Sentences with phrase «percentage of the public supports»

Since 2005 we have tracked nearly 30,000 MLB games and only 238 teams have seen a higher percentage of public support.

The upshot, therefore, is that we must avoid looking at poll data showing high percentages of public support and mistake it for an indication of what the electorate wants government to actually do.

According to the 4th annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance and Education Next, which will be released on Wednesday, a larger percentage of the public supports Race to the Top (RttT) than opposes it.

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Since a large percentage of the public funds for Hurricane Harvey are geographically designated specifically to meet recovery needs of Houston and Harris County, it is also important to support recovery efforts throughout the entire region.

Our research showed a direct correlation between lower levels of public support and a higher winning percentage / return on investment.

By tacking on a contrarian filter and examining unders that receive less than 30 % of public support, our winning percentage jumps from 53.4 % to 55.5 %.

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The public would have been mystified as to why all the main parties support a set percentage of GDP being dedicated to international development.

On the day a Siena College poll shows her trailing Republican George Amedore by 10 percentage points, a deep - pocketed group that supports public financing has released a new TV ad on behalf of Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk.

A Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday said the city's public advocate has support from 30 percent of likely Democratic voters, six percentage points higher than City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the new Director will also report quarterly on the current status of women both in Santa Clara County public jurisdictions and within the Santa Clara County Democratic Party and lead the compilation and publication of an annual report of the current number and percentage of women in elected office in Santa Clara County and post the report on the Party website and in an electronic communication to all members; and that the new Director will lead this effort by recruiting, training and supporting democratic women seeking public leadership positions in collaboration with the Director of Endorsements and Candidate Recruitment, the Director of Issues, the Director of Political Engagement and DAWN as well as any other interested Party Directors and clubs.

While 52 percent of those surveyed for the annual PDK / Gallup poll said they oppose allowing students to attend private school at «public expense,» support for the notion has jumped 12 percentage points since the...

When the Common Core name is stated, the level of support remains essentially the same as it was one year ago, but when the question simply asks about standards «that are the same across the states,» public support rises by 5 percentage points over what was observed last year.

A substantial majority of the public (61 %) support the general concept of standards that are the same across the states — 20 percentage points higher than the share that supports «Common Core.»

Despite that stability of public opinion about charters, aggregate support increased by 11 percentage points when respondents were told that Obama backed them (see Figure 4).

Support for teacher tenure slides, but the percentage of the public thinking teachers deserve a salary increase reaches its highest level since 2008.

Asked about support for «giving tenure to teachers,» just 31 % of the public express a favorable view in 2016, a figure that has declined by 10 percentage points since 2013.

The gap of 40 percentage points in support between teachers and the broader public is the widest that we observe on any issue in our 2016 survey.

Whether measured on a per - pupil basis or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, support for public schools is stronger in the United States than in most other nations.

The views of the affluent resemble those of the general public, except that the affluent are more likely to hold strong opinions and even larger percentages support the positions taken by a plurality of the general public.

In the summer of 2010, public support for merit pay actually decreased by 1 percentage point when respondents were told that the president favored the idea.

We found a 12 - percentage - point drop in public support for charter schools from the spring of 2016 to the spring of 2017.

The just released PDK survey of U. S. adults reveals an upward shift in public support for vouchers of 10 percentage points over the past four years, with 8 of those percentage points gained since 2015

56 — percentage of registered voters in North Carolina who do not support using school vouchers to help parents pay for their children to attend private or religious schools instead of public schools.

The survey of 1,076 public school teachers nationwide indicates that educators are becoming increasingly supportive of doing away with unions and tenure, with support growing by four to five percentage points over the past 15 years, to 19 percent and 33 percent, respectively...

«Private funders have been instrumental to charter school growth, but federal, state and local legislative bodies must also respond by investing a larger percentage of public education dollars to support the opening of new, high - quality charter schools to meet the demands of the families they serve.»