Sentences with phrase «national average for states»

Indiana currently employs fewer instructional personnel, including teachers and instructional aides, as a proportion of employment, while employing more cafeteria workers, bus drivers and «other» personnel than the national average for states.

While the personal income tax, which has a top rate of 5 %, is slightly lower than the national average for state income taxes, the statewide sales tax of 7 % is slightly above the national average.

Not exact matches

Financial website How Much used data from real - estate site Zillow to collect home prices for every state to find the minimum income needed to afford a place there and found that, in some areas, the income necessary is well below the national average.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics «experimental» annual estimates of States» real Gross State Product (GSP) show that WA's economic growth for the year was 4.6 per cent, a little above the national average (4.3 per cent).

During the first third of the year, from January through April, the average temperature for the contiguous United States was 4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th - century average, making this period the second warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

JobsOhio continues to defend the Amazon deals as good for the state, claiming that full - time warehouse workers receive 30 percent higher compensation than the national retail worker average.

Property and gas tax rates for the state are both near the national average.

That is about average for the state and about $ 115 above the national average.

Minnesota may have high income taxes, but mortgage rates in the state have remained below the national average for the past 10 years.

The unemployment rate has fallen less in NSW than in the smaller states, and it is now above the national average for the first time since the early 1990s, whereas Queensland's unemployment rate has fallen almost 2 percentage points to be the lowest across all states.

Once you know that you can make an informed decision as to whether you will earn a higher return from a tax free state or national municipal bond fund or a taxable bond fund of a similar credit quality and average maturity (which is generally going to provide higher before tax returns) is going to be better for you.

The overall unemployment rate for the state is 4.5 %, which is about 0.1 % higher than the national average.

The United States, averaging over 40 per cent, is a strange anomaly for sociological commentators — one often explained by denying that the higher U.S. rate is an expression of greater national religiosity, and suggesting that in America religion fulfills certain nonreligious needs: for sociability and community, for example.

Wilson took over as sole coordinator in 2006 after Long became head coach at San Diego State; in 2007, with a redshirt freshman quarterback named Sam Bradford, the Sooners averaged 42.3 points per game and were in line for a national title shot before Bradford suffered a concussion against Texas Tech and Mike Leach's Red Raiders scored an upset.

It used 10 - year averages and didn't give bonus points for championships, which meant that Penn State fans were frustrated by a low 1980s ranking (yes, the Nittany Lions won two national titles; they also won eight or fewer games five times) and Nebraska fans were angry that their Huskers were overtaken by FSU in the 1990s (yes, the Huskers won 2.5 national titles; FSU won two and was generally better in the non-title seasons).

Oregon State - bound long - range shooter for the Rams averaged 12.8 points per game for national powerhouse.

According to Ememobong, it was ridiculous for a senator who performs below average to state that it was the division of the PDP at the national level that impelled him to quit the party.

E.J. McMahon: «New York's preliminary employment numbers for August were a near - repeat of July: private - sector job creation in the Empire State trailed the national average, with nearly all the net gains concentrated in New York City and its surrounding suburbs.»

Brian Sampson, with the pro-business group Unshackle Upstate, says the tax cap was enacted because the state's property taxes are 78 percent above the national average, and New York has nine of the ten highest counties in the nation for property taxes as a percentage of home values.

Graduation numbers are a controversial issue for New York state, which ranks below the national average in that area although its spending on public schools is among the nation's highest.

Today's Daily Telegraph splashes with the news that public sector pay continues to grow under Labour: «The Office for National Statistics disclosed that, in the three months to October, state workers received an average annual rise of 2.8 % This was close to triple that seen in the private sector, where pay edged up by 1.1 %.

New York State, for example, which has had lower than the national average voting rates, has low turnout rates from its younger voters.

The EU's climate policies set binding targets for the region's 27 member states, but Ivanova says the different countries need «a finer spatial dimension of consumption - related and environmental information that moves beyond national averages.»

«In 2017, every state in the Lower 48 had an average temperature that was above average, and this is the third consecutive year that has been the case,» said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

We at Science Careers see little ethical equivalence between the chattel slavery practiced in the United States before 1865 and employment in an academic institution, but there is a coincidental connection: Seven years (the approximate length of the average biomedical Ph.D.) plus 5 years (the maximum allowable time for a postdoc supported by the National Institutes of Health, and the length of many postdocs these days) equals 12 years.

