New York City girls in grades 3 to 8 outscored boys on state math tests for the second straight year, with 35.2
percent passing this year, compared to 33.4 percent of the boys passing.
The number of students who passed both tests also increased, with 74.7
percent passing this year compared to 73.7 percent last year.
Not exact matches
The Journal also says that cutting the
pass - through rate to 15
percent would add more than $ 1 trillion to the 10 -
year cost of any tax plan.
Three
years after Dodd - Frank was
passed, the alphabet soup of banking regulators collaborating to write some 400 new industry rules are just 39
percent done.
If a prospect's income drops 150
percent below the poverty line, he or she gets a
pass on repaying backers that
year.
Morgan Stanley analyst Rajeev Lalwani forecasts «another +50
percent year» on disciplined management and benefits stemming from the recently -
passed U.S. tax reform law.
The result: Australia's firearm homicide rate dropped by about 42
percent in the seven
years after the law
passed, and its firearm suicide rate fell by 57
percent, according to a review of the evidence by Harvard researchers.
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...
Double the Deficit: After an unprecedented debt binge by Congress, the dust has settled and we estimate that 55
percent of next
year's deficit will be a result of legislation
passed since 2015 — mostly last
year's tax cuts and this
year's bipartisan spending deal.
Chicago's sales tax rate will hit a whopping 10.25
percent next
year, and just in time for Oscar Mayer to move into its new digs in the AON Center near Millennium Park, the Chicago City Council
passed the largest property tax increase in modern city history.
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.
Trump's tax plan works out to 0.9
percent of GDP in the first four
years, far smaller than the 2.9
percent of GDP tax cut
passed under President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Within the business cuts, the legislation would reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 to 20
percent ($ 1.5 trillion), allow companies to fully deduct the cost of business investments in the
year they are made through 2022 ($ 25 billion), and limit the top rate on certain
pass - through business income paid on the individual side to 25
percent ($ 448 billion).
For a quarter of the ultrarich top 0.1
percent (people earning over $ 3.5 million a
year),
pass - throughs account for a majority of their income.
This week, a computer program fooled 33
percent of judges at the University Reading into believing that they were chatting with a real - life 13 -
year - old boy from Ukraine, thus
passing the «Turing Test» for artificial intelligence.
Neri worked tirelessly for three
years to get the facility to the SQF Level 3 status,
passing with a 97
percent.
We have been audited every
year since then and had an unannounced audit this
year and
passed with a 96
percent.
Desmond Cain has potential as a possession receiver; he caught 67
percent of his
passes last
year, though he averaged only 9.3 yards per catch.
The senior - to - be completed 63
percent of his
passes last
year (Buechele: 60
percent), took half as many sacks (a 3.8
percent sack rate to Buechele's 7.3), and threw fewer interceptions.
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.
The fifth -
year quarterback is completing less than 50
percent of his
passes this season and has just a 59.3 rating for the season through three games.
He has completed 70.7
percent of his
passes with three touchdowns and two interceptions in five games this
year.
In his rookie
year, Foles completed 60.8
percent of his
passes, but averaged just 6.41 yards per attempt while throwing six touchdowns and five interceptions.
In the draft, the Panthers did a couple of things to help Cam Newton, who completed just 44
passes to his backs last
year while crashing to a 52.9
percent accuracy rate, a stunning 7 points lower than 2015.
He completed 57
percent of his
passes over his three -
year career — ahead of only Allen in this five - player group — although he wasn't done any favors by his receivers.
In his five starts, San Francisco went 5 - 0 — a feat made even more impressive by the fact that the 49ers were 1 - 10 at that point in the
year — and Garoppolo completed 67.4
percent of his
passes with seven touchdowns and five interceptions.
Only two returning wideouts caught more than 10
passes last
year — Kamathi Holsey and Jamarl Eiland — and they combined for a dreadful 40
percent catch rate while averaging just 9.8 yards per catch.
After all, Brees just set the all - time mark for completion percentage in a season in 2017 at 72
percent, and he topped 4,000
passing yards for the 12th
year in a row — something no other player has done in more than eight consecutive seasons.
