Sentences with phrase «percentage point drop for»

Datalab's study found that Hewens college in west London had a 16.4 percentage point drop for pupils gaining five GCSEs at A * to C, including English and maths and equivalents, when former pupils were included in its 2014 results.

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Credit union approvals for May dropped about 1.4 percentage points to 43.6 percent, compared to a year earlier.

After studying the decline in U.S. crime rates that occurred in the 1990s, it concluded that a drop of two percentage points in unemployment was responsible for a 9 % decline in burglary, 14 % drop in rape and robbery and 30 % plunge in assault.

Dora Gicheva, an economist at the University of North Carolina, has found that for every $ 10,000 young people carried in student debt, the likelihood of getting married in the seven years following graduation dropped by some three or four percentage points.

GDP growth must drop every year for the next five or six years by at least 1 percentage point a year.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

RBC's measures for Atlantic Canada dropped between 0.9 and 1.8 percentage points.

But when Carhart included zombie funds, the average compound return for stock funds dropped more than a percentage point, to 9.5 %.

That's bad news for the Catholic Church, which has seen a 12 percentage - point drop in Hispanic members since 2010, with most of the losses coming from former Catholics under 50.

An OMF report, saying that the percentage of drop - outs of missionaries in the Third World countries is higher than that of Western countries, pointed out that the main reason for this is the lack of needed training.

But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools, district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day.

Even if all of George Osborne's proposals for further cutbacks between 2014 and 2017 were fully implemented, the total percentage point drop in expenditure would rank the current fiscal squeeze in fifth position out of the eight shown in the table.

Cuomo's approval rating has dropped 13 percentage points since Marist last asked this question prior to Governor Paterson ending his candidacy for election.

In New York, the unemployment rate has fallen by 1.9 percentage points, or tied for the 34th biggest drop among the 50 states over that period.

Nationally, the drop in unemployment since June 2009 has been bigger than New York's — 3.4 percentage points for the nation as a whole.

Dropping an unexpected political bomb on the Hudson Valley, U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, who won re-election last November by about 30 percentage points, announced Tuesday, Jan. 6 that he would not run for re-election in 2016.

Whenever I need to lose weight for vacation, I go 100 % Paleo and I can drop a few body fat percentage points in a few weeks (while combining it with strength training and interval running).

Should she treat herself to a dish of ice cream for dessert, she adds another 260 calories, including over 100 calories as fat, but her percentage of calories as fat drops 9 points to 57 percent because of the high levels of carbohydrate calories from the sugar in the ice cream.

The pattern for parents is similar, though only 75 % of fully informed parents still want the four - year option, a 5 - percentage - point drop from those making that choice without cost - benefit information.

This high proportion of overseas students on campus also inflates our graduation rates: if international students are excluded, the report says the ratio of students completing tertiary courses drops by a startling 17 percentage points while the rates for first - time shorter and more vocationally oriented rates fall by only 3 percentage points.

At first glance, our survey data would seem to confirm those fears: Support for charter schools dropped by 12 percentage points between 2016 and 2017, the largest change in opinion we observed on any item (Figure 1).

The education world continues to digest the headline finding from the 2017 EdNext Poll: a dozen - percentage - point one - year decline in support for charter schools, with similar drops among Republicans and Democrats.

Both those readings show a modest cooling of public enthusiasm for higher salaries since 2016 — a drop of 4 percentage points for the uninformed and 5 percentage points for the informed.

Democratic support for federal decision - making has dropped by 8, 6, and 7 percentage points, respectively.

-- the percentage of those giving the schools an «A» or a «B» on the traditional A to F grading scale drops 11 percentage points, from 49 % to 38 %; — support for a proposal to make vouchers available to all families regardless of income jumps 13 percentage points, increasing from 43 % to 56 %, while opposition to the proposal declines from 37 % to 25 %; — support for charter schools shifts upward from 51 % to 58 % when respondents learn the national rank of the local district, while opposition to charters declines from 26 % to 23 %; — opposition to teacher tenure climbs 8 percentage points, from 47 % to 55 %, while support for tenure drops 8 points to 25 %.

