Sentences with phrase «critics say this system»

Critics say the system encourages traditional schools to inflate projections and charter schools to let go of students after their October audits.

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Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.
Some critics, like Internet billionaire Mark Cuban, say the best way to fix the system is to just get rid of software patents altogether.
In general, critics seem to say that the downpayment requirement would restrict lending without doing much to increase the safety of the financial system.
In fact, a number of critics say the Basel 3 measures fall far short of what's required to stop banks from doing another domino impression — and that renewed confidence in the system is unwarranted.
Critics of buybacks say they're the easiest way to game the system and come in above EPS forecasts, thus making a company look better.
Republican critics say they fear that by flooding the financial system with money, the Fed has inflated stock and real estate prices and could create asset bubbles that could pop with dangerous consequences for the economy.
«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systemssaid New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.
Explaining, «I do n`t want to screw things up, «Jesse Madison, park district executive vice president, said the task of dismantling a decades - old management system was more difficult and time - consuming than critics recognized.
While the initiative would not see any new money being injected into the system, it tacitly accept the arguments of critics who say the government's deficit reduction programme has no plan for growth.
Among the vocal critics of congestion pricing is Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has said he has yet to see an equitable proposal for outer - bough drivers and is trying to gain state support for his own plan to fund the MTA subway system.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday proposed a tax increase on the city's wealthiest residents to fund an upgrade of the city's beleaguered subway system, a plan that critics say won't bring in the needed funding soon enough.
Critics say the state should be steering that money — whatever the final cost — to the city's beleaguered transit system, rather than to bridges that already have un-colorful, energy efficient, LED lights.
Stile, a sometimes fierce critic of the governor, said, «The time of practically skipping and significantly shorting the pension system has pretty much stopped.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's latest attempt to quell a boiler system meltdown at New York City Housing Authority buildings is not sitting well with some critics who say the city's $ 200 million investment is too little, too late.
The critics of the new system are being proved emphatically wrong,» he said.
Not helping the cause of Niagara Falls, USA was a road system which, critics say, severed the waterfront from the city.
On Friday even some past critics of congestion pricing said the ideas hold promise for addressing gridlock while raising funds for the city's beleaguered subway system.
State lawmakers said a few years ago they would no longer permit the controversial member item program to continue, but critics said the old system, which gave taxpayer money to legislators» pet projects, is being revived in a new form.
Critics of the ban said it will create a more cumbersome system but supporters said it is a step forward.
Critics of the current Democratic plan say if the FEC approves the proposed Malloy mailing, the original promise of the public financing system will be broken.
His selection was unpopular in some circles because of his old job as VP of external affairs at the Independent System Operator, which critics say posed a potential conflict of interest.
Critics of the patchwork system say the state Legislature has failed to provide guidance on how local municipal ethics boards should operate.
Critics say the state's election system makes it difficult, if not impossible, for even the most qualified candidates to win without large sums of money and vast political connections.
«It's almost entirely thankless and you're running a vital system without enough resources and with eight million critics every day,» he said.
Critics say more money should have been used for basic maintenance and repair to the current system.
Under the current system, the city spends millions to send kids to far - away facilities, many of which are located upstate and which critics say are half - empty and poorly run.
The Westminster coalition says it is made the system more fair but there has been a fierce row over what critics call the bedroom tax.
But charter school critics immediately slammed the concessions, saying the deal will funnel more resources away from the public school system to the privately - managed charters.
«It's true there are some who are critics but I would also say there's a lot of people in the Senate who, you know, are clear, at least privately, that they're not promoting an alternative and it's not like they say they wan na go back to the old school boards which — as I remind people — was a system plagued with chaos and corruption,» de Blasio said.
Some good - government critics say the fact that the governor has raised $ 33 million for his re-election proves he's an enemy of ridding the system of political money, but this is unfair.
The Scottish First Minister is claiming that the independence of the country's legal system is under threat, while his critics say he's playing politics.
Now, Lazio's ties to Wall Street and his congressional votes to deregulate the nation's banking system - a bill that critics say helped lead to the nation's recent financial crisis - are an issue in his battle for the GOP gubernatorial nomination against Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and Buffalo developer Carl Paladino.
This system of excluding non-English MPs from purely English matters became law last autumn, and critics have said it effectively makes non-English MPs second class.
PLATTSBURGH — Repeal of Affordable Care Act would devastate North Country healthcare system, say critics
Critics of the current Democratic plan say that if the FEC approves the proposed Malloy mailing, the original promise of the public financing system will be broken.
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After years of what critics say was underfunding legal aid for New York's lowest income people, the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in 2016 to create a state - funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive legal representation, as is their right under the U.S. Constitution.
But critics say New York's closed primary system is part of its troubles.
State lawmakers said a few years ago that they would no longer permit the controversial member item program to continue, but critics say the old system, which gave taxpayer money to legislators» pet projects, is being revived in a new form.
Earlier, de Blasio and Cuomo held separate press conferences where they called on Congress to help Puerto Rico, which in addition to being saddled with $ 72 billion in debt, also has exorbitant Medicaid costs due to what critics say is an unfair funding system designed by the federal government.
Now critics are saying that the Democrats» pro-Malloy mailings will undo the original promise of the public financing system — because the special - interest money will flow into the state campaign through the party's «federal account» even as taxpayers continue to pay for campaigns that were supposed to be kept «clean» of contractors» money.
The problem, critics said, is that the bill does not do enough to repair what they see as a severely flawed system a system that shortchanges the Bronx and Queens.
The Culture Secretary also said the Tories would take no further steps to seek to impose a system of state - sponsored supervision of regulation of the Press that critics warn would end 300 years of freedom.
While some members of Congress — including Pruitt's fellow Oklahoman, Representative Frank Lucas (R)-- have said the current system creates at least the appearance of a conflict of interest, critics of Pruitt's approach warned that it could undercut efforts to keep the agency's work grounded in top - notch research.
Critics say the patent system was designed for an earlier age.
But the system's critics say BioWatch has repeatedly triggered an alarm when no threat has existed.
Bernard Rentier, rector of the University of Liège in Belgium and a fierce critic of existing rankings, says he is pleased with the first results of U-Multirank and that the system's indicators are «relevant and enlightening» to compare his university's performance with others.
«Movie critics can be overconfident in spotting important works, and they have bias,» said Luís Amaral, the leader of the study and co-director the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems.
A critic could note that the world has given the US public education system more ELL students because of higher immigration, although the same can not really be said of special education.
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