Sentences with phrase «public oversight as»

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

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Although the change may come as a surprise to the public and some Starbucks employees, the company has been sending to signals to Wall Street for the last year about its intentions to carry out a the succession plan, announcing a reorganization in the summer that gave Mr. Johnson oversight of the day - to - day operations.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

Mr. Baker has a law degree from the University of Florida School of Law, and his experience as a lawyer and member of the board of a large public utility company also contributes important risk management and regulatory oversight skills to the Board.

We envision a public institution managed professionally, guided by citizen oversight, and accountable to the public as its only stockholders.

Mr. Baker has a law degree from the University of Florida School of Law, and his experience as a lawyer and member of the board of a large public utility company also contribute important risk management and regulatory oversight skills to the Board.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

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.

Her former position as the State Breastfeeding Coordinator supported and promoted breastfeeding endeavors for all of the Commonwealth of Virginia, which includes the development of public policy and media campaigns, curricula, publications and training; oversight of the Virginia WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program; and service as the Virginia Department of Health liaison to the Virginia Breastfeeding Advisory Committee.

As a 501 (c)(3) public charity in the United States, 1,000 Days has an independent Board of Directors that provides oversight and shapes the organization's strategy and priorities.

Word spread Friday evening of a potential deal that could have also included ethics - related measures such as more oversight of procurement procedures — a discussion sparked by the latest public corruption scandal that reached into the governor's inner circle — and a public financing system for judicial campaigns.

The Public Advocate also serves as an ombudsman for city government, providing oversight for city agencies, investigating citizens» complaints about city services and making proposals to address the shortcomings and failures of those services.

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.

would just love to divide and conquer the public school system, and us, as they try to destroy unions, pensions, and anything that smacks of the word «government» or «public» — leaving them in charge, God help us, as they bring in their charter school Trojan Horses, as they remove public ownership and public oversight of eduction in this city, and in this country.

She caught the public's attention on financial matters even before she held office, as an academic and chair of the oversight panel for the government's bailout of the financial industry.

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.»

The Public Advocate serves as an ombudsman for city government, providing oversight for city agencies, investigating citizens» complaints about city services and making proposals to address perceived shortcomings or failures of those services.

Mr. Flanagan (R - East Northport), who chairs the senate's Standing Committee on Education, is also sponsoring legislation to create independent oversight, as well as establishing civil and criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure of personal information stored on the state's student data portal received from public schools.

Unlike lawmaking which takes place during scheduled legislative sessions, oversight activities are not scheduled and are typically not considered as urgent as other legislative activities, thus largely escaping public scrutiny.

These five measures, as outlined by the NPP flagbearer, include providing the requisite leadership to tackle corruption; the scrupulous enforcement of the teachings of the Public Procurement Act (Act 663); the establishment by Act of Parliament of an Office of Independent Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corruption; the devotion of more resources to enhance the capacity of anti-corruption agencies; and supporting all moves to give Parliament greater oversight capability over the activities of the Executive.

Former Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke was sworn in yesterday as secretary of the Interior Department, assuming oversight of 400 million acres of public land, mostly in the West.

Public authorities are not subject to the same oversight as state agencies, which allows for «backdoor spending,» or the spending of millions of taxpayer dollars without traditional checks and balances.

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

This is a logical realignment as the Highway Division of Public Works is already responsible for the management and oversight of the Highway and Engineering equipment maintenance garage, and employs mechanics, garage supervisors and related support staff.

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

Judge Valerie Caproni called the lack of oversight for this public money «shocking,» but it has been business as usual in Albany for years — and a constant source of corruption.

But it also made clear that HMRC could disclose information to parliamentary bodies with an oversight role, such as the public accounts committee.

Leaders of the oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, offered public assurances that the department would have limited time — perhaps as few as 20 days — to launch a challenge, but the practice went into effect without any such restrictions.

As parliament's public accounts committee pointed out in January 2015: «The DfE [Department for Education] presides over a complex and confused system of external oversight.»

