Sentences with phrase «include accountability for»

Please contact your state senator to pass SB 6460, a critical bill for school libraries that will do two critical things: fix the funding formula to finally include accountability for school library spending, and require reporting and transparency by the OSPI about how they actually spend dedicated school library materials funds.

We have to include accountability for improving school climate.

Naturally enough, those interests favor existing arrangements, which protect jobs; limit the demands placed on members, including their accountability for student performance; and safeguard the privileges of senior teachers.

My background includes accountability for training and supervising incoming members while continuing to learn and innovate new approaches.

Over 20 years A / P experience in financial, technology, and other industries and has included accountability for the processing of high volume invoices.

Not exact matches

More accountability also means they will have to pull back and let the senior executives below them do their jobs, including allowing for more leeway to make decisions.

In these strange times, we need the majority of business leaders to accept a higher level of accountability for reviving the economy, through commitment, innovation and a broader view of success that includes contributing to the island's social and economic advancement.

But according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which did a study in 2013 on the drug shortage, other reasons include a lack of materials to make the drugs, as well as delays in getting government approval for new and experimental drugs.

«Our companies believe that government surveillance practices should also be reformed to include substantial enhancements to privacy protections and appropriate oversight and accountability mechanisms for those programs,» the company wrote.

Then he spent months working on a corporate makeover that included hiring a consultant, Jackie Lauer of the Heart of Culture, to help identify core values for the company, such as trust, teamwork and accountability.

In a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published on December 8, 2016, and publicly released on January 9, 2017, the IRS is called out for its lack of guidance in regard to taxpayers investing individual retirement accounts (IRA) in «unconventional assets,» including virtual currency.

Nanya Springer is associate director of the Center for Political Accountability and is responsible for working with our shareholder partners, engaging the corporate community, and overseeing research projects including the annual CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability.

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 report also included recommendations on the rights of migrants and refugees, accountability for Canadian corporations operating in other countries, and the infringement of human rights in the name of security and counter-terrorism.

But this time there has been a mad rush to the «transparency and accountability» altar and because of a Senate spending scandal and a $ 90,000 payoff we may be heading to the type of real change so many, including this newspaper, have pushed for over the years.

Much of the groundwork achieved by sustainable investment firms such as Walden has been provided by the Center for Political Accountability (CPA), which collaborates with sustainable shareowners to persuade corporations to disclose political expenditures, including payments to trade associations such as the Chamber.

The Update also included a large number of spending initiatives (about $ 10 billion over six years), thereby ensuring that these initiatives would be included in Main Estimates for 2018 - 19 as part of efforts to increase transparency and accountability between the budget expenses and the Main Estimates expenditures.

This includes establishing a much higher level of accountability and consequence for our actions and the impact we have on customers.

In the political realm, this encompasses the commitments of the liberal peace to human rights and even accountability for war criminals, but it also includes the redress of the wide range of wounds that tyrannical violence inflicts through a correspondingly wide range of practices that bring a measure of restoration to victims as well as perpetrators.

She cites Superintendent Beverly Hall's turnaround program in Atlanta as positive because Hall «established accountability targets for every school, including the percentage of students who meet standards and the percentage who exceed them.»

Such accountability requires sacrifice and, frankly, that it just too much for 99 % of the people, of which I would include myself.

It's also worth noting, (and I meant to include it earlier), that having a defined, cohesive, and cogent theology allows for accountability.

Boundaries like the Billy Graham Rule need not accuse women or vilify men, but rather to invite accountability for those in positions of authority, even as they perform the important and necessary duties of their position (which will include interacting with the opposite sex.)

As for those «other obligations too numerous to mention,» they include the pope's accountability to the ways things are, which is another boundary to papal authority.

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.

«When hiring, we look for several characteristics including integrity, accountability, commitment and drive,» he says.

This includes: financial management arrangements for Commonwealth agencies; freedom of information; and policies relating to information management, auditing, employee conduct and accountability.

The Accountability Framework, an initiative being developed by a coalition of leading environmental and social organisations (including the Rainforest Alliance), will provide a clear pathway for companies on the sustainability journey — including key milestones and benchmarks to evaluate their progress.

