Sentences with phrase «oversight body»

The overwhelming majority of comments urged the department to ensure that there be an independent and transparent oversight body for forensic science like the now - suspended commission.

Those findings could be sent to the state oversight body that has authority to set minimum qualifications for the job.

The waiver creates a unique 14 - member oversight body to provide an «unbiased external compliance review» of each district's progress after a series of self - and peer - evaluations.

Existing oversight bodies should perform targeted fraud audits focused on areas of risk or weakness through the annual fraud risk assessments.

The group was charged with assessing safety programs, making recommendations for improvements and continuing to monitor and oversee lab safety as a permanent oversight body.

The waiver creates a unique 14 - member oversight body to provide an «unbiased external compliance review» of each district's progress after a...

The Times Union's investigative report «Prison unit abuses alleged,» Jan. 8, underscores the need even further for an independent oversight body of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

The federal government should create an independent oversight body for Canada's Competition Bureau to periodically evaluate the Bureau's performance and help define its strategic objectives.

While charter schools are subject to significant reporting requirements and monitoring by oversight bodies, only the New York State Comptroller's Office (Office) audits charter schools with any regularity.

Vance's office also noted that its decision not to bring charges does not preclude any other oversight body from «pursuing any civil or regulatory action that they determine might be warranted.»

The presidentially appointed oversight body for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is considering whether to revise a portion of the agency's statistical bible because it might be seen as out of step with the new administration's views on renewable energy research.

But he will also appoint four of seven members of a new oversight body that will have the power to reject contracts and fire school - board employees who impede implementation of the reforms.

The ASA also has advocated against a provision in pending legislation that would place such a forensic science oversight body in the Department of Justice.

This was the backdrop for the appointment of Mark Carney, the Bank of Canada's youthful governor, to head a key oversight body called the Financial Stability Board.

On Monday, it emerged that Heaney, Notley's chief of staff at an annual salary of $ 287,000, is on the advertising sponsor list with Elections B.C., the non-partisan oversight body.

«I believe that a private cryptocurrency oversight body could bridge the gap between the status quo and future government regulatory action,» Quintenz explained to participants.

The suit said SUNY's charter - oversight body overstepped its authority in voting to let charters...

Eliminate the stratified oversight bodies and establish a single, independent ethics commission with robust enforcement powers to investigate and prosecute violations that members of either the executive and legislative branches commit.»

«To be an independent ethics oversight body.»

The state's ethics commission was revamped in the same package and instead of separating the agency into three separate oversight bodies, The Joint Commission On Public Ethics now allows oversight over the legislature, governor, and lobbying, but without much independence.

That's the word from NSF Director Arden Bement, who didn't pull any punches today when members of NSF's oversight body asked him for a status report on the agency's pending budget.

In his most extensive public comments since NSF's oversight body decided in December to walk away from the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) project, Chu told a congressional spending panel yesterday that the decision was especially hard to fathom «since [NSF] started it.»

Recognizing that federal law requires an equal playing field for science as well as sports, it recommends the formation of an interuniversity oversight body analogous to that of the National Collegiate Athletic Association to gather data and monitor progress toward compliance with federal antidiscrimination rules.

A Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), composed of eminent scientists drawn from the international community, is an integral oversight body that assists the Board and ensures objectivity and a high standard of scientific excellence.

Instead, Brown has suggested that the existing system for managing federal and state special education money that runs through regional oversight bodies be replaced with a system that would more directly provide the same money to districts for SWDs.

As a recent report by the NAO stated, the DfE has «not clearly articulated some of the roles and responsibilities of external oversight bodies».

The board serves as a collaborative oversight body for the Transit Benefit.

The findings will be reviewed by the government and LEITI's multi-stakeholder oversight body before official publication.

Adaptation: Adaptation measures taken thus far in Nigeria have centered around educational initiatives, but the country still lacks a federal oversight body for the purpose of coordinating research and policy.

Well, a number of people have pursued the newspapers concerned and Simon Lewis at least filed a complaint (pdf) with the relevant press oversight body.

• The creation of a regulatory oversight body controlled by nonlawyers.

we need a civilian oversight body, much as the police got when we discovered their refusal to act responsibly this concept of justice is a human right.

TORONTO — Today, a coalition of community and advocacy groups, as well as the Ontario Human Rights Commission, issued a joint statement calling on the Government of Ontario and police oversight bodies to immediately implement recommendations of the Honourable Justice Michael Tulloch from his Report of the Independent Police Oversight Review.

But since you asked about facts, it is a fact that police in Ontario have more oversight bodies then any other jurisdiction in North America.

That's in addition to some 84 recommendations by Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci that included the creation of a police and mental - health oversight body, and a requirement that new constables complete a mental health first - aid course.

An unrepentant Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday sharply criticized the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the state oversight body that on Monday filed a motion in State Supreme Court seeking a judge's ruling to force a non-profit de Blasio started to comply with a subpoena for information about its donors and activities.

The only other concession that Smith made during the hearing was to put back $ 500,000 he had removed from the $ 4.3 million budget of the National Science Board, NSF's presidentially appointed oversight body.

«Like many things, I had a call one day and was told there's new legislation coming in to create a new oversight body,» McPhail says.

Existing oversight bodies should perform targeted fraud audits focused on areas of risk or weakness through the annual fraud risk assessments; and

The 14 - member oversight body will provide an «unbiased external compliance review» of each district's progress after a series of self - and peer - evaluations.

Basically, it's a codification of AG Andrew Cuomo's reform platform, which includes restructuring of the campaign finance system, nonpartisan redistricting and an independent oversight body for the state Legislature.

Portugal's Superior Magistrates Council, an oversight body, said it had taken note of the «vivid criticism from broad sections of public opinion», but added courts are independent and it could not intervene, even when faced with «archaic, inappropriate or unfortunate» comments by judges.

RDC and ECIDA share the same board of directors as their oversight body.

«That obviously undermines the goals we are trying to achieve,» asserted Allison Lerner, NSF's inspector general, in a presentation Tuesday to the agency's oversight body, the National Science Board.

«I think science should be fun,» Hoffmann said in May to the National Science Board, the oversight body for the National Science Foundation (NSF), when it awarded him its prestigious Public Service Medal.

«Despite all the questions we asked, in retrospect there were things we could have done better,» says Kelvin Droegemeier, vice chairman of NSF's oversight body, the National Science Board, and head of an ad hoc task force formed after the recent descoping to monitor the project.

«I would be remiss, Chairman Smith, if I didn't thank you for holding us to the highest standards for transparency and accountability,» Maria Zuber, chair of the National Science Board, NSF's oversight body, told Smith in her opening statement.