Sentences with phrase «against neighborhood public schools»

The Broad plan, and others like it, funded by groups such as the Walton Family Foundation, are instead part of a coordinated national effort to decimate public schooling by rigging the system against neighborhood public schools and the students they serve.

We should ask ourselves why we keep pitting charter schools against neighborhood public schools — a strategy that has created little more than a disruptive churn.

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But these conflicts operate within the same conceptual framework: Public education is the neighborhood school, and all alternatives must be justified against it — if they are to be supported at all.

As a current example of ever - larger traditional public schools, the Chicago Board of Education is closing fifty traditional schools at one time and sending their students out of their neighborhoods to ever - larger schools against continuing parent protests.

But these conflicts operate within the same conceptual framework: Public education is the neighborhood school, and all alternatives must be justified against it - if they are to be supported at all.

Those who rail against any sort of privatizing have either an obsessive and romanticized notion of the «neighborhood public school,» or they belong to a group that benefits financially from the status quo.

So now we have a full - blown greed - driven, politically motivated power struggle pitting those wishing to end neighborhood public schools, as we have known them, against those wanting to preserve and improve them.