Sentences with phrase «administration over the accountability»

Obama's climate agenda has attracted criticism from congressional Republicans who have been hammering the administration over the accountability and transparency of its global warming efforts.

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The President remains committed to transparency and accountability in governance and has worked over the past years to make that a cornerstone of his administration.

His reaction came on the heels of a report by the Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, which revealed how over N11 trillion meant for the provision of electricity supply was allegedly squandered by the administrations of former Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar» Adua and Jonathan.

In Ontario, Canada, one of the great PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) success stories, the current provincial administration took over from one that had instituted a province - wide curriculum and matching assessments, along with a tough accountability system.

Over my career, going from being a teacher to being in the administration, I am ever more conscious of the importance of the improvement part of the accountability system, and making sure that folks are paying good attention there.

Earlier this month, Dropout Nation mentioned the dismay among the Civil Rights faction of the school reform movement over the Obama administration's effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions.

I think in the early years of Bennett's administration he alienated a lot of support from teachers in Indiana in part because he was so accountability - oriented... That relationship seems to have recovered a bit over time as he's made substantial efforts in the last two years to foster better relationships with school corporations and teachers and to help them implement their teacher accountability policies under Senate Enrolled Act 1, but he never fully recovered from the first couple of years.

After all, it was centrist Democrat reformers (along with liberal Democrat reform allies) who pushed the administration early on to call for a speedy reauthorization of No Child, and stood by over the past year as Duncan and his team at the U.S. Department of Education have engaged in what can be best called a misinformation campaign that has denigrated No Child's accountability measures as being broken.

One of the losses Democrats are sorest over is their accountability amendment, which the Obama administration hoped would be included in the final legislation.

Education reform in K - 12 schools has become politically fraught, dividing teachers unions, one of which endorsed Clinton during her 2008 presidential run, from Democrats in the Obama administration over issues such as teacher tenure, performance evaluations and school accountability.

As Dropout Nation has reported ad nauseam over the past four years, the administration has engaged in an exercise of shoddy policymaking that has damaged systemic reform by encouraging traditionalists in states such as Texas and California to weaken and ditch accountability altogether.

As I'm sure you know, even the hint of testing irregularities and misconduct in the test administration process could call into question school reform efforts and undermine the State accountability systems that you have painstakingly built over the past decade.

(Calif.) Bowing to pressure from legislative leaders and advocates for low - income students, the Brown administration has promulgated draft regulations imposing far more accountability requirements over billions in new school funding than originally proposed.