Marks gave the example of a non-profit firm that wanted to develop a scorecard with grades for each congressmen on several key votes (a common strategy these days in Washington advocacy).
To counter these perceived gaps, the Ski Area Citizens Coalitionn, also based in Durango, produces an annual "Ski Areas Environmental Scorecard," which grades 77 resorts on their performance in areas such as energy efficiency, reduced habitat impacts, and efforts to expand operations within existing area boundaries.
On Wednesday, a coalition of food policy, environmental and antihunger groups, called Food Policy Action, unveiled its own scorecard to grade Congress on how it votes on issues related to food and farm policy.
We designed a simple scorecard to grade SSI risk factors and determined whether routine antibiotic prophylaxis affects SSI occurrence during open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) orthopaedic surgeries in trauma patients at low risk of developing SSI.
But their arguments have persuaded the government to look for ways to mitigate the costs for schools and students.One proposal is to replace the current exams-driven league tables with "balanced scorecards" which grade schools on a raft of measures, including exam results, attendance and pupils' health.
We hosted an event for Valley Green Bank in Philadelphia, which we gave an "A" for small-business lending on our Banking Grades scorecard — a grade that qualified Valley Green for one of our 2012 Small Business Bank Awards.
Each vote is weighed equally, and the scorecard assigns members grades on a scale of 0 to 100.
We'll soon need an Olympics-grade scorecard to keep track.
After examining 13 bills in detail, the 2007 Congressional Scorecard assigns a grade to each Member of Congress based on his or her support for the middle class.
