Sentences with phrase «rate than at schools»

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To find a high - ranked school offering one of these executive MBAs for under six - figures, you have to reach down to the No. 9th ranked University of Texas at Austin which has an EMBA program for a bargain rate of $ 80,169 — less than half the cost of either Wharton program (See the full list of the top 50 Executive MBA programs in North America on the next page).

For that reason, the school tax rate is higher in Burlington than in much of the state, at 1.6358 %.

At any rate, the school counselor's moral reasoning on homosexuality wasn't any muddier than Williamson's.

The dropout rates are strikingly lower in Catholic schools than public schools, even in the case of those at special risk of dropping out.

Researchers from Aston Medical School in Birmingham looked at more than 900,000 patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes and found marriage led to higher survival rates.

Female soccer players playing elite or select soccer before high school sustained concussions at a rate higher than their high school and college counterparts, most continued to play despite experiencing symptoms, and less than half sought medical attention, a first - of - its - kind study finds.

Those from non-traditional education environments matriculate in colleges and attain a four - year degree at much higher rates than their counterparts from public and even private schools.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

The long - awaited report, written by occupational health specialists at Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights, stated that the rates of cancer - 25 reported cases in current and former staff members - and other illnesses at the school were no higher than normal statewide averages.

Plants that sell frozen beef to the National School Lunch Program violated food safety rules at rates higher than the industry as a whole, according to the Tribune's computer analysis of Agriculture Department data.

Yes, school meals in France are indeed superior to ours, but that's reflective of a government so supportive of raising good food citizens that it actually provides state - sanctioned «taste training» to all preschoolers, puts warnings on junk food ads, and funds school meals at a far higher rate than our own government.

I attribute my ignorance not to his evasiveness but to my own deficiencies as an investigative reporter (Woodward and Bernstein, I'm not), the fact that he and I were essentially having a friendly chat rather than a hard core audit of his books (to which he probably wouldn't have consented at any rate), and the fact that I come to such an interview with only a layperson's understanding of the financial side of running a school food program and probably didn't know all the right questions to ask.

The governor says while New York spends more per student than any state in the nation, high school graduation rates ranks at number 38 in the country.

We have a skills gap that continues to grow; 41 % of New Yorkers have a high school diploma or less and the young adult unemployment rate is more than double the state rate at 10.5 % with New York City at a rate of 14 %.

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

WHEREAS, the suspension rates at Success Academy are almost three times higher than in the city's district schools, according to an analysis by Chalkbeat;

School districts operate under the same cap, though the rates are set at different times than for local governments.

«Graduating students should be proud of their hard work and public charter schools deserve special recognition for improving at a faster rate than the district.

An investigation by Schneiderman found the Syracuse City School District suspends students at a higher rate than almost every other district in the country.

«I think that we should completely eliminate schools under trees... I remember that in 2010 when we did the survey, it was said that there were 4, 200 schools under trees; since then, we've kept taking them out and I must say we've taken out more than 1, 700 schools under trees; and I believe that over the next five years, up to 2020, if we should continue at the rate we are going, we should be able to take out all the 4, 200 schools under trees,» President Mahama said in an interview with Radio BAR as part of his «Accounting to the People» tour.

At the same time, the school groups support ending the provision that essentially caps levy increases at less than 2 percent: Currently, the cap law limits increases to either the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is loweAt the same time, the school groups support ending the provision that essentially caps levy increases at less than 2 percent: Currently, the cap law limits increases to either the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is loweat less than 2 percent: Currently, the cap law limits increases to either the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is lower.

He says in the 30 years preceding the tax cap, school property taxes rose at an average of 6 percent a year, or twice the rate of inflation, and higher than the rate of the state income tax.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

Labour said that if progress was to continue at this rate - 63 schools since the programme's launch 41 months ago; then more than half of those schools promised rebuilds would still be awaiting work to start by the deadline of the end of 2017.

But there is persistent concern about the quality of some of the construction and this is because, local officials sometimes take bribes and allow construction companies to build things below standard and so we have a situation in the Sichuan province where the earthquake occurred, where schools were collapsing and collapsed at a much greater rate than other government buildings and the suspicion is of course that local officials have taken bribes and allowed the schools to be built this way.

Cervical cancer rates in the United States are higher than previously believed, particularly among 65 - to 69 - year - old women and African - American women, according to a study led by a researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine published in the journal Cancer.

The 15 - year study showed medical school graduates involved in the program not only entered family practice residency training at higher rates than nonparticipants, but nearly half began their medical careers in rural locations.

Those who do not master the language and remain English learners tend to score lower on academic tests and graduate high school at lower rates than their native - English speaking peers.

10 The lab - accident rate in schools and colleges is 100 to 1,000 times greater than at firms like Dow or DuPont.

Children who started school a year later did not perform better in teacher ratings of their academic attainment than children who had started at an age appropriate time.

A new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5.

To look at the rate of change in working memory in relation to different measures of socioeconomic status, the researchers studied more than three hundred 10 - through 13 - year - olds from urban public and parochial schools over four years.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

At schools with a student poverty rate of more than 30 percent, students whose parents are involved in parental networks are up to 5 percent less likely to graduate from high school than students whose parents do not have such connections.

Dr Anja Schmidt from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, who led the study, said: «The eruption discharged lava at a rate of more than 200 cubic metres per second, which is equivalent to filling five Olympic - sized swimming pools in a minute.

Scholars may be required to assist the school in teaching duties for not more than 10 hours a week, for which they will be remunerated at such rates as may be determined by the university.

Lead author Dr Roel Brienen, from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, said: «Tree mortality rates have increased by more than a third since the mid-1980s, and this is affecting the Amazon's capacity to store carbon.»

From an epidemiologic perspective, preeclampsia is growing at a rate more rapid than diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, and chronic kidney disease — diseases for which substantial research and treatment funding have been allocated,» explained senior investigator Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth's surface, scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences have found that water probably penetrates deep into the crust and upper mantle at mid-ocean spreading zones, the places where new crust is made.

«Some studies have shown that menthol smokers have had less successful rates of quitting smoking than non-menthol smokers, feel less confident in their ability to quit, and have more relapses and quit attempts than non-menthol smokers,» says Olivia Wackowski, MPH, a tobacco specialist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health, in New Brunswick.

«The rates among 1 - year - olds are 1.5 times higher than the highest rate of [eye] injury for working - age adults,» said Haring, a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Yet, research shows that students with disabilities graduate from high school at lower rates than their peers and may face particular challenges when moving into adult roles.

Racially segregated high - poverty schools tend to be overrun with social problems, have a hard time finding and retaining good teachers, are associated with high dropout rates, and are less effective than diverse schools at intervening in problems outside of school that undermine learning.

According to federal data, black girls are suspended from school at a rate that is six times higher than that of their white female peers.

Speaking at the National Association of Head Teachers» annual conference, schools minister David Laws has said that Ofsted's inspection system make it easier for schools to gain a «Good» or «Outstanding» rating than schools that are in «challenging circumstances».

In other words, Boston charter - school students are learning at more than twice the rate of their district - school peers.

While there's still plenty about the accountability systems of many states to criticize — and implementation challenges lie ahead for all of them — the school ratings at least represent more of an improvement on NCLB - era systems than a repudiation of them.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

It is also instructive to note that teachers working in private schools quit teaching at a much higher rate than their counterparts in public schools, and almost two - thirds of these leavers rank an increase in salary to be very or extremely important in any possible decision to return to teaching.

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»