Sentences with phrase «risk of failing the state»

Rather, they were successful at raising the performance of students who were otherwise at risk of failing the state test without sacrificing the performance of lower - and higher - performing students.

«NCLB asked states and districts to focus their efforts on interventions for students in Title I schools that were failing or at risk of failing the state's academic achievement standards, as measured by annual assessments.

Not exact matches

But according to Andrew Maynard, the director of the Risk Innovation Lab at Arizona State University, what you won't find in the document is any information about some of the most likely reasons the awe - inspiring project might fail.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

If I fail to be scandalized by this state of affairs, then I run the risk of moral numbness.

The second charge admitted by the company stated that it failed to ensure members of the public were not exposed to risks to their safety arising out of the driving of public service vehicles by Chander.

Covering the same dates at the first charge, the second admitted count stated that the firm failed to prevent or control risks of driver error «due to lack of capability and / or fatigue and / or working hours, which were excessive in the circumstances.»

(June 22, 2017, Albany) A coalition of prominent government watchdog groups say Governor Cuomo, Senate Leader Flanagan and Speaker Heastie have completely failed to address the huge problems revealed by last year's alleged rigging of $ 800m in state economic development contracts and that billions of state funds remain at risk for bid rigging and pay to play.

The program looks to provide career and life guidance to children who are at risk of failing out of school or in foster care across the state.

Under law, states failing to enforce that requirement risk loss of federal financial aid — a rule that many school administrators view as a threat to New York.

NYC's Administration for Children's Services failed miserably in implementing recommendations made in a 2015 audit that found kids are being put at risk by the agency's renewal of contracts with poorly performing vendors, the state Comptroller's Office said.

If state officials fail to make public safety a priority, violent criminals driving on the Uber platform could put millions of upstate riders at risk.»

The city's Administration for Children's Services failed miserably in implementing recommendations made in a 2015 audit that found kids are being put at risk by the agency's renewal of contracts with poorly performing vendors, the state Comptroller's Office said Wednesday.

Issel may be promising not to use (or failing to «envision») public money for acquiring an NBA team, but Kentucky economic development secretary Terry Gill seems to have a better imagination, telling the Courier Journal: «I think the state and local government, we certainly have a role to play but we should not be burdened with too much of that risk.»

And yet they are the least likely to be aware of the risks because state efforts to warn anglers fail to reach many minority and low - income populations.

Influenza vaccines saved 40,000 lives in the United States between 2005 and 2014, and research shows that the vaccines can reduce the risk of severe illness and death even if they fail to prevent influenza infection.

Climate change could tip the scales for states already at risk of failing, ultimately threatening global stability and security, finds a new report funded by the European Commission.

While previous studies had examined the impact of climate change - induced weather patterns on violence and the increased danger of violence in weak or failing states, this is the first study to demonstrate that the combination of the two risk factors is even more dangerous than they would be separately.

Traditional bloodwork, such as standard lipid panels or glucose testing, often fails to adequately capture a patient's health risks before the onset of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, rheumatic states, and other chronic conditions.

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

Safety vs risk Furthermore, although those parents who did not want to send their children to Forest Schools stated that it was the high risk involved when allowing children on such programmes, all those who were a part of the study failed to mention even a single incidence to show that these fears were grounded in reality.

Kate Baker, the then - director of NEO (now CSF - NH), called such exceptions «high - risk prospects» because of the potential consequences from the state department of revenue if the scholarship recipients failed to return the required receipts.

Since the rule was established decades ago, the state education department has notified districts that they were at risk of losing state aid if any of their schools fail to meet the desegregation criteria.

These soon - to - be 4th and 8th graders have put seasonal pastimes aside for some serious business: a new, high - stakes state test that most of them are at risk of failing when they take it next spring.

«Our state elected leaders knew we had a risk of going back to the failed public policy of No Child Left Behind.

More than 40 states are working on reforming their educational systems, a process which began with the publication of «A Nation at Risk», a landmark 1983 study of American achievement which put the nation's policymakers on notice that America's schools were failing students.

Eventually, if the school kept failing, it was at risk of having its staff fired or having the school closed, handed over to state control or private management, or turned into a charter school or «any other major restructuring.»

Such funds support students who are failing or most at risk of failing to achieve state academic standards in reading / language arts and mathematics.

