Sentences with phrase «national comparison of»

The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools...

For instance, a national comparison of per - student funding levels from state and local sources among districts serving low - versus - high percentages of poor students found that in 20 states, districts serving wealthier students received more funding on average than those serving poorer students.

The latest national comparison of school test scores could reveal challenges with the way we fund schools in Michigan LANSING, Mich. — Flat test scores by Michigan students on a national test highlight the pressing need for a new, comprehensive look at how we fund Michigan's public schools so all students can achieve and succeed, regardless of their circumstances, said a broad - based group of Michigan business and education experts.

The latest national comparison of school test scores could reveal challenges with the way we fund schools in Michigan

«The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools,» read the opening sentence.

In national comparisons of charter laws, Medler said, Washington ranks near the top in terms of following advice and preparing to create a quality system.

Not exact matches

But she does not discourage a comparison of her plight to that of Nancy Kerrigan, the figure skater who had to withdraw from a national championship in 1994 after being clubbed in the knee with a tire iron.

NEW YORK — As part of a new initiative to examine communities in more detail and enable locational comparisons, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York today released an interactive tool that provides information about home prices, distressed sales, delinquencies and foreclosures at the national, state and county levels.

We've included one - to - one comparisons of TD with large national brands like Chase and Wells Fargo as well as regional banks including PNC and SunTrust.

Furthermore, we feel much more detail should be provided on the economic forecasts, including forecasts of the various components of national income and expenditure, and comparison to the private sector average, among others.

Once again, we tap into Zillow Group's wealth of data and use a data set that includes mortgage affordability, rental affordability, and price - to - income ratios for the five most populous US cities with comparison to the national median.

The chart below, prepared by staff in our Economic area, undertakes a comparison of corporate sector profits in the national accounts as a share of GDP, for the US and Australia.

Comparison based on Alliant Credit Union 1.50 % APY as of 05/01/2018 vs. the bank national average savings rate of.08 % APY as of 2018-05-01 sourced from National Association of Federal Credit Unions in cooperation with SNL Financial and Datatranational average savings rate of.08 % APY as of 2018-05-01 sourced from National Association of Federal Credit Unions in cooperation with SNL Financial and DatatraNational Association of Federal Credit Unions in cooperation with SNL Financial and Datatrac Corp..

So perhaps the comparison of refusing to say the National Anthem won't make sense to you.

The moral of this comparison is that even if you think that America's high levels of inequality are the price of our high level of national income, it's not at all clear that this price is worth paying.

In comparison to the global frame of reference that was emphasized in the last half century, the national level will have priority.

Now, in the further interest of National Security» or, in the Fast and Furious matter, for reasons that remain unjustified and murky» it pleases some on the secularist left (even those who once fiercely opposed the very «Patriot Act» that seems almost tame by comparison) to cultivate a quiet disinterest as the government accrues ever more power, without so much as a «do what, now?»

It does not speak well of the USA compared to other developed nations, of the South in a national context, of Southern Baptists in comparison to other religious traditions.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

COMPARISONS WITH 1995 NNS Prior to the 2011 - 13 Australian Health Survey, the last national representative survey was the 1995 National Nutrition Survey conducted jointly by ABS and the then Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Snational representative survey was the 1995 National Nutrition Survey conducted jointly by ABS and the then Commonwealth Department of Health and Family SNational Nutrition Survey conducted jointly by ABS and the then Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.

National Diet and Nutrition Survey: UK food consumption and nutrient intakes from the first year of the rolling programme and comparisons with previous surveys

For comparison, National League favorites have received the majority of moneyline tickets in 76.5 % of all interleague games.

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Armchair Analyst: Toronto FC fall on their face in first leg vs. Chivas MLSsoccer.com The obvious comparison that sprang to mind in the immediate aftermath of Toronto FC's 2 - 1 home loss to Chivas in the first leg of the Concacaf Champions League final was the US national team's loss to Trinidad & Tobago back in October.

** Total savings with store brand infant formula calculations based on a price per fl oz comparison of store brand infant formulas and their comparable national brands.

This rate is similar to the National Birth Center Study and to the low - risk hospital births used as a comparison group in the same study of 1.3 / 1,000 (0.7 / 1,000 excluding anomalies).

A search of the literature during the 1980s and 1990s identified seven studies with definitions and criteria that permitted comparison with the national Australian data.

Public Health England's Child Health Profiles provide a picture of child health and wellbeing for each local authority in England using 32 key health indicators (including breastfeeding initiation and rates at 6 - 8 weeks), and enables comparison at local, regional and national levels.

The current labeling and the use of nutrition and health claims are deceptive, make misleading comparisons to breastmilk and directly compete with breastfeeding, undermining national and regional breastfeeding policies and initiatives.

Removing nationals of developing countries or refugees is a lot harder in comparison, which is why it's strange that intra-EU immigration is such a large issue.

According to the British Legion, and when striking a national comparison, only 60 % of working age ex-service personnel are employed, which contrasts with 73 % of the general population.

By any objective comparison of the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions, it seems that Mrs Clinton and the Democrats are well on their way towards achieving just that.

In 2012, by comparison, the national debt is a side - issue — talk of income inequality and economic opportuity dominates our political discouse, a direct result of the Occupiers and the ruckus they were able to raise in Zucotti Square and similar encampments across the country.

Corruption Trials and Two Reform Reports Make the Case for Action Now In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-...]

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

Governor Andrew Cuomo wasn't going to avoid the comparisons to his father's famous 1984 «Tale of Two Cities» Democratic National Convention keynote speech — so he didn't try.

Take the oft - repeated comparison of a national economy with household borrowing, typified by the idea that a usually left - wing government «maxed out the national credit card».

Powellism, the rise of the National Front in the late seventies, MargaretThatcher's swamping speech of the early 80s, the asylum seeker moral panic of the late 1990s - all these episodes pale in comparison with the dangerous forces that have been unleashed since June.

Dr. Bawumia, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana - turned politician, has often received public flak for virtually turning academic and economic presentations into a political platform where he always presents a saintly picture of the erstwhile NPP administration in comparison to the current National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.

National UFT President Randi Weingarten said the comparison in the wake of the Newtown elementary school shootings is disgusting.

As far as I'm aware national equivalent votes are not a straight sum of the votes in contested seats, but a projection based on seats with all three main parties running, so this is not a direct comparison.

For these diseases, the states with the «worst» and «best» age - standardized rates of years of life lost (YLLs) per 100,000 people were the following (with national rates shown for comparison):

By comparison with these scientists, the climate expertise of the small group of contrarians was substantially lower (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1003187107).

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provided the first - ever comprehensive comparison of Earth's 27 megacities, defined as metropolitan areas with populations of 10 million or more.

The team measured the hardness of the beta form of the crystal in conjunction with colleagues at Texas A&M University's Turbomachinery Laboratory and at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University, Morosan and Svanidze also performed other comparisons with titanium.

The ultimate goal of research is to develop indicators that can be obtained at national scales and used for pan-European comparison of structural properties of forests.

In comparison to the influenza surveillance data collected by the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of the People's Republic of China, the data from iThermonitor and Thermia revealed influenza outbreaks an entire month earlier.

Now, a team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a statistical approach for ballistic comparisons that may enable numerical testimony.

A group from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) evaluated the live imaging system as a potential alternative to traditional methods of assessing investigative influenza vaccines and treatment in mice, which can be time consuming and require more study animals for valid statistical comparison.

«To our knowledge, this is the first national study to provide comprehensive comparisons of the same - gender and cross-gender friendship networks of GLB men and women.