Sentences with phrase «little public oversight»

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.

«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 MTA has in the past approved multi-year, billion - dollar spending plans with little public oversight.

Not exact matches

After years of largely disregarding their warnings about exactly what companies like Facebook were doing — that is, collecting enormous amounts of information on its users and making it available to third parties with little to no oversight — the general public suddenly seemed to care about what they were saying.

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

Prosecutors also maintained that the grants came out of a specific pool of money with very little public scrutiny or oversight.

Such measures include: broad expansions of executive authority to redirect or reduce funding after the enactment of the Budget and the shifting of billions of dollars in spending outside the Budget; the appropriation of significant amounts with little detail as to specific purposes or recipients; and reduction of the independent oversight of public resources.»

He said there's very little utility oversight — public or private — because the «public service commission is fundamentally flawed and needs to be changed.»

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.

Millions of students are learning in dilapidated, obsolete and unhealthy facilities, but there is very little oversight over the nation's public school infrastructure.

During its inaugural 2014 - 15 year, the program moved forward while the state Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of sending public dollars to private, religious schools that are subject to very little oversight by the state.

Such little oversight for private schools» financial management is especially concerning when one considers what just happened last week with a public charter school in Kinston.

-- School vouchers transfer public dollars to private schools with little to no oversight.

The authors of that study wrote that, «where there is little oversight, and lots of public dollars available, there are incentives for ethically challenged charter operators to charge for services that were never provided.»

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.

«One out of every six people in the U.S. spends each day in a K — 12 public school classroom, yet there is very little oversight over America's public school buildings,» said Rick Fedrizzi, CEO and founding chair, USGBC.

In an oped in the Connecticut Post on August 7, a board member of the Side by Side charter school in Norwalk, Anne Magee Dichele, complained that in the wake of the Jumoke scandal, and the revelations that state authorities exert little oversight over Connecticut charter schools, Connecticut charter schools are now forced to defend themselves to the public.

But as Lake and her team points out in the case of Detroit (where the nine charter oversight groups — including Detroit Public Schools — have done little to provide kids with high - quality options), what likely ends up happening is that shoddy school operators end up engaging in shopping for lax authorizers who will let them off the hook for failure and won't think through community needs.

«The public is clearly against the abusive practices that take place in the commercial pet - breeding industry, yet we've allowed them to exist with little to no oversight or concern for the welfare of the animals that they've churned out for far too long.