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And New Yorkers give him poor grades for his handling of the MTA, where 58 percent give him a grade of «C» or lower, says Quinnipiac polls spokesman Mickey Carroll.

And New Yorkers give him poor grades for his handling of the MTA, where 58 percent give him a grade of «C» or lower, said Quinnipiac polls spokesman Mickey Carroll.

Just 5 percent give private schools a «D» or an «F,» as compared to 16 percent giving one of those low grades to local public schools and 23 percent giving those grades to the nation's schools.

On the latter point, Gallup polling between 2007 and 2012 indicates that about 50 percent of respondents gave a grade of A or B to the schools in their community, while only 20 percent gave those grades to the nation's schools as a whole.

Not exact matches

After the election, white evangelicals gave the conduct of the Republican Party mixed reviews, with 38 percent grading it an A or B; 32 percent grading it a C; and 30 percent grading it a D or F. White evangelicals were even more critical of the Democratic Party, with 63 percent giving it a failing grade.

Fifty - nine percent of residents in Nassau, Suffolk and other suburban counties gave schools in their communities grades of either A or B, compared with 37 percent of New York City residents.

Only 25 percent give him a positive grade on immigration, compared to 73 percent who give him a negative grade.

«Well, there, 61 percent of Buffalo likely primary voters give the government a grade of no better than fair or poor.

Only 13 percent give him an «A» grade, while the same percentage give him an «F» rating.

Asked to rate his performance with a letter grade, only 11 percent gave him an A.

Less than one - third of students in the third through eighth grade, around 31 percent, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, who made the announcement on a conference call.

The proposal calls for giving students who score below grade level priority access to 25 percent of seats at each of the district's 18 middle schools starting with next year's application process.

The state Education Department released 75 percent of the questions on Common Core tests given in April to students statewide in grades three through eight — up from 50 percent of questions made public last year — and pledged that more information will be given in years to come.

The report, which gives letter grades to 32 agencies as well as the city itself, detailed that out of New York's $ 13.8 billion annual procurement budget for 2015, only 5.3 percent of the money was spent with minority and women - owned businesses.

Last fall, Stringer released a withering analysis that determined the de Blasio administration only allotted around five percent of city monies to MWBEs, prompting him to give the city a «D +» grade for its efforts.

The state Education Department on Wednesday released 75 percent of the questions on Common Core tests given in April to students statewide in grades three through eight — up from 50 percent of questions made public last year — and pledged that more information will be given in years to come.

«We gave the governor the best grade in fiscal discipline because this would be the sixth year that total spending was held at 2 percent growth,» Gamerman said.

Riders in Manhattan gave the subway the best grades, with 30 percent saying service was «good.»

According to results from the 2010 EdNext - PEPG Survey released in this issue («Meeting of the Minds»), only 18 percent think the schools deserve an «A» or a «B,» while 25 percent assign them either a «D» or an «F.» These are the worst grades the U. S. public has given its schools since it was first asked to grade them back in 1981.

Of the 813 teachers who responded to the poll, 64 percent gave public schools a grade of A or B. Only 42 percent of the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those marks.

Based on the results of a pilot test, the state education department had predicted that 8 percent to 10 percent would fail the Indiana Statewide Test for Educational Progress, which is given in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 11th grades.

In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.

In a 2010 PDK / Gallup poll, only 18 percent of Americans surveyed graded our public schools nationally at an «A» or «B.» By contrast, 77 percent of public school parents gave their oldest child's school an A or B, a percentage that grew by eight points over the prior five years.

Learning the truth about the international standing of American students had a bigger impact, reducing the share of respondents giving a grade of «A» or «B» from 18 to 13 percent and increasing the share of respondents giving a «D» or «F» by 10 percentage points (see Figure 5a).

Among those who gave a grade of «A» or «B» in 2008, 46 percent awarded a grade of «C» or lower in 2009.

