Sentences with phrase «failing public system»

We recognize that no voucher program can save a failing public system.

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Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

an independent agency of the federal government, created in 1933, charged with preserving and promoting public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions up to applicable limits; by identifying, monitoring, and addressing risks to the deposit insurance funds; and by limiting the effect on the economy and the financial system when a bank or thrift institution fails; further information on the FDIC and FDIC coverage may be found at fdic.gov

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

«British Columbians deserve to have a government that is an ardent defender of a robust public health care system, but the Liberals utterly failed.»

Do you have a source to cite for «millions of Christians fleeing the failing public school system» because of acceptance of gays being taught?

Or did you just fail English as a fifth language in the Pakastani Public School and Gulag System back in the 90's?

When public office holders are asked questions about failings of their departments, they never say that their system is great (even if they are) and what happened is just an anomaly.

A good public transit system will help to alleviate many of these potential problems, but this too must be well maintained to keep from falling into disarray and subsequently failing to serve its purpose.

Security cameras have been installed now... and our fulfillment line is designed to not fail based on the actions of a single individual... the phone system helps us hold people accountable... we've doubled the size of our customer service team... and our social media team... and our marketing team... but the learning process to get here has involved multiple and, at times, massive public failures.

Public Citizen claims that by supplying US healthcare providers with product samples to distribute to parents, the firms have failed to adhere to the principles of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - notably Articles 5.2 («Manufacturers and distributors should not provide, directly or indirectly, to pregnant women, mothers or members of their families, samples of products») and 6.2 («No facility of a health care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula»).

Brand had argued that voting in general elections is a sign of tacit consent to the current system, which failed to represent the interests of the public.

While repeated calls from academia and public health have failed to convince most politicians, the group hopes calls from within the criminal justice system will finally make them listen.

There is an irony that the report from the «Centre for policy studies» failed to mention that the NHS is the only public body, that we are aware of, that has it's own full time litigation authority costing some # 7 million per year set up to deal with the complaints from patients regarding treatment they have received from a healthcare system that is supposed to protect them.

Now, what the paper completely fails to address is how that precondition, that essential public trust, could possibly survive a system under which the security services were empowered by law to routinely trawl through the private communications data of vast numbers of citizens suspected of no crime, simply in order, as Sir David Omand puts it, «to identify patterns of interest for further investigation».

Rapper Ja Rule joined local elected officials and public housing residents from across NYC at a rally Tuesday to call for investment and immediate renovations to NYCHA's failing heating systems.

The state asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the amount of colorless contaminant 1,4 - dioxane found in public water systems and the state would set its own limit if the feds fail to do so, in a letter that will be sent to the EPA, Cuomo announced.

In November 2009, he returned to Newburgh as fire chief, but the indictment alleges he failed to report his return to the public sector New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System despite knowing he had a duty under state law to do so.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

«It is deeply debilitating and demoralising for teachers that any attempt to have a public debate about developing the teaching profession and the quality of teaching inevitably is hijacked by commentators and presented as a system to «root out incompetent teachers» and present our public education system as failing.

The left - leaning minor party was angered when Cuomo failed to win a public campaign financing system for state wide offices in the budget.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James is accusing the Department of Education of failing to provide services to students with special needs as a result of a flawed data tracking system.

An experimental public campaign finance system for the state Comptroller's race has fizzled, after the lone candidate who applied for the program failed to meet the minimum threshold to obtain the public monies.

The summons warrants, which are ordered when people fail to answer a ticket for minor quality of life offenses such as drinking alcohol in public or being in a park after closing, are difficult to navigate within an overburdened courts system and can hold back individuals who have them on their records.

The left - leaning minor party was angered when Cuomo failed to win a public campaign financing system for statewide offices in the budget.

She has proposed major public investment in infrastructure, taking over failed and wasteful privatised industries and reforming the tax system.

That strategy pins the blame for failing schools solely on the de Blasio administration, the United Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers, who are caught in a bind of defending a public school system that objectively contains many low - performing schools, most of which have been struggling for decades.

StudentsFirstNY is New York's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing pressure to revive an issue that failed in state budget negotiations, enacting a public campaign financing system for statewide elections.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

A new report on community sentencing indicates that the system is failing to protect the public and leads to high levels of re-offence.

Clearly if the private banking system is joined at the hip with the public sector, then if the banking system fails it represents a national risk.

New Yorkers for Students» Educational Rights, an education advocacy group, is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Board of Regents and state Education Commissioner John King, claiming the state has systematically shortgaged the public school system by failing failing to comply with an agreement that followed the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity Ruling of 2006.

«It affords parents a choice especially in districts where the public education system is failing them and there kids.

«Feedback to LITRG staff and volunteers from members of the public strongly suggests that government departments are failing to provide the necessary quality of guidance and levels of support to ensure that unrepresented individuals on low incomes can fully comply with their obligations or understand their entitlements under the tax and related welfare systems.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James is suing the Department of Education, accusing it of failing to provide services to students with special needs as a result of a flawed data tracking system.

A new report says the NYC Education Department's support networks for public schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide system.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

Those affected according to the Controller includes public sector workers who failed to validate their payroll through the Electronic Salary Payment Voucher (ESPV) system, those with irregular or no bank account details, those with wrong SSNIT numbers, as well as...

Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

Even Mayor de Blasio's Republican opponent Paul Massey says Albany should extend mayoral control of city schools — though he charged Hizzoner has «utterly failed» at leading the public school system.

About StudentsFirstNY Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

«This report underscores the fact that the common - sense solutions we need to tackle the failings of our subway system have broad public support.

«The governor and the legislative leaders have concocted a public financing system which is designed to fail,» Horner said at the time.

The Senate's inclusion of a «district inspector» for the city's public school system comes after de Blasio tried and failed to unseat the Republican majority in the Senate in the 2014 elections.

If this program is designed to be a «test run» for a broader public financing system, it seems to be destined to fail.

All of our groups believe that such a limited public financing system fails to address Albany's culture of corruption that has been centered in recent years in the legislature.

The public school system continues to fail hundreds of thousands of students, because the mayor remains in thrall to the teachers union.

A new report says the Education Department's support networks for public schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide system.

In his words at the public hearing on constitution and electoral reform held at Ogun State Cultural Centre, Abeokuta today, Governor Fayose said; «Even when it inherited a working system that conducted elections adjudged as free and fair by local and international communities, INEC has failed consistently to replicate the inherited working system due to overzealousness and rabid passion to work as appendage of the federal government.