Sentences with phrase «on unaccountable»

«Instead of diverting scarce resources from existing public school classrooms and spending it on unaccountable charter schools for a few students, we should be investing more in the innovative public schools we already have,» Mary Lindquist, president of the state teachers union, said in a news release in response to the signature turn - in.

Not exact matches

«Overstock is pro-freedom, including the freedom of individuals to communicate information about value and scarcity without relying on a medium created through the fiat of unaccountable government mandarins.

Whereas print and broadcast journalism organizations could control the range of content that was packaged together in their products, and thereby provide their audience with a diversity of views and content - types (sports, entertainment, news, and accountability journalism), in the Facebook algorithm all information — including journalism — is atomized and distributed based on a set of hidden, unaccountable, rapidly iterating and individualized rules.

As long as they face the prospect of a surprise attack by unaccountable «owners,» today's business leaders have little choice but to focus on the here and now.

Personal Attack on John Musick # 2: «However, regardless of how you personally feel about Tony, the blood lust and voyeuristic glee that is being demonstrated here in response to Julie's unaccountable torrent is deeply troubling.»

How else explain the drive to take decision making power on some of the most important issues of our day and turn it over to unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic boards of «experts?»

And at present... more and more patterns of worship and shared life are appearing on the edge of our mainstream life that cry out for our support, understanding and nurture if they are not to get isolated and unaccountable.»

Moreover, the present distribution of animals would on this view be unaccountable.

Unelected, unaccountable, and imperialistic justices have a history of imposing horrendous decisions on the nation.

Wenger is remote enough, despite living in London overspill (Totteridge, Nr Barnet) since he is unaccountable, looks down on any and all of us «lowly» fans who «have never managed a team, not even for 24 hours».

The Sunday Mirror columnist and former Deputy Prime Minister says the main parties are relying too much on unelected and unaccountable «experts»

and where participants (like the voters) walk offstage and, on the other, shadowy and / or unaccountable forces tend to occupy the vacuum that is left.

He outlined why he thinks voters worried about excessive powers will continue to turn their backs on the «unaccountable bunch of bureaucrats in Brussels».

The days of handing over our money to unaccountable private companies to profit from the services we rely on have to end.

She wrote: «The Mid Staffs scandal, and the problems throughout the NHS that it has exposed, have one thing in common: Lives lost in our hospitals because of an unaccountable central management and political organisation, more concerned with fixing the statistics for dispatch - box convenience than looking after patients, which has systematically stifled of the voices of those on the front line: both patients» groups concerned for loved ones, and doctors and nurses concerned for their patients.

The quango state - unelected and unaccountable bodies which have a direct impact on ordinary people's lives - has become a common feature of our political life.

The Tory plans to repeal the HRA, together with the restricted access to our courts already brought about by the restriction on judicial review introduced by Gove's predecessor, Chris Grayling, will silence the vulnerable and leave great swaths of executive action unchecked and unaccountable.

They are also highly undemocratic in that personnnel are unelected and unaccountable, despite having an immnese and direct influence on the community.

They wonder why on earth their unaccountable EU leaders have offered visas to citizens from increasingly assertive Islamic Turkey who wish to travel West.

«We can not go on seeing crucial decisions about our society and our system of justice and government being taken by unaccountable European courts.»

Critics say the law means that politicians are more unaccountable to the electorate because elections have been held historically on average every four years.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

They express concern that the CSA has been «unaccountable, intransparent and controversial», singling out public statements by Anne Glover on genetically modified organisms.

They should publicly concede that the feds played a significant facilitative role, that the Common Core exercise has been inevitably imperfect, that reasonable people may be nervous about the power seemingly being wielded by unaccountable associations, and that advocates facing a window of opportunity may have focused too much on the ambition of the project and not enough on allaying practical concerns.

It also appeals to the yearning of some GOP lawmakers and libertarian policy wonks to get Uncle Sam completely out of the school - accountability business (though they'll gag on Rothstein's demand for buckets more in federal dollars for those unaccountable schools and sundry other services to kids).

But the union, with the backing of the American Federation of Teachers, contends that in its current form the proposal would trample on teachers» rights and set a dangerous precedent by placing an unaccountable private institution...

The opposition leader said that the proposals were a «poor attempt» by the conservative government to «duck their record» on education, which he said had «seen classes grow to the largest in Europe, teachers flocking to leave the profession as pay and conditions stagnate and a raft of corruption scandals at unaccountable Tory academies that have failed to deliver the promised improvements in standards».

