Sentences with phrase «provide public transparency»

In addition to providing states more flexibility than the statute alone, the regulations both promote consistency and clarity across states and provide public transparency in the development and implementation of ESSA locally.

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This form of public announcement has been illegal since the 1930s, but with the transparency and openness that Web platforms provide, it is now legal to solicit expressions of interest from potential investors.
Thus a high degree of communication and transparency was necessary to build credibility as quickly as possible, to enhance the transmission of monetary policy and to provide an anchor for the public's expectations of future inflation.
According to Simpson, Waymo would be using public roads as its â $ laboratoriesâ $ and civilians as its â $ guinea pigs; â $ hence, it is only appropriate for the DMV to provide full transparency.
New reporting rules for buyers will also be set in place, whereby foreign buyers are required to offer more comprehensive disclosure of information — household information, worldwide income, and social insurance numbers, to name some — which will then be placed into a public beneficial ownership registry to provide more transparency on true owners of property within the province.2, 5
In «Government Intervention in Venture Capital in Canada: Toward Greater Transparency and Accountability,» author Richard Rémillard argues that improving the quality of venture capital policy will provide a win - win outcome for the wider public, government and the venture capital industry itself.
Vivien Lowndes and I argue it will be essential that the Mayor learns from the good practices of (some) Police and Crime Commissioners and avoids some weaknesses in opening up transparency of decision making — allowing public questions and providing information about the timing and outcomes of decisions.
«That is why we are proposing the NYCHA 2020 Public Housing Revitalization Plan, which would increase funding to provide safe, healthy conditions to residents, while reforming NYCHA's operations and increasing transparency.
«We're continuing to look for the best process to communicate with the public and we've gotten very good feedback on the process that we're using in increasing transparency and communication with the public,» Saladino said Tuesday without providing further comment on the social media accounts.
Under these New York State laws, candidates are required to file periodic financial disclosure reports in order to provide accountability by candidates seeking public office and to provide transparency in the election process.
When he was asked further to define transparency point blank, he said, «I think it simply means providing appropriate information to the public
The College will provide greater transparency to the public about what they can expect from their force and the standards they should meet.
And the College will also provide greater transparency to the public about what they can expect from their force and the standards that it should meet.
«This change will provide greater transparency into cases of vital public interest.
«An act to provide for the implementation of the constitutional rights to information held by a public institution subject to the exemptions that are necessary and consistent with the protection of the public interest in a democratic society to foster a culture of transparency and accountability in public affairs and to provide for related matters», the Deputy Attorney General submitted.
«It's very disappointing that the reform bill was not signed into law,» agreed Assemblyman James Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat and sponsor of an identical reform bill in Albany, in a separate statement, adding that «each measure was aimed at providing greater transparency and accountability to an authority that has come under growing public scrutiny over the years, as abuses and scandals accumulated.»
The proposed rules revision provides significantly more information and transparency to the public about the Council's activities and spending, as well as more independence to individual members.
Preserve Ramapo organized the event in response to perceived misuse and diversion of public funds, alleged damage done to the town's tax base and failure to provide budgetary transparency, cronyism, and the proposed tax cap override, which did pass and permits the town to raise taxes over the 2 percent state limit.
«This additional data of stops and frisks will be updated regularly in CompStat, tracking to better provide transparency to the public and inform crime prevention methods in neighborhoods.»
«It provides guidance for the appropriate and effective use of crowdsourcing approaches, including data quality, scientific integrity, transparency and openness, and meaningful public participation,» Shanley explained.
«Transparency initiatives, such as STS public reporting, help reporters and news outlets provide better information to patients, enabling them to make more well - informed decisions on where to look for treatment.»
The bill also provides greater public accountability and transparency, requires enforcement of cost estimating discipline, strengthens the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), and provides for additional tools to protect against waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement.
It advises that MPs on the Education Committee «remain to be convinced» that revised arrangements will provide an» adequate level of transparency and accountability» and says that the DfE «must do more to demonstrate its commitment to accountability of around # 18 billion pounds» worth of public money.»
We encourage states to provide more school - level data in a timelier manner to increase the transparency of how all public schools are performing.
The nation's primary K — 12 education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), requires states to provide richer information on outcomes for all students, produce high - quality public reports, and rethink their accountability systems to provide transparency and value to the public.
