Sentences with phrase «of local bureaucracy»

Though the concept has had some precedents, its future feasibility will depend largely on the interest of developers and the will of local bureaucracy, says Klemmt:

But after Smith churches are at the mercy of local bureaucracies.

Not exact matches

But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small business: you'll find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.

But, like many other nations, it suffers from «a failure of the state» begat by «bureaucracies at local, state, and national levels» that remain either too corrupt or too incompetent to supply citizens with decent public services.

We work with local, national, and international developers, all of whom are interested in financing projects quickly and safely, without the impediments of bank bureaucracy or crippling regulations.

This kind of well - meaning but finally destructive inanity is entirely typical of what goes on under the rubric of «interreligious dialogue,» whether sponsored by the multinational religious bureaucracies or a local university.

House Republicans initiated the block - grant proposals under the Personal Responsibility Act to return control of the schools and curriculum to the local level, cut costs and reduce federal bureaucracy, said Kristin Woltemuth, a legislative assistant to Rep. Harris Fawell (R., Naperville) a member of the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

Part of the problem, of course, is that many of the militias are hailed by local populations as thuwwar, or freedom fighters, and are often trusted far more than the bureaucracy, still blemished by its use as a repressive tool under Qaddafi.

Justin has spent years working for local residents to cut through all the bureaucracy and red tape from within the halls of government.

But if it is rejected, as I suspect it will, the ability of local authorities to find new ways to deliver on behalf of local people and businesses would be severely hindered, as would the Government's desire to free itself of unnecessary and costly bureaucracy.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

«We can not allow bureaucracy and narrow self - interest continue standing in the way of a project broadly supported by the local community, as evidenced by the diversity and number of signatures affixed to this letter.

«Michael Gove has suggested that he wishes teachers to be «free from stifling bureaucracy» and yet at the same time plans to put in place a curriculum that will force all schools to teach the same subjects regardless of the needs individual learners, employers and their local communities.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Local Government and Equalities, Peter Black, has accused the Welsh Labour Government of failing to sort out the confusion and bureaucracy surrounding the issuing of blue badges to disabled and elderly people in Wales.

He is scathing about the excessive cost of local government, cutting his own salary by more than half and seeking to rid the council of waste and bureaucracy, but some of his actions and remarks have caused upset — he recently praised the family values of the Taliban, and pledged to cut funding for Gay Pride events in the town before changing his mind.

Common Core effectively destroys local control of our schools, transferring community educational initiatives to the vast and faceless federal bureaucracy, shifting yet more power from the local community to Washington so that it can impose continental control over the education of our nation's children.

Excerpt: «Reforming the Common Core, increasing aid to local schools, and making sure that educational funding goes to the classroom and benefits our students, rather than being squandered on additional layers of unnecessary government bureaucracy.»

They also take a dim view of the idea of giving Washington a bigger role in an area that constitutionally is the province of state and local government, as well as any proposed growth in the federal bureaucracy.

NCLB was an example of classic Washington over-reach, offering too much top - down direction from Washington bureaucracy and failing to generate the necessary ownership by local educators of the law's new accountability requirements.

Decisions made at the top of a large bureaucracy will suffer from the absence of detailed information about local conditions at each site, will be slow to cope with any unusual situations, and will tend to enforce standardized procedures on every situation, no matter how poorly those procedures may fit the situation.

And its most important insight is in suggesting how far we have strayed from the days of the «school committee» which built and ran local schools to today's Titanic bureaucracies.

The major planks of Klein's reforms are well known: breaking much of the old local district bureaucracy, empowering principals and creating a new principal training center, issuing report cards for schools, delivering autonomy and innovation zones for experimental schools, and keeping more of the city's problematic teachers out of its schools.

To the best of our knowledge, and based on all evidence that we're aware of, neither the signers of the Shanker Institute manifesto, nor leaders in the Obama / Duncan Education Department, advocate a «nationalized curriculum» that would «undermine control of public school curriculum and instruction at the local and state level» and «transfer control to an elephantine, inside - the - Beltway bureaucracy.»

Again, this one depends on local rules, regulations, policy, and other matters of bureaucracy likely beyond your control.

