Sentences with phrase «improvement from year to year»

Miron says Edison schools do show improvement from year to year in norm - referenced tests — tests that measure gains in student knowledge over time.

Dr. Noguera, the N.Y.U. education professor and adviser to the city, applauded Mr. Klein for creating a grading system that rewarded improvement from year to year so that schools in poor neighborhoods had the same chance of achieving a good grade as those in wealthier areas.

Instead, its system of school grades and teacher incentives gave considerable weight to scores that showed improvement from year to year at all levels.

Factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, socio - economic status, disability and English proficiency are all part of what's used to measure improvement from year to year in every school.

The bill would effectively override current state law that requires that student growth data — the only objective measure of a student's improvement from year to year — be one factor in a teacher's annual review.

While teachers strive to make improvements from year to year, forward progress can eventually stall.

Not exact matches

Over the past three years, HomeStars — a Toronto - based company that publishes online reviews of home improvement professionals — has grown from 22 to 53 employees.

One fee that has become crucial to YVR's ambitions and a lightning rod for consumer discontent is the Airport Improvement Fee (AIF), which rose from $ 15 to $ 20 last year for passengers travelling outside of B.C. Whereas U.S. airports rely heavily on funding from government for infrastructure, Canadian airports are forced to borrow or raise fees, explains YVR senior vice-president Tony Gugliotta.

I'm living better, by my values, than ever, and my year - and - counting without flying contributed as much as anything to that improvement, decoupling my emotional well - being from the ignorant craving I succumbed to before, and creating more reward here.

The improvement from March's spike of 64,141 was not enough to erase an increase in job - cut announcements this year, Challenger says.»

U.S. budget: The group expects continued improvement in the federal deficit, which it sees shrinking to $ 460 billion next year from $ 483 billion in fiscal year 2014

Despite the improvement in supply, the median house price increased 5.7 % from a year ago to $ 222,700 last month.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The state logs solid improvement in Quality of Life (tied for No. 10 vs. No. 17 last year), Economy (No. 14, up from No. 18) and Access to Capital (No. 7, up from No. 19).

Netflix appeared to rally in the fourth quarter when it reported revenue of $ 876 million, a 47 percent improvement from a year earlier.

After the most dramatic improvement in the Index's history in 2015 — from 41st to 12th in one year — North Carolina has continued to improve its tax structure, and now imposes the lowest - rate corporate income tax in the country at 3 percent, down from 4 percent the previous year.

Reflecting these initiatives, the net loss applicable to OnDeck common stockholders, which included a $ 3.2 million severance charge, decreased to $ 1.5 million in the second quarter of 2017, an improvement of more than $ 16 million from the prior year quarter.

Under the agreement a perpetual restrictive covenant has been placed on the 121.7 ha which will require the area to be maintained and managed for its value as native vegetation with improvement of its assessed habitat score from 7/10 to 8/10 over a 20 - year period.

South Carolina, however, recently raised its sales tax per gallon from 16.75 cents to 28.75 cents to fund road improvement projects over the next six years.

Financial results just released by the Finance department for the first eight months (April to November) of the 2014 - 15 fiscal year show that the federal government posted a deficit of $ 3.3 billion, an improvement of $ 10.1 billion from the deficit of $ 13.4 billion recorded in the same period in 2013 - 14.

Private - residential fixed investment, which includes major replacements such as new roofs and improvements like finishing a basement, rose 9.1 percent from a year earlier to an annualized $ 360.7 billion for the three months ended March 31.

Prices in the eurozone were unchanged in the year to October, according to Eurostat, marking a slight improvement from September when they dropped to an annual rate of -0.1 %.

Still, passenger revenues climbed in the first quarter from $ 3.1 billion last year to $ 3.5 billion this year, driven by traffic growth of 11.4 per cent and yield improvement of 0.4 per cent.

U.K. February mortgage data also showed an annual decline of 5.6 percent for approvals with analysts at Jefferies saying they anticipate a further fall in March given difficult to match comparable figures from last year before an improvement in trends returns in subsequent quarters.

At the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aging.

The improvement in conditions was further emphasized by labor market data, showing that unemployment in the region had fallen in June to a nine - year low of 9.1 %, 1 % down from a year earlier.

Mr Boon told shareholders in a letter that the transaction was expected to deliver at least $ 130 million a year to pre-tax earnings from synergies and business improvements and that integration costs to achieve the synergies would be about $ 141 million pre-tax, though $ 67 million had already been spent in the 2017 financial year.

