Sentences with phrase «respondents said the state»

Forty - six percent of respondents said the state is heading in the right direction, compared with 42 percent who argue it's going the wrong way.

On education, only 19 percent of respondents said the state's new Common Core educational standards have improved public schooling while 40 percent say they have worsened public education.

More respondents said their state should provide adoption services (61 percent) compared with abortion services (26 percent).

In a Pew Research Center poll this month, 47 percent of respondents said their states should cut pension plans for government employees, which made it the most popular option on the table.»

Not exact matches

In the United States, the hourly model is the most popular, vs. the monthly retainer contracts and project based fees that UK and other European respondents said they preferred.

Just 20 per cent of respondents said they agreed that new state - funded state schools should be allowed to select up to 100 per cent of their pupils on the basis of faith while 79 per cent of Anglicans opposed the new selection proposals.

In several waves of the survey, respondents in all existing member states were asked to say, for each of a number of prospective member states, whether they would be in favour or against that country «becoming part of the European Union in the future».

In answer to a previous question, the respondent said «Only in states where premiums can increase without limit.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks least bad, with 42 percent of respondents saying she would make a good president, and 52 percent saying she wouldn't.

· 12 % of respondents are aware of their companies recruiting more graduates · Only 1 % are recruiting the same number of graduates as before the recession · 66 % stated their company encourages its workers to gain a professional qualification, a further 22 % said it was a requirement

The investigator said, «The respondent used his office and position to enrich himself with the funds from Lagos State Public works Corporation to acquire landed properties within Lagos and Ogun states,» adding that the EFCC had recovered the properties.

About half of respondents said they were still undecided about what to do with the state's learning standards.

Greenberg says when respondents were asked about their own individual state legislator, though, they gave a more enthusiastic answer, with 65 % saying they liked their own Senator or Assemblymember.

The spokesperson said that in 2014, Cambridge Analytica contracted with Kogan's company Global Science Research (GSR) «to undertake a large scale research project in the United States,» obtaining data and seeking «the informed consent of each respondent.»

54 % of the respondents have said the country is progressing with regards to basic social and economic conditions and details of that has been stated below.

Tukura averred, «That the said Dudafa Warripamo - Owei procured one Festus Isidohomen Iyoha and Arivi Eneji Peter, who were domestic (members of) staff attached to the State House, Abuja, to deposit the funds, reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities, into the account of the 1st respondent (Patience).

«The deadline was extended to allow potential respondents time to generate proposals that maximize the site's potential,» said an official with Empire State Development.

But on seven other issues — including immigration — a majority of poll respondents in deeply Democratic New York State said Trump will make matters worse.

But counsel to 1st and 3rd respondents, the state governor and the state government, Barrister Abiodun Badiora and counsels to OSSIEC, Barrister Olabisi Babatunde and that of other defendants said they have no objection to the adjournment of the suit in the interest of justice.

The Plaintiff's Counsel, Dr Abayomi said «This suit was instituted to challenge the unlawful process by which the state government and other respondents are taking to issue a N50 billion bond without due compliance with relevant laws of the land».

Fifty - six percent of respondents said parents of pregnant teens should be financially responsible, and 30 percent said community and religious groups — not the state — should take care of them.

PRESS RELEASE — Jan 22 — A recent article on lavalifePRIME, a social dating site exclusively for single Boomers, states that a recent study done in the UK found that more than one - third (37 %) of 1,000 respondents ages 50 to 65 said that they would be willing to sleep with someone on the first date.

In the States, 13 % of dating survey respondents said they'd got engaged or married from an app.

The ASCL survey found that despite Ofsted saying inspections do not require schools to predicts attainment of their pupils or progress score, 62 per cent of respondents stated that they were asked to predict pupil attainment.

The United States» national identity is eroding, according to a majority of respondents in a new survey, many of whom say divisions between Americans are too deep to unify the country.

Of the survey respondents, representing 44 states and the District of Columbia, 29 said reports of child abuse and neglect had risen, by an average of 9 percent.

Additionally, 23.4 per cent of respondents said their nearest playground is in a poor state and 22.9 per cent replied that their children rarely or never play there.

A recent Center on Education Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K — 12 law.

In fact, a Center on Education Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K — 12 law.

To the first question, only 44 % of respondents living in the 43 Common Core states said «yes.»

In July 2006, half the respondents to a Harris Poll said they believed that when the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003, that country possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Additionally, 68 per cent of respondents said they had not been made aware of the 12 week rule under the Agency Workers» directive, which states after 12 weeks in a workplace they are entitled to the same pay and conditions as teachers on permanent contracts, with 11 per cent saying that agencies had asked them to waive these rights.

Opposition to tax - funded scholarships permitting low - income students to attend private schools — an approach favored by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and allowed in 16 states — fell from 29 last year to 24 percent, and 54 percent of respondents said they favored them.

Asked to rate the extent to which poverty affected their students learning, if at all, 87 % answered to a significant extent; 12 % said to a small extent; less than 1 % of respondents stated that it had no effect at all and less than 1 % answered «don't know».

Over 90 % of respondents in each of the 4 states surveyed say a candidate's views on education is important to them before they vote

A majority of respondents said they think teachers in their state are mostly good at their jobs.

In 21 states and the District of Columbia, respondents said they are not currently using education data from other nations as a policy resource.

Nearly 9 in 10 respondents said it was a problem for public schools in low - income communities to have fewer qualified teachers than public schools in wealthier areas, and a majority felt that shortages should not be resolved by recruiting individuals who are not fully prepared — the very thing many districts have been forced to do in response to deep shortages across the state.

Half of respondents said they support the Common Core State Standards compared with 40 percent who said they oppose.

In North Carolina, 62 % of poll respondents said the best way to improve the state's schools would be to increase funding for public education, particularly to increase teacher salaries (Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, 2016).

These studies found that even with the challenges identified in recruiting and hiring effective staff, the majority of the 46 state survey respondents said that replacing teachers and principals was an important element of improving student achievement in SIG schools.

Knowledge of the new standards that California and 44 other states have adopted has grown in California, with 56 percent of respondents overall and 65 percent of public school parents now saying they know at least a little about Common Core; that compares with only 45 percent of parents a year ago.

Second, while the majority of respondents said it would make no difference in their vote if «a candidate for Governor, State Senator or Representative» supported the Common Core, 24 percent said it would make them less likely to support the candidate, versus 16 percent more likely.

In the latest PDK / Gallup poll, 65 percent of respondents said they would back new public charter schools in their community and 60 percent said they would support «a large increase» in the number of such schools operating in the United States...

In a national poll of 1,000 adults, more than 60 % of respondents say that setting high expectations for students is important, but 54 % oppose the Common Core State Standards - a system designed to do exactly that.

Unfortunately, nearly half of the respondents who stated they would like to self - publish a book went on to say that they wouldn't know where to begin the process and doubt their own ability to do so.

85 percent of the respondents have stated they already have an app in place for the iPad, while 67 percent and 57 percent have said they have released apps for the Kindle and the Nook respectively.

A few more of our respondents (25.30 %) said they would feel more secure if the credit bureaus were government - run agencies when compared to those who stated they would feel less secure if the government took control of the credit reporting agencies (19.83 %).

A recent survey by the American Animal Hospital Association of 1,206 pet owners in the United States and Canada showed that more than 80 percent of the respondents were female and an incredible 48 percent of these said they rely more on their pets than on a spouse or child for affection.

63 percent of respondents said the United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do... In the same poll, the public supported — by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent — requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if that would cost the average household an extra $ 100 per year.»