Sentences with phrase «new statewide study»

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A survey of New York City employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.28

This major study of more than 4,500 New Yorkers, funded by the Dyson Foundation and conducted by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, takes an in - depth look at the issue of local government consolidation on a statewide level and in nine regions — the Capital Region, the Adirondacks, Western New York, the Finger Lakes, Central New York, the Mid-Hudson Valley, the Lower Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island.

Thomas Tafuri, land records chairman of the New York State Land Title Association, said that while he had no statewide study, he was certain that Nassau's closing costs will be the highest in the metropolitan region of New York City, Westchester, Suffolk and Nassau.

The study finds half of minimum wage workers over 35 years old, and statewide 70 percent are older than 25, 80 percent in New York City.

- Help New York reach its goal of 50 % of energy needs met by renewable sources by 2030 - «[T] he Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to undertake a comprehensive study to determine the most rapid, cost - effective, and responsible pathway to reach 100 percent renewable energy statewide.»

Economic development officials in Lake Placid and the surrounding region earlier this year put forth a proposal to study a new Olympic bid as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion Upstate Revitalization Initiative, a plus - sized version of the annual statewide competition for grants and other forms of aid.

Joined by Sen. David Carlucci and Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, the group made one final push to the New York State Senate today to enact a bill that would require the department of transportation to conduct a statewide study of each railroad crossing.

As I wrote in our study of data use in New York City, we need to move beyond either / or dichotomies that pit classroom information against district or statewide data:

New York may become the first state to require every elementary - school student to study a foreign language and pass a statewide test in it before leaving sixth grade.

A task force studying educational improvement in Nebraska has called for a long list of reforms, including a new school - finance formula, far more state aid for schools, higher pay and longer contracts for teachers, a master - teacher program, and the establishment of statewide high - school graduation requirements.

The study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement.

Barrett, McEachin, Mills and Valant's new Louisiana study draws on statewide student - level data from 2000 to 2013.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

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I asked this question hundreds of times as I called child care centers throughout New Jersey as part of a statewide study on the availability of center - based care for infants and toddlers

The few studies from a measurement perspective that are available on new statewide assessments (e.g., Maryland, Kentucky, Arizona) do not distinguish among reading, language arts, and mathematics in design or analyses, making it difficult for literacy educators to interpret the implications for curriculum, instruction, or research.

In a study of the Alaska Statewide Mentorship Program, our researchers and evaluators found that new teachers who were provided with experienced mentors were more likely than their peers to still be on the job after three years — and students in their classrooms were performing better in math and reading.

In its 10th Year, the Leadership Academy is funded by a statewide Teacher Center grant to be a Learning Community studying Leadership.Its mission is to empower individuals to realize their professional and personal leadership capacity through learning together, enhancing individual and group skills, and to set and achieve goals that advance distributive leadership within the New York State Teacher Centers» Organization.

Although the study identifies 16 states with low graduation rates, it singles out Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico and South Carolina as coming under the Statewide Crisis Category.

(Note: This blog does not examine the results of CREDO's New York City focused study, but rather the statewide results published September 26, 2017)

One of the most talked - about education studies in recent months is a new working paper on the effects of Louisiana's statewide voucher program during its first year of operation.

A new comprehensive study shows that Maryland is a national leader in implementing an educator evaluation system statewide.

In 2013, a statewide commission charged with studying public school funding recommended that the state adopt a weighted, three - tiered structure that looks much like the New York one, and there are now bills in the state Senate and House that call for implementing this structure.

Phase 3» In April 1999, Hartwick College and Oneonta City School District (OCSD) entered a formal partnership sponsored by the New York Partnership for Statewide Systems Change 2001 / Higher Education Task Force on Quality Inclusive Schooling to study ways to meet the learning needs of all students in general education classes.

Setting aside the many problems and uncertainties of the mandates, a new study out this month focuses attention on how an evaluation system can be applied to grades not included in statewide testing programs.

Indiana has enacted a law that pauses Common Core implementation until a series of public statewide hearings and a new study on the standards are conducted over the next several months.

Fortunately Act 51, which was recently signed into law, establishes a commission to study and make recommendations for an entirely new statewide funding formula that could solve many of the issues and inequities inherent in Pennsylvania's existing education finance system.

A new education finance study will provide a clearer picture of what it costs to educate Michigan's K - 12 students, data that will prove useful as policymakers seek to boost academic achievement statewide, supporters of the study say.

Induction programs have also been found to accelerate teachers» ability to drive student learning gains: In one study, new teachers who participated in high - quality mentoring and induction programs were able to lead their students to academic gains equivalent to those of fourth - year teachers who did not receive such support as beginning teachers.63 Similarly, a study of the California Formative Assessment and Support System for Teachers, a statewide induction program, found that the induction program had a positive effect on both instructional practice and student learning, with students attaining a half - year's additional growth when they were taught by teachers who were highly engaged in the program.64

UConn Neag School of Education researcher Morgaen Donaldson presented PEAC with five recommendations based on an interim report of a study of the statewide pilot of new teacher evaluation guidelines.

A Neag School of Education interim report of a study of the statewide pilot of new teacher evaluation guidelines has found significant challenges that state education officials pledge to fix.

Despite Walther's studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the early 1960s, a hotbed of European artistic talent that bred classmates such as Gerhard Richter; despite his subsequent four - year immersion in New York City, similar to stays that propelled fellow Germans such as Hanne Darboven to statewide institutional recognition; and despite his participation in seminal shows, including the Museum of Modern Art's «Spaces» in 1969 and Harald Szeemann's Documenta 5 in 1972, North America has still been slow to recognize Walther's significance for the expansion of painting,

Despite Walther's studies at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in the early 1960s, a hotbed of European artistic talent that bred classmates such as Gerhard Richter; despite his subsequent four - year immersion in New York City, similar to stays that propelled fellow Germans such as Hanne Darboven to statewide institutional recognition; and despite his participation in seminal shows, including the Museum of Modern Art's «Spaces» in 1969 and Harald Szeemann's Documenta 5 in 1972, North America has still been slow to recognize Walther's significance for the expansion of painting, for the convergence of art and design, and for time -, performance -, and (especially) participation - based art.

NYSERDA's 2014 study, Street Lighting in New York State: Opportunities and Challenges, found that if street lights statewide were changed to LEDs, an estimated $ 97 million and 524 gigawatt hours of electricity would be saved annually, the equivalent of powering 74,000 homes.

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In addition, Governor Cuomo directs the Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to undertake a comprehensive study to determine the most rapid, cost - effective, and responsible pathway to reach 100 percent renewable energy statewide.

The 2015 Civil Legal Needs Study identified legal literacy as a big issue for low income people, and the new statewide plan includes increasing education and outreach — an achievable goal regardless of program size.»

VPLC recently began the process of making current content changes and mapping out what new content is most requested or needed by the visitors to the site and incorporating suggestions from the LSC study released this past Spring on how to address the changing needs of legal aid clients with options and capabilities through the statewide website.