Sentences with phrase «unacceptable rates of»

In School + On Track 2013 highlighted the unacceptable rates of elementary school truancy using attendance records from the 2011 - 2012 school year.

If a drug company had evidence of an unacceptable rate of complications but still marketed or distributed a drug, and as a result a person suffered from a foreseeable complication, there may be grounds for a lawsuit.

A key indicator of the current poor levels of cultural safety in health care delivery within the hospital setting is the unacceptable rate of discharge against medical advice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Women with conditions that make pregnancy an unacceptable risk should be advised that the lactational amenorrhea method might not be appropriate for them because of its relatively higher typical - use failure rates.

For containers entering by ship, the most common method, inspection rates have actually gone down to 4 % (nine years ago the rate was already an unacceptable low of 5 %).

William Gaylor (R - Lynbrook), chairman of the legislature's Veterans and Senior Affairs Committee, who has also worked on the issue, noted that the distance some Nassau veterans must travel to receive care is «simply unacceptable, especially when we have a top - rated medical facility, with world - renowned doctors and staff ready, willing and able to care for our veterans.»

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

Adding even a small percentage to one of the highest property tax rates in the nation is unacceptable.

«However, when much bigger areas of the same material are inserted through the vagina to relieve pelvic organ prolapse, the complication rate is frankly unacceptable.

A group of researchers from Italy and Poland with expertise in paper degradation mechanisms was tasked with determining whether the degradation process has now slowed with appropriate conservation conditions — or if the aging process is continuing at an unacceptable rate.

«The injury rate for MLB pitchers is nothing short of unacceptable,» said Karakolis.

A pilot study of definitive proton therapy (60 GyE in 15 fractions) for mucosal melanoma of the head and neck demonstrated a 3 - year survival rate of 58 % and local treatment failure in only 1 of 14 patients, without unacceptable treatment toxicity.

Pain is still a neglected clinical issue in elderly people with dementia and / or communicative disorders, with an unacceptable higher rate of under diagnosis and under treatment.

In a society promoting health, well - being, and physical performance, the paradoxical high rates of injury, illness, and even disease states in athletic populations2 - 4 seem unacceptable.

The online dating services who obviously have a motivation to convince everyone that the online dating success rates are high or the people who reject online dating as an unacceptable way of finding dating success?

The report concluded that the current rate of teacher retention was «unacceptable» and it was essential the views of teachers were heard by decision makers, policy makers and key stakeholders to help improve this outcome.

Two - thirds of city schools in 2004 were rated «Academically Unacceptable» under Louisiana's accountability standards; in 2010, about 4 in 10 rate that designation, and the percentage of students attending a low - performing school has fallen by half, from 67 percent to 34 percent.

In October 2003, over opposition from the Orleans Parish School Board, voters in the state approved a constitutional amendment, by a 60 to 40 percent margin, allowing the state to assume control of public schools that received an «academically unacceptable» rating four years in a row, applied retroactively so that failing New Orleans schools could be taken over sooner.

As American students continue to lag in key areas and drop - out rates in major cities remain at unacceptable levels, it's clear that the policies of the past have failed.

``... every year in our district for the last 15, 20 years, maybe longer there's been a gap — an achievement gap of the students, there's been a drop - out rate that's been just unacceptable as far as I'm concerned.

When schools fail to demonstrate AYP and receive successive years of unacceptable accountability ratings, NCLB stipulates additional sanctions be applied to the school (Berry & Herrington, 2011; Kowel

Uptown schools run directly by the Recovery School District, such as Walter Cohen High School, and even some of its charters, such as the Sojourner Truth Academy, were rated «academically unacceptable.»

Daniel A. Domenech, executive director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association stated, «The impact these changes would have on state and local governments to adequately and appropriately invest in and support critical infrastructure investments, including public schools, are unacceptable and put our nation on a path that undermines progress in student learning, graduation rates, college completion rates and career readiness.»

On other key measures, the Superintendent was rated on a scale of 1 to 5 scale, with 1 being unacceptable and 5 noting outstanding performance.

