Sentences with phrase «percent of our turnaround»

• Denver Public Schools, by comparison, spent 13 percent of its turnaround grant money so far on consulting and other help from private companies.

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Continuing a three - year turnaround, eBay reported significant second - quarter revenue gains today, including a 20 percent jump in the earnings of its PayPal division over the second quarter of 2012.

Vornado, which owns and manages commercial real estate such as office buildings and malls, sold more than 40 percent of its shares in Penney in March, a month before the department store chain fired its CEO Ron Johnson who had spearheaded a botched turnaround that led to disastrous results.

«The biggest problem is that revenues of the great majority of small businesses have gone down from between 10 percent and 70 percent,» said George Cloutier, founder of American Management Services, an Orlando, Fla., consulting firm that specializes in financial turnarounds for small and midsize companies.

Shares of United Airlines» parent company plunged 12 percent in October after CEO Oscar Munoz and his lieutenants clashed with analysts who wanted more details about the company's turnaround plan.

Russia's economy has absorbed the shocks from oil and sanctions, and there are signs of a nascent turnaround, although economic activity will still contract by 0.6 percent this year

«The economy has absorbed the dual shocks from oil and sanctions, and there are signs of a nascent turnaround, although economic activity will still contract by 0.6 percent this year.

J.C. Penney amassed nearly a billion dollars in losses and its revenue dropped 25 percent for the fiscal year that ended Feb. 2 in the first year of Johnson's turnaround strategy.

Despite months of turnaround efforts, New York City's subway system slid to a new low point in January, with just 58.1 percent of all weekday trains arriving at stations on time, according to a new report.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) said a complete financial turnaround for the country's economy will not be coming any time soon, but she is working to bring jobs that would help Queens residents and individuals facing a state unemployment rate of at least 8 percent.

The turnaround started in 2007, when low - flow toilets and showerheads were installed nationwide and the national water authority built innovative water treatment systems that recapture 86 percent of the water that goes down the drain and use it for irrigation — vastly more than the second - most - efficient country in the world, Spain, which recycles 19 percent.

The federal turnaround school consisting of 475 students — 99 percent free / reduced lunch and 54 percent ESL — saw such large improvements that it recently was named North Carolina Title One School of the Year.

Rodriguez focused on social studies education at Boston University as an undergraduate and, most recently, taught middle school social studies at a turnaround school, what she describes as «the lowest - achieving school for over 25 years in Hartford,» where 100 percent of students were black or Latino and qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

At Nolan Elementary - Middle School in Detroit, for example, in 2013, at the end of its first year of turnaround, 71 percent of students achieved one or more years of growth in reading and 61 percent in math.

By his third - year residency in Memphis at the Tennessee Achievement School District — the state's turnaround district aimed at bringing the bottom performing 5 percent of schools into the top performing 25 percent within five years — he found his initial interests that brought him to Ed.L.D.

And we opened that September with a minority enrollment of 64 percent, a 27 - point turnaround in just four months.

In California, a new law allows parents to force districts to undertake one of the four turnaround models outlined in the federal rules if at least 50 percent sign a petition.

About 20 percent of the SIG schools chose the second option, the «turnaround» model, which required replacing at least half the staff.

All but one of the eight elementary turnaround schools show substantial gains in closing the achievement gap, with the percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards on the state test rising 8 - 28 percent, compared to the school's pre-turnaround status.

Democracy Prep's results are incomparable: 100 percent of graduates are college - bound (two college acceptances are required for graduation); 95 percent pass the Regents exams; and the schools are leaders in urban charter turnaround (with Harlem Prep skyrocketing from the third to the 96th percentile from one school year to the next).

Nationwide, school - turnaround consulting companies sprouted as it became clear the U.S. Department of Education was about to spend billions of dollars to fix the nation's bottom 5 percent of schools in academic performance.

After the release of our December study — which found that just one percent of district and charter school turnarounds were successful, as defined as reaching at least the 50th percentile in state proficiency in reading and math — Bryan wondered whether charter start - ups in similar neighborhoods would fare any better against such rigorous criteria.

Let's face it: nobody really knows how to turn around failing schools; a recent Fordham study found that just 1 percent of low performing schools reach turnaround status five years later.

The turnaround model included all of the requirements of the transformation model, as well as replacing at least 50 percent of the staff.

For example, prior to LPS's school turnaround initiative, the district's math and English language arts, or ELA, proficiency rates fell within the bottom 1 percent of school districts in Massachusetts.

As a turnaround school, Leto has a student population of 2,287, with 84 percent economically disadvantaged students, 30 percent English - language learners, and a long history of ranking near last place in state test scores.

