Sentences with phrase «dozen states»

A half dozen states still have such systems in place.

The company was first established in 1996 and are now approved in more than two dozen states for ticket dismissal purposes.

In 2014, an even dozen states had full participation in ACT tests.

A half - dozen state codes are not included on the app because the states claim copyright in them.

The latest wave is get - paid recycling - in a half dozen states, consumers are racking up points for discounts or prizes.

The ballot measure was prompted by the convictions of two dozen state lawmakers over the past decade, primarily on corruption charges, including former Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre).

The report's authors, Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Vanderbilt, studied teacher ratings in roughly half of the more than three dozen states with new evaluation systems and found that a median of 2.7 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, even though principals they surveyed in one large urban school system suggested that there were more low performing teachers than that in their schools.

«There have been a couple of dozen states that adopted Common Core as their standards that in the last couple of years have revisited that decision,» says Derek Redelman, who studies education policy for the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.

A couple dozen state legislators were on the commission's radar screen because their campaign finance disclosure reports didn't document some expenses or failed to -LSB-...]

Meanwhile, the governors of several other states have issued executive orders mandating net neutrality, and a couple dozen state attorneys general are suing the FCC over its December decision.

Nearly two dozen states now administer online exams.

Almost two dozen states offer free tuition for seniors who wish to audit classes and free or reduced tuition for seniors who wish to earn college credit.

A half dozen state senators said Cuomo hasn't done enough to block a state Parole Board decision that will free convicted cop killer and Black Liberation Army member Herman Bell next month.

A couple dozen state legislators were on the commission's radar screen because their campaign finance disclosure reports didn't document some expenses or failed to itemize their spending to detail precisely what they spend their money on.

Facial recognition software is becoming common in motor vehicle registries, too, as more than three dozen states use the technology to look for fake driver's licenses and identify people during investigations.

So we've been talking about this effort by this group, the Republican State Leadership Committee, to put not huge amounts of money, but enough money to make a difference in a few dozen state legislative races, hoping that Republicans could then control statehouses, and after the 2010 census draw the new congressional lines.

In early February, she wrote about the near - dozen state governors — many of them Republican — who had refused to approve state ESSA plans.

It is therefore remarkable that the courts of a half dozen States found compulsory religious exercises in the public schools in violation of their respective state constitutions.

This pay - to - play corruption is bigger than the illegal corruption that has ensnared a few dozen state elected officials over the last 15 years.

The governor is deploying more than two - dozen State Police troopers — including aviation units and electronic surveillance equipment — to Long Island to help combat the notorious MS - 13 gang, which he called «as brazen as it is brutal.»

This year, about $ 150 million is going to support some two dozen state programs, from fire - safe cigarettes and forge - resistant prescription pads to immunizations and an urban search - and - rescue program.

Although New Jersey is one of about two dozen states currently embroiled in school - finance litigation, the ruling makes it only the second, along with Texas, in which a judge has overturned a legislative attempt to answer a finance - equity...

That is because roughly three dozen states opted against creating their own health insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, and instead rely on the federal healthcare.gov to help people find coverage if they don't get insurance through their jobs or the government.

While lower courts have overturned several dozen state amendments banning same - sex marriage in recent years, conflict over whether Americans can decline services for weddings has heated up.

Almost two dozen state delegations — including New York's, with whom we're embedded — are staying at the beach.

The need for accountability was brought home in December with the allegation that at least two dozen state employees had fraudulently obtained emergency food assistance earmarked for lower - income people who suffered losses in Tropical Storm Irene.

Anne Schuchat, director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said they have analyzed hospital data and deaths from more than two dozen states between 1 September and 10 October.

Two dozen states lack the kind of «charter - friendly» policies they need to earn top points on their Race to the Top applications, according to a new review of charter school laws.

She has flooded the airwaves with TV and radio ads in a half dozen states weighing new policies on charter schools, teacher assessment and other hot - button issues.

An additional dozen states were also authorized to implement California's law.

Over three dozen states recognize certification from the Dental Assisting National Board, or DANB, as qualification for licensing.

Senator Smith's scandal adds to the long list of over two dozen state lawmakers in the past decade who've been arrested, jailed, or reprimanded for bad behavior, says the League of Women Voter's Barbara Bartoletti.

California is one of a half - dozen states with a teacher probationary period of two years or less; in 42 states, it's between three and five years, according to a staff analysis of the bill.

Meanwhile, a coalition of almost two dozen state attorneys general is suing the FCC at the U.S. Court of Appeals, demanding a federal - level rollback of the agency's decision.

Last week, the heads of nearly four dozen state agencies under the governor's control were to have given the Budget Division their lists of job titles they could cut in order to meet this year's budget goals.

A half - dozen state senators said Thursday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't done enough to block a Parole Board decision that will free convicted cop - killer and Black Liberation Army member Herman Bell next month.

ALBANY — Nearly four dozen state legislators are pushing Gov. Cuomo to use the upcoming state budget talks to close a loophole that lets companies give virtually unlimited amounts in campaign donations.

At least three dozen states now license these animal nurses, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, and require at least two years of schooling.

Beach was one of almost four dozen State Police officers named as defendants.

Instead, the mayor was grilled in a five - hour session by more than a half dozen state lawmakers on placing a property tax cap on New York City.

The rare event will be visible in certain regions within more than a dozen states.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the company has won regulatory approval from a dozen states to become, what would essentially, turn it into a major digital prescription drug operation.

Consumers in more than a dozen states would have foot the bill, which could have totaled billions.

Voters in a dozen states will take part in «Super Tuesday» — a series of primaries and caucuses in states ranging from Alaska to Virginia, with Virginia the first to open its polling stations at 6:00 am (1100 GMT).