Technically, the Assembly could adopt many of the measures on their own, without needing a law, and Speaker Carl Heastie says his house may take action
independently on some of the measure.
While the final
agreement on both of these measures is an improvement over the original Executive Budget proposals, they are not consistent with a strategy to promote economic growth and the creation of good paying jobs.
In the meantime, seven months have gone by since the Committee on Public Safety held a
hearing on any of the measures, a hearing where Mr. Bratton railed against them as «unprecedented intrusions» into police work — comments Mayor Bill de Blasio backed up with the threat of a veto.
A continuous improvement approach, like that adopted in California, would track
progress on all of the measures in the dashboard, using scale scores to better measure growth and progress for all students, so that schools can continually assess and fine - tune their efforts.
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performance on all of these measures against free and reduced - price lunch eligibility rates to determine which schools are truly excelling at educating low - income students and which schools are simply coasting along with an advantaged student body.
That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the
same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.
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reports on some of the measures that states have been taking to make jury service less onerous, such as one - day / one - trial systems, where jurors do not have to wait on call for days to serve; renovating jury areas to make them roomier; installing business centers so that professionals can keep in touch with their colleagues while they wait; and implementing online systems so that people can request deferrals.
Several models produce some benefits in parenting and perhaps in the prevention of child abuse and neglect, but
only on some of the measures used to assess these outcomes... these research results should not dissuade us from action.
SET - C was superior to
fluoxetine on each of these measures and was the only treatment superior to placebo in terms of improving social skills, decreasing anxiety in specific social interactions, and enhancing ratings of social competence.
Those invited to take part included 189 who had elevated scores (standard scores based upon sample norms of at least 1.0) on the positive or negative schizotypy factors derived from the Wisconsin Schizotypy Scales [31 — 34], the positive symptom subscale of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences [35], or the suspiciousness subscale of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire [36], and 150 randomly selected participants who had standard scores below 1.0
on each of these measures.