Sentences with phrase «attacks on public»

Despite what the Conservatives have always maintained, public services are not inherently inefficient, but years of so - called reforms, continuous restructuring and top - down interference, combined with virulent attacks on public sector workers, have seriously damaged morale in the sector and virtually destroyed a vital public service ethos.

In response, concerned citizens organized a weekly protest before the Legislature called Moral Mondays, where they gathered to show their opposition to the attacks on the public sector and on valued institutions.

The attacks on Public Education is not about Public Education, it is about destroying all unions and the middle class.

In addition to pushing the «free market» destruction of public schools in Chile, Vallas is reportedly trying to replicate his attacks on the public schools of New Orleans in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.

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.

Our purpose is to alert you to the many attacks on our public schools and the harm these attacks are inflicting on

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.

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.»

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.

Make no mistake, these are all attacks on public schools.

Attacks on public workers» collective bargaining rights have made headlines across the country, but perhaps nowhere has the issue been so hotly contested as when it comes to the rights of public school teachers.

«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.»

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers union, which has state and county arms here, said «right - wing» attacks on public education are occurring in West Virginia and other states.

But the attacks on public education, especially from folks who don't have current knowledge of the current system, are threatening the precious progress that has been made, and diverting us all from the positive steps that are still needed.

Often with the ability to build their own schedules for a change, retired members are picking up pickets and phones to call attention to the misguided attacks on public employees.

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

A colleague says she was «very distraught» over Gov. Scott Walker's attacks on public sector workers and public education.

«If we are willing to find ways to work together, that's infectious and communities see that,» regardless of the new administration and its attacks on public education.

Furthermore, although I agree the changing nature of our state demographics (including the support for public education as a function of non-elect-based apathy) will clearly impact credentialing enlistment, I would say that it's impact will dwarf in comparison to the impact that media - based attacks on public education and the proliferation of charter schools will have on it (again due to a decline in support for public education).

Noting that attacks on public schools are on the increase (sound familiar?)

«We promised to «push back» against the continuous unfounded attacks on our public schools.

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.»

While attacks on public schools persist, school leaders and educators work to remove the barriers to learning facing their students.

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

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.

Authors David Madland and Alex Rowell urge policymakers to heed Wisconsin's warning — attacks on public - sector workers are harmful for states.

The recession, the cuts to the bone at schools, the attacks on public service, the increasingly savage racism and economic inequality that our students face, John Deasy for three years, all of them have set us back.

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.

«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.

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.

The ceasefire agreement was expectedly greeted with scepticism by the Nigerian military, who gave the sect a period of one month during which there had to be no attacks on any public place or military installation before they would take them seriously.

The extreme right so called IS supporters make the mistake when carrying out indiscrimate attacks on the public around the World by trying to justify it by saying you supported wars etc. but instead of looking at the West as homogenous people they should recall that millions in West protested against the war in Iraq etc..

Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.

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.»

«Attacks on public sector pay and jobs will simply reduce spending power and further depress the economy at a time when investing in the public sector is essential to secure growth.

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.

The TUC warned that attacks on public sector pensions by opposition leaders and employers» groups in recent months threatened to undermine what was left of «decent» retirement provision in Britain in favour of a «race to the bottom».

«We will not allow ourselves to be drawn into accepting cuts to welfare, attacks on public services, mass job losses, and cuts to pay and pensions, with the occasional promise of tea and a cosy chat in Downing Street.

It is anticipated that Unite members will join other public sector