Sentences with phrase «significant national gains»
The other nine candidates on this list all won in years in which their parties had significant national gains — Cuomo will thus be the only gubernatorial candidate to finish in the top ten and defy national trends.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
WHILE B Digital's plan for world domination may not have eventuated it has certainly gained a significant national presence in the mobile telecommunications industry and, with an advertising budget of $ 8.5 million, is a big fish in Perth's advertising waters.
The biggest and most significant change the company is undertaking overhauls its processes and prepares it to gain national presence, but there have been some smaller but no less important adjustments made by Pellerito Foods in the last few years, and all of them are adding up to one growing and thriving company.
Specifically, nominating an operator or distributor for an IFMA Award brings significant opportunities to build customer relations, gain national exposure and serve as an important advocate for the foodservice industry.
Vice President Kwesi Amissah Arthur, has said the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) deserves another term in office particularly due to the significant gains in the education sector.
Wholesale retirements could leave an underfunded National Republican Congressional Committee hard pressed to cover all of its vulnerabilities, creating the potential for another cycle of significant Democratic gains in the House.
Smaller national parties made significant gains, with the British National Party and Respect having the second - largest number of councillors in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and Tower Hamlets (respecnational parties made significant gains, with the British National Party and Respect having the second - largest number of councillors in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and Tower Hamlets (respecNational Party and Respect having the second - largest number of councillors in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and Tower Hamlets (respectively).
The Eastern Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has rubbished claims by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2016 flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo, that the party has made significant gains in the NDC's strongholds in the region.
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said the new policy didn't represent a significant shift, since the NIH has continued to assess and fund some gain - of - function experiments even during the moratorium.
«The significant victories we have gained in technology research and development innovation should further inspire renewed commitments by national governments to strengthen global and regional partnerships in creating better options for resource - poor and climate change - vulnerable rice farmers in the region.»
In the media, Sugar Daddie gained a significant reputation all around the world with being featured on every level of media including New York Post, The Journal, National Post, BBC, and other television shows, radio shows.
Fact - checking analysis of recent National Research Council report shows that seemingly modest gains are significant
In an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout rate.
But side by side, the two studies demonstrate something important and often overlooked: in four years the national movement produced significant gains in overall sector performance.
The introduction of the National Quality Framework (NQF) in 2012, by the Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority, brought a renewed level of safety and quality to what had become a significant industry and provided benchmarks and targets that programs must abide by in order to gain and retain accreditation.
If implemented faithfully (a big if), I predict we'll see significant gains on national and international exams (at least in math and literacy) and, over time, a decline in the number of students in remedial education at college.
According to NAEP results, released by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale in 2011.
We're seeing National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores leveling off with no significant achievement gains or gaps closing.
The most recent scores for the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) show that Mississippi has made significant gains in 4th grade reading.
While the report recognized a robust national demand for more charter schools from parents and local communities, it found that 17 percent of charter schools reported academic gains that were significantly better than traditional public schools, while 37 percent of charter schools showed gains that were worse than their traditional public school counterparts, with 46 percent of charter schools demonstrating no significant difference.
LA Unified students showed significant gains in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, according to data released today.
While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.
Moreover, studies of the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL), an SLP partner that supports states and districts in providing executive development to strengthen school leadership, have found that students in schools led by NISL graduates achieve statistically significant gains across multiple subjects and all school levels.
The toxicity of President Trump has made it increasingly likely that Democrats will make significant gains in legislative districts, in line with national trends.
Another ambitious investigation, conducted by the National Center for Educational Achievement (2009), sent teams of researchers to 26 public schools in five states that had a high percentage of low - income students, and whose students had made significant gains on math and science exams in a three - year period.
The gains for DC charter high schools weren't statistically significant, but at the national level high schools provided their students with the equivalent of 32 additional days of learning in math and only 9 in reading.
National research studies have confirmed significant gains in writing performance among students of teachers who have participated in NWP programs.
A national study conducted by Mathematica Policy Research found that students attending KIPP middle schools made gains in reading, math, science, and social studies equal to 11 to 14 months of additional learning when compared to similar non-KIPP students.60 Similarly, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found that students selected by lottery to attend Harlem Success Academy made significant gains in reading and math equal to 13 to 19 percent higher test achievement, compared to demographically similar students not selected via lottery.61
Dr. Wright spearheaded initiatives in Mississippi that nearly doubled the Advancement Placement (AP) participation and success rate, resulted in significant annual gains in English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency, and earned Mississippi recognition from the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) as one of the top six states in the nation for providing high - quality early childhood education.
Although the performance of Virginia fourth graders on the 2015 NAEP was similar to 2013, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) says Virginia fourth graders have made statistically significant gains in both reading and mathematics since 2007.
Although the overall performance of Virginia fourth graders on the 2017 NAEP was statistically similar to 2015, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) says Virginia fourth graders have made statistically significant gains in reading during the last two decades.
1946 Gains significant national exposure through publication of first Moses greeting cards and best - selling monograph, Grandma Moses, American Primitive (autobiographical notes by Grandma Moses, edited by Otto Kallir, and with an introduction by Louis Bromfield; New York: The Dryden Press).
As Director of the Scottish Arts Council (1999 - 2001) she contributed to Scotland's first National Cultural Strategy, and as Director at Arnolfini, Bristol (1991 — 1999) she curated a range of significant exhibitions and prepared the way for its building re-development by appointing its design team and gaining an Arts Council capital lottery grant of # 5.3 m.
Our modelling focuses on scenarios projecting how rapidly we can gain significant national fleet - wide reductions in fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions — with and without new PHEVs, conversions, other efficiencies, and low - carbon biofuels.
And yet, there's no sense of focused national outrage (discontent is probably a better word), no movement gaining momentum to address the roots of the problem that lead to the BP spill, and the government has shown that it feels no pressure to take significant action on behalf of the environment.
This «would amount in practice to a very substantial loss of control over the content of rules that would have to be observed within the UK... that might be regarded as a significant loss rather than gain in national sovereignty».
Significant price increases in bank - owned foreclosures are driving gains at the national, regional and local levels, helping home prices turn the corner with small quarterly and yearly gains.