But in the context of higher education, Bush seems less interested in holding poorly-performing schools accountable.
Hatch has represented the giant publicly-traded for-profit college businesses Education Management Corporation (EDMC), Kaplan, ITT Tech, Bridgepoint Education, and Apollo/University of Phoenix against charges of fraud, and he has sued the U.S. Department of Education to halt regulations that would hold poorly-performing colleges accountable.
One Harvard Business Review study showed that 46% of high-level managers were rated poorly at "holding people accountable". Good managers know that firm accountability is a key link in the performance management process.
Mr. Duncan's speech calls the Stanford report — which singles out Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio and Texas as states that have done little to hold poorly run charter schools accountable — "a wake-up call".
He said the "Dynegy investment has turned out poorly; I certainly hold myself accountable for that one".
Before the election, regional officials were told that they would be held accountable if United Russia fared poorly.
CHICAGO ― The Chicago Police Department regularly violates citizens' civil rights, routinely fails to hold officers accountable for misconduct and poorly trained officers at all levels, according to a sweeping Justice Department probe of the nation's second-largest police department.
The teachers were afraid, reports showed, to be held accountable for students who performed poorly on standardized tests and subsequently be evaluated poorly, miss out on bonuses or contribute to their school and district's inability to receive funding for meeting or exceeding federal benchmarks.
Instead of creating more regulations to try to prevent this kind of mess from recurring, why not figure out how to hold regulators accountable when they perform as poorly as they did in recent years?
(FG9) there's less attention to detail, people are careless, they're poorly trained and nobody wants to be accountable.
