Sentences with phrase «little public accountability»

The state oil company has long been used by the government to borrow huge sums in a highly opaque manner and with little public accountability for the use of the money.19

Voucher schools have drained over a billion dollars of taxpayers» money away from public schools and into private schools with little public accountability.

Not exact matches

These new initial coin offerings, called ICOs, are like initial public offerings (IPOs) but with little regulation or accountability.

The principle at stake is this: If public officials can escape accountability simply by using their private e-mails to do their dirty work, the public's right to know will have little meaning.

SYRACUSE, NY (02/13/2013)(readMedia)-- CSEA — New York's leading union — has filed a lawsuit against Onondaga County, challenging the transfer of the county's public nursing home, the Van Duyn Home & Hospital, to a local development corporation — a non-regulated shell corporation that has little oversight and no accountability to taxpayers.

But we find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.

These scandals have aroused public concern, but there has been little hard evidence on the extent of cheating by school personnel on the type of tests required by recently enacted accountability legislation.

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As hard as I have worked to bring rigorous, content - rich standards, reasonable assessments, inspiring curricula, and accountability to public schools, I am dumbfounded to see how little of it has permeated the private schools I visited.

Later, Jewell groused that achievement school districts represent little more than a «new layer of bureaucracy that lacks the accountability to ensure public dollars are being spent effectively.»

«It marries a taxpayer - funded government subsidy for private schools and vendors to a corporate tax break with little public oversight and no accountability for results.»

The law, passed as a part of the budget bill last summer, provides little in the way of accountability for private schools while reducing funds for public education at a time when schools are seeing sharp reductions in funding over a years - long period.

Voucher and voucher - like programs divert much - needed funding from public schools and redirect it to private schools where, in some cases, there is little accountability or evidence to support expansion.

• Little or no accountability for voucher schools; they will not have to use the same tests as public schools.

What these reveal is a state charter law that allows charter schools to operate loosely, with little if any accountability or transparency to the public.

There is very little doubt among sophisticated observers that Texas has led the nation in public education reform over the past decade or so and that it has served as a model for the nation in the advancement of standards and accountability.

There is very little doubt among sophisticated observers that Texas has led the nation in public education reform over the past decade or so and that it has served as a model for other states and the nation in the advancement of standards and accountability.

Most of these schools are segregated and provide little if any accountability to the public.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

With regard to the school board term limit proposal in Amendment 8, Speaker Corcoran neglects to mention that this is one of the «bundled» amendments that will also establish a state governed charter school authorization board that can circumvent the power of our own locally elected officials in addition to establishing a parallel «public» school system that will not answer to local school boards, which is only another ploy to redirect precious, scant taxpayer dollars to entities that have little oversight or accountability.

Private groups with little accountability to local education systems are pressing for reforms in public education.

This includes sending taxpayer dollars to fund private and religious schools through voucher programs and fighting against effective charter school policies in favor of a charter sector with little public oversight and accountability.