Sentences with phrase «federal study concludes»

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.

Most public schools do not do much in a systematic way to help preschoolers make the transition to kindergarten, a federal study concludes.

Increasing numbers of U.S. students, over time, are attending public schools of choice rather than their neighborhood schools, a federal study concludes.

Not exact matches

Both studies concluded that the federal finances were sustainable, with the budget in surplus in or before 2045, not a bad starting point for planning the 2018 budget.

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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.

Hansen's retirement concludes a 46 - year career at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, but he plans to use his time to take up legal challenges to the federal and state governments over limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Moreover, the report's authors concluded, federal vaccination recommendations, which have expanded in recent years, are based on inadequate evidence and poorly executed studies.

Washington — Although the federal Chapter 1 program bypasses some schools with high poverty rates and some students with low achievement levels, it generally reaches the disadvantaged children it was meant to benefit, a new Education Department study concludes.

A decreasing number of children in foster care are predicted to be eligible for federal aid, a study concludes.

A federal effort to provide intensive technical assistance to low - achieving Title I students and schools had little effect, a new study concludes.

After its fourth year in practice, the federal No Child Left Behind Act is changing the way schools and districts provide instruction — for better and for worse, concludes a wide - ranging study released today.

As federal officials search for ways to upgrade the quality of math and science instruction, a study concludes that a large - scale venture to spread professional - development throughout entire districts had a positive effect on teaching those subjects.

Bilingual Education: The federal government should stop focusing on bilingual education programs to help students with limited English proficiency, because there is little evidence that those programs work, a series of draft studies written for the U.S. Department of Education concludes.

Four years ago, a hotly disputed study concluded that schools were being recognized under the popular federal Blue Ribbon Schools Program despite unimpressive academic records.

The World Wide Web can be shaped into a vibrant educational tool serving all learners if more money is devoted to research and development and if governments clear away many conflicting and obsolete rules, a federal panel has concluded after a 10 - month study.

Federal efforts to reduce the spread among teenagers of the virus that causes AIDS have been «underfunded, uncoordinated, and largely unsuccessful,» a Congressional study concludes.

A group of analysts from the Brookings Institution studied the federal tax incentive and concluded:

A study conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland concluded that lower credit scores do in fact indicate higher likelihood of mortgage default.

Steven C. Amstrup, the federal biologist who led an analysis last year concluding that the world's polar bear population could shrink two thirds by 2050 under moderate projections for retreating summer sea ice, is once again in the field along Alaska's Arctic coast, studying this year's brood of cubs, yearlings and mothers.

The World Resources Institute (via the Green blog) has done a study concluding that with a lot of heavy lifting, existing federal and state initiatives could come fairly close to achieving the United States» short - term climate goal, set by President Obama in climate treaty talks last December, of a cut in emissions by 2020 to a level 17 percent below that measured in 2005:

But after extensive studies, environmental and consumer groups and Federal environmental officials concluded that there was no clear environmental advantage to using either laundered cloth or paper disposables.

Reports Says Better Habitat Protection is Required Environment Canada released a report (six months after it was finalized by scientists, thanks to the Conservative federal government): «The study concludes 29 of the 57 remaining herds of boreal caribou

A federal study of sea otters in Prince William Sound, Alaska, where the Exxon Valdez supertanker spilled around 30,000,000 gallons of oil about 25 years ago (the second largest spill after the Deepwater Horizon disaster) has concluded that the otters have returned to pre-spill numbers.

When the sectors considered are directly financed by the federal, provincial and municipal governments, this study concludes that it is not enough to blame globalization and international commerce as the only reason why French is endangered.

Though no independent or academic studies have been published estimating the effects of the new tax legislation on home values and prices, most studies to date have concluded that federal tax benefits are a component of property values.