Sentences with phrase «accountability for state»

This project will examine the methodology and models of implementing international obligations and the monitoring of and accountability for state obligations.

In 2010, he chaired for Washington Governor Christine Gregoire her Higher Education Funding Task Force, and in 2011 he helped advocate for the successful adoption by the legislature of the task force's recommendations, including tuition - setting authority and increased accountability for the state's public universities and for the nation's first private - public funded endowment to enable more students to attend college.

The Hillsborough inquests demonstrated the vital role that lawyers play in securing accountability for state failings and justice for victims.

The site quoted Dan LaDue, assistant director for accountability for the state School Reform Office, as saying that his office would send closure notices to the schools ranked in the bottom 5 percent on state exams from 2014 through 2016.

School districts in Washington that show consistently poor performance should be subject to state takeover, monetary penalties, or other consequences, concludes a state panel established to devise a system of accountability for the state's schools.

The objective of the course is to make you a more aware, conscious, wise and discerning consumer, who takes accountability for their state of health.

He is being lambasted for standing up and taking accountability for the state's financial situatin.

Given the new frontier of accountability for states using measures of CCR, this motto is an example of how to embrace data outside of formal state accountability to focus on a specific goal and group of students.

called ESSA a milestone for K - 12 policy, as it establishes a proper balance of autonomy and accountability for states.

Travis Kavulla, a former president of National Association of Regulatory and Utility Commissioners, noted on Twitter that the Clean Power Plan also moved energy decision - making authority at the state level away from regulators and toward governors, creating more flexibility but less accountability for states.

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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.

«Today's agreement by the State of Qatar is a strong first step in a process for commercial transparency and accountability, and we remain committed to working with the administration to address the harmful trade violations by the United Arab Emirates as well,» Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a statement.

The number of such states would be even higher, according to the Constitutional Accountability Center, if not for important rulings by three federal appeals courts.

Like the July 2015 recommendation, the February release aimed to ensure greater accountability for employers by stating the importance of expanding the number of scenarios in which joint employer relationships exist.

Lastly, the team examined the connection between character and swearing on a larger, cultural level by comparing the 2012 Integrity Analyses of 48 U.S. states from the Center for Public Integrity, which measured the level of transparency and accountability of local governments, to how frequently residents of that state swore in their Facebook posts.

Lauren Michaels, legislative affairs manager for the California Police Chiefs Association, which donated $ 20,000 to the campaign against Prop 64, noted that her organization supports medical marijuana in the state but opposes the proposed recreational system because «there's much less oversight and accountability for complying with state regulations.»

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«Simply put,» Schneiderman wrote, under the current law «a defendant pardoned by the President for a serious Federal Crime could be freed from all accountability under federal and state criminal law.»

I am proud to announce that Maryland has become the first state in the country to pass legislation that requires transparency and accountability for social -LSB-...]

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

In 2009, Joyce Meyer Ministries received accreditation from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), which stated that in terms of the ministry's financial accountability, transparency, board governance and fundraising practices, it had met their requirements of «responsible stewaAccountability (ECFA), which stated that in terms of the ministry's financial accountability, transparency, board governance and fundraising practices, it had met their requirements of «responsible stewaaccountability, transparency, board governance and fundraising practices, it had met their requirements of «responsible stewardship».

When the Penn State scandal broke, prominent evangelical leaders were very, very quick to call for accountability, to call for change.

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.

But it ended up «sending shockwaves through the religious community,» stated the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) at the time,...

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

Newton's comments leading up to the Panthers game and protest reflected him wanting to bring unity, but said his desire for accountability applied to both the black community and police officers and that there was a state of oppression in the black community but also that «as black people, we have to do right by ourselves.

Additional Accountability Requirements: None Additional Content Requirements: None Guidance Materials: The state Department of Education produced the Local School Wellness Policy Guide for Development (2005), which advocates a three - step approach to developing local school wellness policies that involve School Health Councils.

Additional Accountability Requirements: The State Board of Education amended its Health, Wellness, and Safety Policy in 2006 to require the Department of Education to create a plan for measuring implementation of the wellness policy.

the State Department of Education reviews each LEA's wellness policy and checklist for completeness and accountability.

Additional accountability requirements: N.J.S.A. 18A: 33 - 15 to 18 (2007) requires new school districts participating in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs to submit their local policies to the state Department of Agriculture for a compliance check with the state's NJ School Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond Section 204.

Through federal and state legislative efforts Mr. Klaas promotes prevention programs for at - risk youth, stronger sentencing for violent criminals and governmental accountability and responsibility.

While most schools allow IEP teams to determine classroom testing accommodations, there are typically strict guidelines for using accommodations during state - level accountability testing.

In setting limits, states try to balance student need and fair access to testing with the need for school accountability for improvement.

And licensure on the state level allows for local accountability and a process of accountability related to competence and professional conduct.

As states prepare to implement ESSA in the upcoming school year, many — like Kentucky — have been gathering feedback from stakeholders and creating state accountability plans, and school districts are beginning to identify priorities for funding at the school level.

Women should be aware of the state of their marriage and can take some accountability for their husband's actions.

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».

In language that seems calibrated to knock at Cuomo's soft spots for economic development and government accountability, the group writes that the economy of the state is being hurt by the delay and claim that member companies are now «exhausted» when it comes to trusting the state.

It is time for the state to drop the costly gimmicks of «accountability» testing and charter schools and do what works: fully - funded, integrated public schools.

A year before the indictment of top Cumo aides and important Upstate business leaders, leading transparency and fiscal watchdog groups warned that the state's use of a mixture of non-profit groups like Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, SUNY Polytechnic and SUNY Research Foundation to award business subsidy contracts «[b] lurred responsibility and reduced the accountability for decisions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.»

Cuomo was perhaps emboldened by a state inspector general's report released Wednesday, which found that ineffective management made CUNY «ripe for abuse,» and that millions had been given to top administrators «with no meaningful accountability.»

For the purpose of uniformity, accountability and transparency, members from Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission who have representatives from every state of the federation were recommended, as umpires and arbiters of the Federation Account, to play prominent roles during the meeting of the State Joint Local Government Accounts Allocation Commistate of the federation were recommended, as umpires and arbiters of the Federation Account, to play prominent roles during the meeting of the State Joint Local Government Accounts Allocation CommiState Joint Local Government Accounts Allocation Committee.

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.

The gist of our testimony was that the legislature should not appropriate any new funds for discretionary economic development programs until there are major transparency and accountability reforms, including a Database of Deals, Clean Contracting reforms and restrictions on campaign contributions from state -LSB-...]

So the Secretary of State for Health has today invited them to explain what steps they will take to strengthen their systems of accountability in the light of this report.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Election Law Committee Chair Michael Cusick and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh today announced the Assembly's approval of legislation to close the Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) loophole in the state's campaign finance laws in order to bring greater transparency and accountability to elections for public office in New York Sstate's campaign finance laws in order to bring greater transparency and accountability to elections for public office in New York StateState.

With GOProud's recent endorsement of Mitt Romney and the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's largest «gay Republican group» looking poised to also sell out the LGBT community (once again) by endorsing Romney who would be devastating to the fight for LGBT equality and who has unequivocally and repeatedly stated his opposition to almost every form of LGBT equality we seek its time to call these two group into accountability.

Only two decades ago it was regarded as unthinkable that parliament should have a role in this shadowy area of the State but the relationship has developed such that the Agencies now accept a greater level of accountability, and have greater respect for the independence of the ISC.

Kolb said the state's accountability to the public for economic development investments has even gone backward.

His fight for accountability and responsibility in all facets of state government have brought positive changes for New Yorkers.