Sentences with phrase «public accountability which»

«Those who are either unwilling or unable to accept the public accountability which is part and parcel of senior management must be replaced.»

The guide first lays out the distinguishing characteristics of the community organizing approach, and shows through a theory of change how community organizing effects change by building community capacity and linking that capacity to increased public accountability which creates the political will to improve conditions in schools and student learning.

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Lastly, the team examined the connection between character and swearing on a larger, cultural level by comparing the 2012 Integrity Analyses of 48 U.S. states from the Center for Public Integrity, which measured the level of transparency and accountability of local governments, to how frequently residents of that state swore in their Facebook posts.

Ms. Gray is also Minister Responsible for Democratic Renewal, a role that coincides with her position as chairperson of the Select Special Ethics and Accountability Committee, which is reviewing the Election Act, the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act, the Conflicts of Interest Act, and the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act.

The other tendency to which good preaching is opposed is a kind of subjectivity that assumes we are free or able to conjure up private worlds that may exist in a domesticated sphere without accountability to or impingement from the larger public world.

It is this level of transparency and accountability which currently applies to protect the interests of the UK public when trade agreements are negotiated by the EU which bind the UK.

Today he commented, «At a time when public concern about the place of religion in schools has never been higher, we need full accountability and transparency with respect to decisions as to which schools are funded.

Corruption Watch segment on the Super Morning Show of Joy FM is a very laudable initiative which seek to uncover acts of corruption in Ghana, ensuring that Accountability and Proper Management of Public Resources becomes the order of the day.

One bright spot for accountability in New York — though more an atavism than an innovation — is the state Committee on Open Government, created in 1974 pursuant to the newly created Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), which affords the public broad, though

However, it added «the Center continues to note with dismay, however, that governmental accountability and responsiveness have remained highly insufficient (despite delivery of considerable voice to citizenry under the 4th Republic); public corruption remains pervasive; progress of the constitutionally - mandated political, administrative and fiscal decentralization has stalled; the economy remains characterized by jobless growth; income and spatial inequality are on the rise in spite of poverty reduction; and the nation's two main political parties which have alternated in power in the 4th Republic have increasingly taken on the features of rival cults (whose primary purpose seemingly is to win elections, achieve «state capture» and practice «winner - takes - all» politics).

«The comptroller's office is to me the independent voice to look out for taxpayers» interests and the issues we raised about oversight, proper checks and balances, transparency, it all speaks to the accountability agenda which I know the public expects the comptroller's office to be a forefront of.»

With the help of watchdog websites like Littlesis and the Public Accountability Initiative, this new site also lists more than 100 buildings and businesses with which Paladino or his company, Ellicott Development, is associated.

This is according to the 2015 report by the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC) which monitors the use of the country's oil revenue.

The President pledged that more persons who have abused the public trust will be exposed and brought to justice soon, adding that his government was committed to re-establishing former standards of accountability and probity in the management of public funds which were jettisoned under past administrations.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry engaged in serious ethical violations by allowing its credibility as a public agency to be used to amass profit for a private non-profit organization which it can not hold to public standards of accountability as well as by using the name of the President of the Republic as a means to make such profit;

James Klutse Avedzi and Dr Dominic Ayine accused the Ministry of engaging in unethical violations «by allowing its credibility as a public agency to be used to amass profit for a private non-profit organization which it can not hold to public standards of accountability as well as by using the name of the President of the Republic as a means to make such profit».

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

The Chairman said, «It is important that the budget of INEC be made to show more widespread public accountability and transparency of the Commission — which is a significant reform in itself - with a multiplier effect on electoral reform.»

Indeed while it might fare well in a comparison with the unproductive House of Commons, the effectiveness over accountability argument is failing in other areas of public life which is why we now have elected Mayors and Police Commissioners.

The practice also directly violates the Procurement Act 2007 which regulates the mode of procurement of goods and services in any government or governmental institutions, thus promoting public accountability, probity, transparency and openness in such transactions.»

The truth is that places for Bishops are an anachronistic feudal hangover, the retention of which is supported not by democratic will or principles of public accountability but by opaque vested interests.»

Later, a nonprofit group in Buffalo, New York, the Public Accountability Initiative, investigated and found that Groat was a paid board member of the Plains Exploration & Production Co. of Houston, Texas, which uses fracking to extract gas.

This means that the institution, whether a public university or a private sponsor, must establish a human research participant protection program (HRPPP) with multiple levels of responsibility and accountability, from the IRB (which, by federal law, prospectively reviews all federally funded human subjects research protocols) to the chief administrator (Chancellor or CEO) to the investigator, staff, and students, to the research participants.

