Sentences with phrase «percent of the general public»

According to one estimate, only 5 percent of the general public can be considered politically engaged beyond the level of voting, and thus termed «activist»; concomitantly, a solid 20 percent are resolutely apolitical.

Specifically, 81 percent of Pittsburgh respondents agreed with this statement compared to 72 percent of the general public.

Following the decisive November elections, 50 percent of the general public believes Obama will not be re-elected in 2012, while nearly 50 percent of D.C. elites believe he will be re-elected.

«Only about four percent of the general public... would overall be impacted but it would provide more than a billion dollars in support for the subway system, which is just extraordinarily important to working people of all classes.»

For instance, 40 percent of mental health providers and 70 percent of the general public indicated they wouldn't want someone with schizophrenia as a co-worker.

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.

When it comes to setting educational standards, only 36 percent of the general public think the federal government — as opposed to state or local governments — should play the largest role in these decisions.

When we asked our readers whether they favored or opposed school vouchers, 42 percent said they favored them, just a bit more than the 39 percent of the general public who gave a similar answer.

Sixty - three percent of the general public says it prefers an increase in school expenditures in the local district, well up from levels in 2007 when only 51 percent of the public called for expenditure increases.

But only 21 percent of the general public favored federally mandated race - based adjustments on school discipline.

According to the poll, 65 percent of the general public favored the standards in 2013, but just 53 percent do now.

Interestingly, the same poll shows that while 57 of teachers think that unions «have a positive effect on schools,» just 30 percent of the general public thinks so.)

«Fifteen percent of the general public can not walk down the detergent aisle because they get a headache and get congested, and [some] are claiming by 2025, half our population will have some kind of reaction to current deodorizers on the market.»

So, at a national level, former and current military comprise 8 percent of the general public.

Not exact matches

This is why smart crowdfunders line up 25 percent or more of their financial support before they launch their campaign, then have that money donated on the first day before promoting to the general public.

Land is still its largest component — and some 80 percent of «capital» gains in the U.S. economy are land - price gains Site values are increased by public investment in streets, water and sewer facilities and transportation hubs, in school systems, by zoning restrictions, by the general level of prosperity, and most of all, by whatever bankers will lend.

It seems as though 99 percent of Facebook users post an astounding amount of highly personal and inappropriate material on the electronic venue, accessible to family, employers, and the general public.

Permitting the Destruction of Life profoundly influenced the values of the general public and the ethics of the German medical and legal communities — to the point that a 1925 poll of the parents of disabled children reported that 74 percent of them would agree to the painless killing of their own children!

On every question about economic or political decisions, from general influence on public policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involved.

In January, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a report that said that more than 50 percent of the tickets to Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Jay - Z and other performers» shows at New York state venues were reserved for insiders and not available to the public.

According to a Marist College Institute for Public Opinion survey released Monday, 47 percent of New York State voters would back Pataki and 45 percent would support Gillibrand if the general election were held today, with 8 percent undecided.

This publication is nothing far from fictional journalistic work cooked in a dilapidated kitchen of falsehood and deceit, and I appeal to the general public to ignore it for what it is - an obvious concoction intended to serve as stumbling block to our quest not only to retain the Domeabra - Obom seat, but deliver 90 percent of the presidential vote in aide of President Mahama's one - touch victory.

The general public favors holding a constitutional convention, but support has slipped significantly over the past year with 44 percent of New Yorkers that Siena College surveyed this month saying they'll vote yes.

In their paper published online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Yale School of Public Health describes how a 33 percent cutback in funds earmarked for HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and research in recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoire.

Even in Africa, at the heart of the pandemic, in Malawi, 21 percent of MSM are infected with the virus compared with 11 percent of the general population, whereas Zambia's rates are 33 percent versus 15 percent, respectively, says Chris Beyrer, director of the Johns Hopkins Center of Public Health and Human Rights.

Identified as a major public health problem by the U.S. Surgeon General, it is increasing at a rate of about 4 percent per year.

Only 24 percent had been given the opportunity to participate in a citizen science - type field campaign, which is defined as the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public, typically in collaboration with professional scientists.

