Sentences with phrase «reduced number of passed»

«Knowing that my kids are kids who're going to pass and going to do well, I'm afraid that if I don't let them take the test, then that's going to hurt my school by reducing the number of passing and participating students that they have.

Adding this criterion to our Weiss screen reduced the number of passing companies from 182 to 38 stocks.

The next filter requiring that the five - year growth in sales be greater than or equal to the five - year growth in earnings per share reduced the number of passing companies to 115.

Adding this filter reduced the number of passing companies to 956 stocks.

These filters reduced the number of passing companies from 544 to 440.

Not only did the ESA allow 15,000 public consumers in, but with the highest attendance in over a decade, the ESA has decided that, in the future «the show would reduce the number of passes granted to media, analysts, influencers, streamers, games industry professionals and others associated with it» (source: Polygon).

Not exact matches

But the Delaware house did recently pass a bill that would take modest steps to reduce the number of these suits.

If Congress had not enacted the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, 10 million taxpayers would owe the AMT in 2007, according to estimates by the Urban Institute - Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center; reducing the number of affected taxpayers to several million, as the House - passed AMT «patch» bill would do, would have cost less than $ 15 billion.

The framework proposes a number of specific changes including: consolidating and reducing individual income tax rates to 10, 25, and 35 percent; doubling the standard deduction; cutting the business tax rate to 15 percent on both corporations and pass - through businesses; repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) and estate tax; repealing the 3.8 percent investment surtax from the Affordable Care Act («Obamacare»); moving to a territorial tax system; and imposing a one - time tax on money held overseas.

In the David / Goliath post, Brown covers quite a few potential «David» strategies: passing, reducing the length of the game and the total number of plays, high variance defense, and so forth.

Through pressing, Liverpool attempt to stop, or reduce the number of penetrative or meaningful passes made in the second and third fifth of the pitch.

On February 27, the Oklahoma Senate unanimously passed SB 668, which eases ballot access for newly - qualifying parties in midterm years, but does not reduce the number of signatures in presidential years.

Parliament passed the bill reducing the overall number of MPs.

He told me: «For the government to have now passed the Act reducing the number of MPs, and to have a joint committee running which is set to establish a second chamber at 300, to substantially increase further the membership of the Lords already over 800 makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.»

While urging Akufo - Addo to be «sensitive to the voice of the people and take steps to reduce the growing burden on the public purse,» the CDD called for a law to be passed to put a ceiling on the maximum number of ministers and deputies a president can appoint.

On March 23, the lower house of the Russian Parliament passed a bill that reduces the number of members a party must have, in order to be recognized.

«We reduce the burden on local government by passing real mandate relief that has the state reduce the number of mandates,» said Cuomo.

The left will have confirmation this week that any successor to Corbyn will be of their ilk, when a motion is passed to reduce the threshold from 15 % to 10 % for the number of MPs» votes needed to get on the leadership ballot paper (the difficulty for the left is getting backing from MPs, not from the members who ultimately chose the leader).

Between 2006 and 2009, the state reduced the number of raw points students needed to pass.

«We ask you to take every possible step to pass this bill, which will reduce the number of trucks driving through our neighborhood and will benefit our families and children,» the letter reads.

The New York City Council yesterday passed a bill that would extend hours at animal rescue centers, seek to reduce the number of feral cats prowling city streets and increase the budget for animal services in the five boroughs.

Passing on half of the cost of the levy to consumers leading to an increase in the price of high and mid-sugar drinks of up to 20 % was estimated to reduce the number of adults and children with obesity by 81600, result in 10800 fewer cases of diabetes and 149,000 fewer decaying teeth per year.

They found that on average, probiotics reduced gut transit time by 12 hours, increased the number of weekly bowel movements, and helped soften stools, making them easier to pass.

Most recently, in October 2017 California joined Texas, Florida, and Connecticut in passing legislation intended to reduce the number of college students assigned to a traditional remedial course sequence.

