I think that so much of the discussion around tenure in K12 is linked to a widespread idea that the state has
a monopoly over public schools and has yielded a bureaucracy that has failed schools, etc..
Charter laws broke the district's
monopoly over public school operation.
«The school district
monopoly over public education facilities is an accident of history,» writes Nelson Smith, one that would not have happened «if there had been more than one choice of provider when the laws were being written.»
Not exact matches
«When both the logic of the market and the logic of the State come to an agreement that each will continue to exercise a
monopoly over its respective area of influence, in the long term much is lost: solidarity in relations between citizens, participation and adherence, actions of gratuitousness, all of which stand in contrast with giving in order to acquire (the logic of exchange) and giving through duty (the logic of
public obligation, imposed by State law).
I am not persuaded that government on a large scale can be sensitive enough to human freedom, creativity and needs to justify a
public monopoly over economic institutions.
There are long passages expressing his frustrations
over public service reform and his conflicts with Brown on breaking up previous
monopoly state provision, notably
over academies, foundation hospitals and
over tuition fees.
At the same time, the governor and the WFP are currently feuding
over his recent comments knocking the
public education system as a «
monopoly» and pledged to fight next year for more charter school protections.
It holds a
monopoly over Britain's rail infrastructure, a major national asset, and as such is rigorously monitored to ensure accountability to the
public interest.
The group established that, Kofi Jumah and Amoako Tufuor were the pioneers who raised alarm against the choice of Akufo - Addo by means of peddling horrible insults against Akufo - Addo to the
public «We wish to tell Akufo - Addo and his rented clowns that, if they have
monopoly over reckless conducts and plotting of evil, we have fair reasoning and common sense.
Cuomo has also criticized the teachers union
over performance reviews, and said he wants to break the «
public school
monopoly.»
So he exhorted lawmakers to consider «chartering,» as a way to allow entities other than school districts to establish new
public schools that would be open to students regardless of where they lived, thereby beginning to withdraw the
monopoly school districts held
over the provision of
public education.
He attributes the higher average wages of
public school teachers less to union collective bargaining and more to the political clout of unions to maintain the
public school
monopoly over K - 12 education.
Colorado's do -
over is a warning to other states that might use Blaine Amendments to derail school choice programs that threaten teachers unions and the
public school
monopoly.
With National School Choice Week behind us, the battle — and it is a battle — to free our children from a
monopoly by zip - code
public education system is being fought on fronts all
over the country, and in red and blue states alike, more and more Democrats are breaking ranks and joining Republicans in the fight.
The 99 % drop that coincided with the
public criticism of Dr. Adoni of Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos led Dr. Adoni to investigate the
public financial reports of Amazon and he says the sales history of Amazon proves the publishing
monopoly is now doing
over 75 Billion a year in eBook related sales and not paying authors on most of the royalties.
The Court reaffirmed that the role of copyright provides «a balance between promoting the
public interest in the encouragement and dissemination of works of the arts and intellect and obtaining a just reward for the creator» and that copyright does not provide a
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I can't have an affordable lawyer of my own because you use your
monopoly over legal services to serve yourselves, but not the needs of the
public for legal services.
Patterson and Joyce note, for example, that, after the decision in 1834 in Wheaton v. Peters, where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the goverment had no copyright in judicial decisions, publishers scrambled to publish case law reporters once the
monopoly over reporting had been removed; this resulted in more publications being available to the
public at a lower cost (L. Ray Patterson and Craig Joyce, «Monopolizing The Law: The Scope of Copyright Protection for Law Reports and Statutory Compilations?
the Canadian Copyright Act «does not give the author a
monopoly over ideas or elements from the
public domain, which all are free to draw upon for their own works.»
Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more
public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their
monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the
public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.
In carving out a set of certain activities for sale by lawyers only, the legal profession protects not only the
public but also its
monopoly over legal services.
Following her study of paralegals several years later, Paula Pevato observed that there was «substantial evidence... suggest [ing] that the legal profession's hostility toward paralegals is motivated, to a large degree, by a self - serving desire to maintain a
monopoly over the delivery of legal services to the
public.»
The Court reaffirmed that the role of copyright provides «a balance between promoting the
public interest in the encouragement and dissemination of works of the arts and intellect and obtaining a just reward for the creator» and that copyright does not provide a
monopoly over facts or ideas in the
public domain, «which all are free to draw upon for their own works».