Sentences with phrase «around the accountability of»

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Schawbel adds that the recession has created a greater sense of urgency around personal accountability when it comes to careers.

And when all decision - making is being done in the same office instead of 1,200 km away in St. Louis, there is more clarity around expectations (and accountabilities), as well as better communication regarding values and principles.

Beginning the year at around $ 997, bitcoin experienced abrupt volatility in the last quarter as the currency witnessed immense buying interest in the wake of escalating tensions in the Middle East and East Asia, pushing investors to look at the virtual currency from the perspective of an alternate asset class with barely any accountability.

Leaders must realize the higher in leadership or accountability we are, the more rights we lose to ourselves because our job is to serve the needs of those around us.

So, if the approach is accountability it needs to be oriented around building groups of men and women with integrity, not a continual focus on a uniting «sin».

The establishment of accountability therefore demands a massive mobilisation and politicisation of consumer movements around the world.

Um, the age of accountability is around 7, but no matter.

And this accountability is expressed through open and honest dialog and the maintenance of relationships around the creation of new things.

«These are the set of people that want justice, fairness and accountability in all aspects of human endeavours as they used to go around with clean heart of helping Police to unravel cases of criminality and always stand on the progress and growth of Nigeria Police Force.

In a statement signed by the Deputy Executive Director of ACEP, Benjamin Boakye, he said «In spite of many implementation challenges, the PRMA has been a model for many countries and Ghana can only do better at improving on transparency and accountability around the use of the oil revenues.

the absence of any serious Ministerial accountability for their decisions (12), meaning that few Ministers ever stay around long enough to be held accountable for policies they enacted;

The event, which is scheduled to take place in Ho in the Volta region is under the theme: `' Uniting around the principles of probity, accountability, and social justice».

Meanwhile Britain should continue its innovative work around accountability towards the conflict - with pioneering projects sending specialist teams of lawyers and police to interview and chronicle war crimes by engaging with refugees who've fled the country.

Sees no objection to looking at other models of accountability around the world citing his visit to New Zealand when he was Cabinet secretary.

«We are deeply troubled by the lifting of the deed restriction and subsequent sale of the property to [Slate Property Group] and have been advocating for transparency and accountability from the administration regarding the circumstances around these events,» the officials wrote in the letter, Crain's reported.

But ethics experts said the lack of clarity around procedure could undermine accountability and public trust.

The two pillars which have gained, and will continue to gain, the most media coverage are those around the fiscal accountability of the Scottish Parliament, namely income tax devolution, and the devolution of welfare.

The system over the years has grown unwieldy, with hundreds of authorities, corporations and development agencies cropping up around the state, taking out billions of dollars in debt and for the most part operating with little sunlight or accountability.

«This review provides the opportunity to ensure that issues around the redeployment of the school workforce rather than redundancy, tight fiscal accountability rather than cheque book management, and the fair and equitable treatment of employees rather than subjective and punitive management are addressed.»

The event was on the theme,» Uniting around the principles of probity, accountability and social justice.»

This year's event, the 36th anniversary, is being held under the theme, «Uniting around the principles of probity, accountability, and social justice».

«The accountability regulations in the Swedish Environmental Code are intended to prevent the leaking of large amounts of pellets, especially in areas like the one around Orust and Tjörn where there are a number of nature reserves,» says Lena Gipperth, Professor of Environmental Law at the Department of Law.

The authors argue not only for more resources, but for an integrated national health care system, built around a strong public primary care system with a clearly defined supportive role for the private and indigenous sectors, that (i) addresses acute as well as chronic health care needs; (ii) offers choice of care that is rational, accessible, and of good quality, (iii) is cashless at the point of service delivery, and (iv) is governed by a robust regulatory framework to ensure accountability.

The trustworthy dating network brings a sense of accountability to online dating, creating a more enriching and secure experience all - around.

