Sentences with phrase «percent support merit»

That percentage is still less than the 72 percent supporting merit pay, according to PDK.

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Hudson's Bay said in a statement on Wednesday the company «believes that there is no merit to this appeal, particularly in light of the fact that written consent in support of the equity investment, from sophisticated long - term shareholders representing well over 50 percent of HBC's outstanding common shares.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo weighed in this morning on the LIFO question in the wake of this morning's Q poll that found 85 percent of New Yorkers support the idea that merit, not seniority, should determine which public school teachers get to keep their jobs.

A poll yesterday showed some 74 percent statewide — including strong support Upstate — favor a merit - based system over LIFO.

NSF is committed to increasing its support of basic research, mostly through competitive merit - reviewed grants, by shifting resources away from facilities and instrumentation support, a commitment that shows in its 3.8 percent increase for basic research to $ 2.1 billion.

Among those who either completely or somewhat supported merit pay in 2008, 34 percent did not give that support one year later.

Merit Pay: When asked for an opinion straight out, a slight plurality of Americans sampled — 43 percent — supported the idea of «basing a teacher's salary, in part, on his or her students» academic progress on state tests.»

Support for merit pay climbed by just 6 percent when respondents were exposed to positive research evidence on the issue.

Notably, every subgroup in the survey except for public school teachers increased their support of merit pay to a majority of at least 55 percent.

Among Republicans, however, being told of the president's position reduced support for merit pay by 12 percentage points, from 55 to 43 percent.

Support for merit pay has slid from 57 to 51 percent, and opposition to teacher tenure has declined by the same amount (57 to 51 percent).

According to the 2017 Education Next poll, support for merit pay for teachers among the general public has dropped from 67 percent in 2010 to 46 percent in 2017.

Merit pay (tying teacher pay to student performance as opposed to contractual raises) was supported by 75 percent of those polled.

According to a poll funded by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, 74 percent of Oklahoma voters favor choosing appellate judges in contested elections over a merit selection and retention process, and 69 percent support amending the constitution to make this change.