Sentences with phrase «greater public accountability»

An information bulletin by Michael Watts, Roger Gillott and Sarah Harrison of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP from October 22, 2010, Proposed legislation aims to create greater public accountability, has garnished quite a bit of controversy this week.

By requiring greater public accountability through state and district level reporting on the achievement of their high - performing students, we will bring parity to the reporting process and better understand how these students are — or are not — progressing,» said NAGC President Tracy L. Cross, Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William & Mary.

The bill also provides greater public accountability and transparency, requires enforcement of cost estimating discipline, strengthens the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), and provides for additional tools to protect against waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats are calling for new and stronger actions from the B.C. Liberals to ensure long - term sustainability and environmental quality, greater public accountability, and best practices in the natural gas industry as the practice of hydraulic fracturing...

Not exact matches

In «Government Intervention in Venture Capital in Canada: Toward Greater Transparency and Accountability,» author Richard Rémillard argues that improving the quality of venture capital policy will provide a win - win outcome for the wider public, government and the venture capital industry itself.

This proposal has been sharply criticized by some USDA poultry inspectors, who claim in affidavits that it will put the public at greater risk for foodborne illnesses, and USDA's own methodology in defending the new procedures has been questioned by the Government Accountability Office.

If, say, questions about austerity or the regulation of banks are in the public eye, different ideologies will try to win the debate by appealing to the virtues of private enterprise, or to the need for public transparency and accountability, or to the greater redistribution of wealth.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Election Law Committee Chair Michael Cusick and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh today announced the Assembly's approval of legislation to close the Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) loophole in the state's campaign finance laws in order to bring greater transparency and accountability to elections for public office in New York State.

He said in doing this, Nigerians must continue to strengthen accountability, significantly limit discretion in public spending and promote greater openness.

The group said they would lead to «greater accountability of both corporate and public bodies involved in preventable fatalities».

Our reforms are not complete yet, but with your help and your leadership we are moving closer to realising a vision of the future with greater trust and accountability, where both the police and the public are winners.

Cuomo also famously doubled down on tying education funding to performance and pushing for greater teacher accountability, saying: «l learned that everyone in public education has his or her own lobbyist.

It would be great to think that before elected police commissioners come in, this anomaly could be removed — allowing real accountability for their priorities, the style of policing and also the shape and level of resources required to meet the demands of a public who are still very wary.

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.

We are proud to join this campaign for greater accountability of NYCHA, and to help push for increased state investment in public housing to ensure that long overdue repairs finally get made,» said Maritza Silva - Farrell of the Real Affordability for All Coalition.

«These public hearings help to bring greater transparency and accountability to the budget - making process and I urge New Yorkers to utilize these opportunities.»

«It's very disappointing that the reform bill was not signed into law,» agreed Assemblyman James Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat and sponsor of an identical reform bill in Albany, in a separate statement, adding that «each measure was aimed at providing greater transparency and accountability to an authority that has come under growing public scrutiny over the years, as abuses and scandals accumulated.»

New York, NY - On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. along with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Staten Island Borough President James Oddo outlined a Five Borough Broadband Bill of Rights to improve Internet speeds across the City, create stronger oversight and accountability and ensure greater community involvement in the proposal to create a free public WiFi system across New York City.

On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. along with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Staten Island Borough President James Oddo outlined a Five Borough Broadband Bill of Rights to improve Internet speeds across the City, create stronger oversight and accountability and ensure greater community involvement in the proposal to create a free public WiFi system across New York City.

Many senior school business management professionals find themselves on call long after 5.00 pm, are now working across groups of schools, are responsible for a wider range of school functions and larger, more dispersed teams, and alongside greater autonomy and responsibility, face greater scrutiny and public accountability.

«Pressures for accountability in the public realm have a spillover effect among philanthropic funders, who today may feel greater urgency to show results.»

The private schools retain a great deal of operational autonomy, but the price of public support is some form of public accountability.

Rather than today's system, which focuses on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development units, public officials should place greater emphasis on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations, curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Accountability's edge is undoubtedly due not only to widespread public support for the idea (see «What Americans Think about Their Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher unions.

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

A. Public institutions are feeling increased pressure as state governments raise the accountability bar and expect greater productivity with fewer resources.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled in education is convincing the American public that we have had test - based accountability.

I think you're seeing not only greater innovations on the public school side through partnerships but also greater accountability from their partners, and therefore a greater concern for marrying excellence and equity.

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.

In 2008, the NEA unveiled the «Great Public Schools for Every Student by 2020» project, in which the union committed to «creating models for state - based educational improvement,» «developing a new framework for accountability systems that support authentic student learning,» and «fostering a constructive relationship with U.S. Department of Education leadership.»

Moreover, this complexity has led to great variance in the amount of funding that is provided to local communities across the country relative to their population of disadvantaged students, and the system's increasing bureaucratic complexity has clouded transparency and public understanding, thereby undermining accountability for the largest federal K - 12 program.

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

Because public money will directly support the charter schools, and because the results of these schools are of great public importance, it creates a system of public accountability.

The nation's public schools can dramatically raise academic achievement among struggling students over the next two decades with a coordinated strategy that puts greater emphasis on accountability, urban schools, and early - childhood education, argues a report released here last week.

«School leadership is as demanding a profession as any business or public sector job, especially in an era of rising public expectations and greater accountability for results,» said Robert Schwartz, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and chair of the Executive Leadership Program steering committee.

There is a great deal of contention in public education around vouchers, choice, accountability systems, teacher quality, equity, and quality of education.

Greater accountability will provide charters that do not engage in such activities a competitive advantage, allowing them to thrive and ultimately improve the academic performance of Arizona's charter and public district schools.

Arizona laws provide public charter schools more autonomy in exchange for greater accountability for improved student achievement.

Because public charter schools are subject to greater accountability than traditional public schools.

The charter movement has transformed public education, and heralded in an era in which parents and communities can create schools of choice for their children and have greater flexibility and richer learning environments in exchange for added accountability.

We need a moratorium on new charters until we get greater accountability on our tax dollars that pay for these alleged «public institutions!»

In 2001, President George W. Bush and a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders passed the No Child Left Behind Act («NCLB») that sought to improve public education through greater accountability.

The strong accountability at the heart of the public charter school movement has helped to make charters successful at achieving great outcomes for students.

They worked in three of Denver's public high schools, fighting for greater public school accountability and student voice.

We are also asking educators to go back to their communities with the school success indicators developed by the NEA Great Public Schools project, and have discussions about what kinds of changes we all want to see in our schools, and how we can express our values through the school accountability system under ESSA.

Legislators make great sport out of questioning the integrity of public schools, students, teachers and districts to justify setting up the most punitive «Accountability» system in the nation.

This trend has already done great damage to the future of thousands of Texas kids and threatens many more if we can not come to a new consensus on the accountability for and measurement of student achievement in Texas, which after all should be the organizing principle of the public schools.

Washington — About 85 percent of renowned teachers disagree that the federal government should provide greater school choice through vouchers, a new survey finds - and almost all of the surveyed teachers believe that charter schools and private schools that receive federal funds should be subject to the same accountability measures as public schools.

The charter movement transformed public education, and heralded in an era in which parents and communities can create schools of choice for their children and have greater flexibility and richer learning environments in exchange for added accountability.