Among 304 members of the general public, recruited through Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk), the donations were 50 percent higher, relative to control.

If nuts, olives, and avocados are avoided, the overall calories from fat may be in the range of 10 percent while diets with those whole foods may reach 30 to 40 percent — and both approaches have evidence for healthy outcomes in the general public.

According to a 2013 report by the Pew Research Center that examined general public attitudes towards online dating, 59 percent of all Internet users agreed that seeking romance or companionship digitally is «a good way to meet people.»

Frank Grillo His name and face might not be immediately recognizable to the general public, but in a remarkably short space of time — really the last year or so — Frank Grillo has become the kind of actor who makes everything he's in about ten percent better.

Among the general public, 60 percent thought that students should work at least 30 percent of the time on the computer; 62 percent thought that students should not work any more than 30 percent of the time on the computer.

But the number of voters who approve the levy must also be equal to 40 percent of the turnout for the last general election, according to Michael T. McCarthy, administrative assistant for budget in the state department of public instruction.

In today's low - return environment, the pension promises being made to state and local employees in general, and public school teachers in particular, have become very expensive and difficult to maintain largely because the largesse of the pension plans assumes long run returns on the order of 7.5 percent (or higher).

When we asked respondents about this as a general practice, 78 percent of the public expresses support, compared to just 33 percent of teachers (see Figure 6).

These findings are noteworthy because a key goal of the TTP Plan, and percent plans in general, is to increase access to top public universities for traditionally underserved populations.

Almost three - quarters of respondents from the general public think school districts should be notified if parents intend to homeschool their children, however; 68 percent of parents feel the same way.

Just 22 percent of Americans give public schools in general an A or B, 55 percent a C, and 24 percent a D or F.

Of the 900 professors surveyed, 79 percent agreed that «the general public has outmoded and mistaken beliefs about what good teaching means.»

That's slightly more than the general public and tracks with numbers released last week by the Joyce Foundation, which showed 48 percent of parents felt they'd heard at least a moderate amount about the new standards.

The number of Durham teachers taking May 16 off to advocate for public education in Raleigh on the General Assembly's opening day has swelled to nearly 1,000, which is about 41 percent of the district's 2,400 teachers.

Public education, which received more than $ 2.5 billion in state funding this year, makes up the largest individual slice of the Mississippi general fund budget at about 40 percent of the total budget.

In general, unless otherwise exempt, the following three criteria must be met in order for non-classroom based charters to be guaranteed full funding levels: (1) at least 80 percent of total revenues must be spent on instruction or classroom support, (2) at least 50 percent of public revenues must be spent on certificated staff salaries and benefits, and (3) the pupil - teacher ratio must be equal to or lower than the pupil - teacher ratio in the largest unified school district in the county or counties in which the school operates or the school must maintain a minimum of 25:1 ratio.

Reflecting on public schools in general, a similar share of respondents - roughly 70 percent - confer a C or D. Again calculated as a GPA, America's schools get a C or C -.

A 2014 Education Next poll found that 34 percent of teachers chose charters, private schools or home - schooling for their own children — a higher percentage than the general public as a whole.

What California's Schools Can Learn From Chicago's Officials in California are still peddling the idea that the state's public - school system — which receives 40 percent of the general - fund budget, by constitutional edict — is struggling because it lacks money.

Using the method we heard was preferred (counting local property taxes and general aids), choice in Milwaukee would be at 70 to 80 percent of the Milwaukee Public Schools number.

It's a long, long way from action on the N.C. General Assembly floor, but N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson today called for a 10 percent raise for all teachers in North Carolina.

While Connecticut's state budget approval process is far from over, the Connecticut General Assembly's Appropriations Committee has made some significant changes to Governor Dannel Malloy's proposed state budget including deleting some of Malloy's $ 80 million in cuts to public schools and reducing Malloy's plan to INCREASE charter school funding by more than 25 percent.

When Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy addressed a joint session of the Connecticut General Assembly ninety days ago to present his proposed state budget, he called for record cuts to Connecticut's public schools while demanding the legislature increase funding for charter schools by more than 25 percent.