But when New York State began requiring students to pass the standardized Regents tests in order to graduate from high school, Beacon was forced to reduce the number of projects and cut the time for assessing them.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.

The state consolidated everything related to youth crime under one roof and passed a series of laws during the 2000s to reduce the number of incarcerated adolescents, all without spending additional money.

To expand the number of successful school leavers and reduce the stark divide between passes and failures, we need a broader curriculum, though in crafting this we should reject the stale, binary choice between academic and vocational.

As a result, they have reduced the number of correct answers required to pass some exams to make the tests comparable over the years.

The number of standard credits for a Standard Diploma remains the same (22), but the number of required verified credits — earned by passing a course in the content area and associated end - of - course assessment — is reduced from six to five (one each in English reading, English writing, mathematics, science and history and social science).

The revised SOA maintains high expectations for learning in English, math, science and history and social science while reducing the number of SOL tests students must pass to earn a high school diploma.

The United States Congress, in an effort to tighten the requirements for bankruptcy and reduce the number of debtors who were able to qualify to have their unsecured debts discharged by filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy, passed the Bankruptcy Abuse and Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

While we've received a number of inquiries from opportunistic taxpayers seeking to take advantage of the higher $ 10,000 limit before the law is officially passed, doing so would be a mistake since the reduced TFSA limit of $ 5,500 will be retroactively effective as of Jan. 1, 2016.

If MCD eventually accept that, this means that it will have to pass these costs to customers or reduce the number of employees and automate the processes a little more.

Las Vegas passed the ban with two goals in mind: reducing the number of homeless pets in local shelters and stopping «puppy mills.»

In May of this year, the King County Council passed an ordinance to reduce the number of euthanized animals to 20 percent by the end of 2008, and to 15 percent by the end of 2009.

PASS is a resource that offers access to services that help keep pets and people together, with the goal of reducing the number of pets surrendered to shelters in Pinellas County.

But note that euthanasia of pit bulls was down only 50 % as much as for other breeds despite the ordinance that was passed specifically to reduce numbers of pit bulls that end up in the shelters. The reason is in part because there was at the same time a 25 % increase in pit bulls impounded and euthanized simply because their owners had not spayed / neutered them under the new ordinance.

By providing assistance to families considering surrendering their pet (s), the PASS Program reduces the number of animals that enter the shelter system.

The dangerous dogs act was a law passed in the United Kingdom in 1991 aimed to try to reduce the number of dog attacks by specific breeds.Parliament stepped in to create this Act after a slew of incidences where serious injury or death resulted from dog attacks of a particularly aggressive breed that were uncontrolled.

The Electrify Africa Act of 2015, a legislative initiative that purports to aim to reduce those numbers, has now passed through both chambers of Congress and is headed to the President's desk for signature.

Compensation and Safety Programs do not mix — The government has passed a number of new laws (see below) to reduce the number of hour's drivers stay on the road each week.

Then, the state passed Act 13, which was a measure aimed at limiting the number of medical malpractice suits and reducing medical errors.

The new amended version of Emma's Law passed by the subcommittee reduces the number of convicted first offenders who would be required to install an IID by making the BAC threshold.15 % rather than.12 %.

In a previous effort to reduce the number of pedestrian accidents, the state passed a law in 2010 that required drivers to come to a complete stop for crossing pedestrians.

Collaboration software is allowing the process of working with internal stakeholders and external parties to become more efficient (not least by reducing the number of times documents are passed backwards and forwards)

Since the company feels secure you're likely to live a certain number of years before passing (and their expenses are limited if you don't), they can reduce your premium.

Despite a few differences between the models, the two do share a number of characteristics, with both devices supporting 4K, HDR10 and Dolby Vision HDR, which should reduce any possible quality loss when images pass through to a TV.

We didn't see much of a difference in performance or visual fidelity, with the main differences coming from reducing the number of texture filtering passes, as well as a reduction in features like dynamic shadows and environmental quality.