Sentences with phrase «by at least some percentage»

More than 80 districts including Newark, Orlando, and Los Angeles, have increased their published graduation rates by at least a percentage point in recent years while sending more students to alternative programs, ProPublica has found.

Not exact matches

Uber's case is that the driver enters into a binding agreement with a person whose identity he does not know (and will never know) and who does not know and will never know his identity, to undertake a journey to a destination not told to him until the journey begins, by a route prescribed by a stranger to the contract [Uber] from which he is not free to depart (at least not without risk), for a fee which (a) is set by the stranger, and (b) is not known by the passenger (who only is told the total to be paid), (c) is calculated by the stranger (as a percentage of the total sum) and (d) is paid to the stranger.

These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

The goal is to raise that percentage to at least 40 % by the end of 2016.

That makes the Trump Bump, for now, the largest post-election gain in percentage terms by the Dow index over that time frame — at least going as far back as the Hoover Mover, when stocks rose 3.6 % following Hubert Hoover's election.

Craft brews made up only 1.3 % of total U.S. beer production in 1994, but that percentage is expected to grow — by at least 40 % annually over the next five years, according to some industry estimates.

According to FiveThirtyEight, Murphy won handily each time, beating his opponent by at least 15 percentage points.

For example, according to a report by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 86 percent of people arrested in Cook County in 2012 tested positive for at least one illegal narcotic — the highest percentage of any big city.

And by 2014, analysts predict the percentage of TV watchers on the Web to skyrocket to at least 60 percent of households, according to research from Bain.

GDP growth must drop every year for the next five or six years by at least 1 percentage point a year.

Opinion of the tax reform plan is divided in «red» counties that Trump won by at least ten percentage points in 2016 - 34 % approve and 37 % disapprove.

Ask J. Keith Baker, mortgage banking professor at Irving, Texas - based North Lake College, and he'll tell you the 30 - year rate may rise by at least a half percentage point by mid-year, taking us to around 4.50 percent, on average.

Ideally, the soap should have a fat content of at least 30 to 50 percent, though it can be hard to determine based on the label alone as ingredients lack percentages and are listed by their chemical names.

One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

There are three more performance levels in the AAA program, reached by complying with increasing percentages of criteria on top of the critical ones: Emerging (at least 33 % of non-critical), High Performing (66 %) and Certified (80 % or greater and at least 50 % per principal).

The hypothesis was that mediocre teams (defined by teams with a winning percentage of less than 60 %) would be undervalued when they play against the top teams in baseball (opponent winning percentage of at least 60 %).

We already knew from last season's analysis that mediocre teams (defined by teams with a winning percentage of less than 60 %) have been undervalued when they square off with the league's elite (opponent winning percentage of at least 60 %).

Road underdogs of at least 7 - points have gone just 426 - 406 (51.2 %), which isn't a high enough winning percentage to cover the standard -110 juice charged by sportsbooks.

Since the NCAA expanded to include at least 64 teams, in» 85, the high mark for percentage of minutes played by freshmen on a Final Four team is 68.5, set by Michigan's Fab Five in» 92.

The chatter had resumed last week, but the 27 - year - old was quick to stamp it out, by committing himself to Inter Milan, until at least the summer, telling the Dutch media: «If I must give a percentage for it, I think I am 90 per cent certain I will stay until at least the summer».

FitPregnancy.com reports, «By the end of pregnancy, a large percentage of expectant women report waking up at least three times per night.

The report reveals that in order to meet the World Health Assembly target of increasing the percentage of children under 6 months of age who are exclusively breastfed to at least 50 % by 2025, an additional $ 5.7 billion is required.

The government must review pensions and benefits each year against increases in prices and uprate them by at least the same percentage.

Effectively by the year 2017, Osun had achieved a percentage improvement of at least 46 % in WAEC results when you compare the results of the years before the advent of the Aregbesola administration,» he added

When matched against several potential Republican gubernatorial candidates, Cuomo leads each of them by at least 40 percentage points.

The mayor's lead decreased in the latest NY1 / Baruch College City Poll, but he was still up by at least 30 percentage points heading into Election Day.

