Sentences with phrase «escape accountability for»

In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting.

For example, the U.S. Department of Education has allowed Montana and Idaho to keep their accountability targets at last year's levels, essentially allowing schools and districts in those states to essentially escape accountability for the time being; Virginia has even been allowed to set its accountability targets retroactively, gaming the system even further.

The federal government is permitting many schools to escape accountability for the progress of racial or ethnic subgroups under the No Child Left Behind Act, according to a computer analysis released by the Associated Press last week.

«And whatever else happens in this election we should not allow the Tory party to escape the accountability for any misdemeanours that may have led to them buying the last general election.»

Too many people want things both ways when they get all the benefits and desire to escape accountability for their crimes.

«I won't be letting GM leadership, or federal regulators, escape accountability for these tragedies,» she said in a statement.

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It is symptomatic of a fear of the complexities of life, and those afflicted shrink back from unerstanding and self - accountability, looking for an simple set of tules to follow and an easy escape from the responsibilities of have free will and choice.

From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.

The AFT president said that this sound sequence for introducing the Common Core is about preserving accountability, not escaping it.

Doug Christensen, former Commissioner of Education for the state of Nebraska and Professor of Leadership in Education at Doane College, added, «We must decouple accountability from testing or we will never escape the current models of external prescriptions that result in regimentation of the system and require high stakes compliance, both of which restrict the capacity of system to embrace all children and trivializes their education.

After all, as I have noted, the Obama administration's waiver gambit does what Sen. Tom Harkin (who chairs the committee) and onetime reformer and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander (along with traditionalists such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) have wanted to do for a while: Eviscerate the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of reforms that have led to more kids escaping poverty and prison without having to explain themselves before the public.

«The Military Commission Act of 2006: An Unnecessary Scheme for Second - Class Justice or an Essential Means To Prosecute People Who Otherwise Would Escape Accountability?»