Sentences with phrase «oversight of public funds»

We understand though, that this is a reason to exercise strong oversight of public funds.

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Worked with the Legislature and Governor to approve legislation that continues the appointment of monitors in East Ramapo, provides new oversight authority for the monitors and the Department over the school district's budget, and provides $ 3 million in state funds to restore and expand educational programming for the public schools within the district;

Mayor Bloomberg's documented slush fund, which spread millions of public dollars to favored groups and organizations with no oversight, set the tone for the culture of corruption and payoffs that dominate Council politics.

The proposed public financing regulations provide an outline for how the matching funds payments will be made, as well how oversight of the funds spent would function and criteria for what type of contribution qualifies to receive public dollars.

With no oversight or subpoena power, «it is clear by now that the public advocate position has just become a taxpayer - funded method to run for mayor of the city of New York,» Sliwa said.

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.»

Independent Democrat David Carlucci, who introduced the bill in the Senate, says the legislation will allow for public feedback in future funding projects, budgetary oversight provided by the Commissioner of Education and the continuation of appointed monitors on the ground in the district.

Should Spitzer prevail, he would assume an office that has oversight of public spending in the city as well as the employee retirement fund.

ALBANY — Though Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made expanding oversight of public officials a centerpiece of his agenda this year, none of New York State's commissions or agencies specifically charged with policing ethical lapses received an increase in funding in his proposed budget.

«The leaders of the House of Representatives will do well to focus on their primary constitutional duty of making laws for the peace, order and good government, and performing oversight role on spending of public funds rather than engaging in inherently execution functions of designing and executing projects This will enhance the operation of the sacred principle of separations of powers and the ability of the House to properly hold the executive to account for spending of public funds.»

«Granted that a major component of the oversight function of the National Assembly is to consider and pass the Appropriation Bill into law and that no money can be withdrawn or spent from the Consolidation Revenue Fund or any other public funds except with the authorization of the National Assembly.

Moskowitz's lawyers have already informed city officials they would not submit to city oversight even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks about $ 10,000 in public funds for each of its 72 pre-K students.

There is currently no reason to prohibit in vitro (outside of a living organism) germline genome editing research, with appropriate oversight and consent, or to prohibit public funding for such research.

We encountered a program that: • intends to be responsive to disabled children and their families but is often paralyzed by red tape; • attempts to address the needs of an amazingly diverse group of children yet often relies on standardized approaches and «box checking» oversight; • absorbs more than $ 50 billion a year in public funds yet provides no consistent tracking of its performance.

The sweet spot requires stipulating the importance of meaningful authorizer oversight for public charter schools that collect public funds and that such oversight should respect charter autonomy and the ability of educators and innovators to launch promising schools.

Opponents tend to complain that the districts divert funding from public schools (forgetting that they are still public) and that they remove control of schools from local oversight, handing them to state authorities and even (gasp) charter school operators.

The ranking affected the degree of autonomy schools had in spending public funds: schools classified in the two lowest categories had to develop improvement plans and were subject to increased oversight by the government.

Stein objected to a provision in the proposed legislation that would enable charter schools, which are public but not subject to the same curricular standards or oversight rules as traditional public schools, to share in the funds reimbursed to local public schools for their support of the federal school lunch program.

Blust and Cleveland sent their March 9 remarks to an email chain that included bipartisan House education committee members who held hearing earlier this month on Senate Bill 8, a GOP - backed bill that could lift the 100 - school cap on charter schools and allow charters more access to public funding streams and oversight outside of the N.C. State Board of Education.

The governor signed House Bill 2 to upgrade oversight of the tax - funded, privately operated schools, some of which have been dogged by poor pupil academic performance and mismanagement of public dollars.

For example, a part of the resolution informs us that charter schools «have contributed to the increased segregation rather than diverse integration of our public school system» and that weak oversight of charters «puts students and communities at risk of harm, public funds at risk of being wasted, and further erodes local control of public education.»

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS], 2015).

«Weak oversight of charter schools puts students and communities at risk of harm, public funds at risk of being wasted and further erodes local control of public education, the resolution reads.

But they are also not accountable to the same public purposes and oversight as our fully public schools, and many of them are religious organizations that are now going to be getting public funding.

The NAACP report documents the consequences of this abandonment: inadequate funding of urban schools, a lack of accountability and oversight for charter school, most of which are concentrated in urban communities, the disproportionate exclusionary discipline of Black students, high teacher turnover, and an absence of teachers of color in both charters and traditional public schools.

The report builds on existing research to show that, due to this lack of oversight, an untold amount of public funding is being lost each year.

And I am starting to despise the category of «non-profit,» as these are usually mercenary organizations that usurp public funds, with no 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.

The NAACP, in October 2016, recognized the racism inherent in the concept of charter schools and called for «a moratorium on charter school expansion and for the strengthening of oversight in governance and practice» because «the NAACP has been in the forefront of the struggle for and a staunch advocate of free, high - quality, fully and equitably funded public education for all children».

While the new report blasts how Sharpe handled the oversight of Jumoke at Milner, and even highlights the fact that significant funds remain missing, the report fails to even mention the deal - making that led to Jumoke / FUSE getting a no - bid contract to control a Hartford public school.

The capitulation of local publications like this one to the travesty of releasing public funds to private institutions without public oversight to perform government services that are suppose to be available equally to EVERYONE, as said publications, like this one, seek the favor of the powers that be is equavalent to how the national media rolled over and played dead during the lead up to the Iraq war.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

HARRISBURG — Making good on a campaign promise to put tighter oversight controls on taxpayer - funded charter schools, Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday established a four - person unit within the state Department of Education to oversee the nontraditional public institutions.

And a third report, by the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington, found series gaps in oversight and funding of online charters by states.

«Weak oversight of charter schools puts students and communities at risk of harm, public funds at risk of being wasted, and further erodes local control of public education.»

Bottom line: They just voted for the robbery of money from public schools to fund schools with no public oversight.

«Arizona is able to increase its funding for priorities like public education without raising taxes by increasing revenue through improved oversight and collection of money owed to the state.»

The board's issue: charter schools are perpetuating de facto segregation of students, diverting public education funds to for - profit entities, and are operating without proper oversight.

Also, South Kent does enjoy the status of being a private school, so while it's not about the funding issue, it is definitely an oversight issue; the school is fairly autonomous, as opposed to public schools who have an elected school board making broad, sweeping, one - size - fits - all curriculum decisions for every school in its district.

«Congress indeed has an important role in oversight of federally funded research, especially that which contributes to public policy.

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The federal government made a stunning 179,000 «categorical exclusions» that allowed corporations — many with disastrous environmental records — to use stimulus funding to sponsor projects without submitting them to review under the nation's «most basic form of environmental oversight», a new report from the Center for Public Integrity found.Making matters worse, many of these projects were approved under the auspices of being «green» or clean energy projects (many more are transportation - related)-- thus helping to comprise the billions of dollars in funding for green projects that sent progressives» hearts aflutter two years ago.