Sentences with phrase «raised by merit»

Though most teachers chose to participate, and the success rates for certification were quite high, some expressed criticisms that echoed issues often raised by merit pay critics: for example, that three classroom visits (some of them prearranged) were inadequate for evaluating teaching performance objectively and that separating the staff into levels strained relations among teachers and hurt morale.

Not exact matches

The CRTC noted that «there is merit to the arguments raised by Sun News regarding the barriers to entry when launching a national news service and that these barriers constitute a significant obstacle to the exchange of ideas.»

Entrepreneurs apply by going to Social Capital's website, where they're greeted by the motto «Raise capital based on the merits of your business, not your network.»

JPL spokeswoman Veronica McGregor said the lawsuit «is completely without merit, and we intend to vigorously fight the allegations raised by Mr. Coppedge.»

«When our mindset is neither dominated by an anxiety regarding the weakening of one's own positions nor closed to possibly necessary corrections, then all sorts of questions, which early on were raised solely from an apologetical perspective, can now be raised on their own merits, with an honesty and open - mindedness, which is decisively necessary for all theoretical reflection.»

He did so by raising the minimum of $ 174,000 needed to qualify for matching funds from the city Campaign Finance Board, and running a campaign debate sponsors deemed visible enough to merit time on the debate stage.

Tsoho, who expressed his doubts about the locus standi of the plaintiff, said, «Nevertheless, the court will consider the merits of the issues raised for determination by the plaintiff.»

Whistleblowers raised questions about Macchiarini's work in 2014, but KI stood by the surgeon, extending his contract even after an independent investigator found that the allegations had merit.

The LFF raised its international profile considerably in 2008 and 2009 by opening with major world premieres («Frost / Nixon» and «Fantastic Mr. Fox,» respectively), and while I'm aware of the difficulty of securing such coups, a curtain - raiser that has already been seen and critically assessed at Toronto — whatever its merits — just doesn't carry the same level of excitement.

As the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently reported, «In 22 school districts whose Q Comp practices were analyzed by the Star Tribune in 2009, more than 99 percent of teachers in the program received merit raises during the preceding school year.

Some locales have diluted the merit pay concept by making the bonuses to teachers small and setting the bar for receiving the bonuses low, thereby converting merit pay into something approximating an across - the board pay raise.

Several of the issues raised by Goldrick - Rab have no merit and none undermine the primary conclusion of our study.

By the way, there's a study out that says bonus or merit pay does not raise test scores - something Gates heartily supports - Is anyone surprised?

Their concurring in part and dissenting in part opinion argued: (1) the court should not have reached the issue because: «n reaching the merits of the Section 10 challenge, the court ignores the fact that the Duncan complaint (which raised the Section 10 challenge) was dismissed by the district court for failure to state a claim under NRCP 12 (b)(5);» and (2) the issue is one of first impression, which the justices, in dissent, said is «not as well - defined and easily resolved as my colleagues suggest,... the proper action here, had a majority of this court not determined that SB 302's funding is unconstitutional, would be to remand this matter to the district court for further proceedings and factual development as to this claim.»

Merit pay (tying teacher pay to student performance as opposed to contractual raises) was supported by 75 percent of those polled.

You should expect to wait for a well raised pup bred by a AKC Breeder of Merit.

Each of the green - and - white paintings in the room has its individual merits, but the massed effect of the nine cleanly demarcated, clear - eyed works, and the generous spacing allotted to the hanging by curator Dana Miller, raise the bar considerably.

However, I am astonished that instead of arguing the merits of the issues raised by the exhibition, she turned her review into a personal attack on the curator.

If even Bjorn Lomborg sees the merits of the world spending $ 100 billion a year to address global warming, is there anyone who can find a downside to raising a grand total of $ 35 million a year (beyond money already committed by national governments) to protect 42 «source sites» — areas of tiger territory with populations that are sufficiently healthy to repopulate neighboring regions with suitable, but tiger-less, habitat?

Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:

Totalitarian propaganda raised ideological scientificality and its technique of making statements in the form of predictions to a height of efficiency of method and absurdity of content because, demagogically speaking, there is hardly a better way to avoid disussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future can reveal its merits.

This system (which was introduced several years ago in the «Sky Trust» proposal) has some merits compared with the economist's favorite approach of tax cuts, namely that the Cap - and - Dividend scheme addresses some of the distributional issues that would be raised by using the auction revenue to fund tax cuts (which could favor higher income households).

Since the case raised a novel point not previously decided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), it merits further consideration.

Nothing in the opinion of this Court, therefore, may properly be regarded as an adjudication on the merits of the constitutional issues presented by these cases, which raise the question of the validity not of the private agreements as such, but of the judicial enforcement of those agreements.

A judge may comment on matters of morality or policy, but unless those matters are raised by the case before him, he should explain that choice: justifying his comments as appropriate for his office, and as substantively merited in the circumstances.

... the district court erred in dismissing a juror, based largely on its finding that the juror was purposefully disregarding the court's instructions on the law, where the record evidence raised the possibility that the juror's view on the merits of the case was motivated by doubts about the defendants» guilt, rather than by an intent to nullify the law.

2) apart from the fact that CJEU stated that even before EU exercising its power, the MS must still act - when they have the power to do so - in a matter which does not jeopardise or prejudice the EU, so that the mere «potential» competence does have an effect, limitating the MS action, the parallel is that a negative rule is still a rule, so that the existence of the rule makes the matter «regulated»: - as for the JHA, I must say that whilst I agree with you on the merits, I can see the issue raised by the CJEU, since it is quite the same raised by some national Constitutional Courts, i.e. that ECHR standards may be in conflict with national standards and formally speaking the ECHR is a treaty and therefore has a lower rank that national Constititions, and the decision of the ECHR on the interpretation of such standards within the context of the Convention does not bind the national Constitutional Court in interpreting the national Constitution standards: e.g..

The merits of the argument are dubious at best and the issue raised by the moving party has no significance beyond this case.

Received a merit raise for strong attention to detail, exemplary customer service and team - player attitude.Increased office organization by developing more efficient filing system and customer database protocols.

Second, you will set up your own expectations and make your future employer aware of them from the very beginning by asking questions about whether or not raises are merit or seniority - based (let's hope the answer is «merit - based»), what the benefit package consists of, how often performance reviews occur, and what the company culture is.

According to a recent compensation study by Mercer, the average projected merit increase for 2014 will be 2.9 career research salary negotiation average pay increase compensation pay for performance raise salary total rewards

Received a merit raise for strong attention to detail, exemplary customer service and team - player attitude.Coordinated all department functions for team of 4 agents.Increased office organization by developing more efficient filing system and customer database protocols.

While not conceding the resolutions had merit, members of GVREB's executive did acknowledge that dealing with the issues raised by the resolutions helped change the board's member communications for the better.