Sentences with phrase «need for accountability using»

These Local Governments satisfy their members and residents, and the senior Governments need for accountability using the systems they have chosen, which have been proven to meet all the requirements for good governance.

Not exact matches

In each of his State of the State speeches Cuomo has used the capitol building as a metaphor for something that was once glorious and can be restored; he has said he wants to re-establish New York «the progressive capital of the nation»; he has touted the number of on - time budgets he and the legislature have delivered (this year he'll say four in a row and counting); he has demanded more teacher accountability but explained new changes he's seeking; and, he has stressed a need for ethics rules overhaul and campaign finance reform while mentioning unsavory headlines.

What is notable is what is not in the agreement — legislative compensation overhaul, desperately needed stronger ethics enforcement with greater public transparency of votes, comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing that closes the LLC loophole and bans all personal use of campaign funds, strong disclosure and accountability for all executive and legislative discretionary lump sum funds, and a commitment to undertake the necessary examination and full - scale overhaul of our ethics and campaign finance laws.

The many democratic electoral systems in use around the world attempt to strike a balance between mathematical fairness and political considerations such as accountability and the need for strong, stable government.

I use my experiences and my studies from IIN and The Natural Gourmet Institute to create a personalized road - map to health for my clients and provide the accountability they need to transform their lives.

Wellness coaching includes: < > Personal Lifestyle Assessment < > Goal Setting < > Individualized Lifestyle Plan (including: diet, exercise, stress management, etc) < > Daily Interaction, Reporting, Motivation, Feedback, Accountability < > Long - term planning < > Essential Oils education and support (for general and specific uses and needs)

In some quarters, parents decry the over-testing of their children, for example, whereas others point out the need for testing for accountability over the use of public funds.

These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

The new version of the law, he said, will need to ensure effective teachers and principals for underperforming schools, expand learning time, and devise an accountability system that measures individual student progress and uses data to inform instruction and teacher evaluation.

But in the case of private - school accountability, it doesn't have to be the Common Core — aligned tests that states will be using for their district and charter schools (some of which also need «alternative» accountability arrangements).

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With a clear focus on homework from OFSTED: «Teachers use well - judged teaching strategies, including setting appropriate homework that, together with clearly directed and timely support and intervention, match pupils» needs accurately» we have to guard against schools driving homework to «death» whereby teachers feel they have to set homework for the sake of it to satisfy accountability measures and / or internal monitoring systems.

Creighton and WestEd used four major improvement strategies: 1) refining the curriculum and aligning staff training and student tests to that curriculum; 2) improving instructional practices, including those for English language learners, who comprise a large share of the district's students; 3) developing and using tests during the school year, other than those used for accountability, to assess what students had learned; and 4) implementing a system of individualized instruction based on student needs.

Roy Pea, a professor of education and learning sciences at Stanford University, who was not part of the commission, agreed that tests developed for accountability purposes «largely ignore» the need for formative diagnostic tests used to improve instruction.

Finally, «Next Generation» accountability systems should adhere to the following five essentials: «(a) state, district, and school leaders must create a system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p. x).

Cahill made the point that she thought that school systems needed to own the kind of accountability for graduation that NCLB aimed for but that systems needed the opportunity to also create new types of schools using the successful models of transfer schools and YABCs and that this demands some revisions within the NCLB approach.

In testimony to the committee, Silke Bradford, the Director of Quality Diverse Providers for Oakland Unified School District, suggested that a common enrollment system like New Orleans uses, would go a long way toward providing the oversight and accountability that charters need.

The challenge for schools is designing a balanced assessment system using the strengths of summative, interim, and formative assessments to address instructional, accountability, and learning needs.

When such assessments are used for accountability purposes they need to be validated as appropriately measuring the knowledge and skills they intend to measure and verified as being evaluated in non-biased, consistent ways.

Teacher Match and Hanover Research are the companies specifically named and targeted for marketing and selling a series of highly false assumptions about teaching and teachers, highly false claims about value - added (without empirical research in support), highly false assertions about how value - added estimates can be used for better teacher evaluation / accountability, and highly false sales pitches about what they as value - added / research «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for the above

This strikes a balance between the need to use ELP assessment data responsibly in goal - setting while also avoiding an ELP accountability blackout for schools.

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Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work.

That means you still need to decide what type of charity you want to support, then you can use the Charity 100 to see which organization gets top marks for efficiency, transparency and accountability.

Donald J Trump — protecting US incomes with accountability and transparency for its careful use where needed.

Assist patients in completing insurance forms for submission as needed * Use the treatment center's computer program for collecting fees from patients and documenting financial accountability

An urgent need existed to understand the conditions under which the COS process produced valid and reliable data, because the majority of states were using it to generate data for federal accountability reporting for Part C and Part B Preschool services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).