Sentences with phrase «than the state average while»

The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

For example, the most expensive city came in at 33 % more than the state average while the cheapest city was 21 % cheaper.

Not exact matches

In the United States, women, on average, are paid 20 percent less than men, while those aged 18 - to - 24, some data show, have less than $ 1,000 in their savings accounts to cover costs including a medical emergency.

While the personal income tax, which has a top rate of 5 %, is slightly lower than the national average for state income taxes, the statewide sales tax of 7 % is slightly above the national average.

Walmart's online sales grew just 10 percent in the third quarter, slower than the 15 percent industry average, while Target's grew 20 percent, well below the company's stated goal of 30 percent, the companies announced last week.

It's no surprise that when asked about their confidence in the political state of small business, women responded, on average, a full point lower than men (women averaged a 7 out of 10 confidence level, while men averaged an 8).

Further broken down by sector, on average, telecommunications and wireless technology firms entered Japan and South Korea earliest, while advanced manufacturing firms entered ASEAN member states earlier than China or Hong Kong.

While the person may have been living on $ 50k here in the United States, they now get people to give them $ 100k or more per year so they can go live in a country where the average annual per capita income is less than $ 5k.

For thirty years the electric oven hood has sold an average of less than a few hundred thousand units a year, while today almost every household in the United States and Canada owns at least one color TV set, and more than 5 million sets are sold annually.

For thirty years the electric oven hood has sold an average of less than a few hundred thousand units a year, while today almost every household in the United States and Canada owns at least one color TV set, and more than 5 million sets are sold annually.1 What made the difference?

First, while Trump has in some states carried a plurality of evangelical voters, the same data reveals that, on average, 64 % of evangelicals in all southern states voted for someone other than Trump.

Kobe Ordonio hit his fifth 3 - pointer of the game and the NorCal Asian Senior All - Stars bench shot up in excitement while the better - than - average crowd at Cal State University East Bay oohed.

To illustrate the method, a typical No. 7 seed would expect to win about 0.9 games per tournament, on average, while a No. 7 seed with an SRS 2.9 points better than the seed average — like Michigan State this season — would expect to win about 1.0 games per tournament.

While the cost of buying a home in Murphy is higher than many areas of the state, most families also make above average wages.

Among other findings, the report also revealed that while the total number of County residents on Medicaid has risen due to fuller implementation of the Affordable Care Act («ACA»), Erie County's portion of Medicaid costs is projected to drop by more than $ 6.4 million from 2013 due to the Act's implementation and the state's Medicaid cap, and is approximately $ 340,000 less than 2012; the biggest increase in Medicaid recipients was seen among whites age 18 - 64, while other demographics remained consistent; and that the number of persons on Medicaid continues to grow at an average rate of more than 4 % each year, a trend noted by the Medicaid Inspector General's office in his September 2013 report.

But while tax revenues have been successfully limited under the cap, Michael Borges with the New York State Association of School Business Officials said districts» costs, including health care and transportation, have continued to rise much faster than the average rate of inflation.

While Governor Cuomo has touted reforms to solitary, New York still has a higher percentage of people in solitary (5.8 %) than the national average (4.4 %) and much higher than states that have reformed solitary (less than 1 % to 2 %).

While Erie County's unemployment rate and levels of poverty are better than the state and national averages, not everyone is benefitting from our resurgent economy.

But, while tax revenues have been successfully limited under the cap, Michael Borges, with the New York State Association of School Business Officials, says schools» costs, including health care and transportation, have continued to rise much faster than the average rate of inflation.

While the average rate of growth has decreased steadily since the 1970s, Moses says the 18 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) that the United States spends on health care is 50 to 60 percent higher than any other developed country.

In Alaska, snow pack totals less than 25 percent of average were observed across southern regions of the state, while interior locations had near - average snow pack.

February was extremely cold across the eastern half of the contiguous U.S. with 29 states being much cooler than average, while the West was extremely warm with eight states being much warmer than average.

Northern and western parts of Alaska had near - average annual precipitation totals, while the eastern and central parts of the state were wetter and much wetter than average.

I will also add that steroids are on both sides of this equation as I have seen guys loaded to the gills on gear and they still suck while some of the best pros in the world are on less than most guys at your average state show.

