Sentences with phrase «establishing accountability for»

Topics covered include establishing accountability for past abuses and tackling corruption.

Three years ago in La Jolla, California, ACU sponsored a meeting of high - level environmental activists and organization heads, titled «Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control,» an obvious nod to RICO investigations used to accuse tobacco companies of a large scale conspiracy to deceive the public about the dangers of cigarette smoking.

In 2012, in La Jolla, California, UCS and CAI co-sponsored a meeting of environmental activists and organization heads, titled «Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control.»

They have been flown out to La Jolla by the Climate Accountability Institute (whose board of advisers includes one Michael Mann) to attend a workshop titled: «Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control.»

Human rights groups have said that the 1789 law has been an important tool in establishing accountability for human rights abuses abroad.

Implementation plans that establish accountability for improving child outcomes and closing achievement gaps; and

Our Utah nursing home abuse attorneys understand that compensation will not undo the damage your family has suffered, but it may assist in finding better sustained care and establish accountability for those who failed to meet the basic standards of quality care.

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Our Hawaii nursing home abuse attorneys understand that compensation will not undo the damage your family has suffered, but it may assist in finding better sustained care and establish accountability for those who failed to meet the basic standards of quality care.

Our West Virginia nursing home abuse attorneys understand that compensation will not undo the damage your family has suffered, but it may assist in finding better sustained care and establish accountability for those who failed to meet the basic standards of quality care.

Developed inventory policies and established accountability for tactical and strategic results through effective reporting, monitoring and cross-functional engagement

Not exact matches

Consistency is crucial for business leaders because it creates accountability for the team and establishes trust.

This includes establishing a much higher level of accountability and consequence for our actions and the impact we have on customers.

She cites Superintendent Beverly Hall's turnaround program in Atlanta as positive because Hall «established accountability targets for every school, including the percentage of students who meet standards and the percentage who exceed them.»

Following a storm of criticism about the lack of financial accountability on the part of many of the TV evangelists, the groups in the l970s established the Evangelical Council for Financial Acountability to develop financial accounting and reporting principles to which all members must adhere — a kind of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.

The organic foods industry has long - established, legally mandated safeguards that ensure food safety for consumers, including full food product traceability, accountability of food production methods and strict controls on potential sources of food contamination.

«With massive foodborne illness outbreaks grabbing headlines around the world and a growing public mandate for accountability, the conditions are right to establish a global standard for food safety manager certification,» Lynch added.

According to the USDA, these tweaks will help «establish a unified accountability system designed to ensure that school food authorities offering school meals comply with program requirements» and are «expected to strengthen program integrity through a more robust, effective, and transparent process for monitoring school nutrition program operations.»

Let's take for example, every university is established to promote excellence as excellence comes with hard work, diligence, academic culture, decency, probity and accountability and if these things were lacking before I came, I have ensured that we go back to academic culture where we have respect for one another, academic culture where we are honest, academic culture where students are mannered.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

President Donald Trump is at Trump Tower in Manhattan, where he is scheduled this afternoon to participate in an infrastructure discussion, and also will sign an executive order establishing discipline and accountability in the environmental review and permitting process for infrastructure projects.

So we are helping to improve transparency and accountability by establishing a Joint Financial Management Board through which donors will work with the Somali government to help make sure that revenue from key assets and international aid is used for the good of the Somali people.

Now, those leaders are beginning to craft their legislative priorities, which will include eliminating the state's cap on charter schools, increasing funding for established charters, and establishing more accountability measures for district schools and teachers.

The Senate bill would increase the cap to 460 schools from 200 schools and establish new standards for accountability and services to special education students and English language learners.

This legislation would: create a uniform policy for all branches of state and local government and establish a dedicated unit to receive and investigate sexual harassment claims, ensure individual liability to promote greater accountability, prohibit confidentiality agreements unless the victim requests that his or her identity be kept private, and put in place necessary safeguards to allow government to recoup monies to rightly protect hardworking taxpayers from being on the hook for individual acts of sexual harassment.

On Feb. 3, a complaint was filed with the Federal Elections Commission by an organization called Campaign for Accountability, calling for an investigation into requesting the alleged illegal coordination between Heaney's campaign and New York Jobs Council, a super PAC Heaney appears to have established.

These include: • Establishing that all HASA vendors are reviewed at least every two years; • Adding more resources to ensure the completion of all unfinished audits; • Moving HASA's contract monitoring to the HRA's Office of Program Accountability to provide better quality control; • Developing a new HASA client bill of rights with a clear method for making complaints.

He specifically thanked the IGP for establishing the Complaint Response Unit (CRU) which will lead to transparency and accountability in the force and commended President Mohammadu Buhari for his decision to work with IGP Arase.

Perhaps the most important step for the future is to establish accountability when it comes to issues of recruitment and retention of women in the physician - scientist work force: Identify shortcomings, set new goals, and develop solutions to meet them as quickly as possible.

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.

He wants the feds to provide funds for adolescent literacy programs and state data systems; to ensure that every school is staffed by «skilled» teachers and principals; for district efforts to «personalize the educational experience»; and much more; and he calls on Congress to establish «meaningful high school accountability» (though the details are vague).

While fully aware of the specific weakness of ESCRs accountability mechanisms, both nationally and internationally, this paper will show how international law establishes a number of limits — a sort of red line for ESCRs — that states should not overstep.

«We are committed to establishing a worldwide educational system by simultaneously raising the standards of learning, affording greater autonomy at the local school level, and creating increased accountability for student success,» said Lillian Gonzalez, the director of the Department of Defense Education Activity,...

School districts in Washington that show consistently poor performance should be subject to state takeover, monetary penalties, or other consequences, concludes a state panel established to devise a system of accountability for the state's schools.

While fully aware of the specific weakness of ESCR accountability mechanisms, both nationally and internationally (2), this paper will show how international law establishes a number of limits — a sort of red line for ESCR — that states should not overstep.

ESSA requires states to «establish a system of meaningfully differentiating, on an annual basis, all public schools in the State, which shall be based on all indicators in the State's accountability system... for all students and for each subgroup of students.»

In addition to providing concrete examples of how the educator preparation program at Tulane has evolved to meet the challenges that new, higher standards bring, they made a strong case for establishing a grace period during which results from the next - generation assessments slated to accompany the Common Core be used only as diagnostic tools, as they are being designed to be, and not for high stakes or accountability.

Trac objectives In response to these concerns, the «Transparency Review» was established by the government following the 1998 comprehensive spending review in order to develop a better understanding of the shortfall in funding across all university activities, and to ensure a greater level of accountability for public funds.

As education policymakers consider lengthening the school year and face trade - offs and uncertainties, it is important to recognize that expanding instructional time offers both opportunities and hazards for another reform that is well established, the accountability movement.

The second option — devolving recently accumulated federal power to the states — underlies recent reauthorization proposals for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that allow each state to establish its own accountability system and that require teeth only for the very lowest - performing schools.

It advocates improving the accountability of authorities in creating favourable learning environments for girls and women and to establish sexual harassment policies in institutions of higher learning.

The Casey Foundation has provided money to build the infrastructure of the charter school office, establish the city's accountability and reporting system, and help underwrite school construction for charter schools in Indianapolis.

The regulations establishing an accountability system for these schools passed less than one month before the school year started.

Throughout the text, students devising exercises are encouraged not only to delineate tasks and procedures but also to establish criteria for success, cooperative goals, and individual accountability to ensure that assessment gets incorporated into instruction.

The charter school theory of action trades autonomy for accountability — allowing schools freedom from regulations imposed on school districts in exchange for meeting established performance goals.