Sentences with phrase «percent support such»

Among all Utahns, pollster Dan Jones & Associates finds 84 percent support such a new law, only 14 percent oppose it.

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In fact, just 9 percent of students studying business claim they received such support, which is half the rate of kids who took up the arts and humanities.

Roughly 42 percent of respondents said they would not support such a law.

If there's a silver lining here for Republicans and their allies here, it may be that while 59 percent of Americans supported Hillary Clinton's plan, only 42 percent knew she had such a plan.

The Saudi Arabian index was in negative territory most of the day but closed up 0.1 percent as some selective buying for blue - chip stocks such as Al Rajhi Bank, up 0.8 percent, and Saudi Arabia Mining Co (Maaden), up 2.4 percent, offered support to an otherwise sluggish market.

A recent Elon University poll of residents in the finalist cities found that while relatively few residents outright oppose Amazon moving to their city, only 43 percent strongly supported such a move.

On the other hand, 69 percent of millennials say it's a good thing for parents to encourage young boys to play with toys and pursue activities normally associated with girls, while older generations don't support such a move as much.

They are also far more likely than boomers to support their favorite brands online: 52 percent said that they post likes of a brand on social media such as Facebook, and 21 percent reported that they do so «every time» or «almost every time.»

A 71 percent majority of Democrats support such a ban.

By contrast, a 2013 poll from LifeWay Research found that only 8 percent of Americans support such a change.

According to a Pew Global Attitudes Project survey released yesterday, support for a ban on veils that cover the whole face except the eyes is widespread across Europe, with strong majorities in Spain (59 percent), Britain (62 percent), Germany (71 percent) and France (82 percent) all supporting legislation outlawing such veils in schools, hospitals, and government offices.

About 47 percent of white evangelicals were less likely to vote for someone who had served as an elected official in Washington for many years, while 34 percent said it made no difference and 18 percent said such political experience would make their support more likely.

Seventy - two percent of parents nationally support such standards.

Other surveys, such as this one by the Committee on Economic Development demonstrate support for reform is also strong in the business community; 72 percent are in favor of creating a public financing system that would match low - dollar contributions and give average citizens more incentives to contribute to campaigns.

Mejias says such claims are overblown, saying he sponsored the repeal of the home heating tax, supported only one 3.9 percent property tax hike and opposed efforts to raise lawmakers» salaries over objection of party leaders.

Mr. Wright, however, was hazier on the details of how to reconcile such a moratorium with Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to construct and maintain 200,000 units of affordable housing, which hinges in part on re-zonings and outlays for upper - income construction that devotes 20 percent new units for low - and middle - income earners — a plan Mr. Wright said he was «very much in support of.»

After accounting for numerous other factors such as income, education and political ideology, the researchers found that for each one point increase (on a scale from one to five) in symbolic racism there was a 50 percent increase in the odds of having a gun in the home and a 28 percent increase in support for policies allowing people to carry concealed guns.

Nearly 1 percent of such adults will develop the disease within three years, says Lola Rahib, a scientist at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, which supports the research.

The survey also finds that 43 percent of all voters would support a candidate who promises to take bold action to address warming, compared with 14 percent who say they would be less likely to vote for such a candidate.

Less support for such use was reported in Peru (44 percent), El Salvador (31 percent) and Bolivia (30 percent).

Federal regulations, such as Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, support hiring efforts as government contractors must make concerted efforts to have seven percent of their workforce comprised of individuals with disabilities, including veterans.

Consequently, the strains of decreased purchasing power coupled with the responsibility for maintaining the national U.S. ground - based effort in radio, optical, and solar astronomy have led to a division of the NSF AST budget such that, through the decade of the 1990s, about 65 percent of the NSF allocation to AST was assigned to facilities operated by national astronomy organizations, with only about 22 percent made available to support individual investigators (Figure 6.2); the rest went to instrumentation and the university radio observatories.

More than half of the teachers participating in the survey (61 percent) report that they want parents to support student learning activities such as listening to students read, tutoring and helping with homework.

Even Education Week, which has attracted foundation support for years, only receives 25 percent of its revenues from such sources and must bring in the rest from subscriptions, advertising, and elsewhere.

Nearly all classrooms (97 percent) have one or more computers, but half of the nation's teachers say they need training to better integrate technology into classroom instruction — and such support is unevenly distributed across schools.

First, we brainstormed ways in which the entire class might be recognized for positive behavior that was goal oriented, such as 100 percent of students handing in homework, or being recognized by other teachers for showing Respect, Responsibility, and being Ready to Learn (the Pond Road Middle School Positive Behavior Support Program).

