Sentence examples for chronic gaps from inspiring English sources

All of this is part of a federal mandate that all schools must close chronic gaps in student achievement by 2014.

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill today that would dramatically extend the federal role in public education, mandating annual testing of children in Grades 3 to 8, providing tutoring for children in persistently failing schools and setting a 12-year timetable for closing chronic gaps in student achievement.

This exemplifies one of the few unique situations in eastern Africa where enormous effort is being made towards bridging the chronic gap between scientists, government and local communities concerning the conservation of natural resources.

We must close this chronic gap that shortchanges America's women.

The state's Legislative Analysts Office projects a $25.4 billion shortfall this year and next and chronic $20 billion gaps through 2016.

Mr. Farmer, a longtime Yonkers principal and school administrator, came out of retirement in June 2000 to take over a struggling school district that had been battered by chronic budget gaps, dismal test scores and a federal desegregation lawsuit that resulted in more than two decades of bitter litigation and federal intervention.

The event, co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Architectural Foundation and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, became, for a few minutes, a forum for mayors to express a difficult truth: Two-and-a-half years after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the nation's cities still struggle with chronic budget gaps that can't easily be filled.

The need for a viable alternative that provides a reliable source of vital data is critical and the emerging health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSSs) in LMICs could go a long way in addressing the chronic data gaps in SSA.

Our plan would not directly address the chronic wage gap between primary care providers and specialists.

On one possible track, the bears, facing a chronic food gap, could weaken and reproduce ever less as the ice-free summer season expands.

Billionaire inventor Sir James Dyson is to put his money where his mouth is by helping to bridge Britain's chronic skills gap with the launch of a new university.