Sentences with phrase «boards rubber stamp»

The Board rubber stamps everything.

For those who are closely following this storyline, they watch aghast as this very school board rubber stamps contracts worth tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes even millions.

Not exact matches

The mindset of «review and approve» is one of rubber - stamping, the last thing regulators should be encouraging from boards of directors at financial institutions.

A reviewer has sent a draft report to the FCA on the matter and Plus500 says the board is «confident» the FCA will rubber stamp it.

By 1983, the stadium debt had been paid off without a singular donor making a contribution large enough to justify making the stadium his or her namesake, so ISU president Robert Parks proposed — and the Board of Regents rubber - stamped — the compromise «Cyclone Stadium / Jack Trice Field.»

We need a proper Board and CEO not rubber stamps.

Lafferty said while he would like to be a consensus builder, he doesn't plan on being a rubber stamp for the so - called six member board majority bloc.

«I'm deeply concerned that this board will now be stocked with industry representatives who will rubber stamp the president's anti-environmental agenda,» Slaughter said.

Edelstein said in an August 2011 email to his partner that Mei had said the town board's vote «is a rubber stamp,» and that Mei said the parks officials and Venditto «have already approved the «guarantee.

«He said that the board vote is a rubber stamp,» Edelstein wrote.

His appointee to a powerless position on the mayor - controlled Board of Education has attracted an outsize amount of attention by doing his best to open up, and slow down, what is ultimately a rubber - stamp process of the administration's charter - school - friendly policies.

What is truly breathtaking is the sheer number of relatives Espada put on the Soundview payroll and on its rubber - stamp board of directors.

Water Watch NYC has recently posted three ways to save DEP, including instituting storm water fees and revamping the Mayoral - appointed rubber - stamping Water Board to actually act as a regulatory agency over DEP.

Asked about the board's potential conflict of interest after the vote Monday, its chairman, Joseph P. Parkes — a Bloomberg appointee — defended the board, saying, «We are not at all a rubber - stamp group.»

Kevin Keating, Mangano's attorney, whose opening argument ran two minutes shy of an hour, took pains to tease out the difference between town and county operations — at one point saying that in Oyster Bay the town board «was pretty much a rubber stamp.»

Some Tories are also blaming the Rowland debacle on Cameron's personal grip on the party machine, which required the supposedly independent board of MPs and activists to rubber - stamp his appointment despite qualms.

On Tuesday, the state Board of Elections declined to rubber - stamp Cuomo's handpicked choice to run the WEP in the face of two challenges.

And sure enough, when the time came around for the faculty to rubber - stamp the approval of the committee, that professor did not put the vote as an agenda item on this faculty board meeting.

Kealoha Pisciotta, a Hawaiian cultural practitioner and a plaintiff in the case against the TMT permit, said she believed the board had rubber - stamped the permit, and the decision seemed like a foregone conclusion.

As the awards season gets underway and you see one critic's group after another rubber - stamp the same basic set of winners (with only a few notable variations) the Board's sensibility seems increasingly valuable.

We expect that the Chicago Board of Education will rubber - stamp a «new» promotion policy on Wednesday that will change none of the high - stakes testing and retention effects of the old policy.

The State Board of Education has rubber stamped Paul Vallas» and Stephan Pryor's claim, that the three credit independent study course is a school leadership program.

The only thing more incredible than Governor Dannel Malloy's decision to appoint Erik Clemons to the State Board of Education is the fact that Connecticut's Democratic controlled legislature appears ready to rubber - stamp Malloy's nominee despite the «Substantial Conflict of Interest» that should prevent him from serving on the Board.

Today, Indiana's Board of Education is expected to rubber - stamp a contentious plan for the state to take over three high schools and one middle school in Indianapolis, paving the way for the Hoosier state's first experience running local classrooms.

In addition to «overlooking» state requirements that charters serve a requisite number or special education and English Language Learners, and that charters are not supposed to be over-concentrated in a limited number of municipalities, the State Board has rubber - stamped charter renewals, even when they fail to meet the standards set forth in their charter authorization.

The State Board of Education continually rubber - stamps charter applications, trampling community opposition, and ignoring their duty to prevent charter school segregation and over-concentration.

Yet SDE still recommended Great Oaks for an increase, which the board rubber - stamped.

The State Board of Education's recent rubber - stamping of Capital Prep Harbor charter school's expansion in Bridgeport is yet another example of a common theme in education reform: trampling community will.

Malloy's State Board of Education rubber - stamped the charters» authorization in April 2014, ignoring local opposition and the fact that the legislature had not appropriated the funds for them.

The appointment would be pushed through as early as the next State Board of Education meeting on April 6, 2015 or at a special meeting for the purpose of rubber - stamping Malloy's choice.

Don't stack the board with «yes» people who will just rubber stamp the CEO's plans.

Unlike other industries that have experienced financial scandals fueled in part by rubber - stamp boards, the REIT world has rarely seen such implosions.

Once upon a time, politicians held their tongues and the Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee (FOMC), in a show of solidarity, appeared to rubber stamp central bank decisions.