«The Reckoning» (my nickname for this essential, long - overdue upheaval) has finally brought accountability for the kind of sexual harassment and all - around misbehavior no one should have to face in the workplace, toppling some of the biggest titans of our industry in the process.

In fact, apps like Snapchat are built around this very idea of permanence vs. impermanence as some kind of escape from accountability.

Given how resilient test - based accountability has proved in the face of the bad news that has been accumulating for fully a quarter of a century, it's easy to be pessimistic that this ship can be turned around.

Dropout rates, measured accurately only since NCLB made them part of Title I accountability, hover around 50 percent in many major cities.

And, this week, there's the (bipartisan) Harkin - Enzi bill, authored by the chairman and ranking member (respectively) of the Senate education committee, which, well, it's hard to tell exactly what it does, but it surely reduces the federal footprint around accountability.

And the current swirl around accountability has a new twist with the states - rights revolt, as Dillon suggests, fanned by Tea Party sentiment — a threat to reform that didn't exist in the early days of NCLB.

But if the debate around the federal role in accountability is coalescing, a much bigger question remains wide open: Could we be watching the beginning of the end for the accountability movement in toto?

One of the things we did through the leadership of the Chancellor was to develop a private funding initiative to support Regents Research Fellows, a new group of invaluable policy experts who are working with the new Commissioner on developing policy initiatives around complex regulatory structures surrounding such things as accountability.

His most recent book, School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice around the World, considers sources of international differences in student achievement.

The inverted «V» depicts the simplified pattern of gains one would expect to see if a school disproportionately targets resources, such as instructional time and teacher focus, to students particularly important to its accountability rating, that is, to students hovering around the state - defined proficiency threshold.

For all the criticism that law has received — and there is no doubt that the law needs to be improved when Congress gets around to its re-authorization — the law, and especially its accountability provisions, have been, in general, of great benefit to the country's schoolchildren.

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

More than nine years after the law's enactment, and four years after its scheduled reauthorization, the shortcomings of an accountability system organized around the utopian goal of universal student proficiency rather than continuous improvement are all too apparent.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

While it's not as simple (nor as rational) for a charter school to become the LEA taking full responsibility for special education services as it is for Vagare to end its contract with the IRC, there are plenty of charters around the country that want that kind of autonomy and accountability.

We have five states that signed up to the National Education Reform agreement and just after the previous federal election the Abbot Government made a deal with the other states which really was a deal that meant that those states did not have the same level of accountability and transparency around the funding.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

In the world of education, we have a complicated issue around accountability.

The basis of school reform should revolve around a few principles, he said, including school choice, diversification, autonomy, accountability, and transparency.

To achieve scale with quality in Albany has required spending of about $ 500,000 per school for start - up grants, with an annual central office expense (for the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability and the Brighter Choice Foundation) of around $ 1 million.

If we can wrap our minds around this core proposition — that accountability is about outcomes, not inputs, practices, curriculum, staffing arrangements, budgets, uses of time, etc. — and the related proposition that families have the right to choose the schools they think best for their daughters and sons, we can save ourselves an awful lot of grief, not to mention many regulations and much bureaucracy.

Hill goes on to discuss important implications of these ideas, including dilemmas around accountability and choice.

Perhaps it is time for central government to yield some of the control over standards and accountability that it has amassed in the last 30 years in exchange for the opportunity for districts and schools to innovate around what students are taught and how the actors in the system are held accountable.

It advises that MPs on the Education Committee «remain to be convinced» that revised arrangements will provide an» adequate level of transparency and accountability» and says that the DfE «must do more to demonstrate its commitment to accountability of around # 18 billion pounds» worth of public money.»

For all of this year's debate about the future of testing, accountability, and other policy issues around the No Child Left Behind Act, virtually no one has brought up the question of how best to give out billions of dollars a year under the law.

The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools; Real Leaders, Real Schools: Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds; Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed; School Accountability, Autonomy, and Choice Around the World; The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Possibilities for School Reform