Sentences with phrase «lack of accountability by»

Environmental experts credit Agrawal with bringing national and international awareness to the problems disenfranchised communities in India face from the lack of accountability by industrial developers — and a government all too willing to turn a blind eye.

«Our poll results have obviously validated what his poll results read: John's campaign continues to gain momentum and his message of failed leadership and lack of accountability by Dan Maffei is taking hold,» Katko spokeswoman Erin O'Connor said in a statement.

Not exact matches

This excellent article by The Times Financial Editor highlights the appalling state of the UK banking sector and the total lack of senior accountability.

In summary, there are four major reasons for the high amount of sexual violence and overall violence in TV produced in the U.S.: (1) monopoly control of program production and distribution by a handful of powerful companies (2) the drive for profits far in excess of those enjoyed by the vast majority of U.S. businesses (3) a lack of accountability on the part of sponsors and

Major reasons for lack of control of violence in TV are monopoly dominance by a few powerful companies, the drive for profits, the lack of accountability and a lack of the FCC to exercise oversight.

And yet this extraordinary marketing feat is what we now witness in the swagger of certain leaders and their followers, in their lack of accountability, in the cults of celebrity, in the massive influence wielded by media savvy organizations, in the plethora of lucrative personal ministries, and in the various other expensive products and pyrotechnics of the movement.

Is it a testament to the lack of credibity or accountability by the players to respect the magnitude of the moment or the inability of the manager to properly instill the fear of god in his players.

It is clear that the gross understaffing and underfunding of the maternity services in general in Ireland as well as the lack of accountability and oversight of each individual maternity hospital by the HSE, combined with a culture of not listening to or addressing the concerns of women and families has led to these tragic series of events.

The Sociocracy and Holocracy models described elsewhere in Leadtogether newsletter, and the book by Frederic Laloux, «Reinventing Organizations» all offer ways that organizations can be more collaborative and overcome the lack of natural accountability.

«Although there have been actions taken to address these problems, many of my constituents are deeply concerned with potential ongoing health risks to their families, delayed and confused responses by the state and federal agencies involved, and lack of accountability to find out what happened and why it was allowed to go on after the initial detection of the contamination of their water supply.»

What triggered successive rounds of popular upheavals in the Middle East was first and foremost the growing sense of frustration with the lack of government accountability, a lack of economic opportunity, pervasive corruption and arbitrary abuse by the security services.

First, the power - sharing government that followed the disputed election results of 2007: by bringing a large number of political actors on - board, government action has been stalled and many of the ministerial responsibilities duplicated, leading in turn to a lack of accountability.

Why funds raised from corporate Ghana for the Miss Ghana Foundation or its projects were being shared this way, with Inna Patty taking almost all and not putting received funds towards projects as mentioned by the former Beauty Queens indicates the deep rot the organisation dwells in, made possible by the obvious lack of accountability and external supervision.

At the launch Mr Ganley insisted he was pro-European but remained overwhelmingly disgusted by the lack of democracy, accountability and transparency in the European project.

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But none of these measures, the report said, address the core problems: abuse by correction officers and a lack of accountability.

While the governor has defended the Regional Council program as a means to return control to localities, the initiative has been criticized by fiscally conservative groups who have questioned the record of job creation and argue the program lacks accountability.

«A complete lack of accountability» under NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is to blame for a deed lifting to allow a nonprofit nursing home on Manhattan's Lower East Side to be flipped to luxury condos and a $ 72 million profit, according to an investigation released by the city's corruption watchdog.

«The lack of transparency and accountability in military spending, during the administration of former president Jonathan, has led to the inability of the military to adequately protect people against the violation of their rights by Boko Haram in the northeast of Nigeria.»

«A complete lack of accountability» under Mayor Bill de Blasio is to blame for a deed lifting to allow a nonprofit nursing home on Manhattan's Lower East Side to be flipped to luxury condos and a $ 72 million profit, according to an investigation released Thursday by the city's corruption watchdog.

In Washington, Schneiderman's team pointed to the rising populist anger about the lack of accountability for the crash, represented most vividly by Occupy Wall Street.

Implementation of the school choice provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act has been stymied by a lack of space to accommodate transfers and unrealistic timelines for notifying parents of their options, a report by the Government Accountability Office concludes.

These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

Broader deregulation efforts to form charter schools and create accountability systems have been slowed by such barriers as state lawmakers» reliance on mandates, equity questions, and the lack of credible...

Ed schools presently benefit from a lack of public accountability, low political visibility, public policy inertia, and iron triangle protectionism provided by self - interested coalitions of executive branch credentialing managers, teacher union officials attempting to restrain labor market entry, and a few aligned legislators.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

A new D.C. school board study concluded that the system was beset by a lack of accountability, an «incoherent» curriculum, haphazard instruction, and «abysmal results.»

