Sentences with phrase «over a dozen states base»

Policy Points also reveals that 38 states use at least four rating levels to differentiate teacher performance, and just over a dozen states base 50 percent or more of a teacher's evaluation on student learning data.

ASCD's newest issue of Policy Points (PDF) also reveals that 38 states use at least four rating levels to differentiate teacher performance, and just over a dozen states base 50 percent or more of a teacher's evaluation on student learning data.

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Currently, HMG has over a dozen state - based affiliates, with hopes to increase this even more (Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Washington)

But recently, over two dozen older email systems were consolidated into one cloud based unit, and the state is saving $ 3 million dollars a year by purging the emails every three months.

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

But instead of just handing over big checks to school districts on the basis of need, the federal government showers the states with dozens of small programs.

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

Then the state took over most of the schools and chartered them to dozens of nonprofits led by volunteer boards, almost all of which employ their teachers on a year - to - year basis.

Don Anthony, spokesman for the Fort Lauderdale - based nonprofit group Animal Rights Foundation of Florida, has accompanied Lazarow to dozens of commission meetings over the years to help pitch the ban to elected officials throughout the state.

Artist Statement This design is based on a collage made from paint, paper and dozens of music festival programs, gathered over decades across the United States, originally made as a...

In testimony before the US Senate in 2003, he stated: It is the consensus of the climate research community that the anomalous warmth of the late 20th century can not be explained by natural factors, but instead indicates significant anthropogenic, that is human influences... More than a dozen independent research groups have now reconstructed the average temperature of the northern hemisphere in past centuries... The proxy reconstructions, taking into account these uncertainties, indicate that the warming of the northern hemisphere during the late 20th century... is unprecedented over at least the past millennium and it now appears based on peer - reviewed research, probably the past two millennia.

Coin Center research director Peter Van Valkenburgh added that US - based startups are also subject to state regulations that multiply the duplication of license requirements dozens of times over and inflate costs.