Sentences with phrase «only on a statewide level»

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Brette McSweeney is the president of Eleanor's Legacy, the only statewide organization in New York focused on recruiting, training, and funding pro-choice Democratic women candidates at the state and local level.

Rice has been arguing that she's a tough - on - crime progressive and insisting that her efforts to reform the legal system at the local level have not only been successful, but would translate into a statewide model if she is elected to the post AG Andrew Cuomo is vacating.

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

We see that only 57 percent of third graders with a prior CPS investigation achieve basic proficiency levels on the statewide reading exam compared with 65 percent of third graders with no prior CPS investigation.

The only measures a State may include within its Academic Achievement indicator in addition to the required measure of student performance on the statewide reading / language arts and mathematics assessments under ESEA [Education and Secondary Education Act, of which ESSA is the latest version] section 1111 (b)(2)(B)(v)(I) are the two optional measures: (1) an achievement index or similar measure of student performance in reading / language arts and mathematics at multiple academic achievement levels above or below proficient (see question B - 10 and B - 11); and (2) measures of student growth in reading / language arts and mathematics for high schools (see questions B - 14 and B - 15).

It is more likely, however, that this enlargement of statewide achievement testing will only heighten the harmful effects that most of today's state - level achievement tests are having on children.

We are the only firm in the state with this level of qualification: three (3) lawyers who are certified on the Alcotest Breath Test Machine (there are perhaps 50 total statewide); three (3) attorneys who are instructors in Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (approximately 5 have this credential in the entire state), which is the only way to prove a DWI once the breath test readings are eliminated; former municipal prosecutors in several municipalities; over 100 years of collective experience defending DWI, DUI and refusal cases; and one of the only firms in the entire state with a New Jersey version of the Draeger Alcotest 7110 for us to experiment with.