Sentences with phrase «worse than the state average»

As you might expect, the number of school library media specialists in schools in the Former Abbott Districts is considerably worse than the state average, with less than one in two schools having a SLMS.

The district's English learners scored worse than the state average for English learners on the Smarter Balanced tests, with only three percent exceeding or meeting English language standards and only five percent doing so in math.

The district is no longer on academic watch, but it still performs worse than the state average on tests.

Not exact matches

The state is also surprisingly expensive; Alaska ranked fourth - worst on the cost - of - living index, and its home values are higher than average.

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There were some states in which Trump's performance among young Republican voters was worse than his overall state average.

In the case of West Virginia for 4th - grade math, the difference (60.8 percent — 28.1 percent = 32.7 percentage points) is about 0.02 standard deviations worse than the average difference between the state test and the NAEP over the three years, which is 32.4 percent.

Consider the article in Education Week, which reported, «Movement in elementary - school reading scores was evenly split — better than the national average in half the states, worse in the other half.»

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

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.

Since too few states track it, it's hard to say if Hawaii's absenteeism problem is worse than, better than or about the same as the national average.

According to PISA, the United States placed significantly below the average for member - nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for mathematics — and significantly worse than the OECD distribution at both ends of the assessment spectrum, with more low performers and fewer high performers.

So the graduation rate of K12 INC students is much worse than almost any public school — despite the fact that K12 INC students in Washington state typically come from families with higher than average incomes and therefore should have a higher graduation rate.

In 2015 - 16, the latest year available, cyber charter students in the majority of the 14 cyber charters fared worse on state math and reading tests than the statewide average of all public school students.

SDE admitted that, academically, Great Oaks performs well below the state average, and worse than Bridgeport, its host district.

On the other hand, of the 18 states which equalled or did worse than the national average of 38 % in the proportion of students failing to reach «basic,» 12 (or two - thirds) had a HSGT.

Of the 22 states which performed equal to or worse than the national average, 15 had a HSGT.

But of the 22 states scoring worse than the national average of students, 13 had a HSGT.

South Carolina has an average credit card debt lower than six of the states in the top 10, but the fourth worst deposit rate in the country, landing the Palmetto State among the worst states for saving.

Just barely lower than Alaska's credit card debt, New Jersey has the second - highest average credit card debt in the nation, which is the leading cause for the Garden State's position on the worst - states - for - saving list.

Surely you can not simply take an average of the past few years as stated in your valuation given some not - so - minor changes such as the BNSF acquisition, changes in earnings stream due to large investments in GS, GE, etc, etc... To the extent that you base your valuation on reported EPS at all (bad idea as noted above), shouldn't you have a forward looking approach rather than just extrapolating from the past?

The increases vary widely, but in 29 states, drivers with bad credit pay, on average, more than $ 1,000 more each year.

Although California is not the worst state for uninsured drivers, the rate is still higher than the national average.