Ayers supports smaller schools that would be more sensitive to the strengths and weaknesses of local communities, believing they offer the best prospect for addressing «the inequitable distribution of educational resources» and «the capacity of a range of self - interested bureaucracies to work against the common good.»

Wilson also pointed out that many of the problems that stand in private management's way are local bureaucracy, like governance and ongoing funding issues.

The only material difference between charter and traditional public schools is that the latter are not part of the local school - governance bureaucracy, whether a school board, a mayor or even a state - appointed superintendent.

When will the advocates of school - based management learn that education bureaucracies will not devolve without a fundamental change in authority that extends beyond creating local school councils or adding a few more prerogatives for principals?

When schools are viewed as just another government program — or worse, as one observer noted, as little more than outposts of a federal bureaucracy — the sense of local ownership that has been a hallmark of the American education system is weakened if not lost altogether.

Chiefs can set priorities for districts and schools, strengthen the hands of local leaders who want to make a dramatic difference in their schools, and limit distractions emanating from the legislature and state bureaucracy.

The Local Education Authorities managed very well — so you take away one level of «bureaucracy» and add another unproven layer, and add the complication of possible conflict of interests.

Klein, appointed in 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, will be remembered for reshaping the system's massive central bureaucracy of 32 local districts.

«However, this proposal creates a whole new layer of bureaucracy with no consideration of how the local community will hold these schools to account.»

The government must urgently define local authority duties and powers to avoid this sort of clash of bureaucracies particularly now that full academisation is on a much less definite timescale.

While the vast majority of K - 12 spending is done by state and local governments, the bulging layers of bureaucracy that administer education policy are the direct result of federal overreach into our education system.

He added: «Local authority officers acknowledge the problem, but too often use the excuse of bureaucracy, legislation or lack of resources as a reason for inaction.»

Right now, Republican hypocrisy is becoming a glaring limitation as a Republican dominated House is forced to square its votes against conservative drives of wanting less bureaucracy and more local control.

By freeing up the schools from the central office bureaucracy and most teacher contract provisions, local and state officials say, the Springfield middle schools are in complete control of their curriculums, staffing, budgeting, and ultimately their own destinies.

Therefore, he pledged to «set schools free» from local bureaucracy, so by 2020 all schools must have converted or be in the process of converting to academy status.

I think that the federal government can best serve Tennessee educators by eliminating unnecessary layers of Washington bureaucracy and returning decision - making power to state and local officials who best know the needs of their schools.

Without this or a similar mechanism for accountability, we fear cat licensing will become yet another expensive government program that only works to inappropriately expand government bureaucracies at the expense of local taxpayers, responsible cat caretakers, and the animals themselves.

The bill should instead preserve local control, eliminate the necessity of a central bureaucracy and allow local law enforcement including dog wardens, humane agents, health officials as well as existing state agencies to conduct inspections, issue cease and desist orders and refer violations for imposition of civil or criminal penalties.

S.B. 130 proponents claim a central bureaucracy to enable high volume dog breeders is better than relying on local or even cross-county or existing state enforcement agencies to inspect, penalize and shut down breeders in violation of the law.

Besides the hazards and hardships encountered in any wild and remote environment, there are the added challenges of language, bureaucracy, complex logistics, health concerns, and local employees.

It also included interviews with national and international curators, gallery owners and museum directors, opening up a spectrum for professionalization of the art scene that went beyond mere local bureaucracy.

Local arts leaders blame a byzantine bureaucracy, with responsibility for the city's cultural future hovering uncertainly between the council, the regeneration company Ilex, which is in charge of redeveloping the Ebrington barracks site, and the office of the first minister and deputy first minister at Stormont.

But many climate experts say that the problems are deep - rooted, and that a clearer picture of the local and global impact of coming climate shifts will emerge only if there is a substantial shuffling of the scientific bureaucracy and permanent support for basic monitoring of climate - influencing factors like the ebb and flow of greenhouse gases.

Thanks to a combination of internal politics and bureaucracy, some internal charging rates are so excessive that they bear no relation to the actual costs incurred with the result that potential savings are not passed onto local business units, let alone to customers.