Sentences with phrase «meet benchmarks in»

In 2014, schools were given three years to meet benchmarks in areas like attendance, graduation rate, and for elementary and middle schools, performance on state reading and math exams (Taylor, 2017).

Under the law, districts and schools must meet benchmarks in graduation rates, attendance, test participation, and math and reading test scores.

Around one quarter of them meet the benchmarks in all subject areas.

This measurement system is meant to establish a student's progress in each of several key learning - skills areas, demonstrating how and when students meet benchmarks in workplace - skills development as defined by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Only about one in four of the high - school graduates who took the American College Testing (ACT) program's college - readiness test last year met the benchmarks in reading comprehension, English, math, and science.

Only a quarter of African - Americans, 7 percent of special education students and 23 percent of students who qualify for subsidized lunches met the benchmark in English.

ACT scores of Alabama students as shown in The Condition of College and Career Readiness 2015 Alabama report shows that only 16 % of Alabama students meet the benchmark in all four subjects.

; 2) Gap (percentage of proficient and distinguished) for the Non-Duplicated Gap Group for all five content areas; 3) Growth in reading and mathematics (percentage of students at typical or higher levels of growth); 4) College Readiness as measured by the percentage of students meeting benchmarks in three content areas on EXPLORE at middle school; 5) College / Career - Readiness Rate as measured by ACT benchmarks, college placement tests and career measures and 6) Graduation Rate.

Fewer than 30 percent of students met the benchmark in Madison Parish and Baker.

«Many of my students went from «not proficient» to meeting benchmarks in just one semester.

Not exact matches

He will be monitoring Zappos» progress in real time, he said, rather than seeing if it meets certain benchmarks.

When the Federal Reserve Board meets later this month, there's a better than 50 - 50 chance it will raise its benchmark interest rate for the first time in seven years.

The forecast, due Monday, sets the benchmark when legislators meet in January to write a state budget for the coming fiscal year and fix shortfalls from the current year.

By requiring retirement advisers to either meet a «fiduciary» standard or put other safeguards into place, the rule holds financial advisers to the same benchmark already required of doctors and lawyers — that they act in their clients» best interests.

The Federal Reserve is also due to meet this week, and while no rate hike in benchmark U.S. interest rates is expected, investors will look for clues on the future pace of increases.

Where active managers will buy and sell securities in order to meet an investment objective, smart beta ETFs passively observe rules that tie them to an industry (or custom) benchmark.

The U.S. central bank's monetary - policy committee raised benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.5 % to 1.75 %, in Jerome Powell's first meeting as Fed chairman.

Given the weakness in all of the major indices, we still expect the correction to continue, with at least a re-test of the lows in the case of most of the benchmarks, although the market might get very choppy before the Fed's meeting on Wednesday.

The Fed did not raise its benchmark interest rate at the meeting on Jan. 30 and 31, but the account reinforced investor expectations the Fed would raise rates at its next meeting in March.

The paper takes a close look at a critical aspect of how the Federal Reserve makes decisions about monetary policy: the rules and benchmarks that guide them in meeting their dual mandate of full employment and stable prices.

The CNGC's independent consultant attends and participates in CNGC meetings at which executive compensation matters are considered, and performs analyses for the CNGC at the CNGC's request, including benchmarking, realizable pay analyses, analyses of the correlation between performance measures and shareholder return, and assessments of the difficulty of attaining performance goals.

The US Federal Reserve didn't find a compelling reason to raise interest rates at its March policy meeting, maintaining its benchmark short - term interest rate (fed funds rate) in the range of 1/4 to 1/2 percent.

But in their most recent policy meeting, Fed officials stated they could raise the federal funds benchmark sometime this year, possibly during the second quarter.

In the wake of all this, the Mexican central bank, Banxico, opted to stay the benchmark interest rate at 7 percent following its meeting on September 28.

Lawyers for Kalanick and Benchmark, one of Uber's major investors, met for the first time in court Wednesday to hash out an explosive lawsuit.