Many of the candidates on last night's stage have clear records of draining critical funding away from public schools to give to private schools, supporting charter schools that are unaccountable to students, parents, and taxpayers, and slashing education funding and those programs that serve students and help them in the classroom.

The government says that you can send your child to a decent school on the basis of a lottery decided by a few unaccountable individuals.

This is money which should be spent on educating children: not being stashed in «reserves» on balance sheets or used to fund exorbitant salaries for Chief Executives of unaccountable academy chains.

Detroit, MI — November 20, 2014 Leaders from the Michigan Education Justice Coalition staged a «Walk with Me» event to highlight the injustices imposed on students and their families by Detroit's unaccountable and mostly unregulated school governance model.

San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is spending lavishly on technology despite their budgets being decimated by California's unaccountable charter school industry.

National Union of Teachers general secretary Christine Blower said teachers would find it «obscene» that the government was choosing to pour cash into an «unelected, unaccountable layer of bureaucracy» while schools faced an «unprecedented squeeze» on their budgets.

Because state takeovers have been characterized by conversion of public schools into charter schools; schools unaccountable to elected boards, with little duty to report on its finances, yet they receive millions in public funds.

On top of that, the proposed budget calls for more state and local funding to be siphoned off for unaccountable private voucher schools.

Though marketed as distinct from traditional school vouchers, the ESA is simply different dressing on a familiar scheme to redirect public taxpayer dollars to pay for private, unregulated, and unaccountable services.

«On the other hand, there is a troubling number of voucher schools still unaccountable for performance — even though private school tuition is paid for by taxpayers.

Unaccountable people simply ignore this and keep on going.

I'm glad you like Steam, it doesn't change the fact that they are irressponsible, and virtually unaccountable guardians of virtually the entire PC gaming space, who can steal thousands of dollars in software on a whim from you forever, and you legally can't do a thing about it.

In Issues, a scholar of conservative thought has written that whatever policies are developed to address climate change, they must be compatible with individual liberty and democratic institutions, and can not rely on coercive or unaccountable bureaucratic administration.

Energy and Environment: Repudiate the Paris Climate Agreement Defund the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Overturn or at Least Defund the EPA's Clean Power Plan Repeal the EPA's Purloined Power to Legislate Climate Policy Repeal the EPA's Carbon Dioxide Standards for New Fossil - Fuel Power Plants Oppose Carbon Taxes Prohibit Use of Social Cost of Carbon as a Justification for Regulating Emissions Freeze and Sunset the Renewable Fuel Standard Require all Agencies to Meet Rigorous Scientific Standards Address Unaccountable Environmental Research Programs

His answer was to create a more equitable and voluntary relationship with the colonies in the developing world, not to patronise them by foisting backwards technologies on them, to sustain their dependence on Western agencies and their basic lifestyles, to undermine their political movements, and sending in unaccountable, undemocratic, self - appointed NGOs.

The UN — every unaccountable bureaucracy connected to it, e.g., the IPCC — is an easy first targetl; it gets a fail on every measure.

So when it appears that governments are «on - message», or in any way sympathetic to its concerns, the only way to sustain its undemocratic and unaccountable influence is to escalate the sense of urgency, or their function will become redundant.

On the other hand, critics say, such challenges are justified because law clinics are costly, unaccountable and often counterproductive to states» interests.

Mr Dacre blames this development on one judge's interpretation of the Human Rights Act 1998 and deduces that this new rights - based jurisprudence will allow «the crooks, the liars, the cheats, the rich and the corrupt (to shelter) behind a law of privacy created by an unaccountable judge».

That still leaves the elephant in the room — how on earth do we still have a bicameral parliament with an unelected upper house???? Is there any justification for an unelected, unaccountable Senate other than constitutional inertia?

A clause that requires a minimum «rationality» in government actions has no application to» «an arbitrary and capricious right,»» Swain, supra, at 219 (quoting Lewis v. United States, supra, at 378); a constitutional principle that may invalidate state action on the basis of «stereotypic notions,» Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718, 725 (1982), does not explain the breadth of a procedure exercised on the» «sudden impressions and unaccountable prejudices we are apt to conceive upon the bare looks and gestures of another.»»

Writing in his latest newsletter on Family Justice Modernisation, Sir James says: «I am determined that the new Family Court should not be saddled, as the family courts are at present, with the charge that we are a system of secret and unaccountable justice.

In view of the illegal, unethical, inhumane and unaccountable nature of LAWS, Pakistan has consistently called for a pre-emptive prohibition on their further development and use.