Sentences with phrase «federal accountability act»

Additional coming into force information for Federal Accountability Act, S. C. 2006, c. 9 (Bill 2, 2006),, summarized courtesy of LEGISinfo.

Because of a newspaper article today, my attention was drawn to a feature of the federal government's proposed Federal Accountability Act I hadn't really noticed before.

After all, the government promised greater transparency and accountability in its Federal Accountability Act.

The position of PBO was created in the Federal Accountability Act of 2006, but the office was not established until March 2008.

Not exact matches

The federal medical privacy law named the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is shorthanded as HIPAA, not HIPPA (which might be Peppa Pig's hippopotamus friend), as I mistakenly wrote yesterday.

Fitbit will also move to Google's (googl) cloud data storage platform, much of which is already certified as complying with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, which regulates the use of medical records.

[141] On June 3, 2008, Senator Obama — along with Senators Tom Carper, Tom Coburn, and John McCain — introduced follow - up legislation: Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008.

Ever since Ron Paul first introduced it in 2009, the «Federal Reserve Transparency» Act, calling for the elimination of the Federal Reserve System's exemption from certain kinds of GAO audits, has been the subject of vigorous debate between proponents of greater government accountability and champions of an independent Federal Reserve.

Additional Accountability Requirements: Act 1220 of 2003 (codified as Codes 6-7-117 through 6-7-119) pre-dates Section 204 and is generally stronger than the federal requirements.

Under the federal Health Information Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA, your teen's health records are between him and his health care provider.

In that vein, Joe Rospars has likened the Obama analytics team to the Government Accountability Agency, which acts as an auditor and watchdog for the federal government.

In response to the United States Senate's vote to overturn the federal government's Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) accountability regulations, The Education Trust — New York issued the following statement from Executive Director Ian Rosenblum: «While it is shameful that this maneuver will cause unnecessary confusion, it does not change the fact that the law is...

In 2016, she testified before the U.S. H.E.L.P. Senate Committee on the re-authorization of E.S.E.A. (the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) on Testing and Accountability.

The new federal Every Student Succeeds Act, was endorsed by more than 35 civil rights organizations to ensure high standards and accountability for the progress of all students, the official said.

➢ It intrudes on mental health privacy, according to the NYCLU; and it is not compliant with federal HIPAA laws (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), according to the New York State Psychiatric Association, which filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights.

Gillibrand's Campus Accountability and Safety Act would require colleges to make annual, anonymous surveys about sexual violence on campus, and force the federal government to increase disclosure of investigations into colleges accused of mishandling sexual violence on campus.

The regulation was prompted, federal officials say, by a federal law known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which among other things governs the use of medical records and the protection of patient privacy.

Shore says that anyone who works with patient materials — even if they never meet a patient — has to complete an online course provided by the university explaining federal patient privacy rules as spelled out in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

As states grapple with designing new accountability systems under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (see «How Should States Design Their Accountability Saccountability systems under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (see «How Should States Design Their Accountability SAccountability Systems?»

In the debate over the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers, educators, and researchers seem to agree on one thing: The federal law's accountability system should be rewritten so it rewards or sanctions schools on the basis of students» academic growth.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Trent Blankenship backs the change, saying that the federal No Child Left Behind Act has created enough school accountability.

«The ESEA of 1965 may have offered money without much education accountability, but the NCLB Act demands heavy accountability without much greater federal financial and technical assistance — an approach no more likely to succeed.»

Even the Every Student Succeeds Act, the law's 2015 iteration, which reduces the federal role in school accountability, still insists that state and local governments focus attention on the lowest - performing schools.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

Rather than providing students skills that have real currency in today's labor market and preparing them for gainful employment, accountability provisions in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top funding program have focused on increasing short - term gains that measure success or failure of schools.

Recent revisions to the most prominent federal law dealing with school quality — the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — mark a sharp rollback of the federal role in teacher evaluation and accountability.

Since that time, states — spurred in part by the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act — have enacted many of that movement's building blocks related to standards, testing, and accountability.

Given the predictable effects of pervasive distrust, I find it surprising that unions seek more federal funds for politically governed systems and then act bewildered at the regulations and accountability that follow.

Now, other states are borrowing the approach as they look for ways to ratchet up interventions to help schools improve and thus meet accountability goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

In fact, the modern accountability movement, right through to the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, owes much to Shanker's relentless calls for higher standards, assessments, and consequences for poor performance.

During the 1994 reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which ultimately forced the states to begin developing their accountability systems, Shanker was a staunch proponent of tough standards, and penned a pivotal article blasting a proposal to water down the bill.

States labored for decades to put such standards in place, prodded in 1994 by the federal Goals 2000 Act, then in 2002 by the No Child Left Behind Act, with its insistence on annual testing and consequential accountability.

While the policy idea is often attributed simply to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), 44 states already had some form of test - based accountability when the 2002 federal accountability law came into existence.

The second option — devolving recently accumulated federal power to the states — underlies recent reauthorization proposals for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that allow each state to establish its own accountability system and that require teeth only for the very lowest - performing schools.

Accountability policies take many forms, but the public generally supports the concept in all its guises, including the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

All states that meet federal criteria will now be allowed to take part in the U.S. Department of Education's 2 - year - old experiment with «growth models,» which let states measure individual students» achievement gains as a way of ensuring accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Thanks to advances in technology and accountability requirements in the federal No Child Left Behind Act, many schools have more student - performance data at their disposal than ever before.

Leveraging the federal role by using the Higher Education Act to offer students incentives to graduate ready for college and the workplace, support state efforts to raise high school exit standards and strengthen postsecondary accountability, and by aligning the 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress to ADP's benchmarks; and,

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a prominent example of such an effort, but it is only the continuation of a steady trend toward greater test - based accountability in education that has been going on for decades.

Increased state flexibility and experimentation with federal guidance under waivers from federal law, shifting to even greater state control of accountability systems design under the Every Student Succeeds Act

He serves as a principal investigator for the federal study of the implementation of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, including its provisions related to accountability and efforts to improve low - performing schools.

While federal policy from No Child Left Behind, to Race to the Top and the Every Student Succeeds Act defined multi-issue agendas that included elements of the accountability, choice, and equity agendas, within the advocacy sector, «education reform» has never been a unifying framework.

The federal government is permitting many schools to escape accountability for the progress of racial or ethnic subgroups under the No Child Left Behind Act, according to a computer analysis released by the Associated Press last week.

The findings show states are putting in place policies that will help them meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in the areas of teacher quality, testing, and accountability.

A decade ago, the No Child Left Behind Act ushered in an era of federal educational accountability marked by relentless focus on closing race - and income - based «achievement gaps» in test scores and graduation rates.

Indeed, the regular classroom is becoming even more standardized as schools adjust to meet the testing and accountability mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

On the federal No Child Left Behind Act: «The law's provisions are considerably at odds with the technical realities of test - based accountability.

Her work for the federal government in overseeing state accountability plans will help California as it deals with requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act, the proposed successor to No Child Left Behind, Cohn said.

In the coming years, these skills will be a topic of conversation as states now have more freedom to create state accountability models under the recently passed federal Every Student Succeeds Act.