Sentences with word «unaccountable»

«This national research is worth paying attention to, and cautions other states not to go down the same road as Wisconsin in terms of unaccountable private school vouchers,» said WEAC President Ron Martin.

Since then, it has been a political football, with supporters (including many Republicans) arguing that it frees parents to choose better schools, and critics (including many Democrats) arguing that it provides public support for unaccountable private schools.

a. Problem 1: The decrease in State funding for local public schools, especially inner city schools, coupled with the siphoning off of public funds for the benefit of unaccountable for - profit charter schools.

Like the NAACP and the Movement for Black Lives, the coalition calls for an «end to the expansion of unaccountable charter schools.»

They like to be as unaccountable as possible.

However, Trump and DeVos have not acknowledged this history or committed to protect students against harmful unintended consequences as they have championed a plan to funnel public funds into unaccountable private schools through a nationwide voucher system.

And they don't like us because our movement, through which the values of solidarity, community and social justice run like a thread from top to bottom, our movement challenges unaccountable power of both government and bosses.

In June, NEA's Brian Washington wrote, ``... pro-charter forces are putting more money behind efforts to elect and lobby politicians who will implement policies resulting in unaccountable charter schools that threaten the futures of our students.»

Far from being an anomaly, this happens regularly in Arizona and in other states with unaccountable charters and private voucher schools.

, a self - described libertarian law firm located in our nation's capital that has a demonstrated interest in upholding laws that funnel taxpayer dollars from public school systems to largely unaccountable private schools.

«Overstock is pro-freedom, including the freedom of individuals to communicate information about value and scarcity without relying on a medium created through the fiat of unaccountable government mandarins.

Now — after attempts at accountability legislation have stalled — Vos publicly noted that he may support handing over tax dollars to unaccountable voucher outfits after all.

S.J.Res.26 puts a simple question squarely before the Senate: Who shall make climate policy — lawmakers who must answer to the people at the ballot box or politically unaccountable bureaucrats, trial lawyers, and activist judges appointed for life?

«The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.

Raab argues passionately that the Strasbourg court and more recently the Human Rights Act have undermined democratic accountability by taking decisions into the hands of unaccountable judges and away from representatives whom the people can elect and dismiss.

«Instead of diverting scarce resources from existing public school classrooms and spending it on unaccountable charter schools for a few students, we should be investing more in the innovative public schools we already have,» Mary Lindquist, president of the state teachers union, said in a news release in response to the signature turn - in.

We feel the company over the years has performed just well enough to stay below the radar — management remains unaccountable for their actions and mistakes that cost us shareholders real money.

Individuals, including Obama, will come and go; but the totally unaccountable bureaucracy will persist.

They remind us that «surveillance tools and resources in the age of big data can, with effort, also be turned back against unaccountable states», writes En Liang Khong in a 2018 review of their ICA show.

This was primarily achieved by directing the controlled group of unaccountable people, mostly bureaucrats, to only consider human - causes of climate change.

«What we've been having, particularly with the Papal visit and again, indeed, with Thought For The Day, is the Pope pontificating his views and telling us everything and being totally unaccountable for the quite terrible things that the church has been responsible for.»

Their new measure, H. 441, would create a politically unaccountable board that could put agribusiness interests over the safety and protection of animals in Massachusetts.

But that is a decision that should be made by elected officials — the governor and the legislature — not by unaccountable political appointees.

«We can not go on seeing crucial decisions about our society and our system of justice and government being taken by unaccountable European courts.»

So, it's a Good Thing for political decisions to be made by unaccountable bodies, without either debate or due democratic process, if it will lead to a reduction in CO2 — because «scientists say so» — but it's «undemocratic» to loosen planning law (if that is what is being proposed) so that new houses and civil infrastructure can be built without interruption from organisations such as itself.

The opposition leader said that the proposals were a «poor attempt» by the conservative government to «duck their record» on education, which he said had «seen classes grow to the largest in Europe, teachers flocking to leave the profession as pay and conditions stagnate and a raft of corruption scandals at unaccountable Tory academies that have failed to deliver the promised improvements in standards».

At the same time we are defunding public education, how long will it take before taxpayers are paying a billion or more dollars a year for a statewide voucher system that supports unaccountable private and religious schools?

Yet there is increasing realization of the inadequacy of this form of management in the private sector — it stifles creativity, punishes innovation, and promotes bad and unaccountable decision - making.

In fact, NCATE is an ideologically infused, largely unaccountable organization that has done little to demonstrate its ability to effectively police the quality of America's schools of education.

When it happens it will be a rebellion against unaccountable and concentrated power, money, and manipulation in all of its various forms.

If it's not ok for the government to violate privacy, why would it be ok for unaccountable corporations to do so.

That Zuckerberg believes Facebook can do it alone is evidence enough that for Zuckerberg, saving the world is at best a close second to saving Facebook; the last thing we need are unaccountable leaders who put their personal interests above those they purport to govern.

Operating in a netherworld, not quite public, not quite private, it is taxpayer - funded, yet generally unaccountable and even more generally dysfunctional.

Jeffries said he hoped Cuomo's executive order, and his reasons for it, would «resonate all across the country,» amid «a rising tide of police - involved killings» in which «police officers are often held unaccountable for crossing the line.»

How else explain the drive to take decision making power on some of the most important issues of our day and turn it over to unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic boards of «experts?»

«The voucher program makes unaccountable private schools the direct beneficiaries of public tax dollars.

What sort of damage is being done to the church by unaccountable leadership?

I am thrilled to have found them and excited to know there are wonderful products, customer service, and great small companies that are still alive in our great country regardless of the roadblocks from other unaccountable entities that seem to interfere today.

The academy programme is developing a fragmented and unaccountable education system across England.

Its better because it doesn't transfer the power that it does to the second preferences of smaller party voters (a numerically small group) in an democratically unaccountable way.