Sentences with phrase «where public accountability»

He continued that by giving legal effect to the Convention, we have transferred it out of the political arena altogether and into the domain of judicial decision making where public accountability has no place.

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He has been outspoken about the state of venture capital on his widely read blog, «Above the Crowd,» where he advocated for rigorous vetting among start - up investors, and supported public accountability for technology companies.

Where we must have public goods (and public goods, like private goods, are ubiquitous), we must bring them as close to the people as possible so there is hope of accountability.

• where there is resolute efficiency and accountability in the use of all public resources by government, including resources from external partners;

Because he's a candidate for public office where integrity and accountability for your actions matter most.

Our reforms are not complete yet, but with your help and your leadership we are moving closer to realising a vision of the future with greater trust and accountability, where both the police and the public are winners.

Home secretary John Reid said: «The new respect areas will take public accountability one step further, with regular statutory «face the people» sessions where they will be scrutinised by their local community for the work they have done and have yet to do.

These bold outriders for public accountability, though somewhat mired in mystery where the general public are concerned, do enjoy a modest degree of virtue as I recently discovered when interviewing the Dyfed Powys police and crime commissioner Christopher Salmon.

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.

But in areas where parents are not empowered vis - à - vis large institutions, as in urban public schools, this accountability system can't even guarantee access.

When I ask if we should wave to the mayor, whose «bull pen» office windows were visible from where we sat, he responds that such proximity to the mayor is «a beacon for accountability and the priority that this mayor has placed on public education.»

With the understanding that no one exactly knows how money for schools is spent and who receives the money, the authors suggest that weighed student funding would show exactly where the money is going and foster transparency and accountability for performance, thereby potentially closing the gaps in local public service quality between the privileged and the disadvantaged.

Bob served as the Executive Director of Planning and Policy for the Minneapolis Public Schools where he led the development of new models for serving students, expanded the Response to Intervention (RtI) model and assisted develop a «value - added growth accountability model.»

Her definition of public education traps students into buildings where careerists have jobs without accountability or results.

Voucher and voucher - like programs divert much - needed funding from public schools and redirect it to private schools where, in some cases, there is little accountability or evidence to support expansion.

Accountability should be enforced where the necessary resources are provided and the tools used to measure success or failure are well developed, appropriate to the task, and used to inform instructional decisions.School Choice School choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disability.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

An Ongoing Commitment to Accountability In a time where the state has suspended state testing, it is critically important for the charter public school movement to be able to tell the story of how gains are being made statewide in communities being served by charter schools.

People question where, at the end of the day, is the accountability to the public.

But remind yourself that if there is no publicly elected school board and no public accountability of where all of the tax payers money went, K12 INC is NOT a public school.

And that's where we find ourselves now... No single idea, policy or solution can begin to address all the challenges in 50 states, 15,000 districts and 90,000 public schools... we need accountability for the entire system.»

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.

The bill also would give priority to students from public schools rated a D or an F on the state's accountability assessment in cases where voucher recipients outnumber available spots in private schools.

More importantly, in arguing that No Child's accountability provisions wrongly label schools, Duncan fails to acknowledge that American public education today is poorly serving all of its students regardless of who they are or where they live.

In particular, the study found severe accountability problems with both programs, most notably: they do not serve students in rural areas where there were virtually no private schools or scholarship organizations (SOs) present; they fund primarily religious schools, which are not required to be accredited or adhere to the same standards for curricula as public schools; they do not require the same testing requirements as public schools, making it impossible to gauge student achievement; and they do not require reporting by schools or SOs.

It is about transferring a public good — Education — to private non-profits, where taxpayers and parents have NO recourse or chance for accountability.

I look for sanity, especially as I spend more and more time with parents in cities like Camden and Newark where public school choice and accountability provide the only mechanisms for hope.

He cites a study that my research team recently completed of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), where high - stakes test - based accountability was added requirement to the long - running voucher program in 2010 - 11, and the achievement scores for voucher students surged in relation to the comparison public school students that year.

When parents have the power to allocate their funds to where their own kids are learning more, true accountability is a natural result — whether it's public, private, or online schooling.

Sujie also previously worked as the Deputy Chief of Assessment and Accountability for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), where she oversaw the development and administration of assessments and accountability metrics forAccountability for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), where she oversaw the development and administration of assessments and accountability metrics foraccountability metrics for the district.

«This is light years ahead of where the state is now,» said Doug Harris, a UW - Madison education and public affairs professor who advised the state's accountability reform task force.

Charles Zogby, the state education secretary, says the goal is «to introduce a more market - based reform into public education... where you have a diverse set of providers... but everybody is under the same accountability measures.»

Panelists largely agreed that many traditional education schools lack accountability, aren't willing to share performance data for their graduates, and have a detached relationship with the public schools where their graduates eventually work.

«These schools follow a totally different set of rules than a neighborhood public school, but where's the accountability?

If these are truly risks (and, as I've pointed out previously, the public health threat argument is scaremongering more than anything else), they are risks that (1) are already present, (2) have been allowed to persist — even worsen — due to the admitted ineffectiveness of the trap - and - kill approach (where's the accountability for that, by the way?)

In a country where weak enforcement and a lack of public participation threatens environmental monitoring, corporate transparency — and the accountability to the public they promote — can play a crucial role in reducing local pollution.

C.A., Sept. 27, 2010)(33959) April 5, 2013 There is not and should not be a rule of public policy precluding the applicability of issue estoppel to police disciplinary hearings based upon judicial oversight of police accountability; instead there should be a flexible approach, whereby courts have the discretion to refuse to apply issue estoppel if it will work an injustice, even where the preconditions have been met.

In response to this highly troubling set of circumstances, the federal Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, recently called for reforms to PIPEDA that would impose some level of accountability where public authorities access information in this manner.

After a brief stint in private legal practice, he began a career in public interest law, where his work has covered areas of topical interest including torture, extra-judicial killings, judicial independence and accountability, law enforcement accountability, and criminal justice.

However, where no statutory duty exists authorities will no doubt wish to make sure as a matter of sound corporate governance and public accountability that the reasons for their decisions are sufficient and appropriate in the particular circumstances, having regard to the interests of all those likely to be affected by them.