Sentences with phrase «percent performance gap»

Not exact matches

More than 70 percent of voters approve of Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to not arrest people caught with 25 grams or less of marijuana, but the racial gap over the mayor's performance continues to widen, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

Although the segregation, and related performance gaps, are not unique to Erie County, a recent report by the Civil Rights Project put the area in the top 3 percent of the country for its failure to integrate students.

In spring 2011, the president visited a suburban school (with notable achievement gaps) to argue that without substantial changes more than 80 percent of the nation's schools would not meet NCLB performance targets this year.

Hanushek points out that actual spending increases during the time period they studied was more like 100 percent, gaps have not closed, and other explanations for low performance such as increases in the numbers of students in poverty don't explain the difference.

But the performance of the A + Plan improves when schools are assigned significantly different grades.The math learning gap between A and C schools was 11 percent; between A and D schools it was 14 percent, and the gap between A and F schools differed by 25 percent of a standard deviation.

Harkin said that the bill's federally mandated interventions — which would require a state to identify five percent of its lowest - performing schools, in addition to five percent of its schools with the highest achievement gaps — would help keep states» performance on track.

Public schools must meet one of two criteria to be nominated: exemplary high performance overall, including being among the top 15 percent in the state, or exemplary performance in closing the achievement gap.

Across all Gap Inc. companies, including Old Navy, women make up 74 percent of the employee population while 49 percent of all its U.S. employees identify themselves as ethnically diverse.18 Old Navy's emphasis on performance - based metrics during its selection process ensures a strong cultural fit between the company and all hired candidates, and contributes to the recruitment and retention of its diverse employee pool.

Federal law requires schools test at least 95 percent of students, both overall and among certain demographics — including minorities, students with disabilities and those with limited English proficiency — since high participation rates paint a more accurate picture of student performance and help identify achievement gaps.

In addition, the bill requires states to develop a plan to address problems in their «achievement gap schools» — the 5 percent of elementary and middle schools and the 5 percent of high schools in each state with the largest achievement gaps among student subgroups, or the lowest student subgroup performance based on achievement tests and graduation rates.

Although the Sunshine State has borrowed the gap - cutting proficiency targets part of the EdTrust plan, it hasn't embraced its accountability aspects, leaving vague what state education officials will do if the worst five percent of schools and the 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps fail to improve student performance.

High school graduation rates are at an all - time high at over 80 percent (see Chapter 1: Student Achievement).7 8 9 Research on NCLB's accountability provisions has shown modest effects on school performance, particularly in schools seeking to avoid a first year of missing AYP or in schools facing the severest penalties.10 Despite this progress, however, high school test scores are flat, achievement gaps persist, and many low - performing schools are not improving.

The median hourly pay gap was two percent in favor of women, however.According to Apple, the average pay gap is due to more men holding senior positions at the company, and when factoring in «similar roles, markets, and performance» it has achieved pay equity.

That's a price difference of about ten percent, which generally matches the performance gap between the M290X and the 880M.

Same - store sales in that sector fell 2.1 percent, mainly due to poor performance at Gap Inc..