Sentences with phrase «while the state still»

While some states still judge schools solely based on standardized test scores, these polls reveal that most parents and guardians do not.

«While our state still has room to grow, these scores show that we are on the right track.

While states still have to comply with NCLB's mandate of testing students in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, with ESSA, they would be permitted to set their own student achievement goals, identify their own academic and non-academic (i.e., school climate, teacher engagement) indicators for accountability, design their own intervention plans for their lowest performing schools, and implement their own teacher evaluation systems.

Not exact matches

While Uber has spent billions expanding overseas — it's currently available in 581 cities in 81 countries worldwide — Lyft has partnerships with international ride - hailing services but still has no presence of its own outside the United States.

While several states such as Colorado, Oregon, and this week California have made cannabis legal to possess and use, it still remains illegal under federal law.

While his legal fees were cheaper in his home state of New York than they would be in Washington, Caputo still paid about $ 25,000 per hearing.

While experts don't expect Zika to advance past the Gulf states, it is still always good idea to protect yourself and your home from mosquitoes.

The potential deal, while still unconfirmed, has already attracted its fair share of skeptics who doubt it will go through due to Tsinghua's low offer price and the fact that U.S. regulators are likely to be cautious about a large takeover by a Chinese state - owned company.

And while better economic data has buoyed the economic outlook, many agree a recovery is still in a fragile state.

«[The legislation] does not take steps toward coverage and access for all Americans, and while insurers are still required to offer coverage to patients with pre-existing conditions, allowing states to get waivers to vary premiums based on health status would allow insurers to charge unaffordable premiums based on those pre-existing conditions,» wrote American Medical Association (AMA) president Dr. James Madara in a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to shelve the Graham - Cassidy bill on Tuesday.

While conditions have improved, most of the state is still dealing with some level of drought, and many reservoirs and aquifers have not been fully replenished.

While it states that under the new policy, employees will still need to work «with their managers for coverage during their absences,» it doesn't get into how this process will work.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

Still, the United States was rated as «improving» for the seventh straight quarter, while the Euro zone was seen as «improving» for the fourth straight quarter.

Any investments the company might have overseas will still receive funding, while operations in the United States will operate as is, too.

While residents in the above states pay lower taxes compared to those in places like New Jersey, there are still «plenty of Americans are facing a significant tax burden,» GOBankingRates says.

While Florida remains the only swing state that's still too close to call, Obama bested his Republican challenger Mitt Romney regardless, as he raked in at least 303 electoral votes during yesterday's election.

While the number of solar jobs in the Golden State fell by about 14 percent in 2017, it was still comfortably home to the largest number of roles in the sector.

While it is true the Silver State did not have many ways to go but up — and it is still in the bottom half of the states — Nevada's recovery is taking hold.

While oil - related dependence is down to 22 percent of 2015 government revenue from 35 percent in 2015, the country is still trying to squeeze more dividends out of state - owned oil and gas player Petronas, he said.

But Headframe has developed a state - of - the - art continuous still that is far more efficient, allows for greater customization while also reducing production time and costs.

The results show that while a change in federal, state, or local laws would have these folks reaching into their pockets, a majority still support a minimum wage hike.

A colleague returning to work while still grieving welcomes kind words but their raw emotional state makes it easy to say the wrong thing.

While this is still welcomed by Washington, a stronger European pillar within NATO is now also necessary to keep the United States present and engaged on the continent.

Vesterbacka said as many as 94 percent of Chinese people know the colorful Angry Birds brand while the ratio in the United States is also over 90 percent, but he said there was still room for growth.

However, the state's grid operator is still curtailing solar and wind while hydro and the last nuclear plant run full - steam.

While I believe U.S. equities can continue to climb and post further gains before the end of the year, the best opportunities may still reside outside the United States.

The company further stated that while they still have hope for Monero in the future, people need to use it if it's going to move forward, and not just hold onto their coins to try and get rich quick:

While the deadline is past for state Representatives to sign on as co-sponsor, you can still ask your Representative to write a support letter for the bill.

Last week, John F. Kelly, the president's chief of staff, told associates that he did not see how the State of Texas, which has led the charge against the DACA policy, could proceed with a lawsuit while parts of the state are still underwater from Hurricane HaState of Texas, which has led the charge against the DACA policy, could proceed with a lawsuit while parts of the state are still underwater from Hurricane Hastate are still underwater from Hurricane Harvey.

While still widely considered the most talented group of state - sponsored hackers in the world, the N.S.A. is still recovering from Mr. Snowden's disclosures; it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars reconfiguring and locking down its systems.

While we're concerned about the rise of protectionism in the United States and Europe, we are still encouraged about the longer - term trajectory of Latin America.

While the AIIB still has many obstacles to overcome before it is a functioning entity (not least the opposition of the United States and Japan, as well as the incumbent Asian Development Bank in Manila), there can be little doubt now that it will come to fruition.

Other parts of the country are still without power and running water, the State Department warned, while the official death toll from Irma stood at 10.

Returning to the 2016 NOP, while relatively receptive towards private investment, the vast majority of Canadians are still very suspicious of investment from China's state - owned enterprises (SOEs).

While that is about $ 400 more than the state median, it is still well below the national median property tax of $ 2,197.

It was Cohen who, while he was still at the Department of State, was said to have emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delay scheduled maintenance in order to assist the aborted 2009 uprising in Iran.

If a large move into precious metals is going to happen whether the Deep State financial elite likes it or not, they realize they must at least do everything possible to control where those funds go, while they still can.

If anything, the report states that munis may offer a compelling opportunity to achieve social impact while still earning a respectable market yield.

So there are places that they are putting gays to death while here in America we still have 29 States that employers can fire their employees just for being born gay.

Ten months into our conversion journey, and still wondering how we could be experiencing the grace of God while in an objective state of sin, we decided to petition the Church to investigate the validity of my first marriage.

Some say the emphasis should be on new federal legislation, while others support local and state laws, and still others lobby for a constitutional amendment.

However, the biblical evidence shows also that the church, after stating Jesus» unequivocal demands on this subject, felt free to permit some few exceptions, perhaps in a pastoral attempt to deal humanely with specific marital situations while still upholding Jesus» demand.

So yes, while I get the whole thing with mistranslations, transliteration, etc. as an excuse for the current state of the Bible, it still does not absolve this god from the responsibility to give clear and understandable instructions to his flock.

And maybe in your State it's a two year wait but here in California there are children waiting to be adopted, though I can say that there is still a year or more process of vetting the adoptive parents to make sure they are not just using the kids as a means of financial support while locking them in a basement.

While frequently seen officiating at state events (a portcullis symbol on her stole denotes her office) alongside John Bercow (or Mr Speaker, as she refers to him), she's still involved in the normal life of priestly ministry.

In 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equality.

Some societies, like Great Britain and the United States, started along this path relatively early and thus have progressed considerably, while others (e.g., South Korea) are relative latecomers with much remaining to be accomplished, and still others (e.g., Ethiopia) have hardly started down the track at all.1

Manuel Arteaga died in 1963 from illness while still in Cuba, and for more than three decades the island would officially remain an atheist state.

The fact that the courts disagreed is an indication to me that this state still has a long way to go, (and while I agree totally with Oso), I see it's not, in the real world, as simple as he sees it.