Sentences with phrase «public oversight over»

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

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.

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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.

The need to obtain Parliamentary authority for new borrowings increased Parliament's oversight over government's finances and improved the transparency of government finances to Parliament and the public at large.

At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.

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

Though Rodriguez kept the Transportation Committee chair, with oversight over public transit and city DOT matters, he was livid that he lost power over for - hire vehicles, Council sources said.

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;

The Public Safety Subcommittee has oversight over the County's law enforcement and safety functions, including Central Police Services, Emergency Services, Emergency Medical Services and Probation.

The Public Safety Subcommittee has oversight over the County's law enforcement and safety functions, including the County Sheriff and Jail Management, Central Police Services, Emergency Services, Emergency Medical Services and Probation.

Walt McClure, a spokesman for the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which has oversight over the executive and legislative branches, said said his agency can not comment about whether an investigation has been started or the status of ongoing probes.

The Community Enrichment Subcommittee has oversight over the County's relationships with and funding for the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library system, Erie Community College, cultural organizations, and tourism and convention services including the Buffalo and Erie County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The Public Works Subcommittee has oversight over the County's Department of Public Works and all County road, highway, bridge, and building maintenance and construction infrastructure projects.

Construction Takeover Cuomo: The governor's budget proposes the creation of «The New York State Design and Construction Corp.» that would be given oversight of public construction projects worth over $ 50 million.

«The problem is when public money is involved, there needs to be the highest degree of oversight over that public money,» said Assemblyman John McDonald, a Democrat who represents an Albany - area district.

Taxpayers spent $ 1.4 billion over a decade to rebuild dozens of Buffalo's public schools, but how roughly $ 549 million of that was spent hasn't been specified, raising questions about how much profit the developer made and what kind of scrutiny a local oversight board exercised.

The Suffolk Legislature's Public Safety Committee effectively killed a bill that would have given it oversight over money seized by county law enforcement agencies after opposition surfaced from Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and incoming District Attorney Timothy Sini.

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.

Some would question the claim that the public sphere had a robust power of oversight over eighteenth century monarchs and governments.

The Public Advocate was given oversight over the City's «information» and made chair of COPIC.

After Senate Republicans proposed a one - year extension last weekend with an independent inspector with new oversight powers over city schools, the bill was met with such dissent that Flanagan was forced to publicly defend his belief in public education over multiple days at the Capitol.

Meanwhile, neighboring Nassau County has suffered the humiliation of having its public finances taken over by a state oversight board.

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.»

State education department commissioner MaryEllen Elia ruled in February that Success needed to sign the contract granting the city oversight over its pre-K program in order to receive public dollars.

Millions of students are learning in dilapidated, obsolete and unhealthy facilities, but there is very little oversight over the nation's public school infrastructure.

Every parent and student in Connecticut should be outraged over the continued lack of oversight and special benefits provided to charter schools in Connecticut — to the detriment of more than 500,000 students in the state's public school system.

It is exactly this kind of public oversight and accountability that Milwaukee parents would lose if MPS schools are handed over to private third party operators in the current state budget bill passed last week by the Joint Finance Committee.

Sabrina Joy Stevens, executive director of Integrity in Education, told BillMoyers.com, «Our report shows that over $ 100 million has been lost to fraud and abuse in the charter industry, because there is virtually no proactive oversight system in place to thwart unscrupulous or incompetent charter operators before they cheat the public.»

«One out of every six people in the U.S. spends each day in a K — 12 public school classroom, yet there is very little oversight over America's public school buildings,» said Rick Fedrizzi, CEO and founding chair, USGBC.

The contest was cast as a clash over «education reform,» and the candidates, both Democrats, indeed presented strong contrasts, with Torlakson being supportive of public schools and classroom teachers and Tuck advocating the need to «disrupt» education with more charter schools and stricter, managerial oversight of educators and school performance.

Many families may not have the tools to assess which voucher options are improvements over public schools, versus those that are simply online schools with poor state oversight, like some of the poor - performing charter schools in Ohio.

The district's examination raises questions about how much oversight the elected school board exercises over the city's public charter schools.

Historically Democrats have generally opposed school vouchers, as does the Obama administration, saying that public dollars shouldn't be spent for private and religious schools over which there is no public oversight.

Taxpayers in this town have no say over how our exorbitantly high dollars are being used to fund the incestuous relationship between Achievement First and NHPS.And since there seems to be no oversight or public input int the decisions made by our so called public school system we're forced to watch this corporation privatize what should at its core be a public good.

In an oped in the Connecticut Post on August 7, a board member of the Side by Side charter school in Norwalk, Anne Magee Dichele, complained that in the wake of the Jumoke scandal, and the revelations that state authorities exert little oversight over Connecticut charter schools, Connecticut charter schools are now forced to defend themselves to the public.

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.

This measure will allow up to 40 public charter schools to be authorized in our state over a five - year period, with strict oversight and accountability to be sure they are meeting high performance standards.

As part of their contract in Philadelphia, The Boston Consulting Group recommended that the state oversight board running the Philadelphia public school system close an additional 60 public schools, while handing many of them over to privately run charter school companies.

The truth is that building and maintaining a public school system responsible for educating over 50 million children is a tremendously complicated operation, and requires experienced oversight and leadership from all involved.

There's no robust evidence that this Charter system improves schools by removing them from public oversight and handing them over to private business operations.

The agency should focus on solving the problems cited in the OIG audit, namely that some unregulated, large commercial breeders were selling their dogs over the Internet and thereby avoiding public oversight.

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.

Investor - State arbitrations regularly involve public law disputes about the scope and limits of host State regulatory powers, including, for example, disputes concerning limits of emergency powers, regulatory oversight over public utility companies, control of harmful substances, the protection of cultural property, or the implementation of non-discrimination policies.

«With over 20 years of executive leadership in the public sector, Ali is known for his results - oriented work ethic and commitment to modernization, having provided oversight to three provincial tribunals.