He finished the
year with 133 - for - 237
passing (56.1
percent) for 2,056 yards, 18 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, and also rushed 208 times for 1,163 yards and 16 scores.
Aside from injury, he has been at the helm for the entire Jim Mora era; he will likely cross the 10,000 - yard mark for career
passing yards (he's 170 away), he has completed 68
percent in three
years, and he stands at 1,651 career rushing yards with 102 combined touchdowns.
Joe Adams (12.9 yards per catch, 70
percent catch rate) caught four
passes for 124 yards against Ole Miss, Chris Gragg (12.0 yards per catch, 69
percent catch rate) exploded for 119 yards on eight receptions against Mississippi State last weekend and while Cobi Hamilton (15.2 yards per catch, 59
percent catch rate) and Greg Childs (11.7 yards per catch, 57
percent catch rate) haven't done much in 2011, they averaged 11.7 and 10.8 yards per target, respectively, as Top Four targets a
year ago.
The theory was that Rudock, an Iowa transfer who blew no one away last
year but completed 62
percent of his
passes and threw only five picks, won the job over former blue - chipper Shane Morris in part because of his ability to avoid mistakes.
Harbaugh loved
passing to the tight end at Stanford, and he has some nice big guys to get involved this
year; tight ends were targeted with nearly 40
percent of Rudock's
passes, and Butt caught eight of 11 balls for 93 yards and a tough touchdown reception.
After going a woeful 2 - for - 12 combined against Michigan and San Diego State, he completed 52
percent of his
passes at 19.6 yards per completion the rest of the
year.
During his three -
year career, McCoy has completed 58.3
percent of his
passes, while throwing 21 touchdowns and 20 interceptions — good for a passer rating of 74.8.
Opponents completed 60
percent of their
passes despite a solid
pass rush, and Michigan defenders picked off five
passes all
year, only three against non-Northwestern teams.
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.
There wasn't a ton of big - play potential in last
year's
passing attack, but Evans completed 64
percent of his
passes with 29 touchdowns to just eight picks.
The former blue - chipper caught 83
passes last
year, albeit at only 11.2 yards per catch with a 40
percent success rate.
He didn't face many challenges, and the 22 -
year - old completed over 96
percent of his
passes over the 90 minutes.
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.
Of players who have played in all 10 games of the campaign, the 30 -
year - old has the best
passing accuracy (88
percent) and is no slouch in the defensive department either; ranking second in blocks and interceptions and in the top seven for duels won.
When looking for a «repeat performance» of a top - five
passing defense the
year after a top - five
passing defense, 60
percent of team's maximum consecutive
years streak was one.
Similarly, sick days, 80
percent of low - wage workers can't earn a single paid sick day, but we know that the cost of «presentism» is greater to businesses than of having sick days, so I expect that to
pass in the next 10
years.
Skelos accused Cuomo of wanting to «water down» the 2
percent property tax cap program bill he introduced that was
passed by the Senate earlier this
year.
Gun owners» fear of a Clinton presidency may have helped spur a spike in pistol permits issued in the Empire State in 2016, increasing 34
percent from the 2012 presidential election
year and rivaling numbers last seen when the SAFE Act
passed four
years ago.
In this light, the Earmarked Funds Capping and Realignment Act was
passed this
year to cap all earmarked funds to 25
percent of tax revenues to free resources for priority programmes; ii.
The city budget
passed last
year included a 2.5
percent cost - of - living adjustment, and in January the de Blasio administration announced that municipal workers and those working for contracted agencies will earn $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018.
-RRB- would drop the supermajority requirement for school districts to pierce the cap, instead calling for a simple majority — making overrides no more difficult than
passing a budget within the cap, and inviting a return to the days when school taxes grew by more than 7
percent per
year.
The latest display of greed is especially galling: The council's just -
passed budget boosts member - item spending — the cash pols get to
pass around their districts like Christmas turkeys — a full 9
percent over last
year, to $ 396 million.