It can be exhilarating — not to mention a great learning experience — to join an early startup, but you'll typically see much lower salaries paired with
higher equity stakes, as the smaller the company, the lower the chances they've raised (or made) tons of cash.
When Canadians have
higher equity stakes in their homes, it imparts more stability to the market.
Not exact matches
That is key, given that the firm is located in a
high - cost area and because it has many young employees who need cash — not speculative
equity stakes — to meet their living expenses.
British retail billionaire Philip Green on Thursday sold a 25 percent
stake in Topshop and Topman to U.S. private
equity firm Leonard Green and Partners in a deal that values the popular
high street chain at 2 billion pounds.
Founders can lobby for
higher compensation and options in lieu of
equity stakes; investors can fight for preferred dividends and treatment of their shares when it comes to another round of funding or a sale.
Collaboration with parents is vital to improving struggling schools, promoting educational
equity, addressing the over emphasis on
high -
stakes testing, and increasing charter school accountability.»
For all their flaws, they are far better for
equity and quality than statewide skills - standards with
high -
stakes tests that encourage wasting huge amounts of school time in practicing narrow test - taking activities at the expense of education.
«
High -
stakes testing» raises several concerns re - garding the
equity of such policies.
The Achieve3000 platform is powered by built - in blended learning, actionable data, and proven efficacy, ensuring
equity of access to core instruction while accelerating student learning, improving performance on
high -
stakes assessments, and preparing all students for college and career success.
As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and
high -
stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice,
equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.
Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about
equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and
high -
stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.
Dear Members of the Commission: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) is concerned about the damage done to educational
equity and excellence by the use of
high -
stakes testing.
The national group, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, issued a statement explaining: «As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and
high -
stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice,
equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.»
Additionally, we have ample evidence that standards and
high -
stakes tests do not create the democratic outcomes we seek in schools such as critical thinking, creativity, and
equity of opportunity.»
The George Washington University Center for
Equity and Excellence in Education offers a database listing each state's policies regarding modification on
high -
stakes tests for ELLs.
Since the era of
high -
stakes accountability initiated in the early 1980s has not, in fact, closed the achievement gap, can you commit to ending accountability - based education reform, including a significant reduction in
high -
stakes testing, and then detail reform based on
equity of opportunities for all students?
Achieve3000 continues to offer the only customized literacy platform — in English and Spanish — that provides truly differentiated instruction to reach all students at their individual reading levels, providing
equity of access to core instruction to accelerate their learning, improve performance on
high -
stakes assessments and prepare them for college and career success
Northeastern PAA affiliates have been working locally, statewide and nationally to promote quality public education, focusing on issues that include
high -
stakes testing, student privacy, democratic governance and
equity.
WHEREAS, the over-reliance on
high -
stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and
equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators» efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and deep subject - matter knowledge that will allow students to contribute and thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy; and
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High -
Stakes Testing, SBAC / / California Alliance of Researchers for
Equity in Education EduResearcher
One way accountability can be defined is through a
high -
stakes lens, which is when the school and district are held accountable for educating children, creating
equity, and ensuring that students achieve.
Au (2009) argues that, despite the «
high - minded rhetoric» around
high -
stakes testing as means to ensure
equity, achievement data suggests that systems of
high -
stakes, standardized testing are exacerbating rather than alleviating the inequalities they purportedly measure (p. 5).
However, the fund's large
equity stake adds risk to the portfolio, which, with large positions in
high - yield (20 %) and non-U.S. dollar denominated bonds (30 %), is already one of the multisector category's most volatile.»
I'm then reinvesting those dividends, along with fresh capital, to increase my
equity stakes in said
high quality companies.
Because some of them have an extremely
high potential to earn the buyer big money when turned into a prosperous, profitable business, I've thought about negotiation an extremely - low sale price for select domains, but under
equity stake contracts (meaning the buyer gives me a small piece of the business (es) earnings used by that domain).
Our 1,000 plus lawyers across the United States, Europe, and Asia excel at complex transactions,
high -
stakes litigations and world - class advisory services in the financial, life sciences, private
equity, real estate, and technology industries.
For motor carriers, private
equity is lining up to acquire majority
stakes in well - established trucking companies, Silicon Valley is engaged in a
high -
stake race to perfect driverless trucks and autonomous vehicles, UBER and Amazon have entered the freight moving industry and NAFTA is being renegotiated.
Our three offices in Asia focus on complex,
high stakes transactional matters for corporate and private
equity clients, from domestic transactions in one jurisdiction to cross-border transactions that are impacted by multiple jurisdictions worldwide.
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Equity: As you pay down the loan and make improvements to the property and operational efficiencies to generate
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equity stake in the property increases.