The Red Sox will counter with John Lackey 10-133, 3.52 ERA, ditto), the former Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ace who was, thanks to his hefty contract and ineffective pitching, has mostly been a symbol for all that's gone wrong for the Red Sox in the last few years.
Blaming "ineffective teachers" and union contracts may be ideologically satisfying, but at the end of the day it does little to solve the problems facing our schools.
At the White House today Obama touted his administration's tax cuts for the working class and poor Americans and said his budget team plans to trim ineffective programmes, "unfair" government contracts, and "unnecessary give-aways that have thrown our tax code out of balance".
"We believe that what happened was there was a lack of centralized coordination in the negotiations of the contract terms and ineffective oversight by the three agencies," said Jennifer Freeman, a spokeswoman for the comptroller.
Ryota Igarashi, who is in the final season of a two-year, $3 million contract, had another ineffective relief outing for the Mets on Wednesday, allowing a walk and two doubles in the ninth inning of a 7-3 victoverover San Diego.
The NHS primary care trust that had oversight of the contract was "deeply ineffective" in writing and managing it, did not impose any penalties when the failings were discovered, and instead made bonus payments to Serco even though it fell well short of required standards.
Another group, headed by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein of New York, issued a manifesto last month urging the nation to redouble its efforts to close the achievement gap separating poor students from affluent ones and blaming "teachers' contracts" for keeping ineffective teachers in classrooms.
Under the new contract, minimally effective and ineffective teachers will be the first to leave.
A statute does not become unconstitutional merely because it has created a condition of affairs which renders the making of a related contract, lawful in itself, ineffective.
The Obama administration has taken an important first step, winding up the expensive and ineffective training program that the State Department had contracted to DynCorp International and putting police training under direct Pentagon control.
