Sentences with phrase «publicly stated rate»

There's not even a publicly stated rate of pay for his hand - picked investigator, who was assigned, from what the governor says, to look into what U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara already was looking into — which seems so far to be improper lobbying and conflicts of interest involving the Buffalo Billion and upstate nanotech economic development initiatives, connected to SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany.

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Then, in 1998, Williams, head of the publicly - funded Harlem Interfaith Counseling Service, was shown by state auditors to be using government funds to rent space at twice the market rate from buildings that he himself had an ownership interest in.

While Paterson publicly insists he's content to be out of office for the first time in 25 years, some close to him say the former state senator and lieutenant governor is «bitter» and «seething with anger» over the fact that he's leaving without a job to go to and with low approval ratings.

Disapprove Teacher Education Program Rule — Vote Passed (59 - 40, 1 Not Voting) The joint resolution would disapprove the rule issued by the Education Department on Oct. 31, 2016, relating to teacher preparation programs that require states to annually evaluate the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education and to publicly report this information, including the job placement and retention rates of graduates.

DFS cut the rate hikes requested for 2015 individual coverage by more than half, on average, and cut them by a third the next year — without publicly stating the rationale for the reductions.

Student proficiency rates have been publicly reported every year for schools in every state as well as for the state as a whole.

The Washington - based organization's latest progress report finds that only 16 states currently calculate and publicly report a graduation rate consistent with the formula agreed to in 2005 in the NGA's Graduation Counts Compact.

Some have argued that the legal basis for this mandate can be found in section 1111 (a)(8), the so - called «equitable teacher distribution» requirement, which asks states to submit plans to the Secretary that describe «steps that the State educational agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers, and the measures that the State educational agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress of the State educational agency with respect to such steps.»

Beyond information on academic achievement, states should collect and make publicly available information on graduation rates, student turnover, teacher turnover, teacher quality, school size, program offerings, and school safety.

In a push to raise test scores and other metrics, such as high school graduation rates, the state of Louisiana took over most of the city's schools and converted them to publicly funded, privately run charter schools.

A number of states have already taken steps to address chronic absenteeism by making schools keep better track of attendance rates and report the numbers publicly.

Arizona's state officials publicly sparred with the administration after it was threatened with being placed into high - risk status for refusing to count graduation rates for 20 percent of a school's ranking on the state's new accountability system (versus 15 percent), and for not revamping its teacher evaluation system to meet the waiver's requirement.

Whether an individual state's budget will be better or worse off under the model depends on the rate at which per student funding is growing at present (information not publicly available) and how well schools are currently funded compared to the target.

It's of import to Cobey because K12, of course, is one of two companies operating similar, publicly - funded virtual charters in North Carolina, both of which experienced soaring dropout rates this year in their first eight months of operation while taking in more than $ 14 million in state funds this year.

Due to the requirement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act that each state's Title I plan must describe «the specific steps that the state education agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers and the measures that the state education agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress,» TEA formed a stakeholder group, upon which TCTA served, to develop its State Educator Equity state's Title I plan must describe «the specific steps that the state education agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers and the measures that the state education agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress,» TEA formed a stakeholder group, upon which TCTA served, to develop its State Educator Equity state education agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers and the measures that the state education agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress,» TEA formed a stakeholder group, upon which TCTA served, to develop its State Educator Equity state education agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress,» TEA formed a stakeholder group, upon which TCTA served, to develop its State Educator Equity State Educator Equity Plan.

At the state level, we will collect and publicly disseminate data, by LEA and school, on tenure - granting rates.

The Academic Progress Rating displays in states that do not provide publicly available growth data, which means we can not provide a Student Progress Rating.

When student growth data does become publicly available in these states, we will replace the Academic Progress Rating with a Student Progress Rating.

States can earn bonus points for publicly rating all of their early education programs and for having a high - quality kindergarten entry assessment.

Released in September 2013 and updated in September 2014, this brief describes the steps that states can take to reduce chronic absence including: building public awareness, tracking and publicly reporting chronic absence rates for schools and districts, using attendance as a metric in school improvement efforts, sharing best practices with educators and parents, and enabling interagency efforts among schools, public agencies and community groups.

As explained in detail in the methodology appendix, based on the enrollment rates for the five states and the District of Columbia that have publicly funded universal pre-K programs, we assume that the enrollment rate would be approximately 86 percent.

Louisiana's state plan, in contrast, does not use CLASS in formal elementary school ratings, but does use it as the primary quality measure (and improvement tool) in all publicly funded early childhood settings, birth through Pre-K.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the «Index») is designed to measure the performance of the U.S. dollar denominated investment grade bond market, which includes investment grade (must be Baa3 / BBB - or higher using the middle rating of Moody's Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's Financial Services, LLC, and Fitch Inc.) government bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, mortgage pass through securities, commercial mortgage backed securities and other asset backed securities that are publicly for sale in the United States.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index provides a measure of the performance of the U.S. dollar denominated investment grade bond market, which includes investment grade (must be Baa3 / BBB - or higher using the middle rating of Moody's Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Inc.) government bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, mortgage pass through securities, commercial mortgage backed securities and asset backed securities that are publicly for sale in the United States.

However, the American Veterinary Medical Association has publicly stated that it isn't possible to calculate accurate bite rates for breeds, «[because] mixed breeds are commonly described as purebreds... [and] the actual number of bites that occur in a community is not known... if they did not result in serious injury.»

And as a result of that collapse, the company (a publicly regulated monopoly guaranteed a rate of return) narrowly averted bankruptcy in the spring of 1974 only after the state of New York passed an $ 800 million bailout.

In many states, electric utilities are publicly regulated and enjoy guaranteed rates of return on their investment.

Some insurance agents in North Carolina claim that each company files the rates it wants to charge with the state, and then the Commissioner picks one of those numbers out of a hat, publicly binds all other insurers to that number, and then backfills logic and reason into a justification for the same.

Endorsement decisions and ratings are based on a combination of voting records, responses to candidate questionnaires, and publicly stated positions on key women's health issues.