Sentences with phrase «little accountability in»

From personal experience I have found that there is very little accountability in our «profession».

However there has been little accountability in the ICO and cryptocurrency space; a situation that has led a great many projects to fail).

Mayors were required to fund an organization over which they had no control, which encouraged them to send as little money as possible, and there was little accountability in the system.

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

As a result, smart customers are asking: Why is there so much hedging and so little accountability in AI?

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There was little accountability, he adds, and many of the small businesses using the free space didn't participate in events to share advice with other entrepreneurs.

After 25 million cubic metres of tailings and debris spilled into the formerly pristine, wild salmon supporting waters of Quesnel Lake there has been little in the way of consequences or accountability.

With hope in Jesus, professional counseling, godly counsel, trusted books, anti-depressants, accountability, repentance within loving community and regular workouts I'm convinced every little thing is going to be alright...

Oh sure, the accountability group might pray and talk about the Bible, but in general, there is very little difference between a Christian accountability group and any other form of behavioral management group.

We are still a club with no benefactor to bankroll us so the books have to be balanced.That is a way of life that we must live with and accept.But from now on there can be little or no excuses in the players we buy.Wengers control in these matters have been taken from him so the emphasis and accountability lies with Ivan Gazidis and his new teams.We can't get things wrong.Big and better players cost more in fees and wages so it's certainlg going to be interesting.

And there is accountability too which I know we will talk probably a little bit more when we talk about kind of the downside of the groups, sometimes what can happen, but accountability is huge and obviously you get that a lot in person and you can really develop those relationships even further.

However, the difficulties they encounter in terms of delivery provide little impetus to steer away from competitive authoritarianism and introduce reforms that would promote democracy by levelling the playing field or improving accountability.

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.

It is a story about men with too much power and too little accountability, and how innocent people can get lost in the system if one of these men takes a dislike to them.

New York taxpayers simply can not afford to return to the bad old days of skyrocketing tax bills, little accountability and schools with the highest costs in the nation without the results to match.»

Fred LeBrun: «After two terms of watching how this governor works, in the shadows, with as little accountability as he can get away with, it is small wonder the culture he's created hasn't caught up with him earlier.

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.

They say in the letter that the programs have «little oversight and accountability,» and it's easy to see how the system can be «susceptible to abuse.»

The staff member, Victor E. Franco, in his second day of testimony at the trial in Manhattan, elaborated on the budgetary process, as prosecutors sought to illustrate that Mr. Silver controlled it all with little transparency or accountability, particularly on the Health Department grants that are the focus of the case.

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

After two terms of watching how this governor works, in the shadows, with as little accountability as he can get away with, it is small wonder the culture he's created hasn't caught up with him earlier.

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.

It has been vastly underfunded, accountability measures have proven far too punitive, and states have been given little flexibility in implementing the law's requirements.

Two factors underlie the problem in Nigeria, Sidibé says: little effort to focus resources on the regions of the country that have the biggest problems, and no strong «culture of accountability» to ensure funds are well spent.

That's why I want you guys subscribed to my Evan Brand podcast and Justin's podcast because I believe you need a partner, an accountability partner, where you tune in once a week or once a month, whenever you can and you get the knowledge and then you apply one little baby step.

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

«Currently there is very little accountability and standardization in the programs available.

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

But in all the acrimonious discussion surrounding NCLB, surprisingly little attention has been given to the actual impact of that legislation and other accountability systems on student performance.

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.

In fact, we know very little about the impact of test - based accountability on students» later success.

The nation, which lagged Texas in adopting accountability, now seems to be entering a period of little change in test scores.

In other words, some unintended consequences often tend to accompany the introduction of accountability, although there is little evidence that these influences continue over time.

While working in schools in the United States and abroad, with few or abundant financial resources, with little or significant accountability, I puzzled over these same questions: How can educators support the literacy development of students, particularly those who tend to struggle in their school contexts?

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»).

All of this is to say that, if Republicans are successful in repealing the current accountability regulations, the education department ought to replace them with new ones immediately — even if they do little more than officially grant states the leeway that Republicans in Washington are promising.

The shared - decisionmaking structure in the 38,800 - student district has fostered a «committee culture» that blurs lines of accountability and has left Superintendent Alton Frailey and school board members with little authority, argue representatives from the Cincinnati Business Committee and the Baptist Ministers Conference.

The financial data that exists is (sic) unreliable, there has not been a clean audit since FY 2001 - 2002, there is no inventory of assets, the payroll system is in shambles, school buildings are in deplorable condition and, up to now, there has been little accountability.»

The era of accountability, speeded along by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, is now demanding dramatically better academic performance with little or no increase in the funds available to do the job.

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.

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.

The results show that students in high - accountability states averaged significantly greater gains on the NAEP 8th - grade math test than students in states with little or no state measures to improve student performance.

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.

Voucher and voucher - like programs divert much - needed funding from public schools and redirect it to private schools where, in some cases, there is little accountability or evidence to support expansion.

There is little evidence that the standardized testing movement has led to greater equity, providing legitimate cause to question the wisdom of continuing down a path of accountability that has not achieved any significant degree of success in achieving its intended ends.