Sentences with phrase «for federal accountability»

An urgent need existed to understand the conditions under which the COS process produced valid and reliable data, because the majority of states were using it to generate data for federal accountability reporting for Part C and Part B Preschool services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Additional coming into force information for Federal Accountability Act, S. C. 2006, c. 9 (Bill 2, 2006),, summarized courtesy of LEGISinfo.

She is deeply involved with the New Hampshire Performance Assessment for Competency Education (PACE) project, where she leads much of the design and analysis to support the technical quality of the innovative assessment system — including the validity and comparability of the annual determinations for federal accountability.

New Labels to Indicate School Performance: A to F. All waiver states had to identify low - performing schools as «priority» or «focus» schools for federal accountability purposes, but these federal distinctions didn't have to translate to state school ratings systems.

Last spring, the state won a hard - fought waiver to set aside the test scores for federal accountability purposes largely because of the widely held belief that with all the new content, a huge number of students statewide will fail to pass the CAASPP.

Back in 2007, the USDE authorized the use of modified achievement standards for up to 2 percent of special education students for federal accountability purposes when it published final regulations in April of that year.

Designed to serve three purposes, the School Performance Profile will be used for federal accountability for Title I schools under the state's approved federal No Child Left Behind waiver, the new teacher and principal evaluation system that was signed into law in 2012 and to provide the public with information on how public schools across Pennsylvania are academically performing.

Key statewide education groups have voiced concern that AB 484 would suspend all assessments except those required for federal accountability purposes or used for the Early Assessment Program.

But the opposition is substantial even as other states move to allow schools to use either the SAT or the ACT as test of record for federal accountability purposes.

But typically those efforts are limited to grades three through eight, when state assessments in reading and math are conducted for federal accountability purposes.

Increasing funding in 2002, No Child Left Behind required the adoption of a common set of english and math standards correlated with achievement goals along, measured by standardized testing for federal accountability.

There are 12 states that use the ACT or SAT, another college readiness exam, for federal accountability, according to a database of state tests by «Education Week.»

«While we await direction from ED (Department of Education) on new requirements for federal accountability, California will continue to use the API as the key indicator in determining whether the school or LEA (district) has made adequate academic progress.»

This means: students who do not participate in required state testing, for any reason, including required opt - outs in response to a request by a parent or guardian, count «against» proficiency rates for federal accountability purposes.

Pennsylvania's proposed indicators for federal accountability include a greater emphasis on academic growth, career readiness benchmarks, chronic absenteeism, and extended - year graduation rates for federal accountability purposes.

After the plans became available for public review, organizations like Bellwether Education Partners, the Collaborative for Student Success, Alliance for Education, National Council on Teacher Quality and the Brookings Institution reviewed the submissions to understand their overall strengths and weaknesses, and to determine whether elements like educator equity and benchmarks for federal accountability were present.

The Brown administration won a hard - fought waiver last year to set aside the test scores for federal accountability and is seeking similar relief this year.

That's the scenario that the California State Board of Education has been bracing for and why the Brown administration has so vigorously fought off efforts by the U.S. Department of Education to use the results for federal accountability purposes.

The ACGR is the method states are required to use for federal accountability purposes.

Successive reauthorizations of ESEA have revealed the need for federal accountability to incentivize states and localities to enact K — 12 education reforms.

The plan requires school - by - school reporting for federal accountability purposes.

Not exact matches

The number of such states would be even higher, according to the Constitutional Accountability Center, if not for important rulings by three federal appeals courts.

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

«Simply put,» Schneiderman wrote, under the current law «a defendant pardoned by the President for a serious Federal Crime could be freed from all accountability under federal and state criminal law.Federal Crime could be freed from all accountability under federal and state criminal law.federal and state criminal law.»

Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

The good news, for Enbridge and the federal government anyway, is that they don't really have to; accountability at this stage of the environmental process is primarily intended for the ballot box, not the court room.

But adding clarity about responsibility and accountability in existing ad hoc federal - provincial co-ordination mechanisms for crisis management would focus minds, help build trust and clarify accountability and promote co-operation.

Ever since Ron Paul first introduced it in 2009, the «Federal Reserve Transparency» Act, calling for the elimination of the Federal Reserve System's exemption from certain kinds of GAO audits, has been the subject of vigorous debate between proponents of greater government accountability and champions of an independent Federal Reserve.

Through federal and state legislative efforts Mr. Klaas promotes prevention programs for at - risk youth, stronger sentencing for violent criminals and governmental accountability and responsibility.

In that vein, Joe Rospars has likened the Obama analytics team to the Government Accountability Agency, which acts as an auditor and watchdog for the federal government.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has begun contempt proceedings against the Federal Government, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, and Alhaji Ahmed Idris Accountant - General of the Federation «for failing to comply with the judgment ordering publication of the spending of recovered stolen funds since return of democracy in 1999.»

«Without accountability by local political leaders, the Federal government would continue to be the scapegoat for the failure of states and local governments to use ecological funds for the purposes they were released,» he said.

The senior advocate said the Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project had approached a Federal High Court to compel the Office of the Accountant - General of the Federation to account for the recovered funds but that despite getting the court order, the OAGF refused to provide the information.

The Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Federal Government to sanction the Republic of South Africa for Xenophobic attacks against Nigerians residing and working there.

The new federal Every Student Succeeds Act, was endorsed by more than 35 civil rights organizations to ensure high standards and accountability for the progress of all students, the official said.

The government for its part will work for accountability at all levels — Federal, State and Local Governments.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has proffered solution to the lingering crises in the Niger Delta region, saying Federal Government must hold Oil Companies accountable for the devastation in the region.

A rights advocacy group, Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project, said it had sued the Federal Government for its failure to initiate criminal proceedings against the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, in relation to the $ 15m traced to bank accounts belonging to her.

Alhough students» scores on the Common Core - aligned state tests won't be used for teacher and principal evaluations, the growth scores will still be calculated and used for school accountability to comply with federal law, a state Education Department official said.

The lines of accountability could get blurrier as the state appeals to the federal government for emergency funding to deal with the broader regional meltdown.

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.

She was national director of Washington, D.C. - based Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan organization working for «transparency and accountability» in federal, state and local governments with a focus on documenting how money is perverting democracy.

A March 2008 Government Accountability Office report criticized the Bush White House (pdf) for injecting politics into the EPA's chemical risk assessment of perchlorate and other toxins.The report suggested that the White House Office of Management and Budget was stalling the completion of risk assessments by forcing scientists to respond to comments from other federal agencies, including the Department of Defense.

The computer scientist is a doctoral candidate at the Saarland University Graduate School for Computer Science, and also a researcher at the Center for IT - Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA), one of three security research centers in Germany that are specifically funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF.

A House panel heard testimony from Nancy Kingsbury of the Government Accountability Office, which released a report yesterday recommending that a single federal entity be responsible for determining how many more biocontainment labs the country needs and where those labs should be located.

«So last year they asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to ask the six leading federal research agencies for data on their applicant pools.

ACC appreciates this opportunity to provide testimony on Federal Agency use of science in the rulemaking process, and particularly on proposals for improving transparency and accountability.

GAO supports the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and helps improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people.

: A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report completed in January, 2012 concluded a need for strategic planning to better manage the overlap of federal STEM programs.

In this system, what passed for accountability was the ability to provide detailed reports of planned and actual spending of federal funds — in other words, a system of accounting, not of accountability.