Sentences with phrase «deeply flawed law»

While almost everyone agrees NCLB was a deeply flawed law, some critics fear the new approach will leave poor and minority students with fewer protections.

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But, no matter what your opinion is on actual marijuana usage, the fact that the DEA is open to revisiting a legal classification that many view as deeply flawed could be a sign that government officials are finally going to fix laws that have had serious affects on the society it is supposed to be serving and protecting.

«At a time when New York government is in crisis thanks to a series of high - profile corruption scandals, the Board has opted to perpetuate its deeply flawed rule that enables frequent and harmful circumvention of the law,» said Elizabeth S. Saylor, a partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP.

He said the city law was deeply flawed because it allowed merchants to keep the 5 - cent fee as profit.

«While there are no doubt institutional political issues at play, and while New York City's law is an earnest attempt at a real solution, it is also undeniable that the City's bill is deeply flawed,» Cuomo said.

Cuomo released a 1,000 word statement on the issue late in the day yesterday, saying the city law due to take effect today was «deeply flawed» even if the intent to clean up the environment was a good one.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, called the city's bag ban «deeply flawed» when he signed legislation to block the local law from taking effect.

At the time, Cuomo called the city's law «deeply flawed» because it allowed merchants to keep the fee as a profit, according to The New York Times.

«The leader of HHS will be at the tip of the spear, working to not only right the wrongs of this deeply flawed [Affordable Care Act] law, but also ensure the long - term sustainability of both Medicare and Medicaid,» Hatch said in a press release.

That said, the law was deeply flawed.

NCLB cleared Congress in 2002 with massive bipartisan support but has since become a political catastrophe: The law's strategy for prodding and shaming schools into improvement proved deeply flawed over time, and its unintended failures have eclipsed its bright spots.

After six years, there is overwhelming evidence that the deeply flawed «No Child Left Behind» law (NCLB) is doing more harm than good in our nation's public schools.

This became clear last month when the NAACP and its legal defense fund came out on the pages of Education Week in favor of the strong accountability measures that No Child represents (even as it considered the law's sanctions to be «deeply flawed»).

In his statement, Torlakson said, «Based on a thorough examination of federal and state law, California made a good - faith effort to seek relief from requirements that even federal officials have acknowledged time and again are deeply flawed.»

Of course, the idea of other states piggybacking off of the precedent set by California wouldn't be so disturbing if the law itself wasn't so deeply flawed.

As the story progresses, the three (supposed) law enforcement agents concoct a series of deeply stupid and massively illegal (never mind immoral) strategies for bringing down the Cartel (and achieving a handful of additional goals), most of which fail miserably — which is not surprising, on account of their flawed and nonsensical nature.