Sentences with phrase «than the nation as a whole»

The good news is the state's job growth was up 1.9 percent over the past year, better than the nation as a whole.

It may also explain why the sample population turned out to be slightly more urban and upscale than the nation as a whole.

Urban school districts may have shown slightly more improvement than the nation as a whole, where results were largely stagnant.

«The Southeast has grown about 2.5 percent faster than the nation as a whole throughout the 1990s,» explains Mary Kassis, research coordinator with the Economic Forecasting Center (EFC) at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

The good news: Buffalo Niagara is adding jobs at a faster clip than it has in a long time, albeit at a slower pace than the nation as a whole.

America's large urban school districts are making faster progress on federal elementary math and reading tests than the nation as a whole, but they are still underperforming national averages.

A nationwide poll recently conducted by EdChoice shows that parents with school age children are more likely to support school choice than the nation as a whole.

This means that New York grew a bit more slowly than the nation as a whole over the same period; the national increase was about 9 percent.

In other states they are rising far more dramatically than the nation as a whole, from a few hundred dollars per pupil to over $ 2,000, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Atlanta's students were also making far more progress than the nation as a whole.

Education did significantly better than the nation as a whole with just a three percent decrease in total school personnel compared to a nine percent increase in the national unemployment rate.

Today, thanks to this system of tracking freshmen attendance and grades, Chicago's high school graduation rate is up more than 20 percentage points and is approaching the national average, despite having a student population that is much poorer than the nation as a whole.

On the positive side: For the second year in a row, Philadelphia added jobs at a faster rate than the nation as a whole... a...

Partisan voting index from the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the district as R plus five, which means it performed 5 points more Republican than the nation as a whole in the past two presidential contests.

While Chicago prices continue to follow a national trend of continued increases, the pace is slower in this area than the nation as a whole.

«While Portland's economy was hit harder by the recession than the nation as a whole, it has nonetheless had a somewhat stronger recovery.

Although New York fared far better than the nation as a whole, at the same time our economic health became ever more dependent on Wall Street's booms and busts.

If New York is truly «open for business,» it's not yet demonstrated by employment figures, which show New York creating jobs at a slower pace than the nation as a whole.

An analysis of the eight states with multiple years of implementation of the A F grading system found they were making faster improvements on NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math tests than the nation as a whole.

Parents Overwhelmingly Support School Choice October 27, 2016 by Brett Kittredge A nationwide poll recently conducted by EdChoice shows that parents with school age children are more likely to support school choice than the nation as a whole.

The economy of the Lone Star State is growing faster than the nation as a whole these days.

The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 % job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000 jobs.

The percentage of students testing in the bottom quarter of the ITBS has dropped from 32 percent to 24.4 — better than the nation as a whole, according to CPS officials.

By 2003 the dropout rate had fallen to 13 percent, the percentage of students meeting national norms was up to 41, and the percentage of students testing in the bottom quartile was down to about 24 - better than the nation as a whole.

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the nation as a whole.

Property markets that have strong energy or technology sectors have fared vastly better than the nation as a whole.