Sentences with phrase «no real accountability»

This legally questionable action risks escalating further, as US defence secretary James Mattis has admitted, an already devastating conflict and therefore makes real accountability for war crimes and use of chemical weapons less, not more likely.»

I want accuracy and honesty in our government along with real accountability.

However, are their counter voices out there prepared to state the obvious and demand real accountability on the part of their so - called elected representatives?

Add to that that there is absolutely NO real accountability for a midwife in the form of peer review, loss of privileges, or malpractice insurance, and you have a very volatile situation where well - meaning parents - to - be are left with no recourse when a birth goes horribly wrong at the hands of an incompetent midwife.

The lifetime appointments of government's third branch need some real accountability too.»

Primaries help the right because they stop the left using class entryism to employ working class conservative votes in support of a socially progressive project they do not wantThey help the right, in other words, because they provide real accountability.

A key principle here is that devolution and decentralisation ought to be bottom - up processes with real accountability to local people.

If Mr Seymour really values the contribution of a strong second chamber, he must not yield to the notion that «expertise» should trump election and notional «independence» should necessarily be valued over real accountability.

The governor and the legislative leaders had the opportunity to restore the public's trust and put real accountability measures in place and instead they did nothing.

«The bill would flip the current incentives of a broken system to provide real accountability and transparency from higher education institutions,» the senator's office said.

And I know the NHS would be better and stronger if such decisions were made with local communities through real accountability.

«We need real accountability,» Malcom said.

«Such a scheme violates the fundamental checks - and - balances principle that underlies our state constitution, as it does not establish the independence required of a procurement watchdog and therefore will not achieve the real accountability and reform our State desperately needs.

watchdog and therefore will not achieve the real accountability and reform our State desperately

It would be great to think that before elected police commissioners come in, this anomaly could be removed — allowing real accountability for their priorities, the style of policing and also the shape and level of resources required to meet the demands of a public who are still very wary.

It will call for real courage and real accountability, but it must be job No. 1.

If you're looking for some guidance, a hand to hold, some tough love and real accountability this is the packet for you.

Even these baby steps toward a real accountability system produced a fierce political backlash, led largely by suburban middle - and upper - middle - class families.

By now, most of the criticism of NCLB — some legitimate but some ginned up by special interests opposed to real accountability — seems pretty old and tiresome.

Whether the administration can maintain real accountability for all schools remains to be seen.

This all sounds like real accountability for results.

We eventually hit upon what turned out to be The Big Question — the one that ultimately brought about «Pacts Americana,» the report we're releasing today: Does the education world have some kind of time - tested system — something could be brought to bear on ESEA reauthorization — for combining real accountability with real autonomy?

Once the students feel risk in admitting what they didn't do, honesty and real accountability are compromised.

There are candidates who share the Christie and McConnell commitment to reform based on markets, choice, and real accountability.

Were they to grab significant market share, they might «tip» K — 12 education into an age of real accountability.

But from a standpoint of their being responsible, both of them check their own grades on a regular basis, so it's a real accountability thing for them too, and I'm really pleased with that, that I'm not going in and being the heavy all the time.»

When the option was to strengthen charter schools with real accountability, she fought for no accountability.

Innovative governance models with real accountability can be applied to traditional public schools.

The evidence is everywhere that absent real accountability many states won't ensure that districts protect children at risk.

«This is too much, too far, too fast, and it threatens the fabric of real accountability.»

Reporting on the results is not the ultimate solution unless there is real accountability tied to those results.

We could credibly say to schools in the districts, «We are evaluating our people just as you are evaluating your people, with the same level of seriousness, and with real accountability for people who work here.»

«The real accountability system is in the tasks that students are asked to do... [T] he task predicts performance.»

That's why it is not enough to prepare them in a «regulation first» system that shields real accountability and just hopes for the best.

Beyond the class - size mandate, we continue to call on education leaders to implement real accountability and transparency in all the new school choice efforts.

«We, at last, have a Superintendent who has the vision and the courage to impose real accountability, to reward those who help the students to succeed, to rehabilitate or remove those who don't, to evaluate teachers based on the progress of the students, and who will implement 21st century learning tools.»

«But there is a tough love message from voters: they value and trust teachers and want them to have more resources, but they also want real accountability for student outcomes.»

Cut a new deal: in exchange for real accountability we'll give you real authority.»

Most recently, Jason Bedrick, Director of Policy at EdChoice, wrote a blog post on the subject in which he states, «Real Accountability Is Choice, Not Regulation.»

Now, with responsibility for accountability largely in the hands of states under the updated federal education law, the question looms: Will California reinstate real accountability to protect its 6.2 million students who are overwhelmingly low - income and Spanish - speaking, or will it remain in the shadows?

You gently remind him that real accountability is when educators are answerable «to the people most affected by their performance.»

R - 55 will help solve the dropout rate and increase student achievement, with real accountability and without raising taxes.

This is what I call real accountability!

And there is an obvious structural hurdle facing the insurgents: like all unions, teachers» unions exist to protect their members, creating a natural conflict between, say, maintaining job security for everyone and implementing measures that differentiate based on performance or create real accountability for results.

But if there are no real consequences, there is no real accountability.

While her nomination gave exposure to an honest and passionate debate about charter schools as an alternative to traditional public schools, her hardline opposition to any real accountability for these publicly funded, privately run schools undermined their founding principle as well as her support.

In 2011, the Center published his paper, Race to the Top and Teacher Preparation: Analyzing State Strategies for Ensuring Real Accountability and Fostering Program Innovation.

Non-management could take profiting from taking money out of traditional public schools without real accountability to a new level for K12.

Real accountability that holds every school to the same high standards and publishes school academic ratings;

Real accountability is difficult for several reasons, for brick - and - mortar and virtual charter schools alike.