Sentences with phrase «in issues of accountability»
Research can generate the evidence to help in issues of accountability, advocacy and the justification of fund allocation.
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But for now, I'll point you to the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, an organization comprised of some of the world's biggest companies who have made a public commitment to work together on issues of diversity and accountability in all its challenging nuance.
«Without strong action from the Department to ensure that DOJ employees meet the highest standards of conduct and accountability, the systemic issues we identified in our work may continue,» Horowitz wrote in a May 31 memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Strengthening transparency and accountability are two issues that have come to the forefront in the wake of the financial crisis.
«There should not be unequal voting rights as they could allow management or minority share owners to override the wishes or best interests of majority shareholders for personal benefit and compromise accountability, leading to potential entrenchment issues,» Mary Leung, head of advocacy for Asia at CFA Institute, an association of investment professionals, said in a statement.
Global financial crisis: causes, consequences, cures Central bank responses to the crisis: issues of democratic accountability, QE and inflation, regulatory reform Fiscal policy responses to the crisis: issues of inflation, stimulus, debt sustainability Real estate prices and mortgage problems New directions in economics in light of the GFC Impacts of the GFC on the BRICS and the developing world Modern Money Theory, Functional Finance Job Guarantee / Employer of Last Resort Problems of Euroland,
It covers, for example, the role and governance of charities, federalism and urban governance issues, and questions of accountability and transparency in government.
Policy initiatives on transparency and government accountability, along with formal (albeit belated) responses to injustices in Wukan and other rural communities indicate a willingness to redress human rights issues involving abuses of political authority.
With trust and accountability having become the defining issues of the election campaign, Mr. Prentice has not presented a compelling reason for Albertans to trust that the PC Party will be any different in the next three years (especially after he called the election one year earlier than the PC Government's fixed election date).
Developed and taught GS / FACC 6460: «Accountability Issues in the Government and Not - for - Profit Sectors,» Master of Financial Accountability Program (MFAc), School of Administrative Studies, York University, 2012 — present (with exception of sabbatical).
XXXchurch exists to bring awareness, openness, accountability and recovery to the church, society and individuals in the issues of pornography and to begin to provide solutions through non-judgmental and creative means.
I was in one accountability group where we were dealing with issues of sexual temptation.
Representatives have also written letters in support of beginning farmer issues, organic agriculture issues, local food issues, and conservation accountability and crop insurance, among others.
The case study demonstrates that the preferred methods of democratic accountability in Rwanda involve responsiveness by the centralised powers to their citizens to solve technocratic problems like corruption, not politically trickier issues of compensation.
Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.
In New York, parent leaders of the anti-testing movement observed that Washington's retreat from issues of teacher accountability would leave Albany with sole responsibility.
He said in a statement issued and signed by his Special Aide, Joyce Bawah Mogtari in Accra that «June 4, as one of the recognized anniversary days of the NDC, is a day of accountability.»
«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.
«My issue if accountability», said Legislator Tom Loughran in questioning Karl Simmeth of the Authority.
John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a government watchdog group, said that while there are likely no big «revelations» in the spreadsheet, the very fact that The Alt needed to obtain the information through a FOIL request — and that a comparable list can not be found on SUNY's central website — speaks to larger issues of transparency and accountability at the vast institution.
«Bill Stachowski is dead wrong on marriage equality — but he is exactly where the people of Western New York need him to be on issues of accountability, transparency and change in Albany.»
Hague's statement that the option being proposed was the most easily employed to bring democracy and accountability to a wide range of issues is laughable; if only because true democracy does not exist in this country and there is no accountability of our politicians to the people — in that regard, is not Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and John Major (et all) still «at large»?
The group Citizens Union issued a report regarding $ 3 billion in the state budget, in various pots of money, that they say operate as veritable slush funds for state lawmakers to distribute to projects with little oversight and accountability.
Perhaps the most important step for the future is to establish accountability when it comes to issues of recruitment and retention of women in the physician - scientist work force: Identify shortcomings, set new goals, and develop solutions to meet them as quickly as possible.
