Sentences with phrase «agreement on accountability»

After controlling for student and district characteristics we found a statistically significant relationship between board member agreement on accountability definitions and district performance.

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Welcoming the Resolution, Dr Francesco Branca, Director of WHO Nutrition, stressed the importance of having an agreement on a common vision on targets which can be measured, and where an accountability framework can be developed.

Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leader Dean G. Skelos said, «This agreement is a reasonable compromise that builds on the legislation we passed to enhance accountability in schools and give our students the first - class education they deserve.

This legislation would: create a uniform policy for all branches of state and local government and establish a dedicated unit to receive and investigate sexual harassment claims, ensure individual liability to promote greater accountability, prohibit confidentiality agreements unless the victim requests that his or her identity be kept private, and put in place necessary safeguards to allow government to recoup monies to rightly protect hardworking taxpayers from being on the hook for individual acts of sexual harassment.

It seems more likely that the Coalition of 2010, as organised by a very small clique of political elites (probable ministers and senior party figures), required the bypassing of Westminster and the Coalition agreements, precluding formal democratic procedure and parliamentary government founded on accountability to the electorate.

There is broad agreement that states» current accountability systems are overly dependent on standardized tests that do not (and can not) capture all the skills that students need to acquire, and that have sometimes encouraged teachers to engage in harmful curriculum narrowing and «test prep.»

Deciding on group norms, or agreements, right from the get - go will give each student a voice and provide accountability for all.

Accountability must be based on a shared vision and goals for education and schools, on agreement about what schools should be and do.

But getting agreement on the double challenge of coming up with a more multidimensional system of accountability, and along with it a way to display school and district performance that is easy to understand, is proving to be a challenging undertaking, to say the least.

But Meier eventually became disillusioned with the Bloomberg administration's mission for small schools, believing that, while there was surface agreement on size, her vision of education was being marginalized by a focus on test scores and a top - down approach to accountability.

That the CORE districts has reached no agreement with Golden State officials on either implementing its proposed accountability system or any other aspect of their plans raises even more questions about the viability of their effort.

And he nodded when I speculated that Florida's chances seemed even better for the second round because a new law — passed by both houses of the Legislature after the first round ended — would force accountability on all teachers without the union's agreement.

Accordingly, the following question would be inappropriate to ask judges as they review the relationship between content standards and the items on an accountability test: Is this test item in agreement with the curricular aim it is intended to measure?

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On Friday, Walcott walked away from the tense negotiations and sent King a letter saying the city and union would «not be able to come to an agreement» because «the teachers» union is not committed to real accountability.»

Irrespective of the structure, any agreement must be based on a thorough understanding of the mechanism by which responsibility and accountability is apportioned.

The Project for Advancing Climate Transparency (PACT) consortium supports the design and development of robust and effective transparency and accountability rules and processes for the Paris Agreement on climate change.

We have reached the mid-point for the climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, and negotiators are hard at work hammering out details on a range of issues, including the transparency and accountability requirements under the Paris Agreement.

It is now clear that China is signaling its increasing willingness to meet the standards of transparency, accountability, and verification that will be necessary to create an acceptable global agreement on climate change.

In a decision released on January 22, 2018, Arbitrator William Kaplan ruled on whether the provisions of the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act, 2010 («BPSAA») applied to an employment agreement entered into between Superior - Greenstone District School Board (the «Board») and its director of education, David Tamblyn.

Questions continue to be raised among bloggers about an agreement in which the U.S. Government Accountability Office gives publisher Thomson West exclusive rights to federal legislative histories prepared on the public's dime.

In child welfare, an increased focus on balanced budgets through accountability agreements now required by law;

On August 4, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) entered into a settlement agreement with Advocate Health Care Center (Advocate) in which Advocate agreed to pay $ 5.5 million to settle multiple violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on personal accountability across all business sectors, with Deferred Prosecution Agreements now a means to further increase cooperation with regulators and encourage best practice.

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