«The board met on August 11 and the six members not involved in the litigation unanimously issued a statement that the board was «disappointed» in Benchmark's lawsuit and confirming that it was destructive to the company.

The US Federal Reserve System decided to leave its benchmark interest rate untouched following its two - day policy meeting on July 25 - 26, in line with market expectations.

The Board was briefed on the recent reset of interchange fees in the MasterCard and Visa systems, including the reduction in debit card interchange rates to meet the lower benchmarks implemented following the Bank's 2015 — 16 Review of Card Payments Regulation.

«In all, 66 publishers met or surpassed this benchmark figure on Apple's store in 2016, which was 1.7 times more than the 39 that managed the same degree of success on Google's platform,» wrote Sensor Tower in a blog posIn all, 66 publishers met or surpassed this benchmark figure on Apple's store in 2016, which was 1.7 times more than the 39 that managed the same degree of success on Google's platform,» wrote Sensor Tower in a blog posin 2016, which was 1.7 times more than the 39 that managed the same degree of success on Google's platform,» wrote Sensor Tower in a blog posin a blog post.

The Fed leaves its benchmark interest rate steady, but it signaled that an increase was likely at its next policy meeting in March.

In its first meeting under his leadership, the Fed announced a 0.25 basis points rate increase — the sixth hike since December 2015 — and changed its benchmark target rate to 1.5 % to 1.75 %.

How else would you suggest I go about meeting the benchmarks you establish in your article?

The US Federal Reserve remained in tightening mode at its March monetary policy meeting, raising its benchmark interest rate for the sixth time since December 2015.

We believe that a majority of banks will be in a position to meet their augmented benchmarks assuming the recent positive trend in credit flows continues in the next couple of years.

«Our commitment to our clients» brands is reflected in a quality systems approach where people, processes, technology and infrastructure come together to provide safe products that meet or exceed quality benchmarks.

Our Return to Run program consists of certain stages or benchmarks that athletes need to meet in order to move their way back to pain - free running.

«These candidates have worked hard to meet the benchmarks that have been laid out before them and are determined to hold Washington Democrats accountable this November,» NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions (Texas) said in a statement.

Any Republican House candidate can participate in the program, but only those who meet certain benchmarks are elevated through the ranks.

The Steering Group agreed the terms of reference for the review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).

Employers added 235,000 workers to their payrolls in February — a hefty gain that clears the path for the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark interest rate when it meets next week.

In one of many terse exchanges between lawmakers and Howard Zemsky, head of Economic State Development, Assemblyman Harry Bronson (D - Rochester) told Zemsky, «I think we need to be punitive when we're not meeting the benchmark.

In order to earn the title of Young Gun, a House Republican candidate must meet internal committee benchmarks, including fundraising.

Moreover, a subsequent report issued by FES charged that less than 1 in 10 students met «grade - level benchmarks for reading and math.»

Compared with a corporate enterprise, for example, nonprofits may offer more flexibility in setting and achieving goals, establishing benchmarks, and setting strategies for meeting the organization's mission.

Hosted by Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — a partner in the development of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and publisher of key resources such as Science for All Americans, Benchmarks for Science Literacy, and the Atlas of Science Literacy — this workshop is a unique opportunity to tap into a set of tools, resources, and strategies that can help you meet the challenges of NGSS implementation.

Ten percent of U.S. kids met or exceeded the advanced international benchmark in science — a smaller share than in Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, England, Korea or Hungary.

She does see some cause for optimism: A new generation of tests are being developed in the U.S. to assess how well students have met the Common Core State Standards, the set of academic benchmarks in literacy and math that have been adopted by 43 states.

Students at seven middle schools received the phones in February, and they collect talk minutes, ringtones, and music downloads by meeting certain benchmarks, such as turning in homework and participating in class.

The district places students into three categories: those that meet the benchmarks, those in need of some support, and those in need of intensive support.

Before meeting with others in their grade, teachers are expected to examine their students» results and fill out a benchmark analysis form, provided by Edison, which asks what standards are not yet mastered, which students are not proficient in those areas, and what teachers plan to do about it.