Sentences with phrase «also about accountability»

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Communication not only allows you to have healthy discussions about expectations and productivity with your employees, but it also helps foster openness and accountability.

He also boasted about his administration's efforts to reduce regulation as he maligned the «unelected bureaucrats» who «imposed restrictions with no vote, no legislation, and no accountability.»

Next to its peers, Apple also disclosed little information about how it has institutionalized its commitments to users» rights through corporate governance, oversight, and accountability mechanisms.»

The Update also included a large number of spending initiatives (about $ 10 billion over six years), thereby ensuring that these initiatives would be included in Main Estimates for 2018 - 19 as part of efforts to increase transparency and accountability between the budget expenses and the Main Estimates expenditures.

She also complained about some government officials» unwillingness to assist ACEP collate data needed to deepen social auditing and accountability on the oil revenue disbursement.

Campaign for Accountability also raises concerns about the Heaney campaign working with two vendors that had consulted with the PAC, according to the complaint.

Williams also demanded accountability, noting: «The mayor has to answer questions about why he knew and nothing happened.»

«The thing that's so awful about the Buffalo Billion is the corruption, of course... but also how much money is being spent with so little accountability.

Plus, I LOVE hitting the arrow to go to the next exercise when I finish my reps.. It adds that accountability and it also has the timer so you don't have to think about anything or pause — you just GO!

NCLB launched a decade of building states» data infrastructure; ESSA is about taking advantage of this infrastructure to not only create more meaningful accountability measures, but to also provide greater transparency, empower decisionmaking, personalize learning, and ensure we keep kids on track for success.

State policymakers who wish to switch over to portability should think carefully not only about reporting requirements and accountability for private schools under portability, but also about the details of the fiscal transition, such as hold harmless rates, that could allow high poverty public schools now served with Title I time to adjust.

They also earn about 1 percent more at age 25 than those who were in cohorts whose schools were not facing as much accountability pressure.

About midway through my term as board president, when I was knee - deep in implementing Virginia's SOL program, I sat on a panel with an education official from another state who also supported standards - based accountability.

Andy has also blogged about «How Chartering Makes Possible an Entirely New Approach to Accountability.»

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

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The tone of articles about the state's accountability system also shifted drastically during the 2002 and 2004 election cycles.

With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that focus not just on test scores but on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor results.

Standards are also supposed to provide the framework that shapes and organizes the rest of the education enterprise: curricula, teacher preparation, promotion and graduation expectations, testing and accountability, and just about everything else.

There are also issues about wider changes to education policy that are incongruent with the SEND reforms; notably those policies in the areas of accountability and assessment.

Talking with this group over the last few months about the future of school accountability has been a pleasure but also reassuring.

Losing comparable data would be a blow not just for accountability, evaluation, and research, but also for communicating about the state of our education system and making smart policy decisions.

Among problems with accountability and transparency, many students also voiced their opinions about being educated in the charter schools.

The AFT also sent the HELP committee a detailed letter Wednesday morning, which in part reflected the civil rights groups» concerns about «limiting accountability to only the lowest 5 percent of schools, and leaving it up to states to address how other schools will be held accountable.»

Many teachers have spoken about the usefulness of these meetings for providing advice about how they might move forward when they are «stuck,» but they also create a strong measure of accountability for teachers to actually implement their plans.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

«Student Growth Objectives» is a new term for an older concept that is being increasingly integrated into educational accountability systems nationwide, and also under scrutiny (see one of Diane Ravitch's recent posts about this here).

Pope - Roberts says her primary concern about developing a new accountability system for schools is whether there is also a commitment to providing adequate resources for education.

We are also asking educators to go back to their communities with the school success indicators developed by the NEA Great Public Schools project, and have discussions about what kinds of changes we all want to see in our schools, and how we can express our values through the school accountability system under ESSA.

We can not have an honest conversation about the transformational role charters play without also emphasizing accountability - a key ingredient in the success of charter schools.

Lucy Powell, a former shadow education secretary who is also the school's local MP, described the case as «shocking» and said it raised «real concerns about weak oversight and accountability of our schools system».

The rating system also aims to increase program accountability by generating reliable data for policymakers about program performance measures — programs that underperform could lose access to federal financial aid.

The poll also found that Americans are «ambivalent» about comparing test scores in their local schools with other districts, states and nations — part of the original intent of accountability test scores under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

They also provide an Read more about The «A» Word: Accountability — The Dirty Word of Today's Education Reform -LSB-...]

It will also provide an opportunity for concerned community members in Nashville to raise questions about access, achievement, equity, and accountability.

She and others also talked about the larger cultural change in testing that's coming at the same time as other shifts in school funding and accountability, including a new high - stakes teacher evaluation system that will be in place next year.

It also didn't woo Republicans like Seliger, who fear for rural district funding and worry about sending public money to private schools that aren't held to the same accountability standards.

A coalition of 10 California districts that together serve more than 1 million students also submitted an NCLB waiver proposal, which raises questions about both the wisdom of a department decision to grant flexibility at the district level and the state's ability to manage two different school accountability systems.

It also shares information about the new nonacademic indicators that must be included in state accountability systems and explains changes in provisions related to the required 95 percent student participation rate in state testing.

I wrote Higher Education Accountability with the goal of summarizing what is known about accountability in American higher education, while also drawing in lessons learned from accountability systems in other nonprofit and public - sector organizations such as K - 12 education, health care, and publAccountability with the goal of summarizing what is known about accountability in American higher education, while also drawing in lessons learned from accountability systems in other nonprofit and public - sector organizations such as K - 12 education, health care, and publaccountability in American higher education, while also drawing in lessons learned from accountability systems in other nonprofit and public - sector organizations such as K - 12 education, health care, and publaccountability systems in other nonprofit and public - sector organizations such as K - 12 education, health care, and public management.

We encourage state leaders to consider these shifts but also to think more broadly about the factors that define success, particularly in low - performing schools, and to use the opportunity presented by ESSA to rethink issues of accountability and assessment and how they guide support for struggling schools.

The CCEE also offers the CA Content Library, a free digital database containing high quality and thoroughly vetted digital resources developed and submitted by local educators about California's school finance and accountability systems.

She also contends that the new Every Student Succeeds Act gives states the opportunity to have a different conversation about accountability.

See also a related post about lawmakers in Alabama «shelving» their new teacher accountability system here, and a related article about how in Georgia their new teacher evaluation systems is being «overhauled» here.

Consistent with Hand2Paw's overall goals, the internship also taught him more about selflessness and accountability.

We also have speakers who deliver a really strong emotional message about topics such as leadership and accountability — like Mel Robbins with her Five Second Rule — as well as presentations that offer other kinds of insights.

Serious concerns were also raised about the lack of accountability for corporate commitments to tackle climate change.

On the other hand, Miller is also disconcerted by the fact that commenters can post about a service provider with limited accountability, anywhere across the Internet.

It also discussed how the GDPR introduces one single set of rules that applies in the whole of the EU, what the lawful bases of processing private data are, and about parties» responsibility and accountability.

Not only is this a case of ethically questionable generation of profits by developed nations from developing ones, it is also a case about environmental pollution and the lack of accountability.