The Ofsted report goes straight to the point in its introduction, linking weak staff leadership to councillors'heavyvy involvement' in education, and quoting the district auditor and a head-hunting firm - hired in some desperation in 1997 to find an education director - as expressing alarm about political interference.
Weak staff motivation: The main obstacle identified in the survey when it comes to problems of entering data, was "limited interest among staff in the office".
"I can't really say we've ever had a weak pitching staff," said Lori Harrigan, who pitched all seven innings of Tuesday's 4-0 victoverover China.
But Mr Evans also believes that the union has been made a scapegoat for the ills of weak management, staff shortages and under-investment.
Ofsted inspectors found the management of safeguarding in Birmingham's schools to be weak, with staff slow to locate children missing from school and the council simply removing the names of those who remained missing from its records.
Wright is coming to the plate with runners on base more often, and he is also scoring runs as the Mets' offense has taken advantage of relatively weak pitching staffs of the Orioles and Indians.
Between the 1920s and World War II, Lick was directed by a series of competent but unremarkable astronomers and, as a result, became seriously compromised by a weak senior staff and outdated equipment.
Management skills become weaker among staff when moving from central to peripheral level making coordination of external resources even more difficult at lower levels in the health system, according to respondents.
Last summer, a report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) into the West London Mental Health Trust that runs Broadmoor painted a grim picture of an institution blighted by weak management, poor staffing and training, inadequate facilities and overcrowding.
It was interesting to observe a negative (albeit relatively weak) correlation between staffing and frequency of events reported (Pearson r = -0.087) (See Table 3).
