Sentences with phrase «aimed at accountability»

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

Not exact matches

The recommendations to change Uber's culture consisted of 10 main categories aimed at creating accountability for Uber's senior management, enhancing the board's oversight and revamping the company's internal controls.

In regard to democratic reform, the Party promises a wide range of policies aimed at improving accountability, transparency, and citizen participation.

«Outrage Porn» resembles actual pornography in that it aims for a cheap, temporary thrill at the expense of another human being, but without any personal accountability or commitment to that human being.

What is also of grave concern to AIMS Ireland is the number of failures at national level identified in the report including timely access to maternity services, inadequate staffing levels for safe care, a maternity care model that hasn't been revised in 59 years despite numerous national and international reports and recommendations, a lack of accountability and governance, an absence of reviews of clinical practices in units and the lack of a national maternity services strategy, all of which we have seen recommended on previous inquests without reform.

(Tuesday, 5 November 2013) The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services Ireland (AIMS Ireland) today petitioned for accountability, a review into clinical care practices, and national guidelines on the use of the drug misoprostol (cytotec) following the verdict of medical misadventure returned at the inquest into the death of Bimbo Onanuga at the Dublin Coroner's Court today.

The Republican - controlled state Senate on Wednesday approved a package of transparency and accountability changes aimed at the executive branch and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Parliamentary scrutiny of the negotiations would aim to increase transparency and accountability, but would not aim to do so at the expense of securing the best possible agreements which could be secured.

«These entities were aimed at ease of operation, getting away from the ordinary checks, the ordinary accountability,» said Schimminger, D - Kenmore.

The cameras will only turn on when an officer is interacting with someone from the community and are aimed at fostering more accountability and trust with DPS.

The addressing system, he said, is part of the institutional reforms by the government aimed at easing business registration and other accountability and management purposes.

The efforts are aimed at adding accountability, increasing openness and protecting those who come forward with accusations at a time when lawmakers across the country have been forced to resign over sexual misconduct claims.

State lawmakers have meanwhile over the last six years passed a raft of new ethics and anti-corruption laws aimed at boosting transparency and accountability.

«It's very disappointing that the reform bill was not signed into law,» agreed Assemblyman James Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat and sponsor of an identical reform bill in Albany, in a separate statement, adding that «each measure was aimed at providing greater transparency and accountability to an authority that has come under growing public scrutiny over the years, as abuses and scandals accumulated.»

In his remark, OETL Publicity Secretary, Godwin Eneji, said that the award was aimed at promoting excellence, probity, accountability and integrity in public service.

Business News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org Chief Executive Officer, Global Media Foundation, Ralphael Godlove Ahenu A network aimed at facilitating active engagements between citizens and governments to deepen decentralisation and enhance social accountability at national and local levels has been set - up.

Accountability, assurance and safety Over and above specialist products aimed directly at schools, technology that we take for granted such as the internet — and increasingly — mobile banking have great potential for use in schools.

18, no. 2), Dan Goldhaber takes aim at my new book, The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better, in which I argue that test - based accountability has failed on balance and that it is time to explore alternatives.

Harvard's Dan Koretz is just out with a thoughtful, immensely readable book that takes dead aim at test - based accountability.

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.

New York City school officials who fail to embrace education initiatives aimed at producing «heightened accountability» may be removed from office, the New York Board of Regents has warned.

State testing and accountability are aimed at schools, not individual student learning, and reports are released once a year, after students have moved on to other teachers.

Finding a wellness - accountability buddy — a peer who agrees to support and keep you accountable to your wellness goals — or using a professional learning community as a space to check in with other teachers are also ways to get that support, offers Alex Shevrin, a former school leader and teacher at Centerpoint School, a trauma - informed high school in Vermont that institutes school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional needs.

From the standards movement to accountability to charter schools, California has initiated policies aimed at improving educational outcomes for all children.

