Sentences with phrase «quality public reporting»

As the Data Quality Campaign points out today in its new brief, Empowering Parents and Communities through Quality Public Reporting, is no other place that this is crucial than in American public education.

Don't Make Decisions in the Dark: Superintendents and Principals Need Quality Public Reporting That Informs Decisions, Empowers Action is part of the Data Quality Campaign's series on public reporting of education data.

View the full suite of Empowering Parents and Communities through Quality Public Reporting, including the full primer; the infographic summary; and resources for parents, administrators, and local school board members here.

The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) recently released Empowering Parents and Communities through Quality Public Reporting; a series on public reporting of education data that includes a primer; federal spotlight; and resources for parents, administrators, and local school board members.

The nation's primary K — 12 education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), requires states to provide richer information on outcomes for all students, produce high - quality public reports, and rethink their accountability systems to provide transparency and value to the public.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

If your tap water source is public, however, the EPA is required to send an annual water quality report to its residents disclosing this information.

He is actively engaged with many stakeholders as part of Ernst & Young's commitment to enhancing the public's trust in professional services firms and in the quality of financial reporting.

External data on EY's audit quality and performance, including recent Public Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB») reports on EY;

CCA directed me to a 2013 report — funded in part by the company and GEO — that claimed private prisons could save states as much as 59 percent over public prisons without sacrificing quality.

In March and April, ABC aired a series of television reports on BPI's product, raising questions about its quality and sparking a public relations furor that roiled social media, consumer advocates and the nation's beef industry.

The Public Accounts Committee Reports in 2000, 2005 and the most recent, «Reducing Healthcare Associated Infection in Hospitals in England, Fifty - second Report of Session 2008 - 09», and the influential «Dr. Fosters Hospital Guide - Focus on Patient Safety» in 2009, outlined serious concerns about quality of patient care and the need to combat infection.

This report finds no evidence that ownership restrictions have produced a public benefit in terms of the quality, cost or accessibility of hospital care.

When Danish architect and urbanist, Jan Gehl, was invited to undertake a study of the quality of London's public spaces in 2003, his final report, Public Spaces and Public Life — London (2004), noted a particular absence of children and the elderly on the streets of the capital: of all people observed in the case studies, 95 % were between 15 — 64 years opublic spaces in 2003, his final report, Public Spaces and Public Life — London (2004), noted a particular absence of children and the elderly on the streets of the capital: of all people observed in the case studies, 95 % were between 15 — 64 years oPublic Spaces and Public Life — London (2004), noted a particular absence of children and the elderly on the streets of the capital: of all people observed in the case studies, 95 % were between 15 — 64 years oPublic Life — London (2004), noted a particular absence of children and the elderly on the streets of the capital: of all people observed in the case studies, 95 % were between 15 — 64 years of age.

A report by Policy Exchange published last week claimed that public sector workers are better off than their private sector counterparts in terms of hours worked, retirement age and pension quality.

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At 10 a.m., members of New York Communities for Change, Alliance for Quality Education, Public School Parents «call out Families for Excellent Schools» reports and ads that promote racist discipline practices, and criminalize Black and Latino children by playing fast and loose with facts,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

An independent report into the statistical measurement of the UK's public services has concluded that the system needs to be more accurate and should start to measure quality.

Its charter is to «review all city information policies, including but not limited to, policies regarding public access to city produced or maintained information, particularly, computerized information; (ii) the quality, structure, and costs to the public of such information; (iii) agency compliance with the various notice, comment, and hearing provisions of the charter and other laws applicable to city agencies; and (iv) the usefulness and availability of city documents, reports, and publications.»

A report from the Commons» public accounts committee says the quality of the government's sprawling websites has barely improved in the last five years and is critical of their management.

«Governor if you want to run for president, having water contamination in New York, with some of the best water quality in the country, not a good thing,» Avella said.Multiple news sources, including public radio, have reported that Cuomo was soon to permit fracking on a limited basis in communities that desire fracking.

If you want to know what happened to it, take a look at the Department of Health's first annual report on the «End of life care strategy» (62 full colour pages) which asserts that the initiative is off to a great start: it is establishing a National Implementation Advisory Board and a National Coalition to raise public awareness, has published a set of Quality Markers and core competencies, built monitoring into Operation Finance Guidance, tendered for a pilot of a national survey and begun the process to set up an Intelligence Network.

