Girls are at a disadvantage in other ways, too, and have a higher drop-out rate than boys.
The drop-out rate in the district is more than twice the state average.
But among the children of Hispanic immigrants, the drop-out rate is much lower.
Such a drop-out rate has its roots in the earliest years of school, when under-performing students are pushed through the system.
The high-school drop-out rate, for example, would fall only from 17.3% to 16.1%, and the proportion of teenage mothers from 20% to 18%.
We still believe that the real cost of capital is too low, and hence expect a long drawn out rate hiking cycle into 2012.
The researchers say there are many reasons for the fall-out rate.
But because of a high drop-out rate, and its failure to meet student recruitment targets, South Bank has been obliged to cut academic jobs, and give back some of its grant to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the primary government funding agency for universities.
Analysts said the RBI's tone rules out sharp rate cuts in the next few months.
If you would have told me then that golf would out-rate tennis, I would have laughed at you.
How is the administration going to afford that, as they're trying to balance out unemployment rate in those communities and push this project?
Many of those, Lehman adds, are foreclosures, a result of people who took out adjustable rate or exotic mortgages and can no longer afford them.
He did not rule out further rate cuts if necessary following the 0.25% cut last Tuesday which brought UK interest rates to 4.75%, their lowest in decades.
If the moon harbours ice, for example, measuring the amount of it at different depths could enable planetary scientists to work out the rate at which comets smashed into the lunar surface over its history, and that knowledge could then be plugged into models of the formation of the solar system.
Well, interest rate baring checking accounts currently pay out an average interest rate of .08 percent, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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But with a French twist on the Mitt Romney tax rate flap, it turns out the French capital gain rate is perceived as a bigger problem than the 75% rate on earnings.
Scotland and Wales have phased out the lower rate of payments and withdrawn bonuses to students.
The resulting sum is assessed on a graduated scale that tops out at a rate near 50%.
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Suppose you found out its hurdle rate--trading costs plus management fees and other expenses--was a high 5% .
Unlike the Californian plan, they will extend to the one-third of subprime borrowers who took out fixed-rate mortgages.
Then Apple (or perhaps Foxconn) are able to sort out that breakage rate.
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The world's languages, which number about 6, 900, are reckoned to be dying out at the rate of one a fortnight.
She added that research indicated hedgehogs were dying out at a rate of one fifth of the population every four years.
The central banks are out bending interest rate curves at every opportunity and introducing new ways to do so every few months.
In reply, the Texas pilots point out that any rate increase must already go through their local commissioners in a public meeting.
The study points out that the rate of pay increase fell, even though the companies performed better in 2012 than they did in 2011.
But roughly three dozen closed-end funds have "managed distributions" like Cornerstone's, seeking to pay out a flat rate of income regardless of market returns.
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He also points out that the rate of both corporate failures and start-ups has remained relatively low - far lower, for example, than in the late 1980s or early 1990s.
That works out to a rate of about .05%.
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