Sentences with phrase «than the track program»

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By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

As an added bonus, if your small business uses contractors rather than — or in addition to — regular employees, Zenefits makes it easy to manage their details as well, allowing you to track their compensation and handle their tax needs from within a single program.

If flown on a standard trajectory, instead of Wednesday's lofted angle, the missile would have a range of more than 13,000 kilometers (8,100 miles), said U.S. scientist David Wright, a physicist who closely tracks North Korea's missile and nuclear programs.

He challenged the citizens - and himself - to lose a collective 1 million pounds, setting up a website where more than 47,000 citizens registered for the OKC Million program and tracked their weight.

Even though these programs tend to be more expensive than loans and lines of credit, a large group of merchants turn to them because they can gain access to financing more quickly and easily and because the repayment schedule tracks their business performance.

When Schultz references an education initiative he recently launched, in which Starbucks will cover tuition for its U.S. employees working more than 20 hours per week who enroll in an online college - degree program from Arizona State University, Tatum asks whether Starbucks considered paying for them to attend traditional, class - based institutions with proven track records and lower attrition rates, like Spelman.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

On February 3, 2011, the C.D. Howe Institute released its 2011Shadow Budget [1] entitled A Faster Track to Fiscal Balance, arguing that federal government should undertake aggressive actions to restrain the growth in program expenses in order to achieve a fiscal surpluses one year earlier than forecast in the October 2010 Update [2].

Ministry in a congregation or parish is the primary goal of less than one - third of master's - level students and of only half of students in master of divinity and other ordination - track programs.

It's hard to find a policy with a more consistent track record of failure than government job - training programs, but throwing more money at government schools without any structural reform is one of them.

The Saturday Good Food Festival will be a family - friendly event with great programming that includes the Chefs at Play demo stage, a Good Food Is Good Medicine track, the DIY - oriented Organic Valley Good Food Commons, and more than 150 exhibitor - vendors in the Good Food Marketplace.

Tuskey said those programs are part of the reason heroin overdose deaths were down more than 30 percent in 2013, the first time the county saw a drop in overdose deaths since the coroner began tracking them in 1999.

The program, called PARK Kids, is aimed at providing elementary and middle school students with structured programs that offer more than traditional park fare, such as basketball or track.

«A Better Me: Fit, Happy and Healthy Tracks Participants» Steps» More than 100 participants comprising teams from seven area agencies and the community - at - large will be taking part in a fitness program designed to reduce health disparities among minority and underserved women and girls, Oneida County Health... Read more

Thousands of private landlords have successfully tracked lead - paint inspections for more than two decades using a proprietary software program — and now they're offering to share it with the hapless New York City Housing Authority, which has been struggling with compliance issues.

Topics during the Q&A portion of his press conference included the looming discontinuance of the Rockaway ferry, a broad consideration of his earlier statement about «righting greater wrongs,» what happened to government funding for a ferry obtained by Anthony Weiner and Joe Addabbo, whether there is any City effort to «track down scammers» in the Build it Back program, how satisfied de Blasio is with the pace of Build it Back, whether an updated evacuation plan is contemplated in conjunction with increasing the housing supply in Rockaway and a government memo reported by The Wave which stated that more money was available from FEMA than publicly acknowledged and that such additional funding could be a political liability.

«A Better Me: Fit, Happy and Healthy Tracks Participants» Steps» More than 100 participants comprising teams from seven area agencies and the community - at - large will be taking part in a fitness program designed to reduce health disparities among minority and underserved women and girls, Oneida County Health Department officials announced today.

The number 8th point in the recommendations — creating an Ombudsman for Education, is an essential one but the powers should be wider than the one cited in the recommendation particularly as it relates to tracking funds for programs serving Latino students.

Community Walking Project Gets Underway «A Better Me: Fit, Happy and Healthy Tracks Participants» Steps» More than 100 participants comprising teams from seven area agencies and the community - at - large will be taking part in a fitness program designed to reduce health disparities among minority and underserved women and girls, Oneida County Health Department officials announced today.

The 2005 report included responses from 88 of the 140 graduate training programs that were members of the ANDP and indicated that women comprise more than 60 percent of the graduate students in neuroscience but approximately 25 percent of tenure - track faculty, a number that has changed little since 1998.

The United States now tracks more than 10,000 pieces of debris four inches wide or larger, but tens of millions of smaller fragments are also whizzing through space at speeds that can exceed 17,000 miles per hour, says Mark Matney of NASA's Orbital Debris Program.

