Sentences with phrase «percent higher pass»

PBL APES students in poverty - impacted schools had a 19 percent higher pass rate than non-PBL students in comparable schools matched nationally.

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Not only are the majority of small businesses (83 percent of which are pass - through entities) subject to higher tax rates than their larger C - Corporation counterparts, under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, any modest benefit they reap is scheduled to go away after 2025, while corporations will retain their steep tax cuts.

That's because under current law, profits from a small business «pass through» to the owner and is taxed at his or her individual rate, which can be as high as 39.6 percent.

Stocks have surged in 2017, with the S&P 500 advancing nearly 20 percent to all - time highs as investors await the passing of the new GOP tax plan.

At the time of highest impact — 1:40 EDT (10:30 PDT) when the eclipse is passing through Wyoming — the MDA solar forecasting system predicts solar generation potential across the country will decrease to less than 50 percent of capacity.

Income from «pass throughs» flows to the business owner directly and is currently taxed at that person's individual tax rate, which can be as high as 39.6 percent.

Under the «old» tax code, income from these small businesses would «pass - through» to the owner on her own taxes and were subject to individual income tax rates as high as 39.6 percent.

The linchpin of the plan is the reduction of the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent and establishment of a 25 percent tax rate for «pass through» businesses, which currently pay income tax rates as high as 39.6 percent.

The Pennsylvania legislature recently passed a bill that will ensure borrowers are up - to - date on their student loan debt.The average Pennsylvania college student graduates with $ 35,000 in student loans, which is higher than any other state in the U.S. And within three years of graduation, 10 percent of Pennsylvania student loan borrowers default on their debt.In order to combat this problem, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ensure students stay informed about how much debt they are accumulating.HB 2124 would require all colleges and universities to provide annual notices to students about their outstanding student...

That allows businesses to pass through untaxed profits to individuals who include them in their own tax returns, paying rates that vary from as low as 10 percent to as high as 39.6 percent.

It said that the average federal income tax rate on pass - through business income was 19 percent and that if pass - through activity had remained at 1980s levels, that tax revenue would have been about $ 100 billion a year higher.

The 31 - year - old quarterback leads the NFL with 21 turnovers and has struggled with consistency despite completing 66.8 percent of his passes and nearing a career high in touchdowns.

He threw five in his last two games of 2015, and in just 470 career passes, he has thrown 18 interceptions; his INT rate of 3.8 percent is about twice as high as a QB's should be.

Iowa ran and ran and ran on standard downs (70 percent SD run rate, 12th in the country and higher than almost any non-option team), played at the slowest possible tempo, and threw as many screens as it could get away with on passing downs.

Flacco has played at an exceptionally high level this postseason, completing 54.8 percent of his passes for 853 yards, while throwing eight touchdowns without throwing an interception.

Ben Roethlisberger on 4th - and - 1 rush attempts in his career, including playoffs: 19 attempts 18 first downs Highest success rate (94.7 percent) of any player with over 10 attempts since 2004 (including playoffs) Steelers on 4th - and - 1 today: 0 - for - 2 (Bell run, Ben pass)

Smith completed a career - high 70.2 percent of his passes in 2012, and averaged 7.97 yards per attempt — also a career - high.

Mayfield completed 70.5 percent of his passes — no other player in the nation topped 70 percent — and didn't just rack up those stats with high - percentage throws underneath.

Lacazette's passing accuracy is even higher than that of Sanchez (68.1 percent), though the Chilean attempted nearly twice as many passes (2,888).

A whopping 46 percent of opponents» incompletions are the result of a pass defensed (intercepted or broken up), the highest rate in the country.

WMU was reasonably efficient on standard downs (37th in standard downs success rate) but played pretty passive, inefficient ball on passing downs; the Broncos» sack rate was actually higher on standard downs (6.2 percent) than passing downs (5.3 percent), which isn't supposed to happen.

They're holding onto their chances (24 percent of their 25 passes defensed have been interceptions, which is a bit high), and opponents are dropping theirs (eight percent of 26 passes defensed have been interceptions).

A Metro report that compares his numbers to those of Matic, Schneiderlin and Fernandinho shows that as well as being the best in terms of tackling, winning duels and making blocks, Coquelin has the highest pass completion at 91 percent, so can we now start to believe that Arsenal really do have the best holding midfielder in the Premier League?

Bush, originally a Nebraska signee, completed 46 percent of his passes with three touchdowns to eight INTs in 2016 at Iowa Western CC, and this time last year Hooker was prepping for his senior season at Greensboro (N.C.) Dudley High.

