Sentences with phrase «federal study»

So it is with the new federal study of charter schools.

A new federal study found 40 states lacked expertise to help school turnaround efforts.

Young people with disabilities are meeting with «mixed success» as they struggle through high school and search for meaningful, well - paid employment, data from three new federal studies indicate.

He says it will be the first comprehensive, independent federal study on fracking.

According to a recent federal study into sodium and potassium intake, those at greatest risk of cardiovascular disease were those who got too much sodium along with too little potassium.

Giving extra literacy classes to struggling 9th grade readers boosts their reading comprehension skills, according to second - year findings released last month from an ongoing federal study.

It is thus unfortunate that the projected federal study of charters, unless quickly redesigned, will focus primarily on middle schools.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)- A new federal study shows Utah had the lowest rate of alcohol - related deaths over a five - year period among eleven states that participated in the report.

Texas spending on prisons and jails is the highest in the nation, a new federal study concludes, and has grown about five times faster than the state's rate of spending growth on elementary and secondary education over the past three decades.

«We only found one, so it is a rare event,» says study coauthor Kepler de Souza Oliveira Filho, an astronomer at the Federal

The latest federal study of ESC shows that the technology reduces single - car fatal crashes by more than a third.

Federal studies also found acidity levels in the North Pacific and off Alaska are unusually high compared to other ocean regions.

The Associated Press (7/19/13) reports: «A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy -LSB-...]

Federalism and national pluralism Federal studies have been considerably revived over the last 20 years and have abandoned some of their former beliefs or convictions.

Rep. Lee Zeldin announced a new proposal that would suspend the sale and marketing of Plum Island to private buyers and require an additional federal study of the sale.

California proposed the new goal because a recent federal study resolved a decade - long debate by concluding that chromium 6 can cause cancer when ingested.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Toxicology Program — a government program that coordinates federal studies of chemicals» adverse effects — warns that BPA exposure may lead to abnormal development in infants and the Canadian government last year banned its use in baby bottles.

The closest thing is a small ongoing federal study across the border in Montana, where scientists are investigating how decades of oil production have affected the underground water supply for the city of Poplar.

According to a 2011 federal study into sodium and potassium intake, those at greatest risk of cardiovascular disease were those who got a combination of too much sodium along with too little potassium.11 According to Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the lead authors of the study, potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt.

But education groups defending the Enhancing Education Through Technology program argue that the administration would get the information it needs, if only it would await the results of three ongoing federal studies costing millions of dollars, the first of which began in 2001.

More than half of all high - school students have consumed alcohol recently, and more than one - third report that they have recently had more than five drinks on one occasion, the results of a new federal study indicate.

The largest federal study to date found that, on average, children left Head Start knowing only one letter of the alphabet, and that many teachers were discouraged from teaching the alphabet.

Secondary School Teachers» Opinions: Public and Private Schools combines data from two previous federal studies: the 1983 - 84 «Administrator and Teacher Survey,» part of the department's High School and Beyond study, and the 1985 - 86 Private School Survey.

New Jersey eighth - graders fared well in math and science in the first federal study to rank the state against competitors abroad — but its performance still trailed behind the top - scoring Asian education systems.

This latest federal study confirms a long line of research that has found that NCLB has had little or no effect on the language and math skills of America's students.

A recently released high - quality federal study found that traditional Head Start programs serving 4 - year - olds do not enhance the academic, social, or health outcomes of Head Start children as they progress through elementary school.

For the real story on polar bear populations, see Federal studies show polar bear, walrus populations in trouble.

They should include people in gas country, where federal studies hopefully will soon clarify ways to responsibly expand extraction of a vital fuel (if you care even remotely about moving away from oil or limiting emissions from coal - burning power plants).

Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure — Gulf Coast Study See our previous post: March 13, 2008: Stealth release of major federal study of Gulf Coast climate change transportation impacts

Fires, floods and hurricanes are already costing the federal government tens of billions of dollars a year and climate change will drive those costs ever higher in coming years, a new federal study warns.

Federal studies continue to show as many as half of all car accidents are caused by some form of distracted driving, including cell phones, stereos, eating and other dangerous driver behavior.

Specifically, for students who had attended public schools deemed to be failing before the students took part in the voucher program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.

Equal shared parenting — a minimum of 40 % of time spent with children by each parent — has been federal Conservative party policy in theory since 2002, following an exhaustively researched landmark federal study in 1998, «For the Sake of the Children,» which recommended equal parenting as the presumptive custodial arrangement in the absence of abuse.

See on Scoop.it — California Car Accident Lawyer PBSTraffic accidents in the U.S. cost $ 871 billion a year, federal study finds PBS WASHINGTON — The economic and societal harm from motor vehicle crashes amounted to a whopping $ 871 billion in a single year, according to a study released Thursday...

A recent federal study of the much - watched voucher program in Washington, D.C., for example, showed that using a voucher boosted a student's chances of graduating from high school.

On average, a new federal study shows, charter schools are no better and in some cases worse than regular public schools, but KIPP's test scores show it to be a glaring exception to that general rule.

When the Opposition leader noted in the House of Commons, in 2012, that a federal study had shown that Canada was falling prey to «Dutch disease» (named after the 1960s oil boom, which devastated other exports in the Netherlands), Conservative MP Kellie Leitch offered the government's response: «The leader of the Opposition wants to call Canadian employers a disease.»

New research data from a federal study by the NIH, comparing almost 140,000 births, shows that average labor time was longer in the early 2000s than it was in the 1960s (when most labor patterns were recorded).

Armed security officers are becoming more prevalent at America's schools, according to a federal study released amid a heated debate over whether teachers and other school officials should carry guns.

Maloney announced he will reintroduce legislation to require a federal study on long - term health effects of PFOS and PFOA exposure.

Federal studies have been considerably revived over the last 20 years and have abandoned some of their former beliefs or convictions.

They include working to get a federal study of whether or not to build big storm - surge barriers.

(Because of the censoring of the emails before they were released to Capital, it is not possible to see exactly how completely the authors of the federal study incorporated the feedback they got from state officials.)

The proposal was so toxic in the legislature last year that the state Senate voted unanimously to block the state Department of Transportation from spending $ 300,000 to join a federal study of the issue with four other states.

The federal study was a step on the way to implementing that plan — it established the baseline level of methane in the groundwater before fracking, providing a basis for before - after comparison, and a preemptive defense against later claims of pollution from fracking opponents.