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

The return to a solid ascetical discipline will not be an easy path, but the considerable improvements made to seminary formation in recent years would benefit greatly from the insights of this study.

«From a productivity standpoint, we've been able to realize an 18 percent improvement in productivity this year because of our lean efforts,» Rohm says.

Now several years into our lean manufacturing journey our broadened strength comes from empowered employees who bring about continuous improvement in our methods, our products and most importantly our service to you.

Independent Scottish company Johnstone's Bakers has reported a 45 % increase in turnover to # 7.4 m for the year ended November 30th 2009 and an improvement in pre-tax loss from # 1.3 m in 2008 to # 40,000.

Fresno's improvement from 1 - 11 last year to 10 - 4 matches the biggest single - season turnaround in D - I history.

The improvements they've made from previous years to this season in terms of basketball is astronomical.

A lot of the improvement from last year to this year can be attributed to the addition of Tellef Lundevall and his athleticism around the hoop..

We all had such high hopes of these youngsters becoming the mainstay of our team, but the fact is that our improvement since the turn of the year has all been down to players from other countries.

While he has had his goal droughts, he has continued to lead the line for Jose Mourinho throughout the campaign, and although improvements will be expected from the Belgian in his second year, it has been a positive start overall.

I can't tell you how vastly the breed has improved in temperament and in appearance in the past 20 years, and a great deal of the credit for this improvement must be given to the many able and competent men who have given of their time to officiate at such shows as Westminster and Westchester and others from coast to coast.

United are also thought to be monitoring the 27 - year - old's situation, though they will bide their time before bidding for him as they hope for an improvement in form from loan signing Radamel Falcao.

At 22 years of age, Shaw has plenty of time to develop his game and make significant improvements, and so it seems a little harsh from a Man Utd perspective to consider a sale at this stage of his career regardless of the frustration with his displays to this point.

Congrats to the team for a big improvement from last year so far.

MIddle of the road type starter and like you said from three years ago so there's reason to believe in at least some improvement.

The 27 - year - old has struggled to replicate his form from last season, but has shown signs of improvement in recent weeks after scoring six goals in six games since Guus Hiddink replaced Jose Mourinho last month.

It is difficult to assess whether or not Milan have made the right decision, as from Mihajlovic's perspective, he deserved more patience and time having planted the seeds for improvement and development in the side in the coming months and years.

The young Polish star has come on leaps and bounds since being moved from DM to defender, and looks highly likely to make the step up in the coming years, while Chambers appears to be struggling to make the necessary improvements needed.

Good article states many reasonable conclusions and facts about the season and how amongst all the turmoil we have a manger who does well but one thing in purchases over the last five years we are 6th in the epl were at 366m tottenham in 5th with 397m and he made a mistake there we are 6thin money spent on players but we have had the sanchez saga and new players adjusting to epl and the team and injuries and it definitely hasnt been our year in ref decisions which have played a factor in games though we still should have won aside from ref but watford and westbrom many other games are included at city free offside goal weak penalty and at spurs we were robbed of going one nil up auba onside bu honestly the officiating across the whole league this year has been an embarrassment to professional officials of all sports its been bad game after game they need to get some rigorous training this offseason for improvement

He's NOT god he's NOT infallable, fine we are all only human but to deny there are better players out there than the ones he has is 1) arrogant and 2) a plain lie To justify the teams failing using the same old rhetoric year in year out while attempting to justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wageto deny there are better players out there than the ones he has is 1) arrogant and 2) a plain lie To justify the teams failing using the same old rhetoric year in year out while attempting to justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wageTo justify the teams failing using the same old rhetoric year in year out while attempting to justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wageto justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wageto blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wages.

You want to see significant improvements from someone from year to year when you pick them that high.

wengers job from two years ago was to combine wilshere ozil and carzola... he has finally got ozil and carzola working together and now linking up to sanchez which, along with coquelin «s improvement as a dm, is basically why we have improved so much this year (even though sanchez cooled a little)... if he finds a way of putting wilshere in to the diamond and adding another 15 to 20 goal a game man then we will be able to compete with the best... walcott rambo arteta flamini combos of yesteryear need to be put in to the dustbin of our footballing history... they could never deliver more than 4th place

But considering how poor this unit was for much of the year, we'll assume improvement, from a progression - to - the - mean standpoint, is more likely than regression.