Sentences with phrase «with little accountability»

Chair of the Bar Andrew Langdon QC said: «Dr Lindley's research paints a picture of officials acting with little accountability, unable or unwilling to pursue obvious and viable alternatives to detention.

Dr Lindley's research paints a picture of officials acting with little accountability, unable or unwilling to pursue obvious and viable alternatives to detention.

Today's crisis has been brewing for decades if not longer, and comes after years of what looks like bad management decisions with little accountability or supervision by New York's attorney general, who oversees nonprofit institutions.

They decided, with no educational data to back their decisions, that charter schools, regardless of whether they worked for children or not, whether they served America's need for an educated populous or not, would become stand - alone schools that could be run with little accountability, certification, or even democratically elected boards.

It creates an out - of - District workforce with little accountability.

Private groups with little accountability to local education systems are pressing for reforms in public education.

It also found that it paid millions of dollars to Accord, for educational services with little accountability.

It also found that it paid millions of dollars to a third party non-profit, Accord, for educational services with little accountability.

«School boards exerted great authority with little accountability and we saw far too many instances of mismanagement, waste, and corruption.»

The Update became mini budget, but with little accountability.

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There was little accountability, he adds, and many of the small businesses using the free space didn't participate in events to share advice with other entrepreneurs.

It turns the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) into what The Globe and Mail described as a «secret police force,» with little oversight or accountability.

These new initial coin offerings, called ICOs, are like initial public offerings (IPOs) but with little regulation or accountability.

The Tory pre-election juggernaut continues to lumber onward, bumping and stumbling and generally behaving with little concern for the transparency and accountability that we seem to remember Premier J...

With hope in Jesus, professional counseling, godly counsel, trusted books, anti-depressants, accountability, repentance within loving community and regular workouts I'm convinced every little thing is going to be alright...

If your pastor has little to no accountability, and if your questions about accountability are met with hostility, leave.

We are still a club with no benefactor to bankroll us so the books have to be balanced.That is a way of life that we must live with and accept.But from now on there can be little or no excuses in the players we buy.Wengers control in these matters have been taken from him so the emphasis and accountability lies with Ivan Gazidis and his new teams.We can't get things wrong.Big and better players cost more in fees and wages so it's certainlg going to be interesting.

A tangible rape culture, with scores of victims, and little accountability behind a few firings and lost scholarships (at least a few PSU admins got jail time).

«We're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on contracts with vendors and consultants that have been added... there's little accountability.»

President Obama has put little political capital behind his transportation objectives; Congress has yet to hammer out a new transportation bill; the Highway Trust Fund is nearing bankruptcy; Governor Andrew Cuomo has yet to take a position on Gateway, and hasn't shown much enthusiasm for transit in general, and Christie seemed to express his position on mass transit with the cancellation of ARC, which has been the subject of a very damaging report by the Government Accountability Office.

According to her 29 March 2007 interview with the «Huddersfield Examiner» newspaper, she was doing the party's books, merchandising & electoral law work with little help, and had grown fed up with the lack of leadership accountability.

«Senator Skelos and his conference don't want comprehensive campaign finance reform because they've figured out a way to collect tons of campaign cash from a wealthy few with very little oversight or accountability.

It is a story about men with too much power and too little accountability, and how innocent people can get lost in the system if one of these men takes a dislike to them.

New York taxpayers simply can not afford to return to the bad old days of skyrocketing tax bills, little accountability and schools with the highest costs in the nation without the results to match.»

Fred LeBrun: «After two terms of watching how this governor works, in the shadows, with as little accountability as he can get away with, it is small wonder the culture he's created hasn't caught up with him earlier.

The system over the years has grown unwieldy, with hundreds of authorities, corporations and development agencies cropping up around the state, taking out billions of dollars in debt and for the most part operating with little sunlight or accountability.

The staff member, Victor E. Franco, in his second day of testimony at the trial in Manhattan, elaborated on the budgetary process, as prosecutors sought to illustrate that Mr. Silver controlled it all with little transparency or accountability, particularly on the Health Department grants that are the focus of the case.

After two terms of watching how this governor works, in the shadows, with as little accountability as he can get away with, it is small wonder the culture he's created hasn't caught up with him earlier.

«The thing that's so awful about the Buffalo Billion is the corruption, of course... but also how much money is being spent with so little accountability.

The group Citizens Union issued a report regarding $ 3 billion in the state budget, in various pots of money, that they say operate as veritable slush funds for state lawmakers to distribute to projects with little oversight and accountability.

With great ease comes little responsibility or accountability.

Land grabs and mega mining projects that deny people their right to land and water continue with little transparency or accountability.

While working in schools in the United States and abroad, with few or abundant financial resources, with little or significant accountability, I puzzled over these same questions: How can educators support the literacy development of students, particularly those who tend to struggle in their school contexts?

With better measures of academic growth and a little extra money, states could attract providers to underserved populations, rather than discouraging them as a result of the requirements of current accountability systems.

All of this is to say that, if Republicans are successful in repealing the current accountability regulations, the education department ought to replace them with new ones immediately — even if they do little more than officially grant states the leeway that Republicans in Washington are promising.

The shared - decisionmaking structure in the 38,800 - student district has fostered a «committee culture» that blurs lines of accountability and has left Superintendent Alton Frailey and school board members with little authority, argue representatives from the Cincinnati Business Committee and the Baptist Ministers Conference.

With the NEA opposed to meaningful accountability, genuine school choice, and anything resembling merit pay, politicians have little to gain from trumpeting reforms that might get schools back on track.

The era of accountability, speeded along by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, is now demanding dramatically better academic performance with little or no increase in the funds available to do the job.

EW: What would you say to teachers who say accountability pressures leave them with little time to be creative?

States with waivers from NCLB like Maine are now using normative comparisons to make accountability decisions, meaning the absolute proficiency levels have little bearing on a school's accountability.

Medicine is a field that works relatively well where most of the improvement processes come on the front end (extensive training, clinical science building on basic science, ongoing dissemination of clinical science) with little emphasis on accountability for results on the back end.

«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.»

The results show that students in high - accountability states averaged significantly greater gains on the NAEP 8th - grade math test than students in states with little or no state measures to improve student performance.

As this year comes to a close, my heart breaks for Tamir Rice's family and to all the many others who have lost children to such senseless and violent acts with little to no accountability or justice to follow.

The series concluded somewhat sensationally that charter schools spend $ 1 billion per year with little transparency or accountability.

For example, schools with low graduation rates still can earn high letter grades if an accountability system assigns little weight to graduation rates when compiling a school report card.

What these reveal is a state charter law that allows charter schools to operate loosely, with little if any accountability or transparency to the public.

«We had very little money, Having a charter school with no accountability and no boundaries was the last thing we needed.»

Voucher schools have drained over a billion dollars of taxpayers» money away from public schools and into private schools with little public accountability.

It provides an overview, and stunning examples, of how the K - 12 teaching profession has evolved into one with so little accountability, professionalism and just plain old commonsense.