Sentences with phrase «far less accountability»

«Until now, fossil fuel companies have been able to talk about climate science in political and media arenas where there is far less accountability to the truth,» Michael Burger of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University told Grist.

«Charter schools absent school board oversight have far less accountability for student achievement than traditional public schools,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA Executive Director.

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This legally questionable action risks escalating further, as US defence secretary James Mattis has admitted, an already devastating conflict and therefore makes real accountability for war crimes and use of chemical weapons less, not more likely.»

Absent persuasive evidence on the impact of efforts to raise the bar, some people have speculated that the rise of test - based accountability associated with NCLB and the ongoing push to establish more - rigorous teacher evaluation systems have made teaching less attractive and thereby contributed to further decline in the quality of the teaching corps.

And I suspect many of them knew that test - based accountability isn't optimal but considered it good enough — and far less expensive and burdensome than better alternatives.

This type of top - down accountability is far less efficient and comprehensive than choice accountability, but it may have to do in the absence of choice.

Further, with lowered accountability mandates, schools and districts are under less pressure to boost state test scores.

Earlier this summer over DEFER's objections, the Democratic Party adopted platform language about charters that was far less accommodating than in the past, calling for more accountability and transparency.

Further, high school graduates are estimated to earn about one - third more than non-graduates and are less likely to be unemployed.4 5 In recognition of the inherent value of a high school diploma, high school graduation rates have become a primary feature of federal and state accountability systems.

The hearing focused on what states have done so far to develop their consolidated state accountability plans for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and whether the federal government and the Department of Education (ED) need to do more or less to assist in their development and review.

The feds may have given Indiana a pass from a widely - criticized school accountability law less than a month ago, but its state - level replacement is so far proving no less controversial.

It has brought undeniable accountability to co-parenting my son, and the conflicts have become far less frequent.