A year ago such projections seemed plausible, as public support for learning over the Internet jumped 10 points, to a total 52 percent, from where it had been the previous year.

Currently, under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, from 4 percent to 10 percent of total appropriations may support such approaches, including English as a second language and...

Fully 68 percent of adults who themselves know a home - schooled child believe that such children should have the option of taking selected classes at local public schools, and another 61 percent support allowing them to participate in sports and extracurricular programs, as compared with 48 percent and 51 percent, respectively, of adults who do not know a home - schooled child (Q. 15, 16, 17).

Eighty - seven percent also support schools providing mental health services to students who can't get this help somewhere else, and 79 % support offering general health services in such cases.

For instance, among applicants who identified an external funding source from which they had secured or requested a grant to support their proposed school, 28 percent of charters were approved, compared to 21 percent of those who did not identify such a source (see Figure 2).

Not securing district and union support has its dangers, since nearly 20 percent of the Race to the Top's 500 - point grading scale hinges on such support.

In addition to receiving a Fair Funding Incentive Grant, states that do not yet have progressive funding systems but commit to develop and implement such systems within five years would receive the authority to reserve an additional 1 percent of their total Title I funding for state - level activities to support these systems.

DeBerry's bill would have lowered the threshold of petition support from 60 to 51 percent, and extended the outcome beyond charter conversions, to include options such as replacing the principal or closing the school and sending its students to a higher - achieving one.

It offers recommendations for implementing such an approach, including making retention of irreplaceable teachers a top priority by aiming to retain more than 90 percent of them annually; overhauling principal hiring, support, and evaluation; paying teachers what they're worth; and monitoring school working conditions.

Payments to school divisions in support of such additional qualifying schools each year shall be based on 100 percent of the state share of cost.

More than 80 percent of survey participants supported teachers being paid more for taking on additional roles and responsibilities in their schools, and 79 percent supported educators being paid more to teach in high need schools such as inner city or rural schools.

While more than 90 percent of Latinx students were born in the United States, most of them have at least one foreign - born parent.10 First - generation Americans report that they are more likely to face barriers to their academic achievement, such as job and family responsibilities.11 Teachers who have personally experienced these obstacles may be able to provide better support.

Under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, states are provided with funding to develop the technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in CTE programs.46 Currently, 12.5 million high school and college students are enrolled in CTE programs.47 These programs help keep students in school; the graduation rate of CTE students is about 90 percent, 15 percentage points higher than the national average.48 However, research on their effectiveness is still in the preliminary stages.49 The best and most effective CTE programs are linked to and supported by local business or industry; provide real - world experiences or work opportunities; give students tangible outcomes such as an industry credential or college credit; and create pathways for pursuing college or career after graduation.50

In the latest PDK / Gallup poll, 65 percent of respondents said they would back new public charter schools in their community and 60 percent said they would support «a large increase» in the number of such schools operating in the United States...

While an overwhelming percentage of the people polled support the teaching of key goals that proponents say are enshrined in the Common Core, such as bolstering critical thinking and communication skills, 56 percent of those who were familiar with the standards believed they would either make education in the United States less globally competitive or have no effect at all.

She discussed some of the central provisions NAESP had pushed to include that would directly impact principals, such as the option for states to provide 3 percent of Title II funds specifically for principal support activities.

64 percent of the respondents said they would support such a program; only 23 percent would oppose it.

Many traders had hoped that such support measures, which could include an interest rate cut, would have come from Beijing over the weekend after its main stocks markets slumped 11 percent last week.

The remaining 50 percent will support future SCAVMA activities, such as the Flu Vaccine Clinic and Health and Wellness Week.

«Everything we do is 100 percent volunteer - based and funding is always needed to print literature, get billboards and ads out into the community, and support special projects such as getting much needed aid and supplies to, for example, the Bailing Out Benji Texas Team post-Hurricane Harvey.

Most of the legislative proposals therefore include substantial allocations of funds to support such R&D, such as the CLEAR Act which directs 25 percent of all auction revenue to this purpose.

He sent it to me, he said, not because he was angry about being denied a shot at funding, but because the letter notes that «less than 2 percent» of such proposals are seen as likely to get support.

When put to the test, and asked if they'd continue to support such regulations if they «significantly lowered greenhouse gases but raised your monthly energy expenses by 20 dollars a month,» the majority were unfazed: 63 percent, including 51 percent of Republicans, continued to stand in favor of regulations.

(I) support for a free or low - cost detailed building energy audit that prescribes, as part of a energy - reducing measures sufficient to achieve at least a 20 percent reduction in energy use, by providing an incentive equal to the documented cost of such audit, but not more than $ 500, in addition to any award earned by achieving a 20 percent or greater efficiency improvement;