Sentences with phrase «country on accountability»

The ruling was not based on the merits of the law (one of the strongest in the country on accountability).

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The report also included recommendations on the rights of migrants and refugees, accountability for Canadian corporations operating in other countries, and the infringement of human rights in the name of security and counter-terrorism.

«With cryptocurrency on the rise, consumers in New York and across the country have a right to transparency and accountability when they invest their money,» said Attorney General Schneiderman in the release.

«With cryptocurrency on the rise, consumers in New York and across the country have a right to transparency and accountability when they invest their money.

The Superfood for Babies recommendations include: «To encourage companies to improve their policies, practices and accountability, FTSE4Good should, by 2015, extend its criteria for the inclusion of a BMS company on its index to include the company's activities in all countries, rather than just those countries listed as higher risk, and should bring its criteria into line with the International Code and resolutions.

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.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to Mr. David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, requesting him to «you use your good offices and position to urgently request the National Assembly of Nigeria, specifically the Senate, to withdraw a bill which if passed into law would undermine the internationally recognized right to freedom of expression and press freedom on the internet in the country.»

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights asking him to «use your good offices and position to urgently request the National Assembly of Nigeria, specifically the Senate, to withdraw amendments to the Code of Conduct Bureau and Code of Conduct Tribunal Act which if passed into law would seriously weaken the act, undermine the fight against corruption in the country, exacerbate extreme poverty and violations of internationally recognized human rights.»

Following the recent presidential pardon granted some convicts by President Goodluck Jonathan, Socioeconomic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP has called on the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately «rescind the alleged state pardon granted former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, and former head, Bank of the North, Shettima Bulama, as the said pardon is a fundamental breach of the country's constitution and international anti-corruption obligations.»

Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase on Tuesday said emphatically that the position of the force on accountability and transparency as regards acts of indiscipline or unprofessional conduct to citizens in the country will not be compromised nor be tolerated.

Buhari said his insistence on probity, transparency and accountability in the public and private sectors was to secure the future of the country for all Nigerians, especially the youths.

On March 2, 2004, Gibson turned himself in and became the first person in the country to be convicted for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which protects patient privacy.

Two factors underlie the problem in Nigeria, Sidibé says: little effort to focus resources on the regions of the country that have the biggest problems, and no strong «culture of accountability» to ensure funds are well spent.

At the same time, it hopes to create «sustainable, long - term solutions based on country ownership and accountability for health services and outcomes».

Further, it is unlikely that district authorizers will move beyond the regulatory - driven, compliance - based accountability systems that are the hallmark of public education or the troubling hit - and - miss formation of new schools that is raising questions about the ability of charter schools to deliver improvement on the scale that our country needs.

Many of the reforms he championed, namely, more accountability, more focus on standards, and growth in charter schools, are already at various levels of implementation in states and districts across the country.

A direct result of standards in tests in countries like America is increased focus on accountability, particularly teachers.

Sir Michael Wilshaw blamed a culture of complacency and a lack of clear accountability in the East Midlands, which has been deemed the worst performing region in the country on a range of key indicators.

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

Although it's not possible to attribute these declines to any specific education policy, it's also hard to conclude that incentive schemes and new school accountability arrangements in these countries have had a positive impact on student performance.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

At the request of Reps Mark Pocan (D - WI), Marcia Fudge (D - OH), and Gwen Moore (D - WI), the GAO examined 27 voucher and education savings account (ESA) programs across the country for the 2016 - 17 school year, focusing on accountability and information about rights for students with disabilities.

A nationwide ranking of charter school policies released by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NASCA) finds Mississippi has one of the best charter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountability.

Mississippi's Charter School Law Receives High Marks December 16, 2015 by Brett Kittredge A nationwide ranking of charter school policies released by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NASCA) finds Mississippi has one of the best charter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountability.

As states across the country rethink school accountability under ESSA, most of the policy discussion revolves around how bureaucrats should calculate ratings that parents rarely see, based on standardized test scores that parents barely credit.

