Sentences with phrase «different state cut»

Adequate yearly progress is an Enron - like mess based on different students in different years and different state cut - offs regarding when students are deemed «proficient.»

Not exact matches

In recent time, loads of people are becoming aware of the need to cut down on carbonated drinks and drink more of juice because of its enormous health benefits and this is why mobile juice trucks can be found in different locations all around major cities in the United States.

The company also invested in equipment that will «revolutionize» maple manufacturing, including its evaporators and reverse osmosis systems designed by CDL Inc. «Both are different from what anyone is using and is cutting edge technology,» he states.

One was transferred to a different department, while the other, a DCJS attorney, was fired in December but was able to fall back to another DCJS position because of state employment rules, taking a $ 40,000 - a-year pay cut, the newspaper reported.

Stating how his administration would be different from the country's successive governments, Mr Agyapong said a CPP government would cut down on government expenditure and put money in the pocket of Ghanaians, capture the data of Ghanaians on a common data base and eliminate corruption which he said was destroying the country.

Gov. Cuomo held private meetings with majority - party lawmakers from both houses of the state Legislature, with markedly different receptions to his plans to cut costs without raising taxes.

So let's continue to make our state more competitive, let's cut more burdensome business taxes, New York's corporate tax rate is currently 7.1 %, let's cut it to 6.5 %, which would be the lowest corporate rate since 1968 and really send a strong signal to business saying this is a different day and we are doing it a different way.

The proposed tax reform — a different version of which is making its way through the Senate — would deeply cut corporate taxes, double the standard deduction used by most Americans, and limit or repeal completely the federal deduction for state and local property, income and sales taxes.

That is - at least in its intensity - a different approach in the ideological preference for full state withdrawal (that, and the 80 % cut, and variability) is the case for non-continuity.

A framework of an agreement on the state budget is in place that would increase New York's minimum wage to $ 15 over a number of years in different regions while also providing a $ 1 billion tax cut for joint filers earning under $ 300,000, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this afternoon.

We were all talking about the state of the Labour party and trying to game out different scenarios and she cut through the waffle with these words which stopped me in our tracks... «Don't you get it?

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

Mulrow will definitely bring a different style to the job than Schwartz, just as Jim Malatras, a wonky policy expert who cut his teeth in the office of former assemblyman Richard Brodsky, has to the position of director of state operations, which he took over after the departure of a longtime Cuomo confidante, Howard Glaser.

The proposal carves out what tax relief the Senate majority wants in the 2016 - 17 state budget, but it's a one - house bill that would have to win support from Assembly Democrats, and they proposed a different plan last month which included a tax cut for the middle class and a tax hike for millionaires.

Another long - shot challenger, Green Party candidate Kevin Bott, suggests a different approach: Institute a progressive city income tax to raise more revenue, and demand that state leaders share a bigger cut of New York's income tax receipts with Syracuse and other cities.

Touch and go The N.C. State researchers are experimenting with two different approaches they hope will cut the costs and energy requirements of Braille displays in the future, and presented their latest research at the International Conference on Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices in San Diego last month.

That meant she could be cutting her lawn while watching her neighbor cut his lawn in a different state.

Starting with 2 - D structures formed using state - of - the - art methods in semiconductor manufacturing and carefully placed «Kirigami cuts,» the researchers created more than 50 different mostly closed 3 - D structures that, in theory, could contain cells or support advanced electronic or optoelectronic devices.

The group of Majed Chergui at EPFL, along with national and international colleagues, have shed light on this long - standing question by using a combination of cutting - edge experimental methods: steady - state angle - resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), which maps the energetics of the electrons along the different axis in the solid; spectroscopic ellipsometry, which determines the optical properties of the solid with high accuracy; and ultrafast two - dimensional deep - ultraviolet spectroscopy, used for the first time in the study of materials, along with state - of - the - art first - principles theoretical tools.

The state faces an unfunded liability of over $ 100 billion across its five different retirement systems, and pension benefits have already been cut down to the bone for new workers.

In addition to whatever other changes are playing out in schools (not to mention this year's test - takers are a slightly different group than last year's), states are using both new sets of assessments and new cut scores to determine proficiency rates.

States had different standards and tests, and the tests differed in difficulty and cut scores.

The 1994 law required states to establish content and performance standards (the cut scores that indicate different levels of mastery on the assessments) in reading and math by the 1997 - 98 school year, and final assessments aligned with the standards by the 2000 - 01 school year.

The fight over The Project School cuts to the heart of what makes charter schools different and once again highlights an instance in which reconciling two prevailing values of the state's current education policy regime is far from simple.

The Obama administration has allowed states to set different goals for different groups of students, as long as the low - performing students are required to make greater rates of progress, so that the gap between struggling students and high - achieving students is cut in half over six years.

The first two states to adopt common core were New York and Tennessee, but both states set their cut scores (proficiency thresholds) using completely different criteria.

And in the Sacramento area, one authorizer offered to cut the charter school's fair share contribution in half after receiving a letter stating that the charter school intended to join a different SELPA the following year.

But a different story has emerged in the few states that have managed to avoid cuts and, in some cases, have even expanded their teacher corps over the past few years.

Patrick travels across the country to different salons to raise funds by cutting hair for the 50 States Tour held annually July through October.

Each year, heads of state, leaders of industry, ministers of tourism, and Fortune 500 CEOs in travel and tourism gather in a different country to discuss the cutting - edge issues facing the industry.

Each year, heads of state, leaders of industry, ministers of tourism, and Fortune 500 CEOs in travel and tourism gather in a different city to discuss the cutting - edge issues facing the industry.

As news media fixated on athletic achievements at the Rio Olympics, and of course remained fixated on Donald Trump, different corners of the United States were confronting weather - related hazards — including relentless steamy heat in the East and drought - fueled wildfires all around California, including the explosively spreading «Blue Cut» Fire east of Los Angeles.

«We've spoken to representatives from several different state agencies across the country over the past year, and they are deciding which beaches to stop testing, which staff to lay off, and if they can keep their water testing labs running at all with these looming budget cuts,» says Surfrider Foundation Water Quality Manager Mara Dias.

Dana Hanson, an extension meat scientist at North Carolina State University, said that it is possible that different cuts put together could be more susceptible to contamination by potentially introducing pathogens into the center of a pieced - together steak.