Sentences with phrase «meeting our benchmarks for»

This distinguished group wants every parent to have confidence that their child's youth sports program meets a benchmark for quality.

The Department rejected an earlier proposal that transfer schools that fail to meet the benchmark for three years be put into receivership.

Rather than simply rolling all of the measures up into a «metaindicator,» the state will report out the percentage of students that meet benchmarks for college - ready, career - ready, and college - and career - ready.

We're meeting our benchmarks for parental involvement consistently across all of our schools.

Naturally, that meant meeting benchmarks for 0 - to -60-mph times and top speed.

Not exact matches

The report says that companies like Tesla «easily meet the valuation threshold for inclusion and will be added to the S&P 500 once they meet certain liquidity 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.

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.

The government will also give LNG Canada and other large emitters a break on carbon taxes, if they can meet strict new benchmarks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and will aggressively pursue electrification of natural gas fields.

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.

That said, we're not advocating that investors abandon the benchmark - replicating approach.With bull market and economic expansion more mature, blending active management exposures — whether through actively - managed exchange traded funds (ETFs), multi-asset managers, traditional active equity managers or other sources — with benchmark - replicating vehicles will become increasingly important for meeting return objectives and controlling risk.

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 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.

Europe, where nearly 50 per cent of vehicles are fuelled by diesel, is home to the global benchmark for diesel prices and the biggest storage hub for the road fuel as regional refineries are unable to meet local demand.

Recall that TLTRO rules matter a lot for the credit cycle, if anything because some banks would be forced to repay TLTRO funds should they fail to meet their lending benchmarks.

Note that net credit flows to the private sector (excluding loans for house purchases) are used to set TLTRO allowances relative to benchmarks, with non-negligible risks that some banks need to repay the ECB if they fail to meet their lending benchmarks.

USHydrations is recognized for its commitment to quality and for producing a safe product that meets or exceeds quality benchmarks.

These comprehensive results highlight those factories that establish the benchmark for understanding and meeting the needs of the entire distribution channel.

SQF level 2, is recognized as a Global Food Safety Initiative benchmark, meeting international food safety requirements and is considered an international mark of excellence for the certificate holder.

The BRC was the first standard to be recognized for meeting the GFSI benchmark.

To meet GFSI benchmarking requirements, FSSC 22000, a certification scheme based on the food safety management standard ISO 22000 - 2005, adopted Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 223, which provides guidelines to implement prerequisite programs and design requirements for manufacturers dealing with the packaging of food products and beverages.

Organizations that meet the benchmark are designated as a Better Sports for Kids Quality Program Provider.

Many Upstate New York homes do not meet New York's enhanced goal of 100 Mbps nor the FCC's broadband benchmark speeds of 25 megabits per second (Mbps) for downloads and 3 Mbps for uploads.

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.

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

Today's meeting is the start of an ongoing dialogue... and will be the ideal forum to ensure that goals are reached and benchmarks for progress are met... I look forward to tackling other traffic related concerns, such as intersection widenings, additional left turn signs and longer turning bays.»

Ian Prior, speaking for the NRCC, said the organization requires candidates to meet a series of benchmarks to qualify for the party's support.

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.

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.

It will make future NIHR funding to providers of services to the National Health Service conditional on meeting benchmarks, including a 70 - day deadline to recruit first patients for trials.

«We hear that it creates a negative environment for teachers — it forces them to stay on very strict curricula and reduces a lot of autonomy, as teachers worry less about their profession as a whole and worry more about meeting benchmarks on the exam.»

During the training, we provided a grid of benchmarks to be met for each grade, projects and activities they might do with their classes to meet those benchmarks, and evaluation sheets to ensure that teachers can show parents and administrators what skills students have successfully implemented and what deficiencies still need to be addressed.

The state is shooting for 100 % of groups meeting the benchmark within 20 years.

For example, the ACT reports that just 46 percent of high school graduates taking its college entrance exams in 2012 met college - readiness benchmarks in math; fewer than one in three did so in science.

The authors of Little to Gain would do early - childhood education a considerable service if instead they pushed aggressively for teacher education and professional development that enabled more teachers to meet Common Core benchmarks with the teaching techniques they favor, not demand that we «withdraw kindergarten standards from the Common Core so that they can be rethought along developmental lines.»

Policies like top - down accountability, No - Child - Left - Behind style, are «hard,» but they have a «thin» theory of change — namely that if we set standards and hold people accountable for meeting them, they will figure out how to hit those benchmarks.

These Standards effectively provide the benchmark for H&S training in D&T, providing colleagues with the training, competency and accreditation to meet the requirements of the British Standard for the subject, BS4163: 2014 Health and safety for design and technology in educational and similar establishments — Code of Practice.

When the 2013 test results came out last year, NAGB reported the results against these benchmarks for the first time, finding that 39 percent of students in the twelfth - grade assessment sample met the preparedness standard for math and 38 percent did so for reading.

Data should be used to monitor student progress and the meeting of specific benchmarks, as well as to demonstrate clear responsibility for specific milestones

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.

If state laws put any other condition on a teacher's eligibility for tenure, it is usually a record of satisfactory evaluations, a benchmark that all but a tiny fraction of teachers meet.

NCLB also requires that schools be reconstituted if they fail to meet state - mandated performance benchmarks for five years in a row.

We also collect data on public school - transfer options generated by NCLB, which required schools that received Title I funds and failed to meet minimum requirements on standardized tests for two consecutive years to offer students the option of transferring to a local school that did meet the benchmark.

[3] Community eligibility schools are not required to find their Identified Students each year, but would benefit from doing so because their free reimbursement percentage could increase, it can help their state meet direct certification performance benchmarks, and it would allow them to use the data for purposes outside the meals programs.

Only 15 percent of students who took the ACT college entry test, for instance, were meeting the college - ready benchmark in 2015.

As a result, Kentucky has increased from 27 percent to 33 percent students meeting three out of four ACT benchmarks for college readiness since 2011.

Provide the necessary resources to schools to implement assessments and provide interventions for students to meet the appropriate academic benchmarks.