Sentences with phrase «percent goal set for»

But the 12 percent goal set for 2006 was not achieved.

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In World Bank fashion, he set out targets for 2020, 2030 and 2040, with an ultimate goal of an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.

We shouldn't be surprised by high company turnover, especially when you consider that 60 percent of companies fail to set milestones or goals for new hires.

Are you 66 percent of the way to accomplishing the goals you set for 2014?

Basically, SmartyPig gives you a savings account with a competitive annual percentage yield (the site's banking partner is West Bank of Des Moines, and at this early - June writing the APY was 3.9 percent), to which you must set up regular, automatic monthly transfers from an existing bank account (SmartyPig says that nonautomated funding will be available soon to allow people to set up accounts for wedding registries and similar goals).

According to a research paper from the American Psychological Association, setting specific goals led to a higher performance 90 percent of the time for companies studied.

The opinion, issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, strikes down a legislative provision, first enacted in 1986 and renewed numerous times since, which sets a goal that 5 percent of federal defense contracting dollars each fiscal year must be awarded to certain entities, including small disadvantaged companies.

One of the goals the law set: The government should aim to award 5 percent of its contracts for which small businesses are eligible to women - owned businesses.

Although vehicle production increased by 20 percent from Q1, Tesla manufactured only 18,345 units and delivered 14,370, after setting a goal of 20,000 for Q2.

The organization has set the goal within the U.S. for the percent of female investing partners to double from 9 percent to 18 percent within 10 years or by 2028.

Anglo - Dutch rival Unilever, which this year rebuffed a $ 143 billion takeover bid from Kraft Heinz, has set a goal of 20 percent for its underlying operating profit margin by 2020.

Entrepreneur contributor Joel Brown noted that high achievers tend to set firm goals and visualize a successful outcome: «Ninety - five percent of the successful achievers I have interviewed practice writing down their goals, plans, or visions for success on a regular basis.»

The Program allows contracting officers, for the first time, to set aside specific contracts for certified WOSBs and EDWOSBs and will help federal agencies achieve the existing statutory goal of five percent of federal contracting dollars being awarded to WOSBs.

No, instead he came out and posted stats of 100 percent passing accuracy and 100 percent of take ons completed before springing in the last minute to intercept a Bayern ball and set up Ozil for the second goal.

In fact, goals have been set in a project labor agreement that governs the project: 15 percent for minorities, 5 percent for women.

The Governor has set a new goal of 30 percent for MWBE firms, which the state is on track to meeting.»

In 2014, Cuomo set a 30 - percent goal for the percentage of contracts going to MWBEs, after the state reported it surpassed the 20 percent goal he proposed in his 2011 State of the State address.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is running against Eliot Spitzer for Comptroller, last week released a report indicating that 75 percent of New York City public school have Internet speeds 100 times slower than the national goal set by President Obama for 2020.

Hawkins tallied 5 percent of the votes; a goal he set for himself before the election.

More appropriate goals will result in «better opportunities for MWBEs and less time wasted by both agencies and contractors alike pursuing goals inappropriate and unachievable for specific contracts because they have been set arbitrarily to 30 percent,» Elmendorf said.

That Senate bill sets a goal to reduce emissions by 83 percent from 2005 levels by 2050 and requires electricity suppliers to use renewables and electricity - saving measures for 20 percent of their demand by 2020.

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

To put this into perspective, that reduction is 44 percent of the goal that President Obama set for the nation, roughly equal to the total emissions of France.

Pact boasts that users meet the goals they set some 80 percent of the time, which is far higher than the adherence rate for typical diet or exercise plans.

In Jasper, Alabama, principal Jim Clark has set a goal of 100 percent literacy for students at T.R. Simmons Elementary School.

The state plans to set goals on the state reading and math tests for all students and several student subgroups by the 2023 - 24 school year; overall, the state's goal is to reduce «the number of nonproficient students for all students and for each subgroup of students by 33 percent» within six years.

An additional 10 percent was based on progress toward goals for student learning, which teachers and administrators set each year.

