Sentences with phrase «further education privatization»

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A far greater part of the text — thousands of pages in more than 30 chapters — has to do with harmonizing regulations (financial, health and safety standards, etc.), reinforcing intellectual property rights (patents, copyrights), opening up new sectors to privatization and foreign investment (health insurance and education), and putting strict limits on how governments choose to protect the environment or create jobs.

UFT members from Districts 13, 14 and 17 as well as high schools from those areas heard UFT President Michael Mulgrew speak about the proposed federal education budget cuts, the attack on unions by far - right privatization advocates, the dangers to hard - won benefits if a state constitutional convention is held in 2018 and other pressing issues.

As teacher unions step up their calls to stop the «corporate agenda» in education and to confront the «privatization» movement, there is a far more real and serious threat facing teacher unions.

Boycotting the tests and depriving the state of data is seen as the only way to effect change in our schools, and to curb the further privatization of public education (see what's happening right now in the United Kingdom).

When it comes to Governor Malloy, Commissioner Pryor and the corporate education reform industry, the Bronx charter school's effort to move into Stamford is probably the most absurd, inappropriate, insulting, and anti-local control privatization scheme that we've seen so far in Connecticut.

North Carolina: Chris Fitzsimon of NC Policy Watch calls attention to «the latest school privatization scheme that continues to draw far too little attention from the media and even many education advocates.»

looking for a case study about the growing privatization of public education in America need only look as far as Connecticut and the tenure of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy.

Many of Connecticut's public schools remaining significantly underfunded but for those looking for a case study about the growing privatization of public education in America need only look as far as Connecticut and the tenure of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy.

All in all, and beyond the different possible interpretations of a same set of data (which is always possible in social science), what we have to acknowledge is that the privatization of education is far from being the panacea once sold by the advocates and designers of the Chilean neoliberal educational model.