«State leaders should consider whether the public reports are providing increased transparency and serving the needs of parents and communities.
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.
Measurement and information systems need to be developed to provide full transparency throughout public education.
GCI recommends changes to the financial oversight of charter schools that it believes will safeguard the public's investment in education while providing transparency regarding how tax dollars are being spent.
School board policy at North White Pine County states that the board has established its commitment to families and the community by creating and maintaining policies to provide for the transparency of public records, for having open board meetings, for allowing community groups to use school facilities, and for allowing visitors to have access to the schools.
This paper seeks to clarify the responsibilities of policy makers to create the conditions for an effective accountability system that produces substantial improvements in student learning, strengthens the teaching profession, and provides transparency of results to the public.
The «corporations» generate millions in public funds yet provide minimal and low quality independent study programs without academic results, without transparency, but with exorbitant and difficult - to - track executive and contractor salaries.»
While GCSA supports transparency, we continue to advocate for the need to provide transparency for all public schools, not just a select few.
To ensure all children throughout the county are well served, regardless of where they live and which type of public school they attend, the compact establishes a local Advisory Committee to ensure that district and school leaders execute shared commitments and strategies, including supporting accountability, transparency, and adequate and appropriate access to services and resources; and providing parents and students access to high quality public school options.
Legislators are currently considering four other CTU - supported bills that directly impact conditions in public schools: HB 5481, requiring school districts to report class size data to ISBE and sets targets for K - 12 class sizes beginning in 2020; HB5721, which mandates improved public input and transparency in CPS capital spending and provides supports for schools and students hit with school actions like closings and turnarounds; HB 3786, which requires fully empowered local school councils in publicly funded schools, including charters, that must vote by a super-majority to approve school closures and reorganizations; and HB 4800, which would move surplus TIF funds to public education needs.
Rather than being seen as a problem, charter school closures should be viewed as an indication of a healthy public school system committed to meeting parent demand for high quality school choice options, and providing the transparency and accountability that parents and the general public wish to see in place for all public schools.
Demand more accountability for charter schools, including a requirement that they hold open, public meetings and provide transparency on student discipline and attrition.
Giving schools a letter grade holds educators accountable and provides transparency to the public, supporters of report cards say.
Through providing transparency and accountability with the current state of New Orleans Public School system, this report hopes to inspire informed and practical policy.
But in none of the states, Florida included, does the law provide the sort of data and transparency needed to answer the question of how neovoucher students do academically or the question of how many students are prompted by the law to attend private school instead of public school.
We are fortunate to have had Denver Public Schools leading the state and nation for over a decade in data transparency and providing information to families about the quality of schools through the School Performance Framework (SPF).
«We are moving forward to require that charter schools receive the same level of oversight, civil rights protections and provide the same level of transparency, and we require the same of traditional public schools,» NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock said in the statement announcing the resolution.
The new Permitting Dashboard will increase transparency into these accelerated permitting practices by providing a public - facing display of each project's status.
Investing in commodities indices that are constructed using long or short positions in futures on physical commodities whose value is determined based on the price of the underlying physical commodity plus yield and that trade on public markets that provide adequate liquidity and transparency, with negligible costs and no storage deterioration risk, offer a practical method to gaining commodities exposure and can provide a means for market participants to access the five components of the returns of the asset class.
The Report recommends that the RSPCA should work more closely with government and public sector counterparts and to maintain public confidence by providing accountability and transparency.
In a victory for transparency, for the rights of the public, and for protection of animals, the Louisiana Court of Appeal just ruled against the Louisiana SPCA which refused to provide information on dogs they killed to a group called Bulldog Rescue Mission.
Providing this disclosure is part of Dr. Lopez's commitment to increase transparency, in order to earn and retain the trust and confidence of pet owners, as well as members of the public and media.
Transparency aims to raise public awareness, government and industrial circles of the importance of alternative energy to safeguard the future of the planet and to help provide accurate information on the subject through art that is the true energy Renewable does not end it permanently regenerates itself.
Ryerson University (the» University») supports the closely aligned principles of transparency and accountability and as such routinely provides public access to information about the University's operations and decisions.
SRM technologies would appear to have little entry room within the Paris Agreement, but the process mechanism of the agreement provides opportunities to satisfy SRM research governance demands for transparency and public deliberation.
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