In December the Government Accountability Office issued a highly critical analysis of the Vit Plant's unresolved safety issues
And finally, to deal with the issue of weak governance and accountability — according to the paper, the single biggest impediment to a holistic approach to health governance in the country is the lack of convergence between ministries related to health, water, sanitation, and national vertical targeted programmes.
There are issues across the globe that center on injustice, lack of accountability, and humans with hatred, instead of love and empathy, in their hearts.
In addition to money issues, other recurring themes among institute speakers included how accountability affects charters, the role of authorization by states education departments, and strategic management.
Klein goes through a few of these testing issues — whether parents can opt their kids out of tests, whether school districts can choose their own tests, and how big a role tests should play in accountability — and explains where the House stands, where the Senate stands, and the pros and cons of both sides.
Although Shonkoff thinks accountability is critical in early childhood development assessment, he foresees the issue of assessment as a much bigger political problem that requires honest evaluation — something that he sees as detrimental to assessment success.
«Accountability for student performance is one of the two or three - if not the most - prominent issues in policy at the state and local levels right now,» says Richard F. Elmore, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education (Quality Counts, 1999)
Also in this issue, a look at how ESSA's new era of accountability could make or break century - old K — 12 accreditation agencies and a Q&A with former New Mexico Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera.
A year ago, North Carolina's Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability issued a report recommending a sharp reduction in the number of tests that the state required.
Paul Peterson interviews Robert Shapiro, an expert on public opinion, about how the partisan divide in education policy is shifting, as issues of school quality and accountability have produced «conflicted liberals,» at the same time that the presidential election is creating «conflicted conservatives.»
We address this issue by comparing trends in student achievement across states that had varying degrees of prior experience with state school - accountability policies similar to those brought about by NCLB.
• The big issues the Department of Education will face when issuing regulations • How states might think fresh about their accountability systems, teacher evaluations, and interventions in low - performing schools • The timeline for the coming two years
In the past 20 years, the issue with the waves of school reform have been basic skills, graduation stands, performance and the accountability movement.
Nina S. Rees, former head of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement, says it's no secret that other issues are of greater concern to Spellings: «I really think her heart is in the testing and accountability realm and I don't think that has changed.»
The winter meeting of the National Governors» Association kicked off a year in which the association will explore states» best practices through a series of regional meetings on educational technology and accountability, said Gov. Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, who has made raising student achievement a key platform issue in his term as the chairman of the NGA.
Whether it is the role of money in politics and the so - called «donor class,» the emergence of Republican majorities in formerly blue states like her native Michigan, or the still - rocky relationship between accountability and school choice, DeVos has become a convenient proxy for these larger issues.
In the capitol, the union won some accountability and transparency fights — prohibiting for - profit organizations from running charters, making charters adhere to state comptroller audits, and demanding they serve more special education and ELL students — but lost the bigger issues of saturation and the cap, which legislators agreed to raise from 200 to 460.
For example, in 2016 the AFC issued its first - ever «report card» ranking states by the quality of their private - school choice programs, and its scorecard values academic, administrative, and financial accountability, not just access.
Further, little is being done to ensure that the tests being devised for the new Common Core State Standards do not introduce a break in the continuous stream of accountability information essential for the evaluation of school and teacher performance (see this issue's forum, «Examining High - Stakes Testing»).
In the world of education, we have a complicated issue around accountability.
NCLB has been a great success in the sense that no one disagrees with its goals: accountability for results, addressing issues of teacher quality, putting a spotlight on the learning of all students, and better targeting of funds to districts serving the most disadvantaged students.
In the new issue of Ed Next, Bill Tucker writes about the new data system being rolled out by Texas, «one that aims to move districts from collecting data solely for accountability to collecting it to improve schools.»
Like it or not, the world of education accountability is headed in a normative direction — 42 states, the District of Columbia, and eight large school districts in California are all making normative decisions now — and this should change how we look at all sorts of issues.
Spellings, who was U.S. Secretary of Education from 2005 to 2009, defends the role of accountability and testing in the Winter 2014 issue of Education Next.
First, this is where most of the indicators are now pointed; and second, as I'll show in my next post, once we get beyond testing, ESEA accountability issues get much, much, much messier.
The issue features a debate between Spellings and Josh Starr, superintendent of schools in Montgomery County, Md., over whether states should take a three - year break from accountability testing.