Sentences with phrase «not against accountability»

Ms. Švigelj - Smith, who now teaches in a juvenile detention center, says she's not against accountability, but wants it defined differently.

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I'm not sure that something like this could have been heard above the din that came from a failed financial model, the loss of an admittedly cool place to worship, and the general pushback against any sort of moral accountability.

I railed against institutions and organizations, wouldn't darken the door of a «real» church, became fluent in fault - finding and cynicism, the word «orthodoxy» made my left eye twitch, while you tacked hard the other way, steering towards seminary, conservative denominations, structures, authorities, you longed for accountability.

«Although I don't think we're totally against the idea of user fees for lap swimming, we see no signs of accountability or efforts to fix long - term problems at the pool,» said Murphy, who has been swimming at Gill since 1993.

«We seek to impress upon your conscience the need to speak against such an anomaly and ensure that the principles of justice, probity and accountability are not thrown to the dogs.

Yes, the teachers» union has been successful in sowing a small backlash against accountability measures in communities that don't have to worry about unacceptably low student performance.

«The ever greater centralisation of power beyond the democratic control of the people is not in keeping with the needs of the twenty - first century; it is against the spirit of our age; it diminishes our ability to pursue our own global relationships, and in its lack of accountability and legitimacy it goes against our fundamental belief that people should only be led and governed with their consent.»

This seems strangely inconsistent - didn't Labour's shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham argue against the provision to remove NHS accountability from the Secretary of State in the Health and Social Care Act?

His ideas for improvement — for example, «Pay attention to other important stuff,» «Don't expect schools to do it all,» «Accept the need for human judgment,» «Set reasonable targets» — are juxtaposed against a caricature of what most of those advocating test - based accountability likely believe.

On the other hand, she cautions against accountability structures that do not simultaneously boost supports for teachers to improve their craft.

Dillon tracks the origins of the newest revolt against No Child Left Behind to Montana, where its education secretary, Denise Juneau, wrote to Arne Duncan last April informing him that the Big Sky state wasn't going to follow what was once considered the nation's premier accountability law.

This suggests that the current revolt may not be as populist as it may seem, and that the new pushback against accountability may, in fact, be a lot like the original one: teacher unions and their deeply imbedded institutional allies doing what they do best.

In my last piece in this series against the high - regulation approach to school choice, I observed that accountability to the government does not automatically follow from receiving government funds.

Probably the strongest argument against using growth models as the centerpiece of accountability systems is that they don't expect «enough» growth, especially for poor kids and kids of color.

At the same time, there has been a growing backlash against school accountability, despite the fact that Colorado has not forced any schools or districts to make radical changes since the ham handed take over of Cole middle school over a decade ago.

«We need guidance on shifting that conversation and the language we need to use so that we're not viewed as people who are against accountability or testing,» Sossa - Schwartz said.

For state accountability (report card) purposes, non-tested students don't count against the district or school except in the test participation calculation.

This means: students who do not participate in required state testing, for any reason, including required opt - outs in response to a request by a parent or guardian, count «against» proficiency rates for federal accountability purposes.

The first argument against its use relates to how it might be applied for accountability — that teachers should not be held fully accountable for any one test or data point, given the range of factors and measures involved in student learning.

Unlike some other states that didn't take a break from their accountability system and touted the Common Core as «this is what Arne Duncan wants,» the California leadership consistently put up a fight against the feds on waivers and a number of other issues... I actually accused them in another EdSource opinion piece of treating us like «Southern sheriffs.»

In this series of post against the high - regulation approach to school choice, I have demonstrated that performance accountability is not typical of government programs and that heavy regulation drives away quality supply, hurting rather than protecting the students these regulations are meant to help.

Inhofe sounds so much like an angry child arguing against any accountability and restraint, for either political or personal or financial gain, I'm not sure.

In the same book, Farrow makes a number of arguments against what he refers to as the privatization of civil justice, such as the impoverishment of common law when cases are removed from the public system (this dovetails with Simpson's work), the use of a private (thus, confidential) system to circumvent public policies, public accountability, and basic notions of procedural fairness, and the shielding from the public of transactions that would not withstand public scrutiny.

Surely the use of corporate subsidiaries and distinct legal personalities should not shelter against accountability in these cases, especially where there is some form of capital flight before proceedings can be brought.

[296] It is disappointing that such accountability has not been provided against all recommendations from the Native Title Report 2010.