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This means not only taking full responsibility but also full accountability of the animals, which leads to producing high quality organic meat directly on our organic farm.
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«After more than a decade combatting violent extremists and conducting contingency operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and most recently Syria, [the Defense Department] has prioritized the rebalancing of its forces in recent budget requests to build and sustain the capabilities necessary to prevail across a full range of potential contingencies,» states a Government Accountability Office report released in June.
«Now, the question, after over a full year of progress and tremendous strides in accountability, opening access to care, improving access to benefits, tackling mental health, and strengthening relations with stakeholders, is whether the President is ready to turn the keys to the VA over to ideologues who have designs on having VA go the way of railroads, airports, energy companies, postal services, and other businesses that have been privatized — and have also proven profitable for a few,» he said in the statement.
In particular, the Trade Justice Network would like trade deals to be analyzed by the Parliamentary Budget Officer as part of a process of full accountability to Parliament, a recommendation made earlier today by Senator Céline Hervieux - Payette.
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Among the advantages of this approach is full accountability.
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.
«The Fair Work Ombudsman calls on Caltex to engage seriously in discussing the offer of a compliance partnership so that the Fair Work Ombudsman and the Australian community can be confident Caltex is operating openly and with full accountability.»
To recognize that sustainability is a journey and must encompass a full range of best practices across societal, ecological, economic, cultural, and accountability dimensions.
This will happen by adopting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement that works to implement best practices across a full spectrum of sustainability dimensions — social, ecological, economic, cultural and accountability — for the benefit of all of agriculture and the peoples of the world that depend on it.
«I will not allow the NFL to impose a new process of discipline on me, ignore the CBA, ignore the deal they agreed to with me, and behave without fairness or accountability,» Peterson said in a statement that can be read in full on the NFL Players Association website.
Additional Accountability Requirements: Statute 16 -2-9 (a)(25)(2005), Statute 16-21-28 (2005) and Statute 16 -7.1-2 (h)(2005) require the school committee of each district to establish a district - wide coordinated school health and wellness subcommittee, chaired by a member of the full school committee, to implement policies and plans to meet Section 204 requirements.
This has leads to a pressure to be working at full capacity at all times, and it doesn't take much for the wheels to come off, and perpetual re-organisation for the sake of it, in the name of «reform,» that attack structures of accountability.
«The judicial process, the judicial system of Kenya and the election laws themselves make full and adequate provision for accountability in this election,» said Kerry, an election observer for the Carter Center.
Today he commented, «At a time when public concern about the place of religion in schools has never been higher, we need full accountability and transparency with respect to decisions as to which schools are funded.
Full disclosure: The owner of DNAinfo.com, Joe Ricketts, made a contribution to the Campaign for Primary Accountability in 2011.
«To the contrary, we believe that it is in the interest of good government and working women that there is full accountability and transparency about workplace sex harassment and that there should be full investigations of accusations of workplace harassment.»
While Ukraine met in full or in part a number of commitments such as universality, transparency, freedom and accountability, it failed to guarantee a level playing field, an indispensable condition to ensure the fairness of the process.
It will also serves as litmus test for full cycle of intervention adapting world best practices while considering our own local peculiarities, exhibiting the best of transparency, accountability and in full consideration of the protection and integrity of the affected persons.
«We believe that it is in the interest of good government and working women that there is full accountability and transparency about workplace sex harassment and that there should be full investigations of accusations of workplace harassment,» Allred said in a statement issued a few hours before Silver's.
«The missing link, it must be admitted, had been the inability of the Nigeria police to take full advantage that ICT offers to strengthen its accountability mechanism.
What is notable is what is not in the agreement — legislative compensation overhaul, desperately needed stronger ethics enforcement with greater public transparency of votes, comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing that closes the LLC loophole and bans all personal use of campaign funds, strong disclosure and accountability for all executive and legislative discretionary lump sum funds, and a commitment to undertake the necessary examination and full - scale overhaul of our ethics and campaign finance laws.
«Everyone - parliament, government and the public - has a strong interest in making sure that there is full transparency, debate and accountability of public money.»
«Our governance will be more thoroughly decentralized to enable citizens to access resources and demand accountability for services; Our infrastructure development will be intensified to accelerate the transformation of Ghana into a full middle - income status».
