The 1990s continued
the assault on public funding for public institutions.
Not exact matches
Over the past decade, it has
funded the right's
assault on labor unions, climate scientists,
public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise of activist government.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
on Tuesday released a package of measures designed to curtail sexual harassment in the workplace that include a uniform policy for state government employees, a ban
on taxpayer
funds for settlements related to sexual
assault and harassment and require the disclosure from
public and some private entities of harassment - related settlements.
Earlier this week, Stephanie Saul of the New York Times launched a full frontal
assault on scholarship tax credit (STC) programs, accusing them of failing to help low - income students, draining
public schools of needed
funding, and of using
public money for private purposes.
This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader
assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when
public schools have been weakened by
funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks
on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»
Low - income kids and their families are the biggest losers in the attacks
on public schools, but there are winners in the ideological
assault: new for - profit companies that run charter schools, private and religious academies that now receive taxpayer
funding and sketchy online institutions that are raking in state dollars.
Sen. Al Franken's elicitation of her lack of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for gun - free school zones (in front of a Newtown representative, no less), her view of sexual
assault on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive
public funds — traditional,
public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated
on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension of pressing educational matters?
The corporate
funded education reform industry's
assault on Connecticut's
public schools continues.
«In the face of a relentless
assault on women's health, including access to birth control, the Obama administration preserves
funding for an essential
public health program, the national family planning program,» said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.