just how necessary tax reform is in New York,» Tax Foundation analyst Liz Malm said.

«I also urged Ghanaian Muslims to continue to co-exist peacefully with the Christian Community as Islam itself, by Scripture, is very tolerant of Christianity and since that is the surest way to remaining a united, politically stable Nation,» the former deputy governor of the central bank stated when he spoke as a guest speaker at the 9th Annual UDS GMSA Congress in Tamale.

Assemblyman Andy Goodell, a Jamestown - area Republican, noted that the extender includes the flow of state money to Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Salamanca — but only if the Seneca Nation reverses its recent decision to stop making more than $ 100 million in annual casino revenue - sharing payments to the state.

Gabay — a 43 - year - old Harvard - educated lawyer who'd worked for Cuomo's Empire State Development Corporation — was walking along Bedford Avenue after the annual West Indian community celebration in the early morning hours of Sept. 7 when the firefight broke out between the warring Folk Nation and 8 - Trey Crips gangs, prosecutors say.

The conservative Tax Foundation, in its annual report, found that New York once again had the highest tax burden of any state in the nation, with 12.7 percent of income going to support state and local taxes.

In addition, by setting forth several annual increases and taking the historic step of indexing the maximum benefit in the future, we have ensured that never again will our state's benefit fall to its current last in the nation status in terms of wage replacement.

The evening will also see the launch of Britain in 2014, the ESRC's definitive annual magazine featuring key data and expert opinion on the state of the nation today.

In the new opinion, David Barron, the acting head of the Office of Legal Counsel, wrote that the statute — a restriction Congress imposed in the State Department's annual budget bill — «unconstitutionally infringes on the president's authority to conduct the nation's diplomacy, and the State Department may disregard it.»

The ACU is among the most influential conservative groups in the United States, and hosts the nation's largest annual gathering of conservatives at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

HFSP, with an annual budget of $ 50 million funded by Japan, European nations, Canada, and the United States, provides grants for international collaborations in molecular biology and neuroscience and supports cadres of postdoc fellows from around the world who wish to train in other countries.

The hiring of college graduates at all degree levels should be very strong in 2016 - 17, according to Michigan State University's Recruiting Trends, the largest annual survey of employers in the nation.

-- The term «United States greenhouse gas emissions» means the total quantity of annual greenhouse gas emissions from the United States, as calculated by the Administrator and reported to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat.

The annual report to the nation on the status of cancer in the United States, published Monday, shows cancer death rates overall continue to decline.

Penn State is one of the nation's premiere research universities, with annual research expenditures of roughly $ 800 million.

Match.com has released its seventh annual Singles in America study, the nation's largest and most comprehensive annual survey of dating in the United States.

The United Health Foundation, a nonprofit organization that publishes an annual «health rankings» of states, says that the Mountain State is 48th in the nation in «prevalence of obesity» in the population (only Mississippi and Alabama are fatter), but its 27.7 percent obese population is only five points higher than the national average, which is 22.8 percent obese.

Washington — The Education Department's second annual state - by - state analysis of resources allocated to education and the outcomes they produce indicates the beginning of an «academic turnaround» in the nation, former Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell said in his final press conference here late last month.

For reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Conference.

This year's installment of Education Week's annual report features a comprehensive analysis of public high school graduation rates for the nation, the states, and every school district in the country.

The report also continues the EPE Research Center's annual practice of ranking and grading the states as well as the nation as a whole on key education indicators.

The annual PDK / Gallup education poll comes out Wednesday, and policymakers, analysts and pundits will be busy parsing the findings on perceptions of the nation's public schools — from campus safety to high - stakes testing to the new Common Core State Standards.

«The current system of facilities funding leaves school districts unprepared to provide adequate and equitable school facilities... In total, the nation is underspending by $ 46 billion — an annual shortfall of 32 %,» the report states.

Copyright 1988 Editorial With an annual salary of $ 150,000, Schools Chancellor Richard R. Green of New York City is not only the nation's highest - paid public - school administrator but earns more than any other state or local public official in the country, according to a national survey.

Frankly, annual state standardized tests aren't going anywhere, and as our annual PDK poll reveals, the nation's parents understand that testing is part of the system.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

Florida is the second largest charter school state in the nation in terms of student enrollment, and the movement continues to grow on an annual basis.

There was indeed a lot of turmoil, but annual state testing remains the norm across the nation (and is still obligatory under ESSA).

And that's why the National Disability Rights Network, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and Association of University Centers on Disabilities linked arms with the nation's major civil rights groups to demand that the new version of NCLB, the Every Student Succeeds Act, include annual standardized assessments to measure student progress and that state compliance be overseen by the strong arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

This annual gathering of so many esteemed and diverse professionals in the charter school movement is a clear recognition that there is a dynamic force focused on transforming the educational landscape for millions of students in the state and across the nation,» said CCSA President and CEO Jed Wallace.

Washington, D.C. --(March 23, 2016)-- The State of Our Schools: America's K — 12 Facilities report, released today by the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the 21st Century School Fund and the National Council on School Facilities, shows that the nation faces a projected annual shortfall of $ 46 billion in school funding, despite significant effort on the part of local communities.

The state's Republican - controlled government already has one of the nation's largest voucher programs, with 150,000 low - and middle - income students and children with special needs or disabilities receiving tuition assistance at an annual cost of nearly $ 1 billion.

Dr. Wright spearheaded initiatives in Mississippi that nearly doubled the Advancement Placement (AP) participation and success rate, resulted in significant annual gains in English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency, and earned Mississippi recognition from the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) as one of the top six states in the nation for providing high - quality early childhood education.

The data from the College Board's 10th Annual Advanced Placement Report to the Nation shows a steady increase in AP exam participation among California public high school students, with the state ranking sixth nationally in the quality of its scores.

Education Week released its 21st annual «Quality Counts» report on the state of the nation's public schools.

I am pleased to be joining NIEER at the release of their annual State of Preschool report because early childhood education is so central to our children and our nation's future.

The second annual State of Credit list was provided by Experian, one of three major credit bureaus which analyzed 143 cities across the nation.

The annual report, the only one of its kind in the nation, ranks all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories for the comprehensiveness and strength of their animal protection laws.

The HSUS's annual Horrible Hundred reports, based on federal and state inspections of commercial animal breeders, provide a window into some of the nation's most retrograde puppy mills.