Sentences with phrase «new federal study»

Young people with disabilities are meeting with «mixed success» as they struggle through high school and search for meaningful, well - paid employment, data from three new federal studies indicate.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)- A new federal study shows Utah had the lowest rate of alcohol - related deaths over a five - year period among eleven states that participated in the report.

THURSDAY, April 13, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- Fewer Americans with Crohn's disease are ending up in the hospital than in the past, according to a new federal study.

More than half of all high - school students have consumed alcohol recently, and more than one - third report that they have recently had more than five drinks on one occasion, the results of a new federal study indicate.

So it is with the new federal study of charter schools.

Specifically, for students who had attended public schools deemed to be failing before the students took part in the voucher program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.

State efforts to improve teacher quality by requiring that candidates pass a test before receiving their licenses may weed out only the most incompetent teachers, according to the coordinator of a new federal study.

On average, a new federal study shows, charter schools are no better and in some cases worse than regular public schools, but KIPP's test scores show it to be a glaring exception to that general rule.

A new federal study found 40 states lacked expertise to help school turnaround efforts.

Texas spending on prisons and jails is the highest in the nation, a new federal study concludes, and has grown about five times faster than the state's rate of spending growth on elementary and secondary education over the past three decades.

Fires, floods and hurricanes are already costing the federal government tens of billions of dollars a year and climate change will drive those costs ever higher in coming years, a new federal study warns.

Getting that message across may be difficult in the U.S., where about a third of people aged 18 and older say they sleep six hours or less a night, according to a new federal study.