Sentences with phrase «little accountability for»

And we've continued to see as little accountability for this reality as possible either in the markets or in the courts.

He noted that a lengthy Detroit Free Press investigation published recently found little accountability for the $ 1 billion per year going to charter schools and largely equal performance compared to traditional schools.

As North Carolina looks ahead to school vouchers being implemented next year, read on to understand why residents can anticipate very little accountability for private schools receiving taxpayer funds.

But there's little accountability for how the money is spent and whether it's improving teaching and learning.

Traditionalists can point to empty, process - oriented teaching, where there is little accountability for getting the facts right as long as students are actively engaged.

Not exact matches

The Tory pre-election juggernaut continues to lumber onward, bumping and stumbling and generally behaving with little concern for the transparency and accountability that we seem to remember Premier J...

Taxes — like accountability — are for what Leona Helmsley referred to as the «little people» (not referring to Irish leprechauns).

The age of accountability is a concept born from the compassion of the human heart, from a deep and intrinsic sense that a loving, good, and just God would not condemn little children or the mentally handicapped to such suffering when they could certainly bear no responsibility for their faith.

There are other behavioral management techniques that are sometimes used as well, but for the most part, there is very little about an accountability group that is overtly «Christians.»

Everybody else ends up feeling like more of a failure, because obviously, the accountability group works for some people, and it must be their own weakness, or lack of spirituality, or little faith, or failure to read their Bible and pray enough, or whatever it might be to grant the success that others experience.

For many, this move marked «the beginning of the end» of Mars Hill Church as Driscoll faced little accountability in his decision - making.

The page that users were directed to features a photo of Obama and the quote: «We've seen and lived the consequences of what happens when there's too little accountability on Wall Street and too little protection for Main Street.

His support for a 2.5 percent budget increase for the judicial branch in exchange for judges certifying that their courtrooms are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to reduce backlogs would force more accountability in a branch of government that has little.

President Obama has put little political capital behind his transportation objectives; Congress has yet to hammer out a new transportation bill; the Highway Trust Fund is nearing bankruptcy; Governor Andrew Cuomo has yet to take a position on Gateway, and hasn't shown much enthusiasm for transit in general, and Christie seemed to express his position on mass transit with the cancellation of ARC, which has been the subject of a very damaging report by the Government Accountability Office.

The system over the years has grown unwieldy, with hundreds of authorities, corporations and development agencies cropping up around the state, taking out billions of dollars in debt and for the most part operating with little sunlight or accountability.

The lack of transparency and accountability help explain why there's so little payback, in terms of jobs, for the huge sums paid out.

We can understand why unelected Lords might have little time for accountability or manifesto commitments.

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.

By 1994 the General Accounting Office (GAO, now known as the Government Accountability Office) issued a report concluding that the «FAA has made little progress toward meeting the [1990] act's goal for deploying new explosive detection systems.»

Because of the anonymous, behind - the - screen nature of dating apps, there is little to no accountability for the way you treat people.

In Indiana and Michigan, for example, there are virtually no restrictions on home schoolers and very little accountability to government.

We at Fordham have tried to make the task a little bit easier by posting two compilations: First, the Common Core implementation plans for all 11 states, and second, all of their accountability proposals.

What became clear from the mark - up is that there's very little support in Congress for federal oversight of state accountability systems.

First and foremost, most of the tests we use for accountability purposes are multiple choice assessments that require very little thinking.

Eligible schools were notified in November of 2007, leaving relatively little time for teachers and administrators to alter their educational plans before accountability exams were administered in January for reading and March for math.

For too long, states had no systems for accountability, and the result was too little transparency about student results, system improvement, and the return on our investment of tax dollaFor too long, states had no systems for accountability, and the result was too little transparency about student results, system improvement, and the return on our investment of tax dollafor accountability, and the result was too little transparency about student results, system improvement, and the return on our investment of tax dollars.

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»).

Even the 1994 federal Title I reforms, which required states to develop the three major prongs of an effective accountability system (academic standards, tests linked to the standards, and a mixture of assistance and sanctions for low - performing schools) did little to stimulate California into action.

Panning for Gold in the Era of Accountability Is your school's public perception in need of a little polishing?

We bury them in committees, schedules, supervision, volunteer programs, data analysis, before - school and after - school meetings, materials, activities and evening events, training, special programs — and sprinkle a little goal - setting, demands, testing, accountability, evaluations, and relentlessly high expectations for change and improvement on top for good measure.

His vision, outlined in a speech to a Little Rock civic group earlier this month, calls for raising academic standards by requiring more rigorous course requirements for graduation, linking teacher pay raises to student performance, and restructuring the state's accountability system to include annual spring testing.

Medicine is a field that works relatively well where most of the improvement processes come on the front end (extensive training, clinical science building on basic science, ongoing dissemination of clinical science) with little emphasis on accountability for results on the back end.

Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances — curriculum is relatively little studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).

Provide real development and accountability for teachers: Ensure that all teachers have access to constructive feedback, and that students are not stuck in classrooms where little learning goes on.

There was clear agreement that policy makers need to respond to complaints from teachers and parents about too much testing, about accountability systems that misidentify schools as being either excellent or in need of intervention, and about state - mandated teacher evaluation systems that have consumed policy attention and controversy for little payoff in student achievement.

«It marries a taxpayer - funded government subsidy for private schools and vendors to a corporate tax break with little public oversight and no accountability for results.»

This past May, Jenny Sedlis of StudentsFirstNY wrote an editorial about Bill de Blasio's plans for the city's «failure factories,» which she alleges «have made little progress under this mayor's leadership» and continue to operate without appropriate standards and accountability.

«Of course, whether or not students learn should be part of a teacher's and administrator's evaluation, but when you have high stakes for students, teachers and administrators and little or no accountability for the $ 254 million contract lawmakers have given to the testing company, something is wrong.

Accountability is for «the little people,» as real estate queen Leona Helmsley once said about paying taxes.

As this year comes to a close, my heart breaks for Tamir Rice's family and to all the many others who have lost children to such senseless and violent acts with little to no accountability or justice to follow.

The law, passed as a part of the budget bill last summer, provides little in the way of accountability for private schools while reducing funds for public education at a time when schools are seeing sharp reductions in funding over a years - long period.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 15 by Stephen Raudenbush Student scores on standardized tests are used as measures for teacher accountability, but, arguably, helping children score well on an achievement test is of little value in itself.

A number of states have little or no accountability for the graduation rate accountability of subgroups.

• Little or no accountability for voucher schools; they will not have to use the same tests as public schools.

It also found that it paid millions of dollars to a third party non-profit, Accord, for educational services with little accountability.

For example, schools with low graduation rates still can earn high letter grades if an accountability system assigns little weight to graduation rates when compiling a school report card.

Yet when it comes to the education reformers themselves there is little or no accountability and there are plenty of excuses — even to measures they have set for themselves.

It also found that it paid millions of dollars to Accord, for educational services with little accountability.

Over the past eight years, NAESP has been leading the charge on Capitol Hill on behalf of Pre-K-8 principals to address the many challenges that educators have faced due to the shortsighted one - size - fits - all federal accountability requirements, misguided school improvement schemes, and little to no capacity - building for educators to ensure effective practice is supported.

There is very little doubt among sophisticated observers that Texas has led the nation in public education reform over the past decade or so and that it has served as a model for the nation in the advancement of standards and accountability.