Sentences with phrase «stark national differences»

The report revealed stark national differences between UK councils in terms of litter performance.

Not exact matches

At special free schools, this difference is even more stark — 31.91 per cent of pupils were given a fixed term exclusion last year compared with national average of 13.54 per cent, and 11.97 per cent had more than one fixed term exclusion (compared with 5.23 per cent).

That was a stark message from the district's federal lobbyist, who told a district board committee this week that Washington is increasing national support for charter schools by nearly 32 percent but by only 6 percent for magnet schools, a difference that surprised some of the school board members.

Sir David Carter, the national schools commissioner, warned of a «stark» difference in achievement between better - off pupils and their poorer peers, who were shown to be on average 18 months behind in last year's GCSE results.

The stark difference between production on federal land and state and private land is not just due to ineffective and inefficient national energy policy; it's also bad federal fiscal policy.

Despite the fact that all EU states are party to the 1970 Hague Evidence Convention (Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters or hereafter Hague Convention) and have transposed the EU Data Protection Directive into national law, stark differences in the legal regime applicable to international transfers for the purposes of e-discovery exist between EU Member States.