Sentences with phrase «provide federal accountability»

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C.D. Howe Institute «s `'» Canada «s 2012 Fiscal Accountability Rankings `'» looks at the financial information provided by senior levels of government (federal government, provincial governments and the territories) according to «Fiscal Accountability «and `'» Scoring Governments «Over - and Undershoots `'» and makes a number of policy recommendations.

The senior advocate said the Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project had approached a Federal High Court to compel the Office of the Accountant - General of the Federation to account for the recovered funds but that despite getting the court order, the OAGF refused to provide the information.

The Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued the Federal Government and Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, over their collective failure, refusal and / or negligence to enforce their own directives to electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) to provide free prepaid meters to all Nigerians and end the use of patently illegal, arbitrary, unfair -LSB-...]

Shore says that anyone who works with patient materials — even if they never meet a patient — has to complete an online course provided by the university explaining federal patient privacy rules as spelled out in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

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.

In this system, what passed for accountability was the ability to provide detailed reports of planned and actual spending of federal funds — in other words, a system of accounting, not of accountability.

After years of experiencing a one - size - fits - all federal approach to school accountability and intervention, ESSA provides states with an opportunity to excel by designing new systems that reach far more children with intervention strategies that meet their needs and the needs of their schools.

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

Conservative supporters argued that the Core would make it possible to do away with intrusive federal regulations governing accountability and easier to provide transparency and accountability with a light touch.

Rather than providing students skills that have real currency in today's labor market and preparing them for gainful employment, accountability provisions in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top funding program have focused on increasing short - term gains that measure success or failure of schools.

While eliminating applications raises questions for important aspects of the largest federal K - 12 education aid program, the ESEA Title I program, the policy guidance published by USED in March 2015 provides a wide range of options for states and LEAs to implement CEP with minimal interference with Title I funding allocations or accountability measures.

Moreover, this complexity has led to great variance in the amount of funding that is provided to local communities across the country relative to their population of disadvantaged students, and the system's increasing bureaucratic complexity has clouded transparency and public understanding, thereby undermining accountability for the largest federal K - 12 program.

ESSA provides an exciting opportunity for California to have a single, comprehensive accountability system based on performance, equity, and improvement that would meet both state and federal requirements.

Support this effort through a range of tiered incentives, such as providing states with greater flexibility in the use of existing federal funds, supporting a revised state accountability structure, and offering financial support for states to implement the standards.

ESSA requires states to provide opportunities for stakeholder input throughout the development of the federal accountability plan.

He said school districts are used to answering to Sacramento — and providing government bureaucracies information they need to satisfy both state and federal accountability requirements.

Additionally, we create resources and leverage existing resources from a range of federal networks to provide the most up - to - date information about states» standards, assessment, and accountability systems.

Providing customized support to states and districts in designing, implementing, and improving fair, effective, and useful assessment and accountability programs that comply with state and federal requirements.

SAGE Summative: Summative adaptive assessments required for state and federal accountability provided for English language arts (ELA), math and science

This 2009 report, written by Dana Brinson and Lauren Morando Rhim for the Center on Innovation and Improvement, provides five brief profiles of schools that dramatically improved student performance and successfully restructured under federal accountability systems.

Learning Services provides leadership and assistance in meeting state and federal accountability requirements.

They provide feedback to students, parents, and schools and are used for state and federal accountability.

Washington — About 85 percent of renowned teachers disagree that the federal government should provide greater school choice through vouchers, a new survey finds - and almost all of the surveyed teachers believe that charter schools and private schools that receive federal funds should be subject to the same accountability measures as public schools.

As states transition from No Child Left Behind to using their new authority under ESSA, Anne Wicks and William McKenzie of the George W. Bush Institute write in The 74 that it is critical for all stakeholders — federal officials, advocacy organizations, and policymakers — provide proper oversight to make sure states «implement their plans with fidelity and support the education leaders who use accountability as a key tool to help all kids achieve.»

Like a handful of states, New Hampshire is taking the opportunity provided by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to revise its accountability measures to further individualize education.

This federal law, which replaces No Child Left Behind, shifts significant decision making authority away from the federal government, providing each state with more flexibility to distribute funds, design accountability and evaluation systems, and devise supports for struggling schools.

