Sentences with phrase «attack on public education»

What a nasty — though happily unsuccessful — attack on public education by a charter company.

We are facing a global attack on public education systems and it needs an international response.

After Governor Cuomo's recent description of schools as the «last public monopoly,» Hawkins said that this is just the latest episode in Cuomo's ongoing attacks on public education and teachers.

In her latest blog post, educator and education advocate Ann Cronin reports on Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy and his administration's loyalty to the charter school industry and their latest attack on public education.

PAA proposes its «LSC model,» a form of elected parent - majority school governance, as an antidote to recent efforts of corporate school reformers to brand parent triggers, school choice, vouchers and other attacks on public education as «parental empowerment.»

We continue to see attacks on public education in Wisconsin, and nationally, that are intended to divide us.

Arizona «Ground Zero» for Koch Attack on Public Education (The Center for Media and Democracy) Mention of HGSE Professor Marty West's research into voucher programs in Louisiana and their impact on student achievement.

Bent on blunting what they see as a federally organized attack on public education, the nation's two leading teachers» organizations, with a combined membership of nearly 2.2 million, are putting unprecedented efforts into this year's Congressional elections.

... the education reform movement in Massachusetts and the nation is part of a decades - long corporate and government attack on public education and on our children.

The book will offer stories of people and groups that have stood up to the recent attacks on public education to offer hope and some ideas for resistance.

One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross commented, «The appalling attacks on public education by Governor Walker and his Republican cohorts in the Legislature roll on.

«Given the never - ending attacks on public education that many of our cities endure, this provides a positive action that says that these are our schools and our communities,» the «Walk - In» flyer states.

Since then, she has traversed the country, speaking to groups like last night's audience in an effort to sound an alarm about what she sees as a profound, organized and well - funded attack on public education.

NBI 76 says, «NEA will facilitate access to empirical research and reviewed and / or valid studies, for member use, on the NEA website to assist members in combating the concerted attacks on public education and public educators.»

Develop and implement, in collaboration with community partners, an education campaign to challenge attacks on public education such as vouchers, privatization, and tuition tax credits.

The centerpiece of Weingarten's speech focused on the need to fight back against the attacks and fight forward to reclaim the promise of America by being solution - driven, community - engaged, member - mobilized and «badass» — a term gaining currency with educators frustrated with attacks on public education and the current direction of education policy.

So much of the current attacks on public education have been framed inside a concept called the «business model.»

Long before ALEC started pushing taxpayer - subsidized school vouchers, for example, the Koch fortune was already underwriting attacks on public education.

In a recent commentary piece in the Stamford Advocates, Education advocate and columnist Wendy Lecker provided an important analysis of the unwarranted and dangerous attack on public education that is taking place in the United States.

«In my view, historians will look on this era as a period of failed mandates, of willful and ignorant attacks on public education and the education profession, and as a time in which entrepreneurs sought to turn education into a marketplace for profit.»

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

On July 14, an estimated 20,000 people, mostly students, too to the streets of Santiago to protest the neoliberal attacks on public education and higher education, only to be met with water cannons and tear gas, as well as police beatings which were caught on dramatic videos.

However, supporting Malloy will only allow him to continue a rightward slide and attack on public education while saying to us, «Well, at least I'm not Foley.»

(Hudson, NY) Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said that Cuomo's recent description of schools as the «last public monopoly» is just the latest episode in his ongoing attacks on public education and teachers.

In her latest blog post, educator and education advocate Ann Cronin reports on Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy and his administration's loyalty to the charter school industry and their latest attack on public education.

brand parent triggers, school choice, vouchers and other attacks on public education as «parental empowerment.»

Sarkozy granted the universities more fiscal autonomy, which some saw as an attack on public education and the unfair enforcement of higher fees and tougher entry requirements.

PS 58 Chapter Leader Dan Lupkin said the governor's attack on public education had spurred a level of protest that was new for his school.

«Even before Betsy DeVos became Education Secretary, she and her husband were well - known for their attacks on public education.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's recently proposed budget plan for education is a mixed bag, but represents a major shift from his attacks on public education in years past.

Wednesday parents, students and community members gathered outside the Executive Mansion on Eagle Street in downtown Albany to protest what they say are «attacks on public education and teachers» and to call on the governor to «listen to all stakeholders before bringing forth another wave of misguided educational policies designed to dismantle public education.»

One of the interesting reactions to all this has come from «anti-reformers» who dismiss any call for leaders to think this way as a «corporatist» attack on public education.

They want to join us and work with us making our schools better and stronger and fighting the attack on public education.

«It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that I would be talking about how to fight back against the attacks on public education in Puerto Rico and that educators want to act as a human shield to protect public schools and their students just as they've done in West Virginia and Oklahoma,» Weingarten told the Washington Free Beacon.

To fight the attacks on public education that are coming from multiple fronts, we need leaders, we need champions and we need allies.

«Our members want to hear that candidates understand that so - called education reform is really an attack on public education.»

As the Chicago Teachers Union has shown, social justice unionism is the only way to counter the attacks on public education and working people, which affect all communities but disproportionately affect people living in poverty and communities of color.

As communities and educators experienced the market reformers» attack on public education, they began to recognize they had more in common than not and much more power working together than separately.

Fellow Connecticut education advocate and columnist Wendy Lecker has yet another MUST READ piece about the Corporate Education Reform Industry's attack on public education and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and public schools.

«It's a direct attack on public education,» said Diane Ravitch, a historian and former Bush administration official who has become one of the most voluble critics of vouchers and charter schools and a proponent of the term privatization.