• In Hudson, enthusiasm from the community for the character education program and other district initiatives is one measure of success; others are SAT scores that exceed national and state averages and the percentage of graduates (79 percent) who pursue postsecondary education.

For the indicator capturing the percent of students in districts where per - pupil expenditures reach or exceed the U.S. average, the corrected national value is 39.8 percent, with revised values lower than previously reported for 36 statFor the indicator capturing the percent of students in districts where per - pupil expenditures reach or exceed the U.S. average, the corrected national value is 39.8 percent, with revised values lower than previously reported for 36 statfor 36 states.

The districts within states with averages that trail the U.S. average are shifted down by the amount that their state lags the national average, and the opposite is done for districts in states with averages that exceed the national one.

Nevada ranked 44th on the spending index, which considers both the percentage of students in districts spending at or above the national average and how far below that average the spending for the rest of the state falls.

This state provides an important representative case because Ohio administers the fifth largest public higher education system in the United States, and is near the national averages for enrollment and remediation rates.

School Climate: Delaware earned the top grade for school climate this year, though many indicators of parent involvement and student engagement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national aNational Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national anational averages.

The state is well above the national average for the percent of total taxable resources spent on education, at 4.4 percent.

Defined as perseverance and passion for long - term goals, grit accounted for an average of 4 percent of the variance in success outcomes, including educational attainment among two samples of adults; grade point average among Ivy League undergraduates; retention among two classes at the United States Military Academy, West Point; and ranking in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

For example, in my home state of Pennsylvania, state funding per student has declined by nearly half since 1987, from $ 7,609 to $ 3,955, which is 56 percent more than the national average decline.

Although aggregate averages are useful for distilling national trends into component shares, every state is unique along every dimension.

The average salary for high - school principals in the United States this school year topped $ 60,000 for the first time, but their annual pay increase is the lowest in the past decade, according to a survey by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

Using the database, we calculated a national average score for NCLB compliance and then assigned each of the 50 states to one of three categories: 1) high - readiness, 2) mid-readiness, and 3) lower - readiness.

The National Graduation Brief includes the national average and data for the top and bottomNational Graduation Brief includes the national average and data for the top and bottomnational average and data for the top and bottom states.

Not just below the average of the surrounding suburbs — or each city's respective state, which we have been below for some time — but below the national average, despite the fact that we have two to three times the level of need.

The National Highlights Report includes the national average and data for the top and bottomNational Highlights Report includes the national average and data for the top and bottomnational average and data for the top and bottom states.

This per pupil figure could comfortably pay the average tuition and fees costs for three students to attend state universities at the average national cost for in - state students.

NCES and the Department of Education have released national and state - level Average Cohort Graduation Rates for the 2015 - 16 school year.

The state's market for engineering and technology jobs is growing, but the test scores of Oklahoma students lag behind national averages on science and math test scores.

Curricular Coherence and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Educational Researcher, November 2012 Exploring the relationship of the CCSS in Mathematics (CCSSM) to student achievement, these researchers found a high degree of similarity between CCSSM and standards of the highest - achieving nations on the 1995 Third International Mathematics and Science Study and that states with standards more like CCSSM have higher 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress scores on average.

American Federation of Teachers President Sandra Feldman's Speech to the Detroit Economic Club In this January 18, 2000, speech Ms. Feldman lists several statistics such as the projected number of new teachers needed over the next decade, average salaries for teachers, and which states provide salary supplements for teachers with National Board Certification.

In his time as principal, the HOPE team increased their student's ACT average to outperform the city, state and national averages for African - American students and achieved 100 % college acceptance in each of those three years (a first in the city of Milwaukee).

The trust is seeking to establish a primary school built upon the same high expectations and educational excellence of Yavneh College which achieves GCSE results significantly above both local and national averages and is the highest performing non-selective secondary state school in the UK for A levels.

A national average of $ 6,800 per year per teacher pays former teachers» pensions that state and local governments failed to save up for while those teachers were working.

According to NAEP results, released by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale in 2011.

The guide provides the national average performance for each measure and links to state and local data, when available.