Sentences with phrase «scapegoated public»

Scapegoating public employees is an insidious way of dividing public and private sector workers who share common interests.

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When those seeking public office do so by scapegoating and casting blame on the powerless, they are unsuited to serve the people.

«From a public perception point of view, I think he ended up as a bit of a scapegoat.»

Some are just a convenient scapegoat by public employees unions that are seeing their benefits cut.

The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.

These frenzies give victims no way out — each victim is simply this week's scapegoat — and they give public figures an incentive to be shameless.

The secular public has for the most part deplored these circumstances, looked for a scapegoat to take the blame, and found it in those in political or economic power.

It would also help rebuild social cohesion and increase public spirit by helping the working poor to feel more a part of society and less the scapegoat for our country's problems.

The Guardian's Stuart James believes that Shaw has ultimately become an «easy scapegoat» for Mourinho, although he agrees that it's difficult to understand the logic and see the benefit of being so public with his criticism.

Former Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, with her N225m bulletproof BMW car scandal, had a dose of what Dino could do in making a scapegoat of a public official if the act fits the plot.

Most social hardship is caused by their misguided neoliberal economic policies, but migrants represent convenient scapegoats for low - paid labour and struggling public services.

At its heart, the scapegoating of public employees is an insidious way to divide public and private sector workers who share many of the same interests.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Parrott said critics are making pensions and public - sector workers scapegoats for the economic collapse.

He said change must come from within the public services themselves, and called on ministers to back officials in experimenting with new ways of working - however, he rejected suggestions that the government had been using officials as scapegoats.

And why are the public employees always the scapegoats when bank and corporate executives can draw salaries higher than Alex Rodriguez and get away with criminal fraud?

Re-electing Andrew Cuomo will mean four more years of scapegoating teachers, underfunding public schools, cutting staff and programs, and proliferating privately - managed charter schools.

Both incidents involved home secretaries responding to a public / tabloid outcry about a service failure by despatching a senior officials, in circumstances that led to allegations of scapegoating.

ALBANY, NY (04/30/2008)(readMedia)-- CSEA today slammed two controversial recommendations of the Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness as the same old scapegoating of public employees.

At this point the grey areas get darker, the ironic euphemisms become coated with free - floating obscenities, scapegoats find themselves staked out, the rich protect their backs and get richer, and the public gets screwed.

In these times of making education the foremost instrument of the global economy while making public schools the scapegoat for society's lack of will to tackle the messy issues of race and class, that mission has gotten lost.

Public charter schools have long been the scapegoat for traditional public schools»Public charter schools have long been the scapegoat for traditional public schools»public schools» woes.

Instead of scapegoating Connecticut's public schools students or state employees, Jepsen and Malloy should roll up their sleeves, stop playing politics and settle the CCJEF case and settle the Rowland case.

Rather than looking for scapegoats — special education, rising poverty, cosmic rays, etc... — folks should focus on the perverse incentives of a broken public education system.

Parents might have seen Cheatham as a scapegoat in an ill - conceived «reform» scheme, but a labor negotiator for the Chicago Public Schools said it was Cheatham who helped devise controversial plans for both a longer day and to use student test scores in teacher performance evaluations.

«The bill made teachers the scapegoats for all the inadequacies of public education,» Ms. Solano said.

Teachers should email their members of Congress and flood the Obama website with rage at being made the scapegoats for the problems of public education by politicians.

If we want to attract the best and brightest, and keep them in the classroom, we need to do a number of things, but one certainly is to stand and be counted when public education is attacked and teachers are scapegoated.

bsallamack: «Teachers should email their members of Congress and flood the Obama website with rage at being made the scapegoats for the problems of public education by politicians.»

CCSA will continue to urge district leadership, and all those who care about strengthening L.A. public schools, to seriously examine the large and complex financial issues facing the district rather than irresponsibly scapegoat charters.

DENVER - Democrats backed by the state's largest teachers» union nicknamed legislation overhauling Colorado's tenure and evaluation rules the «teacher scapegoat» bill, and several lawmakers wept in public sessions during their monthlong battle to stop it...

But we can not allow ourselves to think that we have won and sink into complacency; the enemies of public education have struck a significant blow here, and though the changes will not be visible in the halls of our schools immediately, it will not take long before we see the effects, among the most visible of which is likely to be the high teacher turnover which is so harmful to a school, whether caused by getting fired for having the wrong kind of students or simply becoming demoralized by being made scapegoats for society's ills.

He has created an altogether new piece titled «Scapegoat,» a 40 - foot - long hobby horse with a giant goat's head, a parody of virility and monuments to political leaders typically sited in public spaces.

The Swindle has been made a scapegoat by pollsters Ipsos Mori, Bob Ward and his former boss Bob May, George Monbiot and many others desperate to explain the failure of Environmentalism to capture public hearts and minds.

Although many of these body care products contained far more harmful chemicals such as parabens and ethanolamines (which do contain nitrosamines), the sole scapegoating of SLS allowed these companies to safely continue using them without arousing much public scrutiny.

Both critics and supporters of the Government and its 2014/15 Budget initiatives should focus on ensuring Ministers are fully answerable to the community for their decisions and not look to public servants as scapegoats.