«The EFCC should ensure full accountability and bring to justice anyone found to be responsible for corruption and diversion of safe school funds.
All the main parties have committed to accepting the proposals in full, as long as they met three tests of improving transparency, accountability and reducing costs.
A leading presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar, today accused President Goodluck Jonathan of indulging in «politics of clientelism» one that only awards favours to cronies, to the detriment of accountability and full democratic participation.
«This project has never had any real oversight or accountability or full public transparency, so it shouldn't come as a shock that a member of the Bloomberg administration has money invested in it,» said Councilwoman Letitia James, whose district includes the 22 - acre project footprint within Prospect Heights.
But the accountability button was pushed by pressure group, Occupy Ghana and Citizen Ghana Movement who took the matter to court demanding that the Transport Ministry be forced to make full disclosure of its contract with the company.
«The final approval of this legislation removes the full burden of accountability from the consumer and shifts responsibility to the experts so that these products will be properly disposed of and recycled.
«Ramarley's family and the public still don't know whether Haste is facing charges for the full extent of his misconduct or whether the 12 plus other officers who engaged in misconduct will face accountability,» Colon added, saying it was time for «more than just rhetoric.»
It's a truth universally acknowledged that a strong safety culture — something the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines as combining «the necessary full attention to safety matters» and the «personal dedication and accountability of all individuals engaged in any activity which has a bearing on safety» — plays a vital role in doing science safely.
This shared governance allows nurses to assume full accountability for their practice, empowering them to initiate changes to improve the quality of patient care.
Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.
This leads her into a full and sophisticated analysis of the effect of the movement for standards, assessment, and accountability on this kind of civic action teaching, and it is clear there is a bad mismatch.
But Tennessee earned almost full marks (98 percent) on the section of the competition (weighted a substantial 14 percent of all possible points) devoted to «adopting standards and assessments,» even though its standards have remained extremely low ever since the federal accountability law took hold.
For comparison, the Common Core standards are new and more rigorous than existing standards, but they're only one component of the full accountability apparatus, and all the states that have adopted the standards are relying on either one of the two assessment consortia or ACT to create assessments for them.
This points to the critical role of charter school authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of directors).
That's a shame, since the same basic dysfunctions that ail general education afflict special education too: middling (or worse) teacher quality; an inclination to throw «more people» at any problem; a reluctance to look at cost - effectiveness; a crazy quilt of governance and decision - making authorities; a tendency to add rather than replace or redirect; and a full - on fear of results - based accountability.
While it's not as simple (nor as rational) for a charter school to become the LEA taking full responsibility for special education services as it is for Vagare to end its contract with the IRC, there are plenty of charters around the country that want that kind of autonomy and accountability.
From that line of thinking was born Opportunity Culture, an initiative to try this idea: Let school teams with teachers on them redesign jobs and use age - appropriate technology to extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to many more students, for more pay, within regular budgets, adding more planning time, and having them take full accountability for the learning of all the students they serve.
Hickok:: I think, in all likelihood, you will indeed see different approaches to full implementation of accountability under No Child Left Behind.
That's mainly because — my interpretation, anyway — the Golden State never really put those solid standards into operation in its schools, nor did it make them part of a full - on accountability system for schools, kids, or educators.
While Bill Padia, director of the policy and evaluation division at the California Department of Education, thinks California's state accountability plan is «relatively close» to full NCLB compliance, he too reports that California educators are skeptical of a system where «you just raise the bar every year and the bar will be up at 100 percent in 12 years.»
Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.
This book — short, dense, and likely to be particularly prized by those who love tables full of statistics, though the prose is very clear — is an important contribution to the growing collection of high - quality studies finding that greater accountability, autonomy, and choice do, indeed, make for a better education system and greater student learning.
By the time the 2012 elections moved into full swing, the Obama administration was issuing waivers to states exempting them from the most punitive parts of NCLB in exchange for sketching out their own state plans for improving teacher quality, academic standards and creating better accountability systems.
Furthermore, measuring performance using the full range of achievement provides additional and useful information for parents, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers for the purposes of decisionmaking and accountability, including more accurate information about the differences among schools.
We clearly oppose the idea of for - profit charters, and call for full accountability and transparency for all charter schools.
The state's highest grade is for the standards and accountability section, where it receives full credit for having clear and specific standards at each grade span in the four core subjects, as determined by the American Federation of Teachers.