To compare, North Carolina's statewide cohort graduation rate is 77.9 percent, dropping to 71.5 percent for black students and 68.8 for Hispanic children — all levels that has been decried as unacceptable by state leaders of all political stripes.

Changes a «D» rating from unacceptable to needs improvement, which falls under the category of acceptable.

It is unlikely that the Westport Public Schools receive much in Title 1 funding and, even in the likelihood of an unacceptable test participation rate, Staples has an off - setting high graduation rate with a large percentage of students going to college after H.S. graduation.

Seventeen of the rated SUV headlight combinations have unacceptable glare.

Which is really too bad because we have an urgent problem in America: our maternal mortality rate is among THE HIGHEST in the industrialized world (depending on the index you look at), our infant mortality rates are unacceptable, the inequalities in the way women of color and poor women are treated is literally a human right crisis, our new moms suffer from postpartum depression mores than so many other countries, and in many ways we have taken the joy and awe out of childbirth and infancy.

Student loans received a 76.20 % disapproval rating, with an average of $ 51,000 as the cutoff level for unacceptable debt.

Rating based on those risks, and increasing the premium to an acceptable level, would not only require significant attention from an underwriter and significantly more detail about the property and the risk in question, but it would also drive the cost of the policy to an unacceptable level in many cases.

Extending these portfolio lifetimes to 45 years at a 4.5 % withdrawal rate requires an unacceptable level of risk.

But if you don't also have an equally strong demand - side plan, you're going to continue to have the kind of killing rates in shelters that we have today, which are — or should be — absolutely unacceptable to anyone who cares about animals.

At the time, there wasn't a rating system in place to protect minors from seeing what Lieberman said were unacceptable levels of violence.

Most of the Middle Mississippi River levees are currently rated Unacceptable (like 44.5 % of rated levee miles nationwide); plus there are major geotechnical issue documented by our research — subsidence and compaction and un-permitted levee modifications using road gravel that is unsuited to flood control.

Given uncertainty, I like the idea of a carbon tax that increases according to the rate at which we are approaching «unacceptable» climate change.

The IPCC 2007 Fourth Assessment of climate change science concluded that large reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases, principally CO2, are needed soon to slow the increase of atmospheric concentrations, and avoid reaching unacceptable levels.However, climate change is happening even faster than previously estimated; global CO2 emissions since 2000 have been higher than even the highest predictions, Arctic sea ice has been melting at rates much faster than predicted, and the rise in the sea level has become more rapid.

Now if adapting to the current rate of warming is indeed a great task for many species, how do you suppose nature will react if we would deploy a geo - engineering scheme that would drop the temperature in Earth by 3K (for instance, what is unacceptable warming?

Many students made very effective use of the information they found there regarding crime rates, especially for kidnapping, and warnings regarding local concerns about international adoptions of Guatemalan children, which they employed to argue that the proposed trip put the child at unacceptable risks of harm.

Although most prostate cancer patients believe they are unacceptable for standard life insurance rates, many have found that because of new treatments that have shown considerable success, life insurance underwriters are somewhat more liberal and are issuing policies with a standard rating.

Rating based on those risks, and increasing the premium to an acceptable level, would not only require significant attention from an underwriter and significantly more detail about the property and the risk in question, but it would also drive the cost of the policy to an unacceptable level in many cases.

If we talk about New Jersey, the current rate of employment has reached 4.5 percent that is not unacceptable indeed.

However, it is about an equally serious topic — how to get career climbing, underemployed, and out - of - work Americans back to work and / or into higher paying jobs, therefore helping the economy grow and lower the unacceptable unemployment rate.

In a wealthy country like ours, it's completely unacceptable that Aboriginal children die at twice the rate of other Australian children, and Aboriginal people live at least 10 years less than other Australians.

«We have certainly made it very clear that whatever it is, whether it's new targets or refreshing of the old targets, it must not forget that our imprisonment rates of our people are at unacceptable levels, as are our suicide rates and rates of children being put in out of home care,»

It is unacceptable that there was not a national strategy until now given the rates of suicide.

Rates of violence and suicide remain unacceptable.