Sentences with phrase «laggard state»

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New York has been a laggard in expanding the definition of parenthood, as a majority of states already recognize non-biological, non-adoptive parents.

States have rebounded strongly from the recession, but some long - time laggards still can't create a business - friendly environment.

Laggards included the CRRC Corporation, a state - owned train maker whose shares fell 5.7 percent on heavy trading, and Ping An Insurance, which closed down 4 percent.

But rewarding laggards for promises, instead of achievers for their successes, rewards state and local officials for the very behavior one wishes to discourage.

There is some hint that those parts of the United States that took school reform the most seriously — Florida and North Carolina, for example — have shown stronger rates of improvement, while states that have steadfastly resisted many school reforms (Iowa and Wisconsin, for instance), are among the nation's test - score lagStates that took school reform the most seriously — Florida and North Carolina, for example — have shown stronger rates of improvement, while states that have steadfastly resisted many school reforms (Iowa and Wisconsin, for instance), are among the nation's test - score lagstates that have steadfastly resisted many school reforms (Iowa and Wisconsin, for instance), are among the nation's test - score laggards.

Second, as Patrick McGuinn pointed out in a 2010 American Enterprise Institute paper, Race to the Top «shifted the focus of federal education policy from the [state] laggards to the leaders.»

Applying the approach we pioneered in an earlier Leaders & Laggards report several years back, we calculated a state's ROI by dividing a composite measure of NAEP achievement scores by per - pupil expenditure (adjusted for the cost of living).

But, today, I just want to point to three measures from Leaders & Laggards that help to offer a more holistic take on the quality of a state's school system.

Last week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released its 2014 report Leaders & Laggards: A State - by - State Report Card on K - 12 Educational Effectiveness.

A new report, Leaders & Laggards: A State - by - State Report Card on K - 12 Educational Effectiveness by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce attempts to affect change by ranking states on their performance and policy environment.

Your editor has long criticized the law's Highly Qualified Effective Teacher provision for being a rather wishy - washy element that merely allowed states and districts to simply allow laggard teachers to keep their jobs by magically certifying them as high quality.

The resulting report, Leaders and Laggards: A State - by - State Report Card on K - 12 Educational Effectiveness, ranked states on important indicators such as rigor of standards and teacher effectiveness.

A second iteration of Leaders and Laggards was released in 2009, which focused on the states that led the way in educational innovation.

In 2007, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched an effort to dig into national statistics and available rankings of state policy environments to see who the national leaders in educational performance were — and who were the laggards.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

Not that the latter is shocking; two months ago, state officials sought approval from the administration to delay using the evaluation system in rewarding high - quality teachers and sacking laggards, as well as to exempt kids taking trial versions of Common Core reading and math tests being rolled out in the next couple of years from having to take the current battery of state exams.

When you consider that teacher salaries are based on attaining additional degrees (which is often funded by districts and states) and not on performance, the costs of laggard ed schools borne by taxpayers are even greater.

As Dropout Nation has detailed over the last year, the enabling of incompetent and criminally - venal cops by state laws and criminal justice bureaucracies parallels the protection of laggard and criminally - abusive teachers by state education agencies and traditional districts.

Preoccupied by Islamic State and the rise of China, the U.S. has been an Arctic laggard.

Once laggards on clean energy, cities and states across the Southeast are taking significant steps to develop smart, clean energy plans — with more than 47 Southeast cities and 2 states pledging to accelerate clean energy development to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

The years - long delay in bringing three former Nortel Networks executives to trial for fraud has reinforced Canada's well - earned reputation as a laggard in markets enforcement, particularly when compared with the United States, its critics say.