Sentences with phrase «low by national standards»

Property taxes are slightly higher than the state average, although still low by national standards.

Property tax rates in Kanawha County are higher than the state average, though still low by national standards.

Property tax rates in Kanawha County are higher than the state average, though still low by national standards.

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Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Moreover, it is clear that the vast majority of states have set their academic achievement bar far lower than federal standards, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Moreover, the Obama Administration has suggested making federal Title I funding contingent upon adoption of national standards — a move that would provide no new funding for standards and assessment implementation but would effectively mandate their adoption by withholding federal funding for low - income schools.

Because the United States is a relatively rich country, many among the 21 percent of school - age children living below the national poverty line are not counted in the low - income bracket by OECD standards, hence the OECD's seemingly low figure of 13 percent.)

Their Race to the Top program was, in essence, No Child Left Behind II: It invited states to compete for $ 5 billion in funds by holding teachers accountable for test scores, adopting national standards, opening more charter schools, and closing low - scoring public schools.

Meantime, President Obama can fulfill another campaign promise by starting work on a national low - carbon fuel standard.

Plan of action - CO2 emissions tax, deregulate low polluting technology and remove current barriers of new technology per usual pick and choose government interference, facilitate standards to coordinate national and international energy development, subsidize ultra low polluting power generators and fuel to poor countries, investment dollars awarded to highest rate of return for CO2 emission reduction upon global market, rate tax expenditures and promising technology by independent accounting agency bonded to ensure loss of political and personal cronyism influence.

For example, a 2009 UCS analysis found that a 25 percent by 2025 national renewable electricity standard would lower power plant CO2 emissions 277 million metric tons annually by 2025 — the equivalent of the annual output from 70 typical (600 MW) new coal plants [4].

US Senator Barack Obama is proposing a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (NLCFS) based on the California LCFS established by California Governor Schwarzenegger in January 2007.

The type of power EMerge is looking at — Class 2 as defined by the National Electric Code, a North American standard — is so low that you couldn't feel it, unless you touched your tongue to the ceiling.

They suggest we can lower our energy (& other resource) use on a U.S. national scale by more than 3/4, sometimes 9/10, WITHOUT LOWERING PRODUCTIVITY or living standards, with current technology.

2) apart from the fact that CJEU stated that even before EU exercising its power, the MS must still act - when they have the power to do so - in a matter which does not jeopardise or prejudice the EU, so that the mere «potential» competence does have an effect, limitating the MS action, the parallel is that a negative rule is still a rule, so that the existence of the rule makes the matter «regulated»: - as for the JHA, I must say that whilst I agree with you on the merits, I can see the issue raised by the CJEU, since it is quite the same raised by some national Constitutional Courts, i.e. that ECHR standards may be in conflict with national standards and formally speaking the ECHR is a treaty and therefore has a lower rank that national Constititions, and the decision of the ECHR on the interpretation of such standards within the context of the Convention does not bind the national Constitutional Court in interpreting the national Constitution standards: e.g..