Sentences with phrase «accountability for achieving»

We also began the development of what would become the Close the Gap National Indigenous Health Equality Targets to further one of the Social Justice Report 2005 recommendations - that Australian governments utilise targets and benchmarks to not only provide an end in sight to the Indigenous health equality gap, but also to ensure accountability for achieving the goal of health equality.

My recommendations, reproduced in full on page 9, encapsulated a human rights based approach to ending the Indigenous health crisis — one that utilises targets and benchmarks to not only provide an end in sight, but also to ensure accountability for achieving the goal of health equality.

* Assumed accountability for achieving defined revenue targets through personal involvement and understanding of every aspect of the sales...

Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones.

Not exact matches

Much of the groundwork achieved by sustainable investment firms such as Walden has been provided by the Center for Political Accountability (CPA), which collaborates with sustainable shareowners to persuade corporations to disclose political expenditures, including payments to trade associations such as the Chamber.

We believe that this approach is the best way to achieve maximum accountability while retaining privacy for our clients.

Accountability for decisions drives markets to solve problems and achieve efficiency.

One of the most important tasks is to achieve true participatory democracy in order to force nation - states to accept more accountability vis - à - vis global forces for the interests of their people.

The National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) has created the NAYS Coach Accountability and Enforcement Policies to help local NAYS Member Organizations achieve the highest standards for its NAYS Coaches.

POTTERThat's, again, why we really — we're working towards licensure in Virginia and achieve licensure for certified professional midwives in Virginia because it creates a mechanism of accountability that not only upholds public safety and allows an overview of competency and a community standard, but it also creates a much better mechanism for review of practices of midwives or any health care providers.

The campaigns appreciate your participation to achieve what they feel is a great need for more accountability and transparency in their primary debate process.

According to Series lead Professor Boyd Swinburn from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, «The key to meeting WHO's target to achieve no further increase in obesity rates by 2025 will be strengthening accountability systems to support government leadership, constraining the role of the food industry in the formation of public policy, and encouraging civil society to create a demand for healthy food environments.»

There are loads of online groups (social media in particular is great for this) that discuss ideas and help to add accountability to what you're trying to achieve.

It says that testing and accountability, by themselves, can not lift the United States to the level of accomplishment reached by the world's highest - achieving countries, an extraordinary standard for evaluating a policy innovation.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveAccountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveaccountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

First, it advances specific ideas for how state accountability systems can be redesigned to demand strong performance and growth from high - achieving students while meeting the requirements set forth in ESSA.

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

Yes, not all that long ago AFT advocated for an ESEA that «judges school effectiveness — the only valid and fair basis for accountability — by measuring the progress that schools achieve with the same students over time.»

We need an accountability system that holds schools and school systems accountable for all of their students, including the lowest - and highest - achieving.

In these states, non-profit charter school boards fought for equal funding and autonomy from regulation, while embracing accountability and acknowledging the need for low - achieving schools to close down shop.

To achieve scale with quality in Albany has required spending of about $ 500,000 per school for start - up grants, with an annual central office expense (for the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability and the Brighter Choice Foundation) of around $ 1 million.

Sonnemann adds that it is this extra layer of accountability - the mentees are also asked to assess how the relationship is going - means the professional learning program is valued as something that should be achieving outcomes for all involved.

The Commission will examine factors in raising student achievement from prekindergarten through high school including: state accountability and curriculum requirements; model programs to improve student achievement beginning in early learning programs and continuing throughout high school; strategies for every student to achieve at grade level such as intervention and support systems; and policies to improve student attendance and retention.

There is already considerable evidence from several places — such as Tennessee and Florida, where value - added analysis has been used for accountability purposes — that low - achieving students are the main beneficiaries of the changes that occur when these techniques are implemented.

Achieve, which normally assesses accountability systems at the state level for «quality and coherence,» praised the Montgomery County assessments as rigorous, high - quality measures that are good predictors of students» performance on state - level tests.

Created by the nation's governors and business leaders, Achieve, Inc., (www.achieve.org) is a bipartisan, non-profit organization that helps states raise academic standards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for postsecondary education, work and citizenship.

Another problem is that the money goes directly to individual schools, so reforms are schoolwide, not districtwide, making lasting change more difficult to achieve, said Keith Owen, Colorado's associate education commissioner for accountability and improvement.

One study suggests that the inappropriate reliance on high - stakes testing likely exacerbates the consistent problem of the exclusion of low achieving and special education students from state assessments used for school and district accountability.

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

For each accountability performance criterion specified in paragraph (14) and each performance indicator specified in paragraph (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner, commencing with 2002 - 2003 school year test administration results, shall determine whether each public school, charter school and school district has achieved adequate yearly progress as set forth in paragraph (5) of this subdivision.

Where school reform is needed, choice with accountability works better to achieve the wide range of goals we have for education than a free market ideology that relies on choice alone.

In the lowest achieving 30 percent of schools, there are also inspections of textbook adequacy, but in other schools the data are merely for public accountability.

A functionality framework for educational organizations: Achieving accountability at scale.

Candidate identifies accountability requirements for ELL success and prescribes specific actions by stakeholders to achieve ELL learning goals.

The notion of statewide testing started taking shape in 1968 with the passage of the Educational Accountability Act which instructed the Commissioner of Education to expand the Department of Education's capability for constructive educational change and services to achieve greater quality in education.

Winston - Salem / Forsyth schools are keenly aware of the potential for poverty to hold their schools back from achieving high grades in the state's new accountability system, and so they've taken matters into their own hands.

We've collaborated with the Collaboration for Effective Educators Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR) Center and The National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI) as well as launched a diverse coalition of organizations to support states in their efforts to develop teachers and leader who can successfully prepare students with disabilities to achieve college and career - ready standards.

Achieve released a new online tracking tool that «summarizes states» long term goals for student achievement and graduation rates, along with the accountability indicators and weighting included in states» plans submitted under ESSA.»

Some parents of high - achieving students feel like nobody cares and that the focus for accountability is on the kids that are way below level or right on the bubble.

The Council of Chief State School Officers and Education Strategy Group released recommendations for states as they develop ESSA accountability systems that «value college and career readiness» and «better support all students in achieving success after high school.»

In this role, he worked with other departments and divisions in government as well as with school jurisdictions and post-secondary institutions to achieve greater levels of accountability for the purpose of achieving improvement.

The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) has repeatedly gone on record debunking and factually proving that charters are public schools, kids in charters are achieving academically, charters are non-profits, comply with federal and state laws, are held to exceptionally high standards of accountability, and supports anyone from the community whose primary concern is advocating and creating high quality education opportunities for students.

The strong accountability at the heart of the public charter school movement has helped to make charters successful at achieving great outcomes for students.

State education governance structures create a framework for the interplay of authority and accountability, dictating how directives are issued and how authority is balanced with the responsibility to ensure that directives are appropriately carried out and desired results are achieved.

This year CCSA will continue to move full throttle to advocate for systems that achieves equity, transparency and accountability for all public school children in California.

Next Generation State Data System: What is Needed for Next Generation Assessment and Accountability Systems; Prepared by Nancy J. Smith, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Data Quality Campaign for Achieve, Inc..

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

Extra learning opportunities and remediation programs for students are imperatives to achieving true accountability.

As states transition from No Child Left Behind to using their new authority under ESSA, Anne Wicks and William McKenzie of the George W. Bush Institute write in The 74 that it is critical for all stakeholders — federal officials, advocacy organizations, and policymakers — provide proper oversight to make sure states «implement their plans with fidelity and support the education leaders who use accountability as a key tool to help all kids achieve.»