For the nation as a whole, overall support for higher spending levels dropped by 8 percentage points (from 46 to 38 percent) when respondents were informed of actual per - pupil expenditures in their own distriFor the nation as a whole, overall support for higher spending levels dropped by 8 percentage points (from 46 to 38 percent) when respondents were informed of actual per - pupil expenditures in their own distrifor higher spending levels dropped by 8 percentage points (from 46 to 38 percent) when respondents were informed of actual per - pupil expenditures in their own district.

◦ Trend: Public backing for universal vouchers has dropped by six percentage points since 2014.

◦ Trend: Public support for school vouchers targeted toward low - income families has dropped by 12 percentage points since 2012 — a major shift in public opinion.

When informed about actual average teacher salaries in their state, respondents» support for higher salaries dropped by 16 percentage points (from 56 to 40 percent).

However, pupils from more affluent backgrounds are less likely to go to university if they do the four - week holiday course, with a 10 percentage point drop in girls and 8 point drop for boys.

The biggest drop in teachers» support for Common Core (33 percentage points) took place between 2013 and 2014.

When given the facts about teacher salaries, African American support for higher salaries drops 20 percentage points — from 74 percent to 54 percent.

When presented with research evidence that claims «students learn no more in private schools than in public schools,» support for school vouchers dropped by 10 percentage points, an impact almost as large as the President's.

School Spending - Support for increased spending on schools drops 8 percentage points (from 46 to 38 percent) when Americans are told what is actually spent in their own district.

Support for increased spending on our standard question drops by 20 percentage points, a much bigger drop than what was observed in 2009, when support for increased spending fell only 8 percentage points (from 46 percent to 38 percent).

In both high - and low - performing districts, however, support for this requirement drops 5 percentage points when respondents are informed of how students in their community compare with the rest of the nation.

When respondents are told how their local schools rank either in the state or country, support for teacher tenure falls even further, dropping by 6 or 8 percentage points, respectively.

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

The largest drop for re-mark requests was English reading, which dropped 1.2 percentage points, from 3.8 per cent last year to 2.6 per cent this year.

When, however, my colleagues and I analyzed longitudinal data that adjusted for the grades and test scores of students in 8th grade, we found that students at schools with minimum - competency exams with C - grades in 8th grade, while not more likely to drop out, were about 7 percentage points less likely to get a high - school diploma or a General Education Diploma (GED) within six years.

When told how much the local schools were spending, support for increased spending dropped by 10 percentage points, from 61 percent to a bare majority of 51 percent.

For example, when the state of California decided in 1974 that it would accept the GED as an alternative to the high school diploma, graduation rates dropped by 3.6 percentage points for males, and by 2.6 for femalFor example, when the state of California decided in 1974 that it would accept the GED as an alternative to the high school diploma, graduation rates dropped by 3.6 percentage points for males, and by 2.6 for femalfor males, and by 2.6 for femalfor females.

The biggest drop in support among Democrats when informed of Trump's views, 14 percentage points, was for his support of teacher merit pay.

In Kentucky and New York, which gave Common Core - aligned tests for the first time in 2012 and 2013 respectively, the percentage of students who met the «proficient» cutoff dropped by 25 - 30 percentage points.

While dropout rates have declined more slowly, with a three - percentage - point drop from the previous year, the suspension rate has seen a drop from 8 percent in 2008 to today's 1.5 percent, a result of Los Angeles Unified's ban on suspensions for «willful defiance,» back in May 2013.

It also had the largest drop for overall preferences, down eight percentage points.

Liverpool saw the biggest drop for first choices, down seven percentage points on 2015.

Prof Alan Smithers, director of the University of Buckingham's Centre for Education and Employment Research, said the 2.1 percentage points decline was the biggest drop in A * - C grades since GCSEs were introduced in the late 1980s.

That same month Education Next, an education policy journal, released its eleventh annual public opinion poll, finding a dramatic 12 - percentage - point drop in support for charter schools between spring 2016 and spring 2017.

The biggest drop in requests for re-marks was for the English reading test, which dropped a whole 1.2 percentage points, from 3.8 per cent last year to just 2.6 per cent this year.