Mr. Duncan's speech calls the Stanford report — which singles out Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio and Texas as states that have done little to hold poorly run charter schools accountable — "a wake-up call".
The fear of letting a bank of any significance fail is now so great that these governments seem incapable of letting market forces hold poorly performing bankers to account.As a result, banks feel free to lend recklessly, knowing the state will limit their downside risk.
These days the Ku Klux Klan is mostly an unfunny joke, a smattering of ignorant racists who play dress-up and hold poorly planned, sparsely attended rallies to protest the renaming of parks.
These days the Ku Klux Klan is mostly an unfunny joke, a smattering of ignorant racists who play dress-up and hold poorly planned, sparsely attended rallies to protest the renaming of parks.
But in the context of higher education, Bush seems less interested in holding poorly-performing schools accountable.
Hatch has represented the giant publicly-traded for-profit college businesses Education Management Corporation (EDMC), Kaplan, ITT Tech, Bridgepoint Education, and Apollo/University of Phoenix against charges of fraud, and he has sued the U.S. Department of Education to halt regulations that would hold poorly-performing colleges accountable.
Dr. Dean held two poorly attended events on Thursday morning in Michigan.
But on Friday, he held a poorly planned event that drew an anemic turnout.
Amnesty International has also said that dozens of detainees held in poorly ventilated metal shipping containers 20km from Juba are "suffering in appalling conditions and their overall treatment is nothing short of torture".
Millions of parents have been told that they can transfer money held in poorly performing child trust funds (CTFs), which were scrapped in 2011, into a more competitive Junior Isa from 6 April.