... The report was commissioned by the Alliance for Quality Education, an education research and advocacy group that is calling the current public school system «a tale of two systems,» echoing Bill de Blasio's «tale of two cities» campaign slogan.

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• Consumers agree with health policy experts in principle that public reporting requirements for doctors would improve health care quality.

One of the quality measures in the U.S. News methodology rewards hospitals that participate in STS Public Reporting Online for CABG, AVR, and CABG+AVR.

Public reporting of health care quality and patient safety information has reached unprecedented levels, allowing patients to play an increasing role in their own health care decisions; however, as access to information becomes easier, it is important for patients to know where to look for the most accurate and reliable data.

«Air quality is leading environmental threat to public health: Switzerland tops the report while India falls to the bottom tier.»

To build adequate, equitable, and sustainable financing with effective incentives for quality additional resources will need to come from a combination of public and private resources, with the largest portion of funding coming from public investments, the report says.

The damning OIG report showed that important public - health information was held back by Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, and evidence also suggests that critical press releases were altered, making them contradict scientific fact.

Lead report author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute and associate professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.»

Several performance reporting systems now report publicly on aspects of quality such as surgical outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of health care organizations have also assessed the equity of care provided by those organizations.

The most striking discovery was the large gap between substantial support for financial incentives to improve quality and the widespread opposition to public reporting, which was seen by doctors as potentially punitive.

Although three out of four primary care doctors support the use of financial rewards as an incentive for better medical care, most of these physicians oppose public reporting of such quality assessments at the individual or group level, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the March / April issue of Health Affairs.

The physicians also worried that both pay - for - performance and public - reporting programs could cause doctors to shun sick, poor or non-compliant patients and to neglect un-measured but equally important areas of quality.

Only 32 percent of responding internists strongly supported (5 percent) or somewhat supported (27 percent) public reporting of individual physicians» quality scores, and only 45 percent agreed strongly (8 percent) or somewhat (37 percent) with public reporting on the medical group level, even if the measures involved were accurate.

Over the past several years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have reported hospital quality measures on the Hospital Compare website, providing the public with a way to compare hospital performance.

Under the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, public water systems that provide you with tap water, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effects.

The survey measured a number of qualities, including likability, public awareness and influence, reported Ace Showbiz.

Its existence announced a mere month before its world premiere, the film's first public NYFF screening — which was held simultaneously with its first press screening — was attended by a number of journalists who were there not to evaluate the quality of Poitras» work, but to report the revelations contained in its final scene.

President Reagan's criticisms of the nation's schools and his proposals for improving the quality of education are misleading the American public and threatening to reverse 20 years of progress made possible by federal support of education, according to a report by 19 education and civil - rights leaders.

First, our evaluation found that families reported obtaining higher - quality services in a private setting with a McKay voucher than they had received in public schools.

More intriguing, however, is news that the report will discuss «how to expand school choice to increase equity and create a market within the public sector for school quality.»

Quality Counts 2010 is the 14th edition of Education Week's annual report card on American public education as viewed through the lens of the states» education policies and outcomes.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Despite the frequency with which public programs rely on beneficiaries to hold the quality of services accountable, Sara Mead asserts in an Education Sector report that, «accountability to parents alone is insufficient to protect the public interest or ensure taxpayer money is used well.»

A recent report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) tracked teacher retention across the Miami - Dade County Public Schools as one of several indicators correlated with teacher qQuality (NCTQ) tracked teacher retention across the Miami - Dade County Public Schools as one of several indicators correlated with teacher qualityquality.

The public is largely disenchanted with the way the federal No Child Left Behind Act measures student learning and teacher quality, and it would like greater input into the law's implementation, a report scheduled for release this week by the Public Education Network public is largely disenchanted with the way the federal No Child Left Behind Act measures student learning and teacher quality, and it would like greater input into the law's implementation, a report scheduled for release this week by the Public Education Network Public Education Network finds.

The preview for a release event says that the report will discuss «how to expand school choice to increase equity and create a market within the public sector for school quality.»

The Public Education Forum of Mississippi presented a report to legislators indicating that «Mississippi's teacher workforce is fast being depleted and the quality of education will be jeopardized if action is not taken to attract, support, and retain educators.»