Sentences with phrase «accountability of public funds»

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As publicly - funded agencies with significant enforcement powers conferred by legislation, we are concerned that this last - minute cancellation of a public event demonstrates disregard for public accountability and openness to scrutiny.

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.

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.

Former Deputy Power Minister, John Jinapor, says a claim by the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) that 50 % of oil - funded projects are nonexistent is false.

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.

Adeosun explained that the policy was expected to «Increase exposure of financial or financial related crimes; support the fight against financial crimes and corruption; improved level of public confidence in public entities; enhance transparency and accountability in the management of public funds; improve Nigeria's Open Government Ranking and Ease of Doing Business Indicators; and recover public funds that can be deployed to finance Nigeria's infrastructure deficit.»

The President pledged that more persons who have abused the public trust will be exposed and brought to justice soon, adding that his government was committed to re-establishing former standards of accountability and probity in the management of public funds which were jettisoned under past administrations.

What is notable is what is not in the agreement — legislative compensation overhaul, desperately needed stronger ethics enforcement with greater public transparency of votes, comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing that closes the LLC loophole and bans all personal use of campaign funds, strong disclosure and accountability for all executive and legislative discretionary lump sum funds, and a commitment to undertake the necessary examination and full - scale overhaul of our ethics and campaign finance laws.

«The public deserves to see in place a robust and independent system of school accountability that does not allow those who are privileged to be running state funded schools to operate within their own secret garden.

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

This means that the institution, whether a public university or a private sponsor, must establish a human research participant protection program (HRPPP) with multiple levels of responsibility and accountability, from the IRB (which, by federal law, prospectively reviews all federally funded human subjects research protocols) to the chief administrator (Chancellor or CEO) to the investigator, staff, and students, to the research participants.

Good stewards Responding to critics, Smith and like - minded colleagues have repeatedly argued that they simply want to increase transparency and accountability for taxpayer - supported scientific research, and be good stewards of public funds.

In some quarters, parents decry the over-testing of their children, for example, whereas others point out the need for testing for accountability over the use of public funds.

Hill's paper tackles the other side of the coin of the costs of online learning, as he works through the ideal funding system that would promote innovation but strike the right balance with the need for accountability for public funds.

Trac objectives In response to these concerns, the «Transparency Review» was established by the government following the 1998 comprehensive spending review in order to develop a better understanding of the shortfall in funding across all university activities, and to ensure a greater level of accountability for public funds.

[xii] With the pressure of federal accountability removed by the passage of ESSA, states may feel even less need to adequately fund public education.

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!).

Publicly funded but privately managed, charter schools are legally held to a far higher degree of accountability under the law in exchange for freedom from many of the rules that govern the operation of public schools.

These are just some of the accountability questions lawmakers and taxpayers ask of any school choice program that receives public funding.

Moreover, this complexity has led to great variance in the amount of funding that is provided to local communities across the country relative to their population of disadvantaged students, and the system's increasing bureaucratic complexity has clouded transparency and public understanding, thereby undermining accountability for the largest federal K - 12 program.

Public - television stations would need to reduce their service, or in some cases, shut down completely, if the level of federal funding to public broadcasting is cut by the amount recently proposed, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability OPublic - television stations would need to reduce their service, or in some cases, shut down completely, if the level of federal funding to public broadcasting is cut by the amount recently proposed, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Opublic broadcasting is cut by the amount recently proposed, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The Public's Alternative The public strongly prefers state and local control of education: 70 % or more supports states and local school districts deciding funding, textbook, accountability, and testing iPublic's Alternative The public strongly prefers state and local control of education: 70 % or more supports states and local school districts deciding funding, textbook, accountability, and testing ipublic strongly prefers state and local control of education: 70 % or more supports states and local school districts deciding funding, textbook, accountability, and testing issues.

This type of true public charter school would help silence the critics of certain charter schools that may be reinforcing racial and economic segregation, stripping control from local communities, «creaming» students, and inhibiting transparency of funding and accountability.