The program covers six plenary sessions, six workshops, three technical sessions, and more than 20 total track sessions covering such topics as advances in cell therapy research, commercialization strategies, quality and operations, and regulatory issues.

Part of the problem with her argument is that the practice of ability tracking preceded the development of parental school choice programs by more than 50 years.

Even so, we find that a majority of enrollees in the online program are on track to complete their degrees and perform as well as or better academically than students who enroll on campus.

Over the last eight years, the district has spent $ 32 million on the hardware systems necessary to track student demographic and performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million on additional computers that allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure in K — 12 schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»

Beyond being my friends, they represented the «other half» — the more than 50 percent of kids in my high school who lived in poverty and weren't lucky enough to be tracked into the gifted program.

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.

We encountered a program that: • intends to be responsive to disabled children and their families but is often paralyzed by red tape; • attempts to address the needs of an amazingly diverse group of children yet often relies on standardized approaches and «box checking» oversight; • absorbs more than $ 50 billion a year in public funds yet provides no consistent tracking of its performance.

Simmons College in Boston made headlines last week with the news that two online graduate degree programs it launched less than five years ago are on track to generate more tuition revenue than its 30 other graduate programs combined and nearly as much as its undergraduate offerings.

More than 90 per cent of children who enrol in the program transition back to school and, according to a UK evaluation, 75 per cent are still in school four years down the track.

These interactive panels are ultimately large, external screens connected to a computer, allowing the educator to operate and control any program installed on that computer via the interactive panel, using either their finger or stylus, rather than a mouse or track - pad.

Although during her year in the Education Policy and Management Program she could feel her goals fluctuating, by the time finals came around Krystal Torres Covarrubias was back on track with, she says, «more urgency than ever.»

She will also discuss how she is currently working with districts across the country to help their students overcome these obstacles and stay engaged and on - track with school work, while partnering with the school district to operate an online program at a lesser cost than their traditional program.

Also tucked in the recommendations are such bold ideas as serious acceptance of alternative pathways and «residency» - style preparation; insistence on real standards for entering prep programs and getting certified; the demand that prep programs respond to K — 12 education's actual supply - demand numbers rather than enrolling as many people as possible (thus probably killing the proverbial ed - school «cash cow» within universities); and tracking the performance of those emerging from various prep programs and institutions — and actually closing those that don't produce successful professionals.

Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates than their white and Asian, middle class peers.

Today, more than a year into the program, the 17 - year - old is on track to graduate.

In its 1994 Reading Assessment, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), a federally supported program that tracks the performance of American students in core academic subjects, reported that more than four out of 10 fourth - graders (42 percent) in American schools were reading at a «below basic» level.

Aschwanden also said program administrators have been tracking its graduates since 1983 and they have a 76 percent college attendance rate — higher, he said, than that of grads from the traditional academic track.

Secondary math teachers who enter the profession through TFA helped their students learn more in mathematics than colleagues who entered teaching through a less - selective fast - track program or a traditional, university - based program.

The program's track record is astonishing: Of the more than 200 graduates of Friends of the Children's Portland affiliate, about half of whom are African - American, 82 % have earned high - school diplomas.

HCC offers more than 160 different academic programs and transfer tracks - you can prepare to transfer for a bachelor's degree or train to be a veterinary assistant, and just about everything in between.

# 4: Screen students to insure that only students who have a track record of being able to complete an independent study program are allowed to sign up for more than one online course at any given time.

This concise, powerful program will fast - track you to far greater success than you ever dreamed.

The Trust did not track its administrative expenses prior to 2012; thus, there is no way to know how much of the voucher program's money went to overhead costs rather than to providing scholarships for students, and whether the Trust exceeded the limit on administrative costs allowable under the SOAR Act.

Again, perhaps I've been naive, but I've always trusted teachers — persons that have dedicated their lives to educating, nurturing and encouraging children — more than big business foundations and fast - track route to teaching programs like Teach for America to have the concerns of children at heart, but it looks like I'm wrong again...

At this point, I'm sure an automated car could be programmed drive a track faster than I can.

This year's education program includes more than 60 sessions broken out into eight tracks over four days — covering topics that are critical to your business.

The FHA mortgage program is on track to do more than 2 million loans in 2010.

Invested $ 38 million last year in heart and stroke research, including a program that will track the health of more than 10,000 Canadians over several years, to learn why some develop heart disease, stroke and cancer while others don't

If one of these programs is right for your situation, it can be a powerful tool to provide you with the helping hand you need to get your finances back on track and set you back on course toward achieving your financial goals faster than anything else out there — especially for people with bad credit.