UNFCCC COP23 November 6 - 17, 2017 - Bonn, Germany Rainforest Alliance will be represented by a delegation of participants including Adrian Woitzik, Donita Dooley, Jeff Milder, Mark Moroge, Martin Noponen, and Sascha Tischer, whose activities will include a consultation event for the Accountability Framework Initiative.

Of interest today, these compromises included questions of assessment and accountability, an ongoing challenge for all Waldorf educators and a particular question for those in the sphere of public education.

I don't do accountability, I'm just here for the good parts, including my paycheque, which should always be forthcoming regardless of outcomes!

The Superfood for Babies recommendations include: «To encourage companies to improve their policies, practices and accountability, FTSE4Good should, by 2015, extend its criteria for the inclusion of a BMS company on its index to include the company's activities in all countries, rather than just those countries listed as higher risk, and should bring its criteria into line with the International Code and resolutions.

What is also of grave concern to AIMS Ireland is the number of failures at national level identified in the report including timely access to maternity services, inadequate staffing levels for safe care, a maternity care model that hasn't been revised in 59 years despite numerous national and international reports and recommendations, a lack of accountability and governance, an absence of reviews of clinical practices in units and the lack of a national maternity services strategy, all of which we have seen recommended on previous inquests without reform.

Flanagan indicated he wanted a broad - based review of economic development spending, including some areas that are potentially sensitive to Cuomo, such as the money his administration spends on advertising job - creating efforts and a review of the «lack of accountability for major deals and projects that fail miserably when it comes to creating jobs.»

They include greater accountability measures for the awarding of government contracts, more transparency for «lump - sum» budget appropriations and expenditures, and limits on outside income for lawmakers.

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.

The gist of our testimony was that the legislature should not appropriate any new funds for discretionary economic development programs until there are major transparency and accountability reforms, including a Database of Deals, Clean Contracting reforms and restrictions on campaign contributions from state -LSB-...]

As for the governor, he made no appearances yesterday, but issued yet another lengthy statement insisting he won't sign off on more state education aid unless the budget includes reforms that address «accountability, performance and standards.»

Earlier, in her remarks, Programme Coordinator, Democracy and Accountability, OSIWA, Catherine Angai, said political parties were registered for different reasons, including mobilisation of electorate and holding government accountable.

Cuomo is expected to call for greater teacher accountability this month in his combined State of the State and budget address on Jan. 21, including an overhaul of how teachers and schools are rated.

Now, those leaders are beginning to craft their legislative priorities, which will include eliminating the state's cap on charter schools, increasing funding for established charters, and establishing more accountability measures for district schools and teachers.

Its proposals include greater accountability for the local authorities responsible for adoption, cutting the time taken to get approval down to six months, and a national «gateway for adoption».

State Sen. Pam Helming backs a bill for nursing accountability, including that designated representatives of patients be notified as soon as possible — but no later than two hours after a patient is found to have an injury.

But socio - political groups, including the Socio - Economic Right Accountability Project and the Campaign for Democracy, criticised the EFCC for hiding the identities of the owners of the recently recovered funds in Lagos and Kaduna.

The coalition includes anti-police brutality group Why Accountability, Queens Neighborhoods United, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, El Grito de Sunset Park, the Police Reform Organizing Project, New Yorkers Against Bratton, Mothers Cry for Justice and Families for Freedom.

His cash plus large ad buys from outside groups, including the League of Conservation Voters and the Campaign for Primary Accountability super PAC, meant Holden was outspent in the primary.

The gist of our testimony was that the legislature should not appropriate any new funds for discretionary economic development programs until there are major transparency and accountability reforms, including a Database of Deals, Clean Contracting reforms and restrictions on campaign contributions from state vendors.

At recent campaign appearances, including one on Saturday in Catskill, Cuomo has been talking up his «New New York» agenda for government accountability and fiscal conservatism in these tough economic times.

In November the UK will host a follow - up to 2012's Tokyo Summit at which the international community pledged $ 16bn in aid to Afghanistan in return for adherence to a Mutual Accountability Framework, which included commitments on women's rights.

These include: • Establishing that all HASA vendors are reviewed at least every two years; • Adding more resources to ensure the completion of all unfinished audits; • Moving HASA's contract monitoring to the HRA's Office of Program Accountability to provide better quality control; • Developing a new HASA client bill of rights with a clear method for making complaints.