The majority would be reserved for those that focus on disadvantaged students, including those with limited English proficiency, special needs, and those who are economically disadvantaged or at risk of failing federal and state academic standards, including the WASL.

Your organization is also focusing on legislative change in regards to small school accountability; changes in rules that will help to minimize the risk of failing to meet state standards faced by smaller charters due to lower student accountability group ratios than what is typically found in larger school systems.

As documented under Section 1115 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «may use funds received under this part only for programs that provide services to eligible children under subsection (b) identified as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures».

Meanwhile, three states that previously received waivers — Kansas, Oregon, and Washington (PDF)-- have been labeled high - risk by the Department of Education for failing to implement teacher evaluation systems that incorporate student growth data.

Statewide school performance numbers released Monday show five schools — including one charter — at the greatest risk of meeting the same fate next year as the seven «failing» schools now facing state intervention.

Targeted assistance programs provide supplementary instruction to children who are failing or most at risk of failing to meet the Common Core State Standards.

With more than a quarter of its schools deemed failing and at risk of being taken over by the state, Shelby County Schools Superintendent Dorsey Hopson hired Sharon Griffin, a hard - charging, no - nonsense Memphis native, to oversee what has become a life - saving turnaround experiment.

Title I is a federally funded program used to provide supplementary educational services in reading and math to students who are at risk of failing to meet the state assessment standards.

The tradeoff of innovation and flexibility is risk that some state experiments may fail.

You must decide now whether to touch that SBAC keyboard and risk having your score applied (as a sticky label) on your Cumulative Permanent Record Card and entered as a data - point in your personal state longitudinal data record (for eternity) as failing to meet the unsubstantiated college and career readiness standard of this statistically invalid test.

The Recovery Act provides $ 10 billion in additional Title I, Part A funds to state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to support schools that have high concentrations of students from families that live in poverty in order to help improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet state academic achievement standards.

It purports to quantify the economic risks of climate change threatening the United States, if the government fails to take action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The warning comes as the European Commission publishes a framework to guide member states on how to regulate shale gas which fails to provide mandatory protection for Europe's citizens against the environmental and health risks of fracking.

In case you fail to follow my link, let me summarize — no tier one research university (and in the field of climate science and meteorology, Penn State is arguably the top research university in the country) would risk their reputation and the research grant money that reputation brings into the institution for any researcher, especially one who brought in such a minuscule percentage of the total grants made to Penn State.

The claim did also highlight the risk respondents face if they fail to adduce evidence on matters within their own knowledge (in this case those accused of wrongdoing were not called) with the EAT stating that the Tribunal may draw adverse inferences in such situations.

If you signed an informed consent form, which is a form stating that the doctor has explained the risks of a given procedure to you and that you understand those risks, it's still possible to sue the doctor with the help of a Maryland medical malpractice lawyer, so long as the doctor, nurse or hospital failed to perform their duties in accordance with acceptable standards of care.

The rule states that a possessor of land is liable for harm to trespassing children caused by an artificial condition on the land if (1) the possessor knows or has reason to know that children are likely to trespass in that place, (2) the condition is one the possessor knows or has reason to know and should realize will involve an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to children, (3) the children because of their youth do not discover the condition or realize the risk, (4) the utility of maintaining the condition and the burden of eliminating the danger are slight compared with the risk to children involved, and (5) the possessor fails to exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger or otherwise protect children (Restatement (Second), 2 Torts 339).

Unfortunately, within the next years, the decision of investment may not fail to consider the political, economical, and judicial risks, which vary, by reason of the size of the country and the federative organisation system, from state to state.

Making democracry work In his recent book, Making Democracy Work, Justice Stephen Breyer of the US Supreme Court recalls the risk that a decision of the court banning racial segregation in the educational system might fail to be accepted in the state of Arkansas.

2002)(recognizing presumption in favor of custodial parent's right to relocate with child); Casey v. Casey, 58 P. 3d 763 (Okla. 2002)(fit custodial parent had statutory right to relocate with her children; husband failed to rebut her right by establishing any risk of harm to the children from the proposed relocation); and In re Marriage of Horner, 151 Wash. 2d 884, 93 P. 3d 124 (2004)(state statute created rebuttable presumption in favor of custodial parent's decision to move).

But, if Congress fails to extend the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program, hundreds of the state's highest - risk new families could lose support that would give their children a better start and chance in life.