While there's no such a thing as «normal,» here are a few numbers to mull over: The average adult has sex 54 times a year, but that number is on the decline: Recent research out of San Diego State University found that on average, people had sex 16 fewer times between 2010 and 2014 than they did between 2000 and 2004.

On average, science has stated that teenagers need 8 to 9 hours of sleep, while adults need 7 to 9 hours per night.This does refer to actively sleeping rather than lying in bed.

As we expect to have higher than average temperature across the entire United States this Fall, I have to put my dream of wearing cozy sweaters on hold for a while.

In Europe people speak on average two languages or more, while in the United States people have a hard time learning to speak more than one language and it is almost considered a national disadvantage.

Its dropout rate fell to 2.1 percent while its attendance rate climbed to 95 percent — averages higher than the district and even the entire state.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

And while revenue from both state and federal sources increased at about the same rate as that of districts throughout the state, Reading averaged almost a thousand dollars more per student from outside sources than the state average (see Figure 2).

Indiana currently employs fewer instructional personnel, including teachers and instructional aides, as a proportion of employment, while employing more cafeteria workers, bus drivers and «other» personnel than the national average for states.

The United States reported an average of more than one in 10 students repeating a grade, higher than the OECD average, while top - performing Finland and South Korea do not allow grade retention.

California's charter public schools performed better than the state averages on Math and English Language Arts while serving a diverse population of students.

Students with disabilities, migrant and English learners, and those from low - income households also had rates higher than average in the state, while Asian children had the lowest rate of chronic absenteeism at 10 percent.

But while teachers in the United States have a higher starting salary, Canadian teachers quickly surpass their American peers, with the average mid-career teacher in Canada earning $ 56,349 per year — almost 60 percentage points higher than their starting salary.

While the report restates previously released data about DPS showing faster - than - average growth, the gains have not been enough to show better achievement than state averages.

Only Hispanic fourth graders in Montana achieved a statistically higher average score than those in Virginia while no states were statistically higher in grade 8.

While Oakland's teachers are more diverse than the state average, Hispanic and Latino teachers remain underrepresented and White teachers overrepresented.

Under the current funding system the per - pupil amount of state funding ranges from less than $ 500 in basic education funding per average daily membership to more than $ 12,000, while the state average is $ 3,200.

Let's be absolutely clear: a donation of a million dollars will be subsidized by tax payers to the tune of $ 750,000 for scholarships that might go to people earning $ 300,000 annually while genuinely needy families will get a $ 500 coupon for tuition (which is about 1/24 the average cost of tuition at a Catholic school in the United States) and teachers will get slightly less than the cost of 10 packs of multi-colored Sharpies.

Fact: While the national charter performance data varies by state, Illinois charter schools on average perform better than district - run public schools.

While teacher salaries in South Dakota are slightly below national average, cost of living in South Dakota is lower than in many states in the nation.

It may be possible that a given state or jurisdiction has a numerically higher average scale score than the nation or another state but that the difference is not statistically significant, while another state with the same average score may show a statistical significance compared to the nation or the other state.

While the experimental public schools showed slightly higher levels of academic growth than traditional schools overall, the number of students performing at grade level was lower than the state average.

But more interesting, and impressive, is that Idaho's charter student achievement has stayed higher than state and national averages since 2009, while the state's charter sector has grown from 31 schools serving 11,959 students in 2009 to 50 schools serving 21,351 students in 2017.

While most charters» scores trail more than 13 points behind state averages on every high school test, they're better than the average for Michigan's urban districts, and they made more progress than urban schools on three of the five exams.

but other states have made greater gains; the average Florida fourth - grader, for example, reads almost a full grade level higher than a similar student nine years ago, while the average Alabama fourth - grader reads one - point - five levels ahead of a similar student nearly a decade ago.

To back the findings with figures, the survey pointed out that those living in the New York State have 52 % more chance of owning at least a single iPad, while the survey found 49 % of the Massachusetts populace more likely to own an e-reader than the average.

While it is 6 % cheaper than Memphis it is still 26 % higher than the state average making it the 2nd most expensive city in Tennessee.