Across the country, states are adopting a number of different strategies to improve outcomes for students: third grade reading requirements, literacy initiatives, new assessment and accountability systems, plus an increased focus on data - driven decision - making are changing how districts approach teaching and learning for all students.

LAPCS has worked with policymakers for over a decade to create one of the top - rated charter laws in the country with a focus on accountability.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

Drawing on over 40 years of research and experience, Ravitch champions public schools across the country and critiques today's most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the proliferation of charter schools.

Developed Maine's first statewide school accountability system (A-F school grades) to ensure transparency in school performance for families and students; joining other states and cities around the country who offer these grades on schools — grades that are based on information Maine already collected but that had been sitting in file cabinets at the Department of Education.

The gap between official statistics and the perceptions of the profession seems vast; school leaders across the country report that they are struggling to fill vacancies with suitably qualified permanent staff, right at the time when they face increasing numbers of pupils, higher accountability standards and more demands on subject specialisms.

For the past year in almost every available venue, opponents of high stakes standardized assessments of public school student achievement have been droning on about the perceived oppression of the Texas public school accountability system, which has been rated by national education organizations as having produced the best high school graduation standard in the country when fully implemented.

A 2015 OECD report on Sweden warned the country's school system was in «need of urgent change» and that its accountability measures were «weak and unclear.»

«The government should look to and learn from the light touch accountability systems of high - performing countries such as Finland and New Zealand which are based on trusting schools and teachers to do the best by their students, rather than the issuing of threats or penalties.»

As Executive Director, Chris leads CCSSO's work with states to raise the bar on standards, assessments, and accountability, transform educator preparation programs, design new approaches to teaching and learning, and implement and sustain promising reforms across the country.

«Accountability» was based on «assessments» of projects and students, which naturally varied depending on the identified needs in a given area of the country.

NCLB funding was money spent on annual standardized achievement testing, accountability mechanisms based on the outcomes of those tests, reporting of compliance with the law, and school choice being offered as a solution — all packaged and sold to the country as «flexibility.»

Juan has been the author or co-author of various publications focusing on process and summative evaluations of supplemental educational services, teacher - focused professional development, the impact of accountability systems, the impact of interim assessment practices on summative assessment results, and the evaluation of technical assistance efforts provided to state and local education agencies throughout the country.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

Knight and Fullan cite research showing that the countries that most improved their school systems often focused the majority of their attention on professional learning rather than teacher accountability.

We have been on a march for the past 25 years that had led us to what was rated as the best public school accountability system in the country, one that, when fully implemented would measure progress to postsecondary readiness at every grade level culminating in a high school diploma signifying college and 21st century career readiness.

After all — if accountability to a classroom teacher means they are at risk of losing their job if students perform poorly on standardized tests — then what is the reason scores of library media specialists are losing their jobs across the country?

But Southern countries have a choice for their path to economic growth: private sector's growing role in development will only be beneficial if governments provide leadership and accountability on land investments.

Our aim was to create greater transparency and accountability in terms of what countries are doing — or, in some cases not doing — on some of the biggest challenges our world faces today, such as climate change, water, energy, conservation, and the management of our natural resources.

The Government Accountability Project's television program, Whistle Where You Work, airs nationally on the Free Speech TV channel on the Dish Satellite Network, on over 70 community access stations around the country, and in parts of Europe.

This wide emissions range hinders accountability and creates uncertainty on the country's future emissions path.

Building on this momentum, our task in Paris is to secure a long - term framework in which countries set successive rounds of targets into the future, beyond 2030, and ratchet down their carbon emissions over the course of the coming decades in the context of strong transparency and accountability provisions.

But Southern countries have a choice for their path to economic growth: private sector's growing role in development will only be beneficial if governments provide leadership and accountability on land investments.

WJP Rule of Law Index 2014 surveys 99 countries on government accountability, crime, fundamental rights, access to justice, and more