How far could tens of millions of dollars go in smaller, less expensive states where Democrats have a better chance to make pickups, such as Arizona and Nevada, or the five states where incumbent Democratic senators face electorates that favored Donald Trump by at least 17 percentage points in 2016 (Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia)?

In half of the districts, the minority population grew by at least 5 percentage points.

Miringoff points out that Cuomo leads all four potential candidates by at least 40 percentage points.

At least one CSI was sustained by 7.4 % of the riders wearing a helmet and 15.4 % of those not wearing one; this difference in percentages is statistically significant (p = 0.001).

Religious participation is measured by the percentage of people attending religious services at least once a month

In the study, the researchers examined change over time in reports of adult same - sex sexual experience, including bisexual behavior, and attitudes toward same - sex sexual behavior by examining the percentage of Americans who report having at least one same - sex partner.

By 2014 that percentage increased to 59 percent of girls receiving at least one HPV vaccine dose and 40 percent receiving all three doses.

A moderate strain is caused by a higher percentage of damaged fibers and might force you to stop training for at least a month, maybe more.

They used two measurements to gauge a drug's effectiveness and tolerability: the percentage of patients who showed at least a 50 % improvement in their symptoms as measured by one of two scales, or who scored «much improved or very much improved» after eight weeks of treatment (or from 6 to 12 weeks if eight - week data wasn't available) and the percentage of patients who dropped out of the study before eight weeks for any reason.

OkCupid allows you to specify exactly what kind of people can send you messages, so you never have to worry about getting emails from people who live across the country, are way too old for your liking, or who don't match you by at least a certain percentage.

However, that percentage increased by 5 percent every year so that by 2000, at least 50 percent of 10th - graders had to pass the same exam.

An analysis by the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education (CPE) suggests that «yes, we do,» revealing that (at least in recent years) the percentage of high school graduates who don't go on to a two - or four - year college is surprisingly small.

Ranking states by either the percentage of children in families with incomes at least 200 percent of poverty level (the family income indicator) or the percentage of adults (25 — 64) with a 2 - or 4 - year postsecondary degree (adult educational attainment), only 15 states would move 8 or more places.

The percentage of schools with at least one connection to the Internet increased from 89 percent to 95 percent between 1998 and 1999, according to «Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994 - 1999,» released by the U.S. Department of Education.

Orlando is one of 83 school districts, from Newark to Los Angeles, where regular schools increased their graduation rates by at least one percentage point from 2010 to 2014 while sending more students into alternative education, ProPublica's analysis found.

For high school students, participation rate means the percentage of designated students in at least their fourth year of high school, as designated by the commissioner, who received a valid score on the required assessments for high schools, as set forth in subparagraph (v) of this paragraph.

«Overall, our best estimate is that the combined effects of dismissal and reform, separate from the hurricane effect, reduced the 2007 education employment of pre-Katrina New Orleans teachers by at least 16 percentage points,» the study says.

It also increased by 8.1 percentage points at the least competitive institutions — from 11.7 to 19.8.

The report paints a similarly discouraging picture in terms of reading proficiency — just 17.4 % of 3rd graders, 10.1 % of 8th graders, and 14.4 % of high school students with disabilities were able to meet the proficiency mark (all down by at least 25 percentage points from 2011 - 12).

During state fiscal years 2001 - 02 through 2010 - 11, statewide base per pupil funding under the Public School Finance Act (PSFA) and state funding for categorical programs are required to «grow annually at least by the rate of inflation plus an additional one percentage point;» and after 2010 - 11, by a rate at least equal to the rate of inflation.

Its goal is to increase average daily attendance by at least 2 percentage points, or an average of three school days per student each year.

Another study in Chile found, «On net, the voucher reforms increased primary school graduation rates by 0.6 percentage points, high school graduation rates by 3.6 percent, college - going rates by 3.1 percent and the percent completing at least four years of college by 1.8 percent for individuals exposed to the reform during their entire schooling career.»

Nashville schools that opened with the backing of the incubator outscored Metro Nashville Public Schools by at least 10 percentage points in every subject tested on the 2012 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program test.

Between 2002 and 2011, the percentage of high school seniors graduating after having taken at least one Advanced Placement exam increased by a two-fold; this includes a three-fold increase in the number of black high school seniors taking at least one A.P. exam, and a two-fold jump in Latino students taking A.P. exams.