The City Council on Wednesday voted to ramp up oversight on privately owned public spaces (known as POPS), after nearly 200 properties — including Trump Tower — failed to meet requirements laid out by the city.

«This project has never had any real oversight or accountability or full public transparency, so it shouldn't come as a shock that a member of the Bloomberg administration has money invested in it,» said Councilwoman Letitia James, whose district includes the 22 - acre project footprint within Prospect Heights.

The campaigners» hope is that, as public disenchantment sharpens, it will take in a scepticism about over-mighty criminal - justice policy as well as about economic oversight.»

Governor Cuomo must do what it takes to address industry oversight and enforcement - as well as the many other issues being left unaddressed at great risk to the public and the environment.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the authority's chairwoman, Shola Olatoye, have described the lack of public notice as a regrettable oversight.

«As parents, we are outraged that Success Academy charter schools can enter a New York City public school building, and without any oversight or approval, rip out potentially dangerous PCB - containing fixtures without taking any environmental precautions,» says the formal complaint to the state by the parents, who are backed by two nonprofit organizations, New Yorkers for Great Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Educpublic school building, and without any oversight or approval, rip out potentially dangerous PCB - containing fixtures without taking any environmental precautions,» says the formal complaint to the state by the parents, who are backed by two nonprofit organizations, New Yorkers for Great Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality EducPublic Schools and the Alliance for Quality Education.

The task before her is especially important because of the need for this agency to succeed as an impartial panel charged with oversight and enforcement of our state's new ethics law and the pressing need to restore the public's faith in our government and elected officials.»

The quality of blood products is even lower in private banks, research has suggested, perhaps because they're not necessarily subjected to the same regulatory oversight as the public banks.

The report contained 18 recommendations designed to help ensure that, as synthetic biology advances, the risks and ethical concerns are proactively addressed, the public is continually engaged, and oversight mechanisms are assessed and adjusted as needed to protect public health and the environment.

As online learning continues to grow and expand in ways that we may not even be able to envision, strong oversight to ensure both high quality learning experiences and accountability for public funds are essential.

Thomas Nechyba argues in one paper that in the United States there is no such thing as a true public school, since access to public schools is rationed through private housing markets, and it is unlikely that there will ever by a fully private school, since private schools are subject to government oversight, and support for private schools is conditional on certain public aims being met.

As the authorizer of all schools, City Schools was solely responsible for the oversight of public education in Baltimore.

If the state is successful in its current court appeal and the ESA program moves forward, I would love to see the kind of robust Yelp - like parent evaluations Ladner envisions — so long as they're paired with strong oversight representing the public interest of all the taxpayers whose kids aren't attending ESA - financed schools.

Pavan Dhaliwal, director of public affairs and policy at the BHA, said: «We acknowledge, of course, that there are plenty of «faith» schools out there in which problems of this kind described in some of the blogs do not arise, or do not arise to the same extent, but it remains the case that there are a huge number of people out there who have experienced indoctrination, misinformation, discrimination, neglect, and abuse during their childhoods as a result of the extensive freedoms and pervasive lack of oversight that «faith» schools of all kinds enjoy.

And to start one, you have to get permission and oversight from a government entity such as a school district or public college.

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.

For many parents, educators, and policy - makers in the United States, charter schools - innovative public schools that are free from much bureaucratic oversight but must «compete» for students in order to retain their charters - have held out enormous promise as a public alternative to failing traditional schools.

This was a yin - and - yang exercise — as the federal role grew, the opportunity for states to exercise their constitutional oversight of public education and for local school boards to effectively supervise its delivery diminished.

To these advocates, the very idea of public oversight of private providers is redundant: market forces will ensure that schools will deliver high quality service because customers — parents just as much as outsourcing public agencies — will otherwise just take their money, and children, elsewhere.

Nor would the charter - managed schools be subject to the same level of oversight as traditional public schools — an accountability model that has proven highly problematic in North Carolina in recent years with the closure of several schools thanks to financial fraud and governance problems.