Sentences with phrase «dramatic in a number of states»

And the transition toward greater use of natural gas has been particularly dramatic in a number of states.

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Although Target previously stated the breach wouldn't compromise card holders» accounts, the dramatic rise in the number of people affected called that assumption into question.

Test scores for third through eighth graders were released Wednesday and they show a dramatic drop in the number of New York state students who are considered proficient in math and English.

Delving into the complex and timely issue of illegal immigration to the United States from South America, and the large number of missing - presumed - dead immigrants who never make it either home or away, this film takes an interesting approach in combining investigative documentary and dramatic retelling.

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the state's largest school system, strongly influenced those trends with a dramatic 53 % drop in the number of students suspended.

However, states and the U.S. Department of Education must together confront substantial implementation problems in this area, because the new requirements are fraught with technical complications, will lead to dramatic increases in the number of schools identified as failing, set improvement targets that many see as unrealistic, and are no more grounded in research or experience than the standards set by most states under the old law.

To be eligible, states had to agree to adopt new common standards and tests (the Common Core State Standards); expand the number of charter schools; evaluate the effectiveness of teachers in significant part by the test scores of their students (and remove any statutory barriers to doing so); and agree to «turn around» their lowest - performing schools by taking such dramatic steps as firing staff and closing the schools.

«When a school continues to perform in the bottom five percent of the state and isn't showing signs of progress or has graduation rates below 60 percent over a number of years, something dramatic needs to be done,» said Duncan.

SACRAMENTO — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced a dramatic 20 percent drop in the number of students expelled in 2013 - 14 and a 15.2 decline in the number of students suspended.

«A number of favorable developments have led us to this decision, including the dramatic growth in utility demand for large - scale wholesale solar projects, the increasing number of states with incentive programs for customer - owned systems and the federal government's recent stimulus package.»

She said the high number of homeless children in the state and dramatic decrease in families receiving cash assistance were the two statistics that most jumped out to her in the year's factbook.