IARC's absence and refusal to cooperate reinforces concerns about the Agency's commitment to transparency and accountability, and raises questions about its interest in producing cancer hazard assessments, which can have a meaningful impact on public health.»

Take BeLinked, which verifies users through LinkedIn, or The Inner Circle, which builds in accountability via Facebook connections displayed on profiles, and holds events where users can meet a date in a safe, public venue.

We just completed an evaluation of the Immediate Intervention / Underperforming Schools Program, which is part of the Public Schools Accountability Act here in California.

States use subgroups for two purposes, with potentially two different minimum subgroup sizes, or n - sizes: reporting (school report cards available to the public online) and federal accountability (used in state calculations to determine which schools fall into particular categories under ESSA).

But charter accountability, which emanated from a diverse provider environment, has shown for a quarter - century that we can have an accountability system that leans on both parental judgments (via choice) and public evaluations (via authorizers).

The public charter sector has also committed to accountability and transparency, which goes a long way toward building trust and engagement with parents.

Rather than today's system, which focuses on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development units, public officials should place greater emphasis on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations, curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.

School choice supporters are split over the program's strict accountability provisions, however, which some say represent over-regulation by the state but which others claim are on par with the expectations for traditional public and charter schools.

A Nation at Risk stresses «excellence in education;» accountability; the need for a «Learning Society,» in which education becomes a lifelong process; and a strong, public commitment to schooling.

However, far from a «Wild West» approach to charter oversight, his organization instead advocated for, and got, important accountability measures included in the law: mandatory closure for persistently low - performing charter schools, A — F grading of schools (both charter and public), and an end to so - called «authorizer shopping,» in which failing schools move to a new authorizer after their existing one withdraws its support.

That legislation, which also passed the House 95 - 21 and which Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, was expected to sign, would impose a new set of accountability requirements, including mandating standardized tests for thousands of voucher students attending private schools with public money.

The Republican leaders in the executive and legislative branches, which once championed accountability, have turned to school choice as the primary strategy to produce reform (even as public opinion on choice, especially more extreme forms such as vouchers, has begun to sour).

Despite the frequency with which public programs rely on beneficiaries to hold the quality of services accountable, Sara Mead asserts in an Education Sector report that, «accountability to parents alone is insufficient to protect the public interest or ensure taxpayer money is used well.»

The recommendations come from the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission, known as the A + Commission, which has spent a year weighing how to hold the state's public schools and districts more accountable for students» academic performance.

ESSA requires states to «establish a system of meaningfully differentiating, on an annual basis, all public schools in the State, which shall be based on all indicators in the State's accountability system... for all students and for each subgroup of students.»

The standards and accountability systems under which every public school in the nation operates in this century differ in many respects from earlier MCT systems.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds; yet the contrast between allowing taxpayer support of private schools, which are neither accountable nor transparent to the public, and imposing the most stringent reporting and accountability standards on all public schools should alarm the fair - minded.

A new report by Public Impact's Daniela Doyle and Tim Field, The Role of Charter Restarts in School Reform: Honoring our Commitments to Students and Public Accountability explores a variation on school closure in which a charter school's operator and board change, while the school continues to serve the same students.

The extent of the deficits was revealed by BBC 5 Live Investigates and Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, has said that the numbers raise «serious concerns about the accountability» of academy trusts, which currently run more than half of England's secondary schools.

The Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution (see sidebar, page 16), of which I am a member, believes that an evolved form of the ESEA that retains rigorous accountability is preferable to returning control of public schooling to local public - school monopolies and states, which will fall into old habits all too quickly.

In 2008, the NEA unveiled the «Great Public Schools for Every Student by 2020» project, in which the union committed to «creating models for state - based educational improvement,» «developing a new framework for accountability systems that support authentic student learning,» and «fostering a constructive relationship with U.S. Department of Education leadership.»

The 1909 law, which is still in place, was intended to improve education by providing increased state involvement in public schools while still permitting considerable local control and accountability.

Nevadas standing increased for several reasons: A higher percentage of the state's public schools are now charters, a higher percentage of the state's public school students are now charter students, there is a diverse array of schools (which increases the innovation score), and Nevada fared well on the new accountability metrics.

He viewed the Louisiana results as commentary on accountability as much as on vouchers, hypothesizing that it could have been the increased regulations and accountability measures, which affected both public schools and private schools receiving voucher students, that led to performance gains.

The California Department of Education and other organizations have created several resources to help educators and the public understand and navigate the new California School Dashboard, which includes data that will be used for school and district accountability purposes beginning next fall.

Such proponents frequently cite statistics published by the National Center for Educational Accountability (NCEA), which tracked the performance of Texas AP students who entered public universities in Texas in 1996 through 1998.

Possibly we need an accountability regime that's completely separate from that which governs the public schools.