When rating the nation's schools, only 18 percent of those surveyed in both polls gave the nation's schools either an «A» or a «B» and, more than a quarter gave the schools a rating of a «D» or an «F.» In both polls, grades are roughly the same as those reported by Ednext and PDK in 2009.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

Less than 20 percent of whites and African Americans accord the nation's schools an «A» or a «B,» and only around 40 percent give the schools in their community one of these two top grades.

When asked to grade the nation's schools on the same A to F scale traditionally used to evaluate students, only 18 percent of survey respondents give them an «A» or a «B.» This equals the percentage that awarded one of the top two grades in 2009, which had been the lowest level observed across the three years of our survey.

No less than 65 percent of those surveyed are willing to give the school they identified as their local elementary school one of the two highest grades, and 55 percent are willing to give one of those grades to their local middle school.

Those giving local schools one of the two highest grades stands at 49 percent among the uninformed but just 41 percent among those told their own district's ranking relative to other districts across the state (see Figure 1).

Our survey asked parents to assign their child's school a letter grade, A through F. Nearly twice as many choice parents gave their child's school an A (53 percent) as did public - school parents (26 percent).

If, as has been the case in a number of places, the comparison group is all the teachers in a given grade in the school district — with, say, the top 15 percent of the 4th grade teachers receiving an award — what is the significance of a big or small school?

To measure how well the groups work together, the teacher also gives out a group - collaboration grade for each unit, which is worth 10 percent of a student's grade.

According to the 2009 Education Next survey, 60 percent give their local elementary school an A or B, while only 18 percent give the nation's schools one of those two grades.

Thirty - four percent give the schools an A or a B, while only 14 percent give them one of the two lowest grades (Q. 1).

Most notably, more of them give the schools a D or an F than assign an A or a B. Only 20 percent of survey respondents give the schools in the nation as a whole one of the two top grades, over 50 percent give them a C, and no less than 25 percent grade them with a D or an F. African Americans and Hispanics are even more likely than whites to give the nation's schools low marks.

Forty - nine percent give the schools in their own community A or B grades.

Public school parents continue to give very high grades to the schools their children attend, with nearly 75 percent of parents giving their school an A or a B.

Twenty percent of those who give A grades to schools in their community cite funding as a top problem, as do 26 % of those who give B's and 23 % of those who give their schools C's and D's.

The same study found that 61 percent of Arizona charter parents gave their schools an A + or an A. Comparable surveys of Arizona parents with children in traditional public schools found only 38 percent grading their schools A + or A.

In a survey of parents nationwide whose children attend private school using some type of scholarship that reduces (or eliminates) tuition, «72 percent of scholarship - using parents gave their child's school a grade of A compared to just 16 percent of parents in the control group,» which consisted of similar families in district schools.

For elementary and middle schools, the grades will largely represent how well a school's students performed on standardized tests at one given time (that will be 80 percent of the grade), and, to a lesser degree, how much students» performance on those tests has improved over time (20 percent of the grade).

In their initial budget offer, Senate leaders proposed cutting all TAs in the second and third grades — a $ 233 million reduction that would go toward giving teachers an 11 percent pay bump.

Senate leaders have budged a little on cutting teacher assistants, offering in their latest proposal to just eliminate the equivalent of all third grade TAs while giving teachers an 8 percent raise.

Senate proposes cutting more than 8,500 * teacher assistant positions Senate leaders unveiled portions of a 2015 - 17 budget proposal Monday that gives teachers an average four percent pay raise and lowers class sizes in the early grades — but much...

Fifty percent of those surveyed gave their local public schools the top two grades compared with 27 percent.

Initially, Bush's formula for grading schools relied 100 percent on students» performance on standardized tests on one given day.

Furthermore, 69 percent give teachers in their specific community a letter grade of an A or B.

Forty - one percent give President Obama a letter grade of an A or a B for his support of public schools, close to what he received his first year in office.