Sentences with phrase «demanding public accountability»

They demand public accountability for education systems across the nation, and many, many public - school systems and educators in the United States simply reject the concept out of hand.

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It will speed them up by giving them CEO - style leadership that will demand accountability from ministers and public servants, while bringing in a broader strategic view that only the head of the Cabinet can provide.

Our bid was rejected because the Teachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroom.»

«Public corruption is unacceptable and our community is demanding more accountability and transparency,» he said.

Vice Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee, Mr Kwame Jantuah is demanding that President Akufo - Addo orders the suspension of...

Vice Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee, Mr Kwame Jantuah is demanding that President Akufo - Addo orders the suspension of Hajia Fati, following her assault on a female journalist.

«New Yorkers need an Attorney General who will demand accountability from the powerful special interests and deliver justice for the working families of this state,» Schneiderman said in a public statement.

Hopefully, the new Government may wish to publish this letter as a matter of transparency and accountability and the sovereign right of the voting public to know the truth whether their then Attorney General acted independently and impartially as demanded of his office by the Constitution in naming the names.

Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

It would be great to think that before elected police commissioners come in, this anomaly could be removed — allowing real accountability for their priorities, the style of policing and also the shape and level of resources required to meet the demands of a public who are still very wary.

«These are public dollars, and we need to demand much better accountability and results.»

Public education in New York and around the country is undergoing tremendous change as parents and citizens demand more performance, accountability and results.

According to Series lead Professor Boyd Swinburn from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, «The key to meeting WHO's target to achieve no further increase in obesity rates by 2025 will be strengthening accountability systems to support government leadership, constraining the role of the food industry in the formation of public policy, and encouraging civil society to create a demand for healthy food environments.»

Yet the cultures of these four stakeholder sectors in research — public, private, government, and voluntary — are quite different from each other, and each has its own advantages: flexibility, work - life balance, money, accountability, corporate citizenship, future career opportunities, travel demands and opportunities, and so on.

«We should be standing firm against these changes before they are made and demanding that there is transparency, accountability, and a thorough evidence based assessment made of public service alternatives to this proposed dispersal of public assets into private hands,» he concludes.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

«School leadership is as demanding a profession as any business or public sector job, especially in an era of rising public expectations and greater accountability for results,» said Robert Schwartz, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and chair of the Executive Leadership Program steering committee.

So, TREE has joined with more than a dozen grassroots organizations that support strong public schools across Tennessee to demand accountability from the TDOE in the wake of confusion created by the latest release of «quick scores» and associated raw «cut scores» from recent TCAP tests.

But what transpired there, or rather what did not transpire there, is emblematic of the intrinsic failures of a public school monopoly that does not demand market accountability.

Lawmakers need to increase transparency and accountability for the Opportunity Scholarships program — and the public needs to demand it.

The law demands more public accountability from school sponsors, seeks to eliminate conflicts of interest in operating the for - profit schools and creates more tools to address school short - comings.

As more and more of these stories are coming to light, the public is starting to rebel and begin to demand more accountability.

Educational leaders are called to act with urgency on issues that range from demanding external pressures, such as pay for performance and public accountability, to internal convictions for success.

It combines their demand for charter school accountability with a call for full, fair funding to support public community schools, which provide wraparound services for students and their families.

that «for all its complexity, the Education Reform Act can be reduced, in essence, to two propositions: We will make a massive infusion of progressively distributed dollars into our public schools, and in return, we demand high standards and accountability from all education stakeholders.»

In his Globe op - ed, Birmingham wrote that «for all its complexity, the Education Reform Act can be reduced, in essence, to two propositions: We will make a massive infusion of progressively distributed dollars into our public schools, and in return, we demand high standards and accountability from all education stakeholders.»

School business officials across the country use ActPoint KPI to manage the increasing demand for transparency and accountability in their use of public funds.

But for all its complexity, the Education Reform Act can be reduced, in essence, to two propositions: We will make a massive infusion of progressively distributed dollars into our public schools, and in return, we demand high standards and accountability from all education stakeholders.

And third, they include functions that demand transparency for public accountability, both for families and for taxpayers.

«This could be a lot of public money, and we demand great accountability of public schools, and SB - 3 has none,» Seliger said.

The bill was also sharply criticized by disability rights groups, who say it would strip hard - won legal rights from families with special - needs children, and by the state Department of Public Instruction, which faults the bill for demanding no accountability from private schools for actually providing the special education services that would be the basis for the vouchers.

Rather than being seen as a problem, charter school closures should be viewed as an indication of a healthy public school system committed to meeting parent demand for high quality school choice options, and providing the transparency and accountability that parents and the general public wish to see in place for all public schools.

Demand more accountability for charter schools, including a requirement that they hold open, public meetings and provide transparency on student discipline and attrition.

Fundamentally, charter schools do not offer parents and their children true school choice when they operate without the financial accountability and transparency demanded of «competing» public district schools.

And yet, lawmakers in every state continue to champion charter schools without demanding proper accountability, even as they drain scarce resources from traditional public schools.

The Forum's list also takes up numerous hot - button topics for the state's public schools, demanding «transparency and accountability» from North Carolina's growing school choice sector, better recruitment of top teachers and principals, an overhaul of the state's oft - maligned «A-F» school grading system and a renewed emphasis on racial equity, as well as others.

Just as citizens should demand accountability for all public schools in our city and state.

Explanation: The taxpaying public continues to demand greater accountability for the use of limited tax dollars.

Scientist victims of slander and misdirection should have responded far more aggressively in public fora, and demanded media and police accountability.

This new movie is going to turn up the volume on this issue, expand public understanding, and create a chorus of voices demanding accountability and transparency.

Major changes in public policy should demand a better accountability of what is unexplained, especially when the unexplained appears to be much greater than the purported effect (i.e. AGW) that the changes in public policy are being imposed to prevent or mitigate.

«We're in a time when people rightfully demand high accountability from nonprofits, and Scenic Hudson has proven — just as hospitals, universities and other institutions with accreditation programs have — that we deserve the public's trust.

Justice Shaughnessy launched a tactical legal motion demanding that I pay a security deposit to continue with my public interest case bringing accountability and transparency to the Canadian Judicial Council.

If the public pays close enough attention to these inquiries and demand some scrutiny of the G20 we may yet see the accountability that Connie has mentioned previously.

«Planned Parenthood applauds Senators Clinton and Murray for putting public health first and demanding accountability from the FDA.»

While legislators and the public are demanding more accountability from real estate companies, it is not entirely clear that there is a willingness from the public to pay for the staff necessary to comply with the myriad of statutory requirements.