Sentences with phrase «very public measure»

It may be that SAT scores, as a very public measure of school performance, lead to agitation for charter laws, but that charters themselves are more likely to target students at risk of dropping out, and therefore participation is more closely associated with dropout rates.

Not exact matches

Measured in this way, these private start - ups seem to be fairly safe: their valuations have steadily marched upwards, and the volatility — especially relative to public market companies — is very low.

British imperialists knew very well that «administrative massacres» could keep India in bondage, but they also knew that public opinion at home would not stand for such measures.

A fearless prediction: Given fan complaints about overpaid athletes, a groundswell of public support for excluding jocks from such a measure isn't very likely.

To be very clear, while the public does oppose the future rate of increase of «Green Taxes» into 2020 by 60 % to 18 %, considerable cross-party sympathy exists for specific measures in their current form, (see graph on bottom left).

With such measures backed up by strong trade unions, quality public services and other social security payments (such as to cover the additional living costs of disability), a society of this kind would certainly look very different to the scenario otherwise predicted by Piketty.

The FNC added, «We demand that the investigations into it must be made public as promised by the police authorities, while something very urgent and painstaking measures must be done by the Federal Government to quickly address the conspicuous concerns in the land.

Editorial pages from New York City to Buffalo are calling for reform measures, and good government groups say Governor Cuomo, who came into office vowing to win back the public trust, may find his very legacy in jeopardy.

«There was a very well - orchestrated get - out - the - vote effort by local public service unions, but many of those voters would have been Astorino supporters, so it's hard to measure,» said the spokesman, Bill O'Reilly.

«We're all adults, and the issues that we are talking about have to be treated very, very seriously, because, again, it reflects on the trust level of the people we serve... putting some extra measures in place, I hope, reassures the public and puts trust back in.

«It's very disappointing that the reform bill was not signed into law,» agreed Assemblyman James Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat and sponsor of an identical reform bill in Albany, in a separate statement, adding that «each measure was aimed at providing greater transparency and accountability to an authority that has come under growing public scrutiny over the years, as abuses and scandals accumulated.»

«A public survey is a very limited measure, and you have to be very cautious about how much you can extrapolate from the answers.»

«It's a bit as if our skiers were told: «You ski very well but you won't be able to go to the Olympic Games -LSB-...] to measure against skiers from all over the world»,» Arlettaz told French - speaking public radio station La 1ère today.

The Union is very pleased to hear that HBO is doing the right thing now, but it is disappointing that we had to take such public measures to ensure compliance with our contracts and protect our background actors.

58 % of public school parents are confident that standardized tests do a good job measuring how well their child is learning, but a mere 19 % are very confident of this.

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

«This measure is a very reasonable and carefully thought - out approach to bringing innovative solutions to our public schools and improving the quality of education we provide to all students in Washington,» Litzow said in a news release.

The measure is still in the signature - gathering stage but faces an uphill battle if it makes the ballot, as a recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California showed that only 37 percent of voters view extending Prop 30 as «very important.»

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

Yet very quickly, Florida parents realized that this measure, which died in the State Senate on a 20 - 20 bipartisan tie vote, represented yet another underhanded ploy by corporate reformers, including Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee, to hand public schools over to private, for - profit operators.

Accountability systems: Approximately 25 % of public school teachers who left the profession in 2012 reported that dissatisfaction with the influence of school assessment and accountability measures on their teaching or curriculum was extremely or very important in their decision to leave.

I think this is a very important macro-econ measure, but there is a big problem in that it only captures publicly traded mkt cap, and over long periods, the public / private structure of the economy changes.

I've been digging back through some very old historical data to understand how unusual the 1929 crash was and found the site Measuring Worth, which has the interesting mission «to make available to the public the highest quality and most reliable historical data on important economic aggregates.»

I find the orthodox titles for these approaches very sub-optimal if not simply misleading, and this matters since the public will have to generally understand and support such measures for decisions on research funding, governance and any eventual deployment to be made.

The world outside the United States, when measured by coverage on American television news, is a very tiny, contorted place, as laid out in a short, sobering, but funny talk posted recently on YouTube and also presented at the annual TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference by Alisa Miller, the head of Public Radio International.

Rennie (Public), 4.35 (4.0 - 4.8), Heuristic July saw a very small drop in extent equivalent to only 40 cm of thickness loss according to the measure I am using.

Well, it's all relative, with science generally reating very highly on public measures of trust.

The starting point for considering an appeal against a modification was to consider very carefully: first, whether or not the existing measures had adequately protected (and would continue to adequately protect) the public against the activities of the controlled person; and second, whether or not the controlled person had complied with the obligations that had been placed upon him.

Despite some opening up to the public as regards information following the recent decision on comitology, interested parties may not take part in the administrative procedure of the adoption of acts and therefore have very little opportunity to mount a successful challenge to adopted measures once they have been enforced in the internal legal orders of the Member States.

«Extremely measured, thorough and skilful» associate John Roberts provides a «very impressive service» to public sector clients.

Public Procurement: «Ligia is very accessible and is always prepared to take on and fight difficult cases in a measured and sensible way.»

I'm no fan of measures that invade citizens» privacy, but the proposed regulation applies only to a very specific segment of the population, it offers a significant potential benefit to the general public, and we can hope, along with the privacy commissioner, that the CBSA will use the powers «very judiciously».

The very - public demise of the Galaxy Note 7, coupled with the current trend for smartphone displays to measure 5.5 - inches or less, means the Mate 9 is one of just a handful of big Android devices currently available.