Sentences with phrase «public oversight»

When a public school is made into a charter, it's removed from public oversight or electoral control: there goes community choice about school closures or educational policies.

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

Public schools, on the other hand, must spend taxpayer money according to strict laws that require public oversight, transparency, and accountability.

Because they are defined as «private,» voucher schools operate by separate rules, with minimal public oversight or transparency.

But they are still valuable tools for empowering public oversight.

However, the number of agencies charged with delivering public oversight for district and charter schools makes it nearly impossible to get quality under control or to coordinate services on behalf of families.

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.

After previously saying they weren't necessary, he announced a series of public oversight hearings in September that will examine water contamination in communities like Hoosick Falls, where the Cuomo administration's response to the crisis has been widely criticized.

Despite having a mostly publicly funded budget and being charged with providing the residents of the County with access to clean water the ECWA has consistently skirted public oversight as reported by many news outlets over the past few years,» said Schoeneman in her letter to the Legislature.

So - relatively easy to carry out secret activities without public oversight or unusual vehicle and troop movements.

In some respects Stillness can be read as a commentary on the hazards of a lack of public oversight over corporate interests.

1992 — Federal Housing Enterprises» Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 creates HUD Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight to provide public oversight of FNMA and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).

Reinvent Albany typically doesn't focus on voting and political campaigning related issues — which is the priority of many established good government groups we admire — but we have an avid interest in improving public oversight over New York's vast universe of charitable organizations.

Despite having a mostly publicly funded budget and being charged with providing the residents of the County with access to clean water, the ECWA has consistently skirted public oversight as reported by many news outlets over the past few years.

At a press conference on the steps of City Hall on August 15, Citizens Union released a policy position statement containing 18 recommendations for increasing public oversight of police conduct.

Early childhood education (ECE) is an important phase for cognitive, behavioral, and social development in a child's life and has been emphasized in recent conversations about the District's educational landscape, including the February 27th public oversight hearing for Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE).

From the present vantage point, it certainly seems a daunting challenge for any President (or Congress) from either party even to begin the task of dismantling the military - industrial complex, ending the pall of «national security» secrecy and the «black budgets» that make public oversight of what our government does impossible, and bringing the president's secret army, the CIA, under democratic control.

In a letter opposing a special session to restore charter schools, Inslee stated that he does «not believe that public money belongs in schools that lack public oversight and accountability.»

«It's a victory for public oversight as well.»

More generally, without effective public oversight and control of the state the social world becomes an overlapping mass of unacknowledged domination.

Through a constitutional convention, we can demand transparency to backroom dealings in Albany by mandating public oversight of budgetary decisions and requiring narrow, set purposes for all money funneled into the budget.

Increasingly, critics statewide point to such deals as an argument for greater public oversight of the regional councils.

She also agreed that the Council's budget should undergo public oversight as well.

That's the only way you get public oversight.»

Contrary to the Susan G. Komen's inferences about safety risks, USDA's organic certification is the only food labeling system subject to independent public oversight and review.

Singer is worried that the philanthropic efforts of these wealthy individuals are moving very quickly and without sufficient public oversight.

Charter history is rife with stories about small - time crooks taking advantage of lax public oversight to steal dollars meant for education to enrich friends and family.

The primary goal of reform efforts should be to make it easier for problem solvers to gain access to and traction in the system, coupled with thoughtful public oversight of results.

Institutional theories take a different view, arguing that schools (like other major social service sectors) are so constrained by public expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come easily.

This privately - held company and nonprofit seems to have a talent for commingling the efforts of private charter interests and public oversight conduits that creates serious conflicts of interest, causing a California state whistleblowing attorney to be ``... opposed to such activities between public officials, private interests, and public charter schools.»

Privatizing an essential public function and forcing the public to pay for it, even while removing it from meaningful public oversight, weakens our democracy.

School choice opponents say that «choice» not only siphons resources from traditional systems but also promotes segregation, discriminates against students with the most severe disabilities, and fights against public oversight.

Betsy DeVos has made clear her interest is in promoting choice, including for - profit charters, and has helped promote them in her own state, Michigan, also working against efforts to allow real public oversight of these schools.

We at NEPC encourage other education organizations to consider whether they too should delete their Facebook accounts, and we call upon policy makers to develop policies that provide strict public oversight of social media platforms.

Although it hasn't received as much attention in the U.S. as it has in Britain and Canada, the scandal raises critical questions about how rigorous public oversight and control of «public private partnerships» and outsourcing contracts and corporations is here, and how sound the privatization industry's arguments are that it is more efficient.

With SRM research in its infancy, but interest in the topic growing, the IPCC's inclusion of SRM in its report is a reminder of the importance of establishing governance mechanisms to ensure that where SRM research does proceed, it is safe, ethical, and subject to appropriate public oversight and independent evaluation.

Sonangol relinquishes its control over the allocation of oil and mining rights in Angola to an independent agency that operates under full public oversight and awards these rights in a transparent manner.

Both I and the professionals in my office believe the proposal will prevent adequate planning of the state's lands, meddle with the planning hierarchy and limit proper public oversight on planning regulations.»

That it operates unconstrained by precedent or any significant public oversight, often keeping its proceedings and sometimes even its decisions secret.

Finally, in the interest of maintaining public oversight of law enforcement's use of such surveillance technology, EFF recommends that Congress enact a transparency policy that requires law enforcement agencies to produce annual reports on the number of times an agency uses cell - site simulators, as well as against whom, when, where, and how.

Publishing an Infrastructure Sunshine List will ensure that decisions about new schools and hospitals are made with public oversight and full transparency.

Early childhood education (ECE) is an important phase for cognitive, behavioral, and social development in a child's life and has been emphasized in recent conversations about the District's educational landscape, including the February 27th public oversight hearing for Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE).

If in neighboring Venezuela Chinese loans and investments have been largely obscured from public oversight, in Colombia Chinese investments have been much more open to public and media scrutiny, with the result that many extractive industry deals have been scuppered.

«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.»