Sentences with phrase «current flawed system»

This Coalition was formed to launch a public campaign for fundamental changes to modernize the BC Employment Standards Act in the interests of workers, and to give voice to the thousands of workers in the province who are being abused and exploited under the current flawed system.

Not exact matches

And we are often told that the system, the current form of capitalism, is flawed but still probably the best one there is.

The current primary - dominated system for selecting presidential candidates has its flaws, but I don't see us going back to a system in which a conclave of party leaders choose the nominee.

«Innovation in the plant - based food space is propelled by foundational and informative books like this that expose the flaws in our current food system.

«Fundamentally we believe the current system whereby [expenses watchdog] Ipsa pays MPs» rent is deeply flawed, both because it is open to abuse and because it does not represent good value for the taxpayer,» Unlock Democracy's director Peter Facey said.

A critical flaw of the current system is that the «slab» structure of the tax causes distortions in the market as rates are applied to the entire value of the property, rather than the marginal value above each threshold.

Republican highway superintendent candidate Vincent Orlando, himself a former Town Board member, said he believes his salary is up to the board's discretion, but doesn't believe the current system is flawed.

«Congress should get back to work and find bipartisan solutions that correct flaws in the current system without regard to which political party wins or loses,» Mr. Thiele said.

«You can certainly argue that the current system is very flawed,» said Sampson.

«This comprehensive package of criminal justice reforms places a spotlight on the current system's flaws and the need for strong reforms to New York's criminal discovery, bail and speedy trial statutes.

Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

In The Other Side of the Report Card: Assessing Students» Social, Emotional, and Character Development, J.J. Ferrito, Dominic Moceri, and I analyzed report card comments and their ubiquitous drop - down menus, and we found many flaws in the current system.

Because the current system, with all of its flaws, ensures that many of America's most vulnerable children are given access to special services and, whenever possible, significant exposure to a regular educational environment, parents and advocates oppose reforms because they fear losing the opportunities that children now have.

I hope this case will address the flaws in our current system, both for my children, and for kids across the city and the state.

There is a basic flaw in our current sanctions - based accountability system: its reliance on an end - of - year test.

As a fellow educator, I find it difficult to understand how those in my profession can not see how the current NYS Assessment system is a flawed measure of student achievement and hurts our children.

Officials at teacher preparation programs say they are eager for guidance, and they point to flaws in the state's current accountability system for teaching programs, which looks at factors like admissions requirements and class offerings before approving programs.

The current delivery model that has been in place essentially unaltered for over eighty years is flawed because, in spite of all the good work done on standards and accountability in recent years, the system remains primarily «input» and compliance driven rather than «output» and performance driven.

Policy makers who have acknowledged flaws in the current school report cards are hopeful the General Assembly will settle on an accountability system that will adequately represent annual school performance.

Some people complained that the current evaluation system is so flawed that instructors who could still improve would instead be let go.

If school districts in Santa Clara County (SCC) really cared about teaching their English Learners (Els) English and keeping them on track for success in college and career, they would jettison the current system of perpetual language immersion and flawed instruction.

For education, technology and charter school companies and the Wall Streeters who back them, it lets them cite troubled public schools to argue that the current public education system is flawed, and to then argue that education can be improved if taxpayer money is funneled away from the public school system's priorities (hiring teachers, training teachers, reducing class size, etc.) and into the private sector (replacing teachers with computers, replacing public schools with privately run charter schools, etc.).

The problem with using the current, flawed system for funding special education for charter schools was in the spotlight in the fall of 2015 in the financially - distressed Chester - Upland School District, which had been mandated by state law to pay a rate $ 40,000 per special education student to charter schools.

Teleread has posted an in - depth piece on how one - star spite reviews continue to plague authors, and as usual, The Passive Voice had a ton of well - formed arguments in favor of the current review system, railing against it, and outright admitting that reviews as a concept are simply flawed.

Many industry experts are in agreement that the current e-book subscription system is deeply flawed and publishers do not commit front - list titles that are on the bestseller lists.

Do recent breakdowns in exchange oversight functions indicate a need for an overhaul of structure / functions or point to «fatal flaws» in the current system?

We hope to bring attention to the flaws of our current systems of governance and hold our leaders accountable in a different and fun way.

HSI / Canada and the Montreal SPCA applauded the announced plans to create a permit system to address the abuse of animals at Quebec puppy mills, but noted that the proposed permit system is flawed, and that Quebec's current animal protection laws provide ample tools for ending abuse at puppy mills.

Assault on Dark Athena not only fully re-imagines the original game for a new audience on current systems with boosted HD power, pushing the limits of the Starbreeze engine; but it also fixes some of the original's flaws — it was too short and lacked a multiplayer mode.

Quite a few of the people signing seem to agree with my own views, that there's nothing wrong with the concept of modders being able to earn money from their work, but that Valve's current system is hugely flawed, and that a donate button or only allowing a «pay what you want» scheme would make far more sense.

That is the most vague paragraph I've read since... well, since the last time I asked Ravetz for a definition of «quality»... and this sounds better than our current admittedly flawed system just how?

I've written a few posts recently about access to justice and the current flaws in our system.

The current health care record system has another fundamental flaw — in that records are centered around a particular doctor or hospital, when they should be patient centric.

Such instances exhibit potential flaws with the current system and how the current system for reporting design patent infringement on e-commerce platforms is still fairly unsophisticated.

Its evolution is based on the belief that the current financial system isn't efficient, and it looks to fix these flaws in three ways.

The current patent system is flawed and makes it easy for corporations (like Apple and Microsoft) to abuse the system.

Earlier in the year, details arose of scheduled change to the Xbox One operating system, improving on flaws of the current implementation, while adding features influenced by Windows 10.

Armed with a strong determination to win the race, Jake used his unique skills on the Internet to find a flaw in the invite system, which allowed him to defy his current ranking of 335,000 and land on the highly desirable number of 1,694, which is even better than the first ranking that he earned.

The current system could be more efficient at turning up security flaws if it provided bug - hunters with a reward incentive, Hansen explained, instead of paying a security consultant for dedicated time seeking out potential weaknesses - as many websites currently have to do.

With the current cumbersome and flawed Special Educational Needs system such changes are welcomed, particularly if it helps parents, but how this will work in practice remains to be seen.

However he rather surprisingly agreed with me that the current system in place for battling parental alienation is inadequate and flawed.

It is a framework with the potential to address the flaws of the current system.

110 world experts endorsed shared parenting in family law and said the current system is based on «flawed science.»

Emotionally disturbed / immature parent's can & do use the current flawed Family Court System to alienate children from a parent to punish them.

«Small businesses are the economic engine of this country and the current system is allowing them to be targeted and abused by patent trolls armed with poor quality patents and a flawed path toward review and resolution.