The proposal allows parents to decide a turnaround plan for chronically low - performing schools if 51 percent of parents sign petitions.

Furthermore, the most recent state test scores showed that Denver performed better than most districts in the state, showing commendable improvements in turnaround schools located in Far Northeast and Northwest Denver, even though the district is still far from its own goal of 3.5 percent improvement in growth across all subjects.

While those AMOs are supposed to «guide support and improvement efforts,» according to the Education Department, they won't determine which schools are turnaround or «focus» schools — the 15 percent of a state's schools that get the most intervention — nor will they drive when schools can get out from under those labels.

Our successful turnaround efforts led our students to achieve in the top 5 percent of the state.

Numerous provisions contained in S. 1177 represent a huge step forward from current legislation: the elimination of adequate yearly progress and the 100 percent proficiency requirements, tempering the test - and - punish provisions of No Child Left Behind; the continued requirement of disaggregated subgroup data; removal of the unworkable school turnaround models required under the School Improvement Grant and Race to the Top programs; clarification of the term school leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effective.

Since then, he's further made his mark on the legislation through successful amendments that would allow states to develop their own turnaround models for the lowest - performing schools and permit students in each state's bottom 5 percent of schools to transfer to other schools.

Whereas just slightly more than 30 percent of RSD schools were above failing status in 2008, more than 80 percent were in 2014 — a significant turnaround.

According to a recent study by the Council of the Great City Schools, 70 percent of urban schools that received targeted assistance for school turnaround increased the percentage of students who are proficient in reading and math.

In 2010, Baltimore City Public Schools launched a dramatic school turnaround effort in Frederick Douglass High that resulted in hiring a new principal and replacing more than 50 percent of its staff.

After LA Unified skyrocketed from a projected 49 percent graduation rate last fall to a record - setting 75 percent for the 2015 - 16 school year, academic experts, California public universities, editorial boards and even the school board president are all asking hard questions about one major aspect of the turnaround — online credit recovery.

It has set systems «of differentiated recognition, accountability and support,» which includes turnaround plans targeted at the lowest 5 percent of the states» schools.

The ASD has collaborated with high - performing charter operators to conduct school turnarounds in neighborhood schools; collaborated with philanthropic leaders to build a sustainable educator talent pipeline for the bottom 5 percent of the state's schools; engaged neighborhood communities in the process of matching charter operators to schools selected into the ASD; and influenced district - led turnaround efforts.

More than 90 percent of the schools in the program have selected one of two options --» turnaround» and «transformation» — that mandate more time.

In contrast, the approach under waivers, dubbed turnaround, was much more focused — applying only to the 5 percent of schools identified as «priority» schools and based on key principles outlined by the Department (see sidebar Turnaround Principles).62 Fewer schools were part of the effort, but in turn, the effort was much more intensive and required significant changes in school operations, culture, leadership, and practice.63 The hope was that a more disruptive and ambitious strategy will yield dramatic results: after three years, these schools would no longer be in the bottom 5 percent, and another group of schools could be identified to undergo turnaround.

The findings indicate school turnaround is an uncommon event in these low - performing schools, though not rare — approximately 10 to 30 percent of CLP schools, depending on the state and school level, are identified as TA schools based on improvements in performance.

East Middle School in greater St. Louis was one of the lowest performing schools in Missouri before implementing the turnaround school improvement model, hiring a new principal and at least 50 percent new staff to improve student achievement last year.

Every waiver state had to designate at least five percent of its lowest - performing and slowest - progressing Title I schools as «priority» schools to undergo an intervention designed to turnaround the school.

And, as reported in Publishing Perspectives, in the third edition of Bookwire and Dosdoce's Spanish Markets Digital Evolution 2017 report, a turnaround in Spanish - language markets may well be in the offing, with digital book sales reported to have rising 110 percent in Latin America, 42 percent in Spain.

The next trade illustrates the turnaround setup of the preceding trade, with a sell happening at the convergence of the 38 percent retracement and the day by day central pivot:

«DocuSign reduces average document turnaround times by eight days, with 86 percent of documents completed in one day.

This is a drop of nearly 60 percent in just under a decade, which is a remarkable turnaround from how things were going.

Led turnaround of emancipated youth program from a 90 percent monthly turnover rate to a 10 percent monthly turnover rate within three months.

Accomplishments vary by job, of course, and can range from something as simple as having a 100 percent safety record to masterminding the turnaround of a floundering organization.

Led turnaround of emancipated youth program from a 62 percent to a 10 percent monthly turnover rate.