Sentences with phrase «as little accountability»

And we've continued to see as little accountability for this reality as possible either in the markets or in the courts.

After two terms of watching how this governor works, in the shadows, with as little accountability as he can get away with, it is small wonder the culture he's created hasn't caught up with him earlier.

Fred LeBrun: «After two terms of watching how this governor works, in the shadows, with as little accountability as he can get away with, it is small wonder the culture he's created hasn't caught up with him earlier.

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As a result, smart customers are asking: Why is there so much hedging and so little accountability in AI?

It turns the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) into what The Globe and Mail described as a «secret police force,» with little oversight or accountability.

Taxes — like accountability — are for what Leona Helmsley referred to as the «little people» (not referring to Irish leprechauns).

There are other behavioral management techniques that are sometimes used as well, but for the most part, there is very little about an accountability group that is overtly «Christians.»

For many, this move marked «the beginning of the end» of Mars Hill Church as Driscoll faced little accountability in his decision - making.

Mayors were required to fund an organization over which they had no control, which encouraged them to send as little money as possible, and there was little accountability in the system.

The staff member, Victor E. Franco, in his second day of testimony at the trial in Manhattan, elaborated on the budgetary process, as prosecutors sought to illustrate that Mr. Silver controlled it all with little transparency or accountability, particularly on the Health Department grants that are the focus of the case.

The group Citizens Union issued a report regarding $ 3 billion in the state budget, in various pots of money, that they say operate as veritable slush funds for state lawmakers to distribute to projects with little oversight and accountability.

By 1994 the General Accounting Office (GAO, now known as the Government Accountability Office) issued a report concluding that the «FAA has made little progress toward meeting the [1990] act's goal for deploying new explosive detection systems.»

With better measures of academic growth and a little extra money, states could attract providers to underserved populations, rather than discouraging them as a result of the requirements of current accountability systems.

Traditionalists can point to empty, process - oriented teaching, where there is little accountability for getting the facts right as long as students are actively engaged.

As hard as I have worked to bring rigorous, content - rich standards, reasonable assessments, inspiring curricula, and accountability to public schools, I am dumbfounded to see how little of it has permeated the private schools I visiteAs hard as I have worked to bring rigorous, content - rich standards, reasonable assessments, inspiring curricula, and accountability to public schools, I am dumbfounded to see how little of it has permeated the private schools I visiteas I have worked to bring rigorous, content - rich standards, reasonable assessments, inspiring curricula, and accountability to public schools, I am dumbfounded to see how little of it has permeated the private schools I visited.

There was clear agreement that policy makers need to respond to complaints from teachers and parents about too much testing, about accountability systems that misidentify schools as being either excellent or in need of intervention, and about state - mandated teacher evaluation systems that have consumed policy attention and controversy for little payoff in student achievement.

Instead, teachers are being driven into the ground by problems such as failing accountability measures that do little to improve children's education.

Accountability is for «the little people,» as real estate queen Leona Helmsley once said about paying taxes.

As this year comes to a close, my heart breaks for Tamir Rice's family and to all the many others who have lost children to such senseless and violent acts with little to no accountability or justice to follow.

The law, passed as a part of the budget bill last summer, provides little in the way of accountability for private schools while reducing funds for public education at a time when schools are seeing sharp reductions in funding over a years - long period.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 15 by Stephen Raudenbush Student scores on standardized tests are used as measures for teacher accountability, but, arguably, helping children score well on an achievement test is of little value in itself.

• Little or no accountability for voucher schools; they will not have to use the same tests as public schools.

As North Carolina looks ahead to school vouchers being implemented next year, read on to understand why residents can anticipate very little accountability for private schools receiving taxpayer funds.

There is very little doubt among sophisticated observers that Texas has led the nation in public education reform over the past decade or so and that it has served as a model for the nation in the advancement of standards and accountability.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality educatioAs Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality educatioas New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality educatioas well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality educatioas subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

There is very little doubt among sophisticated observers that Texas has led the nation in public education reform over the past decade or so and that it has served as a model for other states and the nation in the advancement of standards and accountability.

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

From where he sits, setting ambitious and aspirational targets as was done in the past decade under the No Child Left Behind Act — including through its Adequate Yearly Progress accountability and aspirational 100 percent proficiency targets — will do little to spur reform because doing so will «lose credibility with the very people expected to make it succeed — the educators.»

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

That said, we need extrapolate only a little to question the current direction, and underlying theory of action, beneath the continued press to tighten the screws on the package of high - stakes testing, school accountability, and educator performance evaluations tied to student achievement scores (which, as I noted in a previous Educational Leadership column, researchers caution is fraught with concerns of its own).

Educators must actively and consciously prevent «excessive testing» as it «diverts resources and time away from learning while providing little additional value for accountability purposes.»

Instead of embracing «humility» that does little for all children, reformers such as Petrilli should be advocating for strong accountability.

Arguing that the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions (as well as the less - than - worthy accountability systems launched as part of the Obama Administration's waiver gambit) do little more than «test and punish» the NEA - AFT coalition is demanding new accountability systems that «support and improve ``, whatever that means.

Little mention is made of our reality here, however, given the real and deleterious effects we witness, for example, as current teacher educators when we work with potential / future teachers who almost daily express serious concerns about joining a profession now with very little autonomy, not much respect, and a stark increase in draconian accountability measures that will be used to hold them accountable for that which they do, or do not doLittle mention is made of our reality here, however, given the real and deleterious effects we witness, for example, as current teacher educators when we work with potential / future teachers who almost daily express serious concerns about joining a profession now with very little autonomy, not much respect, and a stark increase in draconian accountability measures that will be used to hold them accountable for that which they do, or do not dolittle autonomy, not much respect, and a stark increase in draconian accountability measures that will be used to hold them accountable for that which they do, or do not do well.

It is interesting to note, that these articles reported on the fact that the state continues to provide dollars for vouchers to schools that have been rated as D or F for many years with little to no accountability.

The study notes that in cyber schooling, there's little financial and academic accountability, as well as little research on their effectiveness.

As part of the accountability - for - flexibility tradeoff, charter schools must be regularly examined for renewal, but little data exists on how often underperforming charters are shut down.

My thoughts drifted to what Alphie Kohn wrote, «Invoking such terms as «tougher standards,» «accountability,» and «raising the bar,» people with little understanding of how children learn have imposed a heavy - handed, top - down, test - driven version of school reform that is lowering the quality of education in this country.»

To make matters worse, there is very little or virtually no accountability as to how the recommendations or tips have worked out over the long or short run.

Management teams can rely on Kemp Little as their single point of accountability, overseeing all legal aspects of the investment with practical and sound business judgement.

The result was that they had little accountability to the whole of the firm, and the firm as a whole suffered because of self - interest.

Further, at the Federal level, the organization tasked with investigating and disciplining Federal judges, the Canadian Judicial Council, is so obviously nothing more than a whitewashing bureau with as little transparency as it has accountability.

There may be little meaningful accountability for the actions of a fully autonomous weapon, as there would be legal and practical obstacles to holding anyone — superior officer, programmer, or manufacturer — responsible for a robot's actions.