Sentences with phrase «about public accountability»

President - elect Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education has renewed the debate about public accountability in school - choice programs.

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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.

In August 2007, 22 members of the House of Representatives asked George Bush to back away from the SPP because of their concerns that it may undermine U.S. sovereignty and their strong objections about important discussions continuing «out of public view and without congressional oversight or approval» or the «proper transparency and accountability.»

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.

This trial was about accountability, something doctors and nurses are held to by the boards that license them, something the public has a right to expect.

«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.

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.

Today he commented, «At a time when public concern about the place of religion in schools has never been higher, we need full accountability and transparency with respect to decisions as to which schools are funded.

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.

It is about improving accountability and transparency, increasing public revenue, effective expenditure, improving public financial management and managing debt sustainably.

«I certainly would want to bring more accountability to the people through getting more information out to the public in a more timely fashion about important matters like the county airport,» she said.

The Chairman of the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC), Joseph Winful, has expressed doubts about the capacity of the Heritage Fund in its present stage, to meet the needs of the Free Senior High School policy.

Why should our leaders be exempt from real - time accountability when so much more is at stake - big decisions about public policy, the use of your money, the course of our future?

«The comptroller's office is to me the independent voice to look out for taxpayers» interests and the issues we raised about oversight, proper checks and balances, transparency, it all speaks to the accountability agenda which I know the public expects the comptroller's office to be a forefront of.»

The worst news about the legislative session, from a public accountability standpoint, is that it was business as usual.

«If we want to talk about accountability, there's no better way to do that than to get out in a public forum and ask questions between people,» Katko said this morning at the Manlius Chamber of Commerce's annual candidates breakfast.

«Keeping the public informed about these uses of city funds is critical to government accountability.

Environmental groups have long raised questions about this track record, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office recently joined the chorus, releasing a report that charges the agency with taking actions that have «impeded... progress in helping assure the public of safe drinking water.»

IARC's absence and refusal to cooperate reinforces concerns about the Agency's commitment to transparency and accountability, and raises questions about its interest in producing cancer hazard assessments, which can have a meaningful impact on public health.»

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The data that are necessary to report out for public accountability are different from the data that a teacher needs to make daily decisions about helping a student master a concept.

State policymakers who wish to switch over to portability should think carefully not only about reporting requirements and accountability for private schools under portability, but also about the details of the fiscal transition, such as hold harmless rates, that could allow high poverty public schools now served with Title I time to adjust.

For a look at what the public thinks about testing and accountability and opting out and more, please read «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform ``

Paul Peterson interviews Robert Shapiro, an expert on public opinion, about how the partisan divide in education policy is shifting, as issues of school quality and accountability have produced «conflicted liberals,» at the same time that the presidential election is creating «conflicted conservatives.»

Further, it is unlikely that district authorizers will move beyond the regulatory - driven, compliance - based accountability systems that are the hallmark of public education or the troubling hit - and - miss formation of new schools that is raising questions about the ability of charter schools to deliver improvement on the scale that our country needs.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

In the end, even with these limits, about 2,000 parents requested transfers, says Phil Hansen, the chief accountability officer at the Chicago Public Schools.

Accountability's edge is undoubtedly due not only to widespread public support for the idea (see «What Americans Think about Their Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher unions.

While we lack comparable indicators of the public's knowledge of student performance from earlier periods, it seems that the accountability movement has succeeded in ensuring citizens have good information about key academic outcomes.

The history of public - education policy has been decades of state and local superintendents talking all about reform programs — without accountability.

There are proposals for new approaches to public governance, research findings on the efficacy of decentralized systems, comparisons of cities that are expanding choice, ideas for accountability and school supply, and disagreements about who should have ultimate authority.

Designing an effective charter school policy therefore requires attention to details about accountability and other features, such as whether enrollment in charters is unified with traditional public school enrollment processes and whether charter schools provide transportation for students.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

But we find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.

The extent of the deficits was revealed by BBC 5 Live Investigates and Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, has said that the numbers raise «serious concerns about the accountability» of academy trusts, which currently run more than half of England's secondary schools.

Josh McGee, the vice president of public accountability at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation said just last week that, «Pension reform shouldn't be about benefit cuts.

Teachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trust them!).

If entrepreneurs can be «too nice» in a public forum, self - styled reformers can be too vague — choosing to bang familiar drums like «teacher unions,» «school choice,» «accountability,» or «incentives» rather than talking clearly and concretely about the mechanics of reinventing K — 12 education.

Join Shael Polakow - Suransky, New York City Public Schools» chief accountability officer, and Rebecca Unterman, a research associate at MDRC, for a discussion about New York City's small schools, what the research says about their performance, and what makes them an effective option for NYC's disadvantaged students.

To that end, Smarick encourages private school leaders to think about three key areas of opportunity: building a school network structure, encouraging incubation of high - potential schools, and considering an authorizer model as a way to quell concerns over accountability to the public and policymakers.

Surely there are risks associated with drawing private schools into public accountability systems, but empirical evidence shows that downsides can be mitigated if policymakers are smart about how they design results - based accountability in choice programs of this kind.

John Austin made the comments in an email when asked about accountability of charter public schools.

Mike Petrilli has argued that about 10 percent of a state's public schools should be allowed to «opt out» of the dominant accountability system.

Personally, I've never found internal transparency meaningful as there isn't really any kind of internal accountability (in fact, «accountability» seems almost meaningless unless there is a public component, but I'll have to think more about that).

Policymakers and the public must immediately engage in an open and transparent community decision - making process about the best ways to use test scores and to develop accountability systems that fully support a broader, more accurate definition of college, career, and citizenship readiness that ensures equity and access for all students.

A common refrain I hear in the course of my reporting and writing about school vouchers — a program that is set to take a large bite out of our public coffers in North Carolina in the months and years ahead — is that at the end of the day, it's the parents who should be the enforcers of accountability for this publicly funded effort to shift state money into private schools.

While this lack of expertise is not disqualifying in itself, her responses to questions at her Senate confirmation hearing about fundamental education functions such as the federal requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and accountability for public funds were unsettling to educators across the country.

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However, all had deep concerns about the lack of charter transparency, accountability, and their fiscal impact on public schools.

When I talk about the use of data in education (and specifically school accountability) I tend to get one of two reactions — it's seen as either a pet project, at best peripheral to, and at worst a distraction from, school improvement strategies; or that I'm a cog in an (evil) technocratic takeover of public education.