For example, if you have volunteers who lead reading groups, you can measure student achievement from the beginning of the school year to the next or set a goal for each student; that is, students will increase reading vocabulary by 25 perceFor example, if you have volunteers who lead reading groups, you can measure student achievement from the beginning of the school year to the next or set a goal for each student; that is, students will increase reading vocabulary by 25 percefor each student; that is, students will increase reading vocabulary by 25 percent.

Among the goals for American education set by President Bush in his State of the Union Message was a 90 percent high - school graduation rate by the year 2000.

The state sets a goal of about a 5 percent gain for every school in the state.

[23] The designated ESEA requirements that can be set aside in states that obtain such waivers include some of the most significant outcome accountability requirements, such as the requirement that states set performance standards for schools and LEAs aiming toward a goal of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of the 2013 - 14 school year and take a variety of specific actions with respect to all schools and districts that fail to make adequate yearly progress toward this goal.

Officials overseeing the NAEP have been putting pressure on states to reduce their exclusion rates for some time and recently set a goal of having 95 percent of all students in each state's sample take the test.

Of the 1,000 teachers surveyed, 95 percent support setting college and career readiness as the goal for the state's students.

The goal for success was set at 80 percent mastery, and students were allowed to leave after attaining the goal as an incentive.

Center for American Progress / Public Policy Polling found that eight in 10 voters (79 percent) agree that we should create a set of high quality academic standards or goals in English and math and let communities develop their own curriculum and strategies to meet these goals.

Complete to Compete: The Complete College Tennessee Act of 2018 further sets the vision for higher education completion efforts in the state to reach the goal of 55 percent postsecondary...

I also knew to set ambitious goals for all students to earn at least 85 percent on our district assessment.

All states must adopt the same lofty goal for tested achievement (100 percent of students earning proficient scores by 2014) and set explicit annual benchmarks for improvement.

We have to have a high school transformation process,» says McCauley, noting the district set a goal of an 80 percent graduation rate by 2010 for its 12,000 high school students.

The state has set a slightly higher goal for Black students, an increase in five years of 4.8 percent.

In the fall when she developed her strategic plan that calls for 100 percent graduation, King set a goal of a 20 percent English learner reclassification rate for this past school year.

Annual Measureable Objectives (AMOs) targets are set based on percent proficient in each of language arts and mathematics for each school and subgroup in annual equal increments toward a goal of reducing by half the percentage of students in the all - students group and in each subgroup who are not proficient within six years.

The four - year rate must be used when setting goals, as an indicator in state ratings, and when identifying high schools with a graduation rated below 67 percent for comprehensive support.

Tennessee's draft Every Student Succeeds Act plan does just that: setting a long - term goal of a majority of high school graduates from the class of 2020 earning a postsecondary credential or degree, and creating targets that call for a 5 percent annual increase in higher education enrollment to set the state on the right path.

The campaign, which seeks to focus on homeless students at every stage of academic development, set three goals for the country: young children experiencing homelessness will participate in quality early childhood programs at the same rate as their housed peers by 2026, high school students will reach a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2030, and post-secondary students will reach an attainment rate of 60 percent by 2034.

Founded in 2007 and supported by Relay Graduate School of Education, the Relay Teaching Residency is a two - year program that provides residents with a structured, gradual on - ramp into the profession, along with a master's degree.77 During their residency, students work with master resident advisors and transition into lead teaching roles during their second year.78 Residents set ambitious learning goals for their students; the program reported that 94 percent of graduate students attending Relay's New York school met or exceeded the learning goals for students in 2014.79

In its Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) State Education Plan, D.C. has set a long - term goal of graduating 90 percent of an adjusted cohort within four years, both for all students and each subgroup, by 2038 - 39.

The stated goal was to mandate retail prices for Kindle books, and all other ebooks under the agency model publishers» control, at levels that would be 30 to 50 percent higher than the $ 9.99 price that Amazon had previously set for Kindle Store new releases.

But you can't, say, create a goal based on a percent of your income to set aside for something like taxes or charity.

According to a 2016 survey by PwC Employee Financial Wellness, 42 percent of millennials have student loan debt, and 79 percent believe that it makes it more difficult for them to set and meet financial goals.