At the same time, he has dramatically increased public funding for privately owned charter schools, which only serve 1 percent of Connecticut students, without imposing any accountability.

This kind of taxpayer accountability that must accompany public funds would not be beneficial for either religious institutions or the government.

A lot of change has happened in California public education over the last decade, from standards - based instruction to funding formulas to local control and accountability to scorecards and systems of support.

Furthermore, in accepting public funds, religious schools run the risk of being mired in political debates, battles over regulation and accountability, and disruptive inquiries into their school standards in admission, curriculum, and hiring practices.

The law, passed as a part of the budget bill last summer, provides little in the way of accountability for private schools while reducing funds for public education at a time when schools are seeing sharp reductions in funding over a years - long period.

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.

Tuck said his campaign will focus on ensuring that Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding formula — which provides additional money to districts with large numbers of poor children, English learners and foster youth — is really funneling money to the neediest students and that its accountability measures are more understandable for parents and the public.

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.

Giving state funding to schools the state does not run, she worries, would weaken the «public» side of accountability.

CACR 7, giving control of public school accountability, budgeting, and state funding formula to the General Court.

Washington — About 85 percent of renowned teachers disagree that the federal government should provide greater school choice through vouchers, a new survey finds - and almost all of the surveyed teachers believe that charter schools and private schools that receive federal funds should be subject to the same accountability measures as public schools.

«If we have a publicly funded system, everyone has to be part of the public accountability part of that,» he said.

LSUNow.com: Opinion: Lack of funding, charter accountability detrimental to public schools http://bit.ly/2lRD6xP

Critics of the publicly - funded vouchers say the program — a favorite of school choice advocates — would spend millions in state dollars over the next decade on primarily religious private schools exempted from many of the accountability and anti-discrimination measures imposed on traditional public schools.

Obviously that is eight too many for WTU, which is suing over the use of state funding for the schools, as well as their «lack of public accountability.»

The taxpayer funded tuition payments will go to private schools which are not required to adhere to the state accountability standards required of the federally - funded public schools.

«Charter schools are public schools, funded by local and state taxpayers, so it is important that accountability standards are based on fair comparisons,» says Mike Crossey, president of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS], 2015).

Every school enrolling publicly funded students — traditional public schools, charter schools or private schools in the choice program — should be part of this new accountability system.

School business officials across the country use ActPoint KPI to manage the increasing demand for transparency and accountability in their use of public funds.

«We need to fairly fund kids across all types of public schools and ensure that all students have access to great teachers, leaders, and schools, and that there is transparency and meaningful accountability for results.»

Last year, the NAACP passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools until problems with accountability and the loss of funding from traditional public schools are addressed.

If House Bill 1637 is enacted, public funds would be used to send students to private schools — which are only approved by the Department of Education for attendance and not curriculum, without the same accountability standards as the public schools — violating the requirements of state law and the state Constitution.

Under the Texas Education Code (TEC), section 42.006, originally passed in 1995, the Texas Legislature requires TEA to collect a range of student data via the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) program that is used as the basis for education policy decisions, for accountability and determining school funding, and — on a strictly FERPA - compliant basis — for education research.

Yet to this day, I've never heard anyone say that these schools drain funds from Texas A&M; take the best students from the University of Texas; operate without accountability; or that students at the schools shouldn't receive public funds because of the schools» religious affiliations.

The NAACP report documents the consequences of this abandonment: inadequate funding of urban schools, a lack of accountability and oversight for charter school, most of which are concentrated in urban communities, the disproportionate exclusionary discipline of Black students, high teacher turnover, and an absence of teachers of color in both charters and traditional public schools.

A January report from the Tennessee Comptroller's Offices of Research and Education Accountability (OREA) spotlights the unique challenges Tennessee's public charter schools face as a result of inequitable policies for locally allocated capital funds, the main source of facility funding for traditional Tennessee public schools.