Sentences with phrase «more accountability»

And others have called for more accountability when it comes to these programs, including the first ratings of colleges and universities for the effectiveness of the teachers they train.
Some argue that elected superintendents bring more accountability and transparency to the process....
While the Canadian public wants more accountability from the judiciary, some judges want less.
For relatively small jobs, such as replacing flooring in a rental house, you can get a contractor with more accountability by hiring through a big box store.
The reality is, to ramp up building performance standards, designers and builders need more accountability for what they deliver.
More transparency into a product's manufacturing and production process creates more accountability for businesses while also allowing families to vote with their money.
If you want more accountability to turn your ideas into reality then the club is for you!
If your teen lies about where she is going, require more accountability, or she loses the privilege of going out.
Now, I believe that the goals of this law - educating every child with an excellent teacher, closing the achievement gap, ensuring more accountability and higher standards - were right.
It basically came down to building more accountability into the organization.
You'll have more direction, more authority and more freedom, but you'll also have far more accountability for your decisions and habits.
In a recent speech, he said that he would like to see more accountability at the local level in carrying out state mandated policies.
Design - build allows the same company to develop the plans for a project and construct it, hopefully providing more accountability and allowing for a faster and more integrated process.
It provides the tools to enhance the process of accomplishment and offers more accountability for their actions.
Yet we have also observed a historical trend away from pure parliamentary sovereignty, and toward more accountability institutions.
The lender takes on much more accountability with an unsecured loan, so the application approval process is a bit stricter for unsecured personal loans than its secured counterpart.
Just as inevitable are the suggestions for how more accountability and innovation could be realized: more charter schools, more choice, less bureaucratic oversight.
When you have your own money at risk you take more accountability.
I also know that many writers used the blog posts from last year to negotiate more accountability from their publishers for future royalties.
Clearly, resolving this struggle was going to involve more accountability from each of them.
Just a small change like this can go a long way towards bringing more accountability to your social media marketing.
«Public corruption is unacceptable and our community is demanding more accountability and transparency,» he said.
Everyone in the schools need more accountability, teachers, students and administrators.
The measure would also assign a city agency to enforce the permit system, as well review each operator applying for a permit, to create more accountability for individual drivers and bus companies.
We need better schools with more accountability, public safety, and improved quality of life in the neighborhoods.
The upside is a more predictable cash flow and revenue and more accountability on the franchisees.
Almost everything; there's compliance paperwork, more collaboration, more focus on test scores and far more accountability.
This creates much more accountability and aligns the interests.
On top of this, he calls for more accountability and discretion from colleges on acceptance and enrollment.
Our fight is not yet over to end insider trading in Congress and demand more accountability in our political system, to make our food supply safe for American families, and fix the trade policies that have left our local manufacturers competing on an unlevel playing field.
Beyer, a Durham native, has raised three children in the county's public schools and is a founding member of Parents Across America, an organization that has opposed charter school expansions and called for more accountability of these schools.
When the federal No Child Left Behind law was implemented in 2002, the state had to comply with even more accountability measures.
I mean, I think the fact that, as Geoff was just saying, that Obama has specifically embraced the Harlem Children's Zone, that he's also talking not only about more accountability in schools, but also about other types of social support, before school and outside school, makes me think that, at the very least in Washington, this conversation is really starting to happen in a way that it didn't in the past.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said the state needs more accountability when giving out economic development funds, noting this year's budget again relies heavily on lump sum appropriations that have little oversight regarding their allocation.
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.
Here's the background paper with more detail on the proposal, which is primarily aimed at developing more accountability within the government, and particularly the White House, on overseeing a sequence of achievable steps to progressively ratchet down the amount of oil per unit of gross domestic product — «oil intensity» is the shorthand.
Time and again students in public schools outperform those in voucher schools, while parents and taxpayers alike get more accountability
There's more spending going on and new debt authorizations... we need to look ahead and seek more accountability and transparency.
While this doesn't necessarily mean that adding more accountability and discipline to American schools would be a bad thing, it does hint at the many headaches that can come from trying to do so by aggressively introducing marketlike competition to education.
«He supports more accountability measures for every school that receives public funding,» Beyer said.
However, if you have two large containers of poker chips you are using or fake Monopoly money that you're keeping score with, everyone in your house can see your results, and it will be quite apparent to everyone if you break your money management discipline, this gives you yet even more accountability.
Now that the Every Student Succeeds Act has passed, and the power to run public schools has shifted to the local school districts and the state, will that mean more accountability on their part when things go wrong in the classroom?
«They need more independence for the watchdogs, not more accountability to those that they are supposed to be regulating,» said Horner.
The new engagement proposal builds on promises that Brown made in his January budget to impose more accountability on districts for how they use money provided by the state to support at - risk students.
In fact, build into your budget some spending money for yourself or gifts — that way, if an unexpected $ 10,000 bill shows up from American Express you'll be able to tell which of you needs a little more accountability.
One of the most important tasks is to achieve true participatory democracy in order to force nation - states to accept more accountability vis - à - vis global forces for the interests of their people.
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