The intent of that law was to prevent schools from hiding subgroups of students from the accountability structure and was not aimed at preventing parents from refusing to have their children tested.

Stephens et al. raise the question of whether reform aimed at teacher empowerment can coexist with external accountability when school culture exerts such a strong influence on teachers» practice.

Join your colleagues at the 2017 Alternative Accountability Policy Forum this November for targeted professional development aimed at schools reengaging at - risk youth.

Senate Democrats announced on Wednesday that they will introduce legislation aimed specifically at accountability for voucher schools.

In sum, «Next Generation» accountability systems aim at «a loftier goal — universal college and career readiness — a goal that current accountability systems were not designed to achieve.

That is 700 kids (in one school) who the accountability system — the system aimed at ensuring schools provide high quality education to every student — accepts, and dare I say expects, failure.

President Obama's education chief, Arne Duncan, delivered a speech last night aimed squarely at those who oppose increased transparency and accountability when it comes to our nation's school system.

Besides the fact that other reformers have already taken aim at the arguments made in the claptrap, your editor took apart similar arguments made last year in a so - called alternative accountability push to which Advancement Fund and Schott are signatories.

After 15 years of federal education policy aimed at sanctioning schools and teachers based on test scores, such statements should come as a breath of fresh air for critics of test - based accountability.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers has created an unlikely alliance with Gov. Scott Walker to form a task force aimed at developing a statewide school accountability system.

Related: Once aimed at charter school teachers, a teacher prep program expands — and calls for more accountability

He said there was a fear that accountability measures at the end of the Foundation Phase - which aimed for a less formal learning approach - were inhibiting the ability of schools «to be true to its principles, narrowing the focus too much, too soon».

Accountability systems, however, were not effective at informing capacity building within schools aimed at raising and equalizing achievement.

The feedback received during group processing is aimed at improving the use of social skills and is a form of individual accountability.

Programs aimed at meeting the needs of «all students» — for example whole - school reform and school - accountability initiatives — don't necessarily address the needs of black youth challenged by poverty.

NCLB is a federal law that mandates a number of programs aimed at improving U.S. education in elementary, middle and high schools by increasing accountability standards.

The Colorado Department of Education is working to streamline dual credit programs in accordance with legislation adopted in 2009 aimed at ensuring their quality and accountability while making them accessible to more students.

The program, one of the urban reform initiatives funded through the Annenberg Challenge, included standards - driven curriculum and assessment, a performance accountability system, decentralization of decision - making, and professional development aimed at strengthening leadership and improving classroom practice.

But what happened last month in Washington could signal a new era in which the unions have to worry that Democrats, like Washington's mayor, Adrian Fenty, not only won't yield in contract negotiations but will also support laws and programs aimed at forcing accountability.

We wanted to help states bridge the gap between efforts to improve early childhood education and to update formal state accountability systems aimed primarily at K - 12 schools.

Senior Policy Associate Carinne Deeds will be presenting alongside Erica Curry Van - Ee, Founder, Urban Curry Consulting (Grand Rapids, Michigan) and Daniel Tsin, Director of Data and Accountability, Urban Alliance on the ways in which afterschool is providing social and emotional learning opportunities aimed at ensuring that all kids are ready for college, work, and life.

Here's the background paper with more detail on the proposal, which is primarily aimed at developing more accountability within the government, and particularly the White House, on overseeing a sequence of achievable steps to progressively ratchet down the amount of oil per unit of gross domestic product — «oil intensity» is the shorthand.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has published a detailed brief outlining its concerns with Bill C - 42, legislation that is aimed at improving the RCMP oversight and accountability regime.

It's the official opening of LTNY this very day (2 February) and cloud - based legal practice management software company Rocket Matter is launching two new integrations aimed at boosting law firm revenue generation, collections, and financial accountability.

Policies should include specific directions aimed at eliminating any possible Canadian complicity in torture, avoiding the risk of other human rights abuses and ensuring accountability.