Sentences with phrase «about accountability for»

Are we actually having a serious conversation about accountability for sexual violence here?

Serious questions remain about accountability for EAL learners, EAL admissions to school, particularly mid-phase, and the way funding is allotted and deployed.

With the exception of isolated pockets, like the Florida Virtual School (where funding of some online courses will soon be tied to passing an external exam), the conversation about accountability for online credit recovery has not been nearly as robust and far - reaching, in either a political or a pragmatic sense.

Much has been said about charter schools in Michigan and Detroit, about accountability for voucher programs, and even the views of DeVos's family members!

But accountability is not just about the obvious scam, it is about accountability for community standards.

Not exact matches

He has been outspoken about the state of venture capital on his widely read blog, «Above the Crowd,» where he advocated for rigorous vetting among start - up investors, and supported public accountability for technology companies.

My objectives for doing this first are about accountability,» Ganek said Tuesday at the Delivering Alpha conference sponsored by CNBC and Institutional Investor.

So you made a mistake, you took personal accountability for it and you plan to be honest about it — but how do you approach the injured party?

If Twitter is serious about being a force for good in the world and a haven from harassment for its users, it will have to start by making it harder to tweet without any sort of accountability.

Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

He goes on to say that, in the absence of a willingness to learn about the market, investors should at least put their money with a qualified registered advisor so that there is some accountability for the advice they receive.

In a May 12 column on Bloomberg's website headlined HOLDING OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE, he apologized for the «error,» but minimized its significance and said nothing about his own knowledge or accountability.

In a Facebook Live for The Goal Standard Challenge, accountability expert Ali Schiller talks about the best ways to respond to resistance.

For 25 - year - old Myles Reville, it's about accountability — he enjoys being responsible for making the tough calls for his business, a strength he learned from coaching sailiFor 25 - year - old Myles Reville, it's about accountability — he enjoys being responsible for making the tough calls for his business, a strength he learned from coaching sailifor making the tough calls for his business, a strength he learned from coaching sailifor his business, a strength he learned from coaching sailing.

Center for Political Accountability is a non-partisan organization created to bring transparency and accountability to corporate political spending and to inform shareholders about corporate politicalAccountability is a non-partisan organization created to bring transparency and accountability to corporate political spending and to inform shareholders about corporate politicalaccountability to corporate political spending and to inform shareholders about corporate political expenditures.

The promise of connecting coffee farmers to coffee drinkers is an extraordinary leap in transparency and accountability, and it speaks volumes about Starbucks commitment to creating a product that is good for people and for the planet.»

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But adding clarity about responsibility and accountability in existing ad hoc federal - provincial co-ordination mechanisms for crisis management would focus minds, help build trust and clarify accountability and promote co-operation.

You'd think the same would hold true for a governing Conservative party that came to office in 2006 on a platform of transparency and accountability, or the three opposition parties who make daily denunciations about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's penchant of secrecy.

It will take courage to open dialog about our mistakes, our failures and take accountability for them.

The Update also included a large number of spending initiatives (about $ 10 billion over six years), thereby ensuring that these initiatives would be included in Main Estimates for 2018 - 19 as part of efforts to increase transparency and accountability between the budget expenses and the Main Estimates expenditures.

Yet apparently he has no qualms about signing on to a letter designed to promote an egregious proposal that, if negotiated through NAFTA, would impose US - style legislation on Canada that would undermine the accountability and responsibility of Canadian internet platforms and search engines for the content they host and publish.

While accountability and recovery groups for men abound, safe spaces for women to talk about their porn addictions are essentially non-existent.

Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.

Following a storm of criticism about the lack of financial accountability on the part of many of the TV evangelists, the groups in the l970s established the Evangelical Council for Financial Acountability to develop financial accounting and reporting principles to which all members must adhere — a kind of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.

In the end Christians let Jesus be held accountable for their sins, so Christianity is really about avoiding accountability and passing it off on Jesus.

It may not be what «the new» mantra for «church» is, but going back to ministry after being away for a time has shown me that to the many that are disenfranchised the «new» way or the pie in the sky of what the church should be... is ending up with a lack of loyalty to the cause, a lack of accountability to leaders — move on if you don't like this or that, complain about whatever and never really commit to the hard things.

The Christian «vision» that frames this principle disposes practical thinkers to adopt a «realist» stance in public life, resisting both naïve illusions about the possibilities for human goodness and cynical dismissals of moral accountability.

There are other behavioral management techniques that are sometimes used as well, but for the most part, there is very little about an accountability group that is overtly «Christians.»

It's a project that the company had been working on ever since the partners heard what B Corps are all about: for - profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

«Keeping a food journal is helpful for accountability and being more mindful of eating habits, but I don't like how most food journaling apps are all about tracking calories and macros,» says Rachael Hartley (RD, LD, CDE, CLT).

Everything Glassie wrote in 2012 is still true, from the conditioning (funny how our team complains about fatigue the most) to injuries to laughing while losing to nepotism for coaching hires to failed draft picks without any accountability.

I will be blogging about this for accountability yikes!

He's learning about consequences for behavior and accountability.

«Another boy then asked why they were going around collecting trash, and this gave us an opportunity for an organic conversation about our classroom community, responsibility, and accountability.

Blame - free accountability for our behaviour and our willingness to do something about it is critical to recovery.

The former President, he said when asked to account for his stewardship during his era rather replied that anyone seeking to know about what he did in office with the monies from the state coffers must consult the Akonadi shrine since that is where there is «genuine accountability».

«Making public data available for re-use is about increasing accountability and transparency and letting people create new, innovative ways of using it,» Sir Tim Berners - Lee, the man widely credited with inventing the internet and a key figure in the development on the site, said.

Happy to put the kettle on, but am asking you and The Observer to withdraw the claims made about our liberal democratic credentials, because I believe in liberal democratic media accountability, and am delighted has processes in place for that to be handled.

Moe, who has been writing about education reform for more than two decades, argued last year that «The teachers unions are the raw power behind the politics of blocking [education accountability reform].

For many voters, this was a much more fundamental choice about democratic accountability and responsive institutions.

But it is the prospects for the local accountability offered by the press that many commentators worry about most — both in the UK and the US — if their financial decline continues.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

If, say, questions about austerity or the regulation of banks are in the public eye, different ideologies will try to win the debate by appealing to the virtues of private enterprise, or to the need for public transparency and accountability, or to the greater redistribution of wealth.

Under neo-liberalism it's become quite clear that we can drown in proceduralism — there's no problem keeping people busy with paperwork and accountability, or in the case of deliberative democrats for example, we can have important debates about how to redraw and then defend the borders of a democratic country legitimately — but if all those things take up all our time, we'll look up from our papers and our borders one day, and see that there isn't anything left to fight over.

«The reports provide a much greater insight than any information already available about the UCP [Universal Credit programme], there are strong arguments for transparency and accountability for a programme which may affect 11 million UK citizens and process billions of pounds, which has had numerous reported failings in its governance.»

Asked during a May 24 press event in Albany about the lack of transparency and accountability for SUNY's nonprofit corporations, Cuomo pointed out that they were set up before he became governor.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

But a spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn said: «It appears the Prime Minister, by asking the new Home Secretary to conduct an inquiry separately without any of the clear processes and powers that we are talking about, is trying to avoid accountability and clarity about this decision.

What I can't stand about Blonde's argument over public services, is his failure to realize that private property in healthcare budgets is regressive because it lowers the quality of care for the sickest and poorest by depriving them of resources they need, and removes democratic accountability from healthcare.