Just look at the yearlong investigation by the Detroit Free Press, [v] which revealed rampant problems in the state's for - profit charter schools — corruption, cronyism, poor performance and lack of accountability.

What might be even more notable is the lack of vocal defense being mustered for annual testing by long - time advocates for strong accountability.

The problem is not lack of information but a lack of motivation engendered by the low accountability / low empowerment culture of our public schools.»

Characterized by instability and lack of accountability, Milwaukee's voucher program has resulted in numerous stories like one last year in a local paper about a minister and his wife who accepted $ 2.3 million in taxpayer funding only to close their Lifeskills Academy abruptly during the school year.

Opponents of charter schools, led by the state teachers» union, say the schools will lack accountability and will take too much money out of the already under - funded education system.

A + Colorado is encouraged by the legislative efforts to update the accountability clock A + believes that a deeper challenge than the accountability policy structure is a lack of political will to intervene in even the most dramatic circumstances A + Colorado calls on the Colorado legislature, our Governor and the state board of education to enact...

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

Voucher supporters answer almost every question about the shocking lack of accountability at the taxpayer supported religious schools by saying that parents provide it by choosing the school for their children.

But now, as we move to the next level of accountability, this reform «miracle» is being called into question by discrepancies leading to allegations of fraud in dropout reporting as well as the preliminary results of the new, more rigorous, Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, which, depending on your perspective, reflect either a lack of true student achievement progress in many areas or a backsliding in progress previously reported.Recently, this debate was sharpened with the release of the results in five major U. S. cities of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, in which Houston participated on a voluntary basis, and the results were mixed at best.

The lack of response by major education news sources to repeated inquiries also signals a sense of apathy or lack of time for this important issue, and a lack of transparency in the very media institution that claims to push for greater transparency, democracy, and accountability in society.

According to the State of the States in Gifted Education, a biennial analysis of state laws and policies to support high - ability and high - potential students conducted by the National Association for Gifted Children and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted, 28 states lack even a single gifted education performance indicator on their annual report cards or other accountability measure.

Charters were a choice option that avoided the concerns posed by vouchers — entanglement of church and state and a lack of accountability for public dollars.

In a separate action on Monday, a rally organized in front of LAUSD's Beaudry Street headquarters by the East Area Progressive Democrats (EAPD) took the school board to task over the selection process and characterized Rodriguez as being emblematic of the board's lack of accountability for charter schools.

Dropout Nation has long argued that the Obama administration's waiver gambit, as much driven by a desire to put its mark on federal education policy (and stamp out that of predecessor George W. Bush, upon which the administration's own reforms have been built) as by the lack of movement within Congress on reauthorizing the law, weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher.

Two separate audits by the Department's Office of Inspector General have critiqued the program's lack of transparency and accountability, yet the grants continue to roll out.

Such criticisms may have only been bolstered by last week's report from Duke Law School, which cited North Carolina private school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable data to back up claims that failing public school students may be rescued by their private school counterparts.

Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work.

All the publishers in the room were frustrated by the lack of accountability from anyone anywhere — bookstores, wholesalers, distributors — when it comes to damaged books.

This structure fails to provide the appropriate checks and balances needed between the Board and management and engenders a harmful and value - destroying perception by the market of a general lack of accountability.

And that, surely, would be an ethically enlightened business decision, since continued resistance to change, denial, lack of accountability, and defense of the status quo are ultimately counterproductive and self - defeating regardless of the $ 15 billion annual income enjoyed by U.S. pet food manufacturers.

Though today's administration, besieged by an unprecedented budget crisis, insists that it must «creatively alter» this legacy of free education, university organizers claim, in the words of the communique released by Students for a Free Cooper Union, that «an expansionist strategy and lack of accountability have put this college in a financial deficit,» and that «all tuition - based revenue - generating programs are a departure from Cooper Union's historic mission, and will corrupt the college's role as an ethical model for higher education.»

Immediately following the Class of 2014's commencement ceremony we rallied together to show support for The Cooper Union's strong and unique identity as a tuition free institution for the study of architecture, art and engineering; and to call attention to the fiscal mismanagement and lack of accountability on the part of The Cooper Union Trustees, leading to the erosion of a 150 - year old tradition of free tuition made possible by philanthropist Peter Cooper.

It has been reported that the Cooper Union financial crisis was due to a combination of problems caused by poor fiscal decisions, lack of accountability, the economic recession of the late 2000s, the selling off of the institution's assets, and taking on significant debt due to the 2009 building of 41 Cooper Square, which cost the school US$ 175 million.