Sentences with phrase «divided over the measure»

Just last night, CapTon's Kaitlyn Ross and I spoke to several senators who said the Democratic conference is divided over the measure.

As college tuition rates march upward, lawmakers in about a dozen states are divided over measures that would make it easier for undocumented immigrant students to qualify for in - state tuition rates.

Early polls indicate that voters are evenly divided over the measure, which also contains gasoline - tax hikes and other provisions to raise needed transportation funding.

Not exact matches

They are divided over whether future economic growth will benefit the many or the few, but they agree that we need new metrics to measure prosperity going forward.

Canadian workers» productivity, or the output produced on average per hour worked (which is measure by dividing real GDP by an estimate of total hours worked over a certain period), dipped 0.5 per cent between July and September after declining 0.6 per cent between April and June.

The fight over the so - called Faso - Collins amendment in the health care reform measures has naturally created its own schisms in New York, a political microburst that has mostly divided Republicans from Democrats, and upstate from downstate.

The Senate is expected to vote Monday on a series of competing gun - control measures that will highlight the continuing divide between Democrats and Republicans over how Congress should respond to mass shootings.

A marathon debate over education funding continues in Ohio, where school groups are already divided over a May 5 ballot measure that proposes hiking the state sales tax by 1 cent in order to raise revenue for schools.

Money from a $ 26 million reward fund, averaging about $ 2,000 a teacher, will be divided among the 38 percent of the state's schools that improved by more than 10 percent on certain measures over the past two years.

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Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

High Return on Invested Capital (A profitability metric that measures pre-tax Earnings per Share divided by the average debt and equity over the same reporting period)

A claim that one glacier was retreating at the alarming rate of 134 metres a year should in fact have said 23 metres â $ «the authors had divided the total loss measured over 121 years by 21, not 121.

Conversion rate can be measured by counting the total number of new clients acquired in a given time period and dividing it by the total number of new prospective clients who contacted you over that same time period.