Mr. Duncan confronted this issue directly at a charter school alliance meeting held in Washington last month, pointing out that the states needed to do a much better oversight job and that failing charters needed to be swiftly shut down.
Reduced mortality may be a byproduct of better oversight.
Anthony Cordesman, a defense expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, wrote in a recent report that better oversight in the contracting process needs to be part of any overall drive by the United States in combating corruption in Afghanistan.
It was only when polled by Reason with a frankly leading question, about whether they feared the government abusing its power as it used drones to kill American citizens accused of being terrorists, that a majority said yes.There is an urgent need for better oversight of America's war on terror.
But in a better world, it would be an opportunity to exercise better oversight.
A separate bill creating better oversight of the treasurer's office was already signed, Mr. Rowland noted.
Nor was there any concrete suggestion as to what kinds of safeguards might have worked better, beyond a generic suggestion of "Better oversight of providers and tighter controls on service users' access to government funds would have had administrative costs, but could have helped avoid other costs that ended up being much larger".
Many dealers have now successfully stood up in public and persuaded legislators to shoo away new regulators in an area that needs better oversight.
Congress could relieve consumers and food producers alike with a comprehensive food-safety bill that would require a system for tracing food, better oversight of food-safety plans by producers and more authority for the F.D.A. to investigate and recall tainted products.
We need better oversight, with a well-resourced body such as the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, including outside experts and NGOs.
Others have dismissed the idea as counterproductive, arguing that continuing to source from the country but demanding better oversight is a more practical and ultimately effective approach.
