Sentences with phrase «than any other state in the nation while»

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» Azzopardi said.

Not exact matches

«While several Democratic Party candidates spend the next year trying to out liberal each other for the right to be the Democratic Party designee, Congressman Zeldin will remain completely focused working harder than anyone else to deliver positive results to grow our economy, protect our security and improve in many other ways our community, state and nation.»

While writing his dissertation at Oxford in the mid-1980s, he saw residents of some low - income countries — China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India — repeatedly trumpeted as healthier than others and, in terms of mortality rate improvement, doing even better than those in many wealthy Western nations.

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

Recall from prior posts (here, here, and here) that seven teachers in the Houston Independent School District (HISD), with the support of the Houston Federation of Teachers (HFT), are taking HISD to federal court over how their value - added scores, derived via the Education Value - Added Assessment System (EVAAS), are being used, and allegedly abused, while this district that has tied more high - stakes consequences to value - added output than any other district / state in the nation.

While President Obama and more than 100 other heads of state are expected to participate in the United Nations Climate Summit today, President Xi Jinping of China, the country making by far the biggest contribution to the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases, will not appear.

Conscious that while our nations lie at the climate frontline and will disproportionately feel the impacts of global warming, in the end climate change will threaten the sustainable development and, ultimately, the survival of all states and peoples — the fate of the most vulnerable will be the fate of the world; and convinced that our acute vulnerability not only allows us to perceive the threat of climate change more clearly than others, but also provides us with the clarity of vision to understand the steps that must be taken to protect the Earth's climate system and the determination to see the job done;

While heads of state and other top officials from more than 150 countries are meeting today at the United Nations to build momentum for end - of - year climate negotiations in Bali, one notable no - show rankles: President Bush will be skipping all of the

The handful of large cities offer more than competitive salaries to those in the medical assisting industry while providing everyone with a drastically cheaper cost of living than almost every other state in the nation.