Sentences with phrase «proposals on accountability»

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DENVER — The first report in the Energy Institute's Energy Accountability Series finds that proposals from Hillary Clinton and other politicians to ban oil, gas, and coal production on federal lands and waters would cost America hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in revenue.

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Yet apparently he has no qualms about signing on to a letter designed to promote an egregious proposal that, if negotiated through NAFTA, would impose US - style legislation on Canada that would undermine the accountability and responsibility of Canadian internet platforms and search engines for the content they host and publish.

Today, on behalf of Corporate Accountability International and in collaboration with the Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood, I submitted the following comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding its proposal to require schools to only allow marketing for those foods allowed under the agency's «Smart Snacks» nutrition guidelines.

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

The Hansard Society welcomed the committee's proposals and urged parliament to do more to boost the government's accountability on its spending.

In initial budget proposals, for example, Brandes wanted to get $ 8 million to buy DJJ cameras to increase accountability on abuses that go on in the facilities, but in the end, legislative leaders only approved the project at $ 1 million.

New York, NY - On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. along with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Staten Island Borough President James Oddo outlined a Five Borough Broadband Bill of Rights to improve Internet speeds across the City, create stronger oversight and accountability and ensure greater community involvement in the proposal to create a free public WiFi system across New York City.

Accountability and exposure, by which government proposals are subjected to thorough scrutiny on the public record, requiring ministers to defend their positions.

An environmental professor says while it's a good first step, the proposal should bring more accountability to bear on the U.S. Coast Guard.

On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. along with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Staten Island Borough President James Oddo outlined a Five Borough Broadband Bill of Rights to improve Internet speeds across the City, create stronger oversight and accountability and ensure greater community involvement in the proposal to create a free public WiFi system across New York City.

«We think this is an idea that should be explored with the Comptroller's office, Division of Budget, and management team at the State Financial System,» John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a nonprofit group focused on government accountability, said of the Senate proposal.

ACC appreciates this opportunity to provide testimony on Federal Agency use of science in the rulemaking process, and particularly on proposals for improving transparency and accountability.

For that to happen, small schools must mature into a stronger movement by formulating serious proposals for assessments and accountability, throwing their vocal political support behind school choice, and insisting on new, innovative efforts to reduce the learning curve for those who wish to start small schools and their overseers.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

ED's press release explains, «The administration's proposal for fixing NCLB calls for college and career - ready standards, more great teachers and principals, robust use of data and a more flexible and targeted accountability system based on measuring annual student growth.

And, for the most part, the Bush administration's proposal seemed built on that consensus, much the same accord that brought us No Child Left Behind and the determination that schools need a regimen of standards, testing, and accountability.

There are proposals for new approaches to public governance, research findings on the efficacy of decentralized systems, comparisons of cities that are expanding choice, ideas for accountability and school supply, and disagreements about who should have ultimate authority.

Smarick has attempted to devise an accountability regime that is more nuanced and sensitive to the unique missions of private schools than other proposals to impose state regulations on private educational choice.

The 126 - page proposal states that, «At its heart, CORE's goal is to build a new system of accountability rooted in a moral imperative to educate all children and engineered on a foundation of transparent data sharing and mutual accountability.»

The Indiana Charter School Board meets periodically to review proposals for new charter schools; make decisions on those proposals; monitor charter schools sponsored by the ICSB; and publish guidelines for accountability.

In her response to the Department for Education's (DfE) consultation on the changes to accountability, Ms Stacey says she believes the proposals are «very much in the right direction».

The entire waiver process was sloppily administered in the first place, with Duncan granting waivers to states (and allowing them to ignore whole sections of No Child) even thought they have not yet implemented or enacted all the proposals within their applications, and the administration ignoring concerns raised by its own peer review panels about such matters as how states have ignored the need to gain consultation on proposed changes from American Indian tribes as required under the U.S. Constitution (as well as from black and Latino communities equally affected by the evisceration of accountability).

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

We applaud legislators, especially Senator Gayle Slossberg and her Education Committee co-chair, State Representative Andy Fleischmann, for listening and taking action by advancing this proposal that increases accountability and provides a strong commitment to Connecticut's examination of the impact of SBAC, the statewide mastery examination, on student learning time.»

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.

Proving that it can always get worse, Wisconsin Senate Republicans have entered the debate on school accountability with a proposal, Senate Bill 1, even weaker than the bill proposed by their counterparts in the state Assembly.

On Wednesday, Ed Voice took out a full - page ad in the LA Times blasting Fuentes» proposal: «AB 5 guts objective accountability of adult job performance in schools just as voters are being asked to invest more in education.»

Just after New Year's Day, Illinois educators introduced a major reform proposal to hold school administrators, school board members and teachers accountable for their work on behalf of school children statewide.Three unions representing more than 230,000 Illinois education employees, the Illinois Education Association (IEA), the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability for All.

The Hamilton Project released a new strategy paper and three new policy proposals by outside experts focusing on the use of incentives in education, opportunities for organizational changes to improve performance, and a new approach to accountability for teachers and students.

Moreover, his proposal for a «next generation accountability system,» unveiled at the meeting, is even more reliant on test scores.

Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, who did not see the letter before the weekend, said it affirmed concerns were raised before the application was submitted that DPI's proposal for a new accountability system «left not much meat on the bones.»

Sen. Paul Farrow, R - Pewaukee, author of the Senate school accountability bill, said Tuesday the Senate will still work on its accountability bill, and is likely going to remove the legislation's proposal to create two review boards for schools at the state's DPI and Department of Administration.

Proxies shall be voted in the best interests of shareholders, with an emphasis on voting against any management proposals that act in general to insulate companies from the discipline of the market or accountability to shareholders.

As a complement to accountability systems focused on academic success, financial oversight, and labor - market outcomes, a robust risk - sharing proposal would help improve outcomes for students and reduce costs for taxpayers.

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.

ACT 2015's proposals on mitigation, resilience, finance, transparency and accountability, and a mechanism to increase ambition over time strongly informed the final negotiating text at global climate talks in Paris in 2015.

Hands - on portfolio oversight accountability for a number of critical stakeholder groups, activities included leading business owners in developing and socializing business case proposals for funding and execution approval.