The letter provides initial guidance to States on the transition to the new federal education law, including several immediate impacts on state accountability systems and the associated reporting of annual district, school, and student performance data.

Given the size and importance of these programs, a federal level «department» provides a useful way to group these programs together and provides oversight and accountability.

The Federal government and the State of Georgia, which provides over half the operating revenue for Muscogee School District, also require accountability on the local level.

These other collections exist in response to state or federal mandates, often to provide accountability for grants or other funding.

We leverage the resources available from a range of federal networks, including the Regional Educational Laboratories, Equity Assistance Centers, and our partner comprehensive centers, to provide the most up - to - date information about states» standards, assessment, and accountability systems.

Designed to serve three purposes, the School Performance Profile will be used for federal accountability for Title I schools under the state's approved federal No Child Left Behind waiver, the new teacher and principal evaluation system that was signed into law in 2012 and to provide the public with information on how public schools across Pennsylvania are academically performing.

Many education organizations applaud the enhanced accountability and funding flexibility the bills provide to states and local districts, but civil rights organizations have serious concerns that the loosening of federal accountability mandates could lead to growing achievement gaps.

As the Executive Director, he was responsible for the administration, development and implementation of all aspects of the statewide balanced assessment system, the state and federal accountability system, and providing strategic and direct oversight of grant - based and independent research and evaluation services for the department.

Policy makers started viewing teacher evaluations differently a few years ago when Republican lawmakers began demanding accountability for teachers at the same time that the federal government began providing incentives to states to redesign teacher evaluation systems through Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind.

I'm worried because the foundations of this success are under attack: The federal government and many districts now propose to limit the testing that provides essential feedback and accountability.

One of the many fronts in the school war has been the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, which requires states, as a condition of receiving federal school aid, to provide some of the direct oversight and accountability that the Equity Coalition seeks, especially in identifying failing schools.

The division provides technical assistance regarding laws and regulations, federal IDEA monitoring and accountability, due process procedures and hearings, interagency agreements (such as the Comprehensive Services Act), school health programs, Medicaid reporting and parent information programs.

Federal and state obligations that districts provide School Accountability Report Cards will become a lot harder in the coming months because the state will not be providing pre-populated templates.

Since I spent much of my career seeing how the sausage gets made in the education sector, I try to keep a watchful eye on Tennessee's efforts to provide equitable education and accountability to low - income kids and students of color, especially as the state complies with the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says many of the nation's state voucher programs — as well as many private schools — aren't providing parents with the information about how leaving the public schools may affect the federal protections available to children with disabilities.

Democrats offered a single amendment in the nature of a completely alternative bill (PDF) proposed by ranking Democrat George Miller (D - CA) that would provide for a stronger federal role in school accountability and improvement as well as more robust resources than the Kline bill.

Performance management will transform the Federal - aid highway program and provide a means to the most efficient investment of Federal transportation funds by refocusing on national transportation goals, increasing the accountability and transparency of the Federal - aid highway program, and improving project decisionmaking through performance - based planning and programming.

The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility Disclosure Act of 2009, also known as the Credit CARD Act, was a federal statute signed by President Obama in 2009 with the intent of providing transparency as well as fairness to the credit card lending industry.

Changes to federal accountability systems — such as the creation of a risk - sharing system that requires institutions to cover a portion of costs when student loans go bad — may provide new incentives needed to encourage institutions to better focus on preventing the educational conditions that later lead to default.8

The following departments or agencies provided loan repayment assistance to one or more attorneys: Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, State, Transportation, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, Federal Trade Commission, Government Accountability Office, Library of Congress, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Postal Regulatory Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Surface Transportation Board.

Auditors General as far back as 1990 have pointed out that First Nations are required to do far more reporting (the major means of accountability) to the federal government than any local government is required to provide to funding branches of provincial governments.

The following departments or agencies provided loan repayment assistance to one or more attorneys: Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Regulatory Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Government Accountability Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Postal Regulatory Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Surface Transportation Board.

The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) may apply to you and provide certain rights.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) will investigate claims that millions of comments provided to the Federal Communications Commission in support of the repeal were in fact made by bots impersonating real people.