Sentences with phrase «progress in a few states»

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Jasper Lawler, market analyst at LCG highlighted that Wednesday saw «mixed» economic data in the United States and as Europe has few steers to offer today, many investors will again be looking stateside as today's session progresses.

The State makes laws which are plainly for the good of all, and the whole scheme is obviously making more physical and technical progress in a few years than was previously made in as many Centuries.

«While we are proud of the progress and impact we have made in the last few years, in order to experience a new horizon of growth, we must invest in our systems and overall economic model to extend our promise to the most vulnerable, our partners and staff,» Moore stated.

Despite well - placed journo James Pearce of The Liverpool Echo publishing an exclusive last month that stated the Reds were «no longer pursuing» the Frenchman, Le10 Sport claim that Liverpool have made significant progress over the last few weeks ahead of a possible summer transfer and go as far as to state that an agreement in principle isn't far away.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

«The inclusion of Suzy Ballantyne into our conference leadership team will help continue the progress we've made over the past few years in showing New Yorkers that the Senate Democrats are ready to lead and move our state forward.»

The reversal of progress makes the court's 25 - year goal look overoptimistic, although recent progress achieved in a few states provides hints that more rapid progress may be possible.

The wind energy industry in America has progressed by leaps and bounds over the past few years, with a «wind rush» in places like Texas, the Great Lakes states, and Southeastern US.

I will definitely keep y ’ all updated on my progress — I am attending a conference in June that I have been anxious about for the past few months (especially when it came to what I was going to wear), so I am publicly stating here, that I am going to try not to stress about the outfit for those two days and wear what I feel comfortable and confident in!

The Tablet Academy is already reaching out across the UK and the United States of America but the next few years will see progress in the UAE, India and Africa too.

A small storm has blown up around the fact that certain math items on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) do not align with what fourth and eighth graders are actually being taught in a few states — mainly places attempting to implement the Common Core State Standards within their schools» curricula.

Even though accountability is increasingly recognized as the linchpin of education reform, only a few states have made real progress in establishing accountability systems.

Required merger of districts in which fewer than 85 percent of students pass state's Minimum Performance Test, and that fail to show «reasonable progress» toward improvement within two years.

But only a few states have continued making progress; in the last two years only Alabama, Hawaii, Maryland, and Massachusetts have done so.

The single best thing that could happen to American education in the next few years would be for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to begin regularly reporting state - by - state results at the twelfth grade level.

The 2017 results for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as NAEP, were published yesterday, and Mississippi has been one of the few states touted as a «winner» in this round of testing.

There are few visual reminders of the state takeover now in progress at five schools in Indianapolis and Gary — a process marked with frustration over countless detail questions for administrators.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

With raising the state's high school graduation rate a top priority, we asked him a few questions on the direction that the state is taking to make progress in this area.

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

Fewer schools in Michigan met federal benchmarks for students» academic progress this year, and state officials blame the slide on higher standards required by the federal government.

Acasia Wilson Feinberg from Educators for Excellence - Chicago, a member of the Funding Illinois» Future coalition and the PIE Network, believes Illinois» progress can be a model for other states that are not distributing funds based on the needs of students: «The fact that Illinois was able to pass an evidence - based formula — one of the few states in the country to make this shift official — allows Illinois to serve as a potential leader and model for a growing number of states that are moving this direction.»

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The past few decades have seen great progress in education reform in the United States — progress that has especially benefited less - advantaged students.

So, the mortgage rate prediction by many economic experts is that for the next few months, rates will stay about the same, and then they will begin to slowly rise in the next few years, depending on the state of the economy and the recovery progress of the housing market.

In the past few years, anti-puppy mill advocates have been making incredible progress at the state and local level.

He recently organized the long - term loan and installation of Jim Hodges's seminal sculpture, With Liberty and Justice for All (A Work in Progress) in tandem with the renovation of The Contemporary's downtown location, the Jones Center on Congress Avenue, located a few blocks from the State Capitol building.

My takeaway from Cuomo's decision and my chat with Ruffalo is that progress on environmental and energy policy in the United States emerges from a never - ending, and normal, tussle involving a mix of activism, law, economic realities, scientific and technological advances (both in developing energy sources cleanly and tracking problems), improving transparency (which is far greater now, even in places like Wyoming, than a few years ago), politics and lots of communication.

With such an increase in solar capacity during his first term, it would have been easy for the state's governor, Deval Patrick, to call it a job well done, satisfied for at least a few years with the state's progress.

The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was «only a few dozen experts», he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography.

Gender pay gap is an on - going debate and issue in the workplace, especially in the past few months; we have had comments from PWC on the matter, women in the legal profession stating their gender hampers their career progress, and Equality and Human Rights Commission estimating that in the UK there is a gender pay gap of 20 %.

In the past few months, following the release of ten deceptively edited anti-Planned Parenthood «sting» videos by an anti-abortion group called the Center for Medical Progress, GOP politicians have focused intently on defunding the reproductive health organization on both state and federal levels.

Emotional Freedom Techniques to Treat Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans: Review of the Evidence, Survey of Practitioners, and Proposed Clinical Guidelines Dawson Church, PhD; Sheri Stern, MS, CRNP, APRN - PMH; Elizabeth Boath, PhD; Antony Stewart, FFPH, FRSPH, MPH; David Feinstein, PhD; Morgan Clond, MD, PhD (Cand) The authors surveyed 448 emotional freedom techniques (EFT) practitioners: Most (63 %) reported that even complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be remediated in 10 or fewer EFT sessions; 65 % found that > 60 % of PTSD clients are fully rehabilitated, and 89 % stated that less than 10 % of clients make little or no progress.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

The models used in NSW differ from those established in other states in that, the participants actually sit in a circle, it is not usually held in a formal court setting, the circle attempts to achieve consensus on the sentence and the circle reconvenes, a few months later, to review the progress of the offender or status of the sentence.