Sentences with phrase «hear about accountability»

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In an unusual mid-December display of bi-partisanship, the House Financial Services committee announced plans to hold hearings to address SEC settlement practices and «concerns about accountability and transparency,» according to Chairman Spencer Bachus.

It's a project that the company had been working on ever since the partners heard what B Corps are all about: for - profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

We hear about the importance of teacher accountability, of better test scores in math, sciences, and English.

With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that focus not just on test scores but on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor results.

Lubbers, who had become interested in charter schools after hearing educators in traditional schools complain about red tape holding them back, says that vesting the mayor (who is of course beholden to voters) with authorizing power offered the very desirable combination of freedom and accountability.

A common refrain I hear in the course of my reporting and writing about school vouchers — a program that is set to take a large bite out of our public coffers in North Carolina in the months and years ahead — is that at the end of the day, it's the parents who should be the enforcers of accountability for this publicly funded effort to shift state money into private schools.

While this lack of expertise is not disqualifying in itself, her responses to questions at her Senate confirmation hearing about fundamental education functions such as the federal requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and accountability for public funds were unsettling to educators across the country.

It follows warnings from union leaders that councils are powerless to intervene when they hear about educational underperformance and poor attendance in academies, and after MPs questioned the accountability of the government's network of schools commissioners.

Now, next time you hear the Malloy administration talk about charter school accountability, you'll know a bit more of the back story.

But she said that she hasn't «heard a thing» about the state relaxing its accountability standards.

Meanwhile, a recent hearing before the House education committee that was billed as a forum on federal education accountability turned into a discussion about the priorities for reauthorizing ESEA and revealed that the partisan divide that ruled House committee action last year continues to do so today.

Currently PAC, along with other community organizations and SFUSD partners, is leading community conversations to hear from families and community members about their ideas to help inform SFSUD's Local Control and Accountability Plan.

The argument I've heard public feedback about and which is part of the ruling, is that because Charter School boards of directors are appointed rather than elected, Charter Schools don't fit the definition of common schools, and are therefore somehow lacking in accountability.

I'll never forget being in a meeting of the Idaho Assessment and Accountability Commission and hearing person - after - person get up and testify to the absurdity of the test - based (outcome - based) mechanism of «accountability» that was about Accountability Commission and hearing person - after - person get up and testify to the absurdity of the test - based (outcome - based) mechanism of «accountability» that was about accountability» that was about to go forward.

«We hear about over-testing because we really have two accountability systems,» New Hampshire Department of Education Deputy Commissioner Paul Leather said in a statement.

Not to mention that ever since I learned of Muir Russell's endorsement of the «team - work» sidestep, I have reservations about how easily responsibility and accountability become foggily diffused when I read / hear that «this was a team effort», OWTTE.

Around 2000 representatives from Wal - Mart's suppliers are gathering in Arkansas this morning for the Live Better Sustainability Summit, which is billed as a chance to hear Lee Scott and other company executives talk about the need for sustainability, transparency, efficiency and accountability all the way down the supply chain, as well as an opportunity to meet and learn from some of the most innovative green businesses, non-profit organizations and institutions in the world.

So you hear a lot on our website about quality and service and accountability as well as transparency.