They had the most possession in the league — 58.4 percent — but only the eighth highest pass completion — 81.1 percent — which underlined the frequency with which they recovered the ball.

But against Lazio, a game where Juventus was without their midfield engine Pjanic, Sandro not only tallied two assists, but logged the most touches and the highest passing accuracy with over 95 percent.

The 28 - year - old central midfielder had a pass - completion rate of 91.4 percent last season, the fourth highest in La Liga in the campaign just finished.

In addition to being part of the Revolution's well - worked counter attack, Caicedo finished the game with the second - highest completed passing percentage (86 percent) on the team.

He has created 63 chances of Goals for Spurs and his passing accuracy is as high as 81.9 percent.

Last season, among five Juventus» center backs, both Bonucci and Andrea Barzagli completed about 64 percent of the long passes and ranked four and fifth highest in Serie A, respectively (among 80 center backs).

Hundreds of low - wage workers and advocates descended upon Albany today to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it to inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum.

At 1:30 p.m., 1,000 low - wage workers and advocates will descend on Albany to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it for inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol.

Within the first minute, Lacorte drops the name of popular Gov. Andrew Cuomo and also touts the fact that he managed to pass a budget that came in under the governor's two percent property tax cap — a very popular initiative in the NYC suburbs, which have the highest property taxes in the state and the nation.

At fault, Trump claimed, were the state's high taxes and unscrupulous manufacturers that have offshored factories in Mexico and China — manufacturers that he again claimed would have to eat a 35 percent tariff that he would somehow get Congress to pass if elected.

A passing grade for the NFIB is 70 percent and the highest scoring lawmaker in the Senate was Brooklyn's Simcha Felder, a Democrat who sits with the GOP conference in the chamber.

They decided to go on strike after state lawmakers passed a bill to raise pay for teachers and other public employees by 4 percent over three years while imposing higher health care premiums.

The passed budget decreases the tax levy by 0.15 percent while still maintaining a high level of academics and support for students.

Teacher's Choice received a 63.5 percent increase in the final city budget, passed on June 6, bringing funding for the City Council's popular program that reimburses educators for out - of - pocket spending on classroom supplies back up to its pre-recession high of more than $ 20 million.

While the probability of HIV transmission varies with the stage of the disease and the type of sexual contact, it appears to pass from infected to uninfected individuals in less than 1 percent of acts of unprotected heterosexual intercourse, while the corresponding probability of HPV transmission is thought to be higher than 5 percent — probably much higher.

That is, as Anderson recognizes, «a very lofty aspirational goal, considering that we have about a third of our kids reading at grade level by the 3rd grade, and that we graduate about 55 percent of our kids, and only 23 percent of those do so by passing high - stakes tests.

One hundred percent of its 10th grade alumni passed the 2004 and 2005 MCAS in English and math, and among BIFF's 2006 high school graduates who applied to college, a whopping 92 percent were accepted in their first - choice college — and this from a population of kids who hadn't much chance of graduating high school, let alone considering something beyond.

It determined that a successful school district was one in which all students meet the full Regents Learning Standards, a much higher bar that moved the 80 percent pass rate to 100 percent.

The Zarb Commission relied on the set of school districts meeting the Regents» operational definition of an adequate education: 80 percent of their 4th graders passed the math and English exams and passed five of the high - school graduation tests.

Pass rates on the state's 10th - grade exam, which was also a high - stakes exit exam for students, rose from 57 percent to 78 percent between 1994 and 2000, with smaller yet still sizable gains in reading (see Figure 1).

That year, at least 25 percent of all tested students in a high school were required to pass the 10th - grade exit exam in each subject in order for the school to receive an Acceptable rating.

In contrast, school populations closer to the high end of the performance spectrum were only about 5 percent African American, 10 percent Hispanic, and 16 percent poor, with a mean cohort size of only 114 and a mean pass rate of 84 percent on the 8th - grade math exam.

For example, states with an Hispanic - population of 14 percentage points (two standard deviations) higher than the average were about 10 percent more likely to pass a charter law.

The institutions» education students must have passing rates of 80 percent or higher on the subject - matter - licensing tests for teachers, and 85 percent or higher on the Praxis III exam.

In addition, seven Rochester schools had passing rates of 90 percent or higher on the grade four math exam.

At Lower Dauphin High, enrollment in the online program has doubled every year since its inception in 2009, and in 2013 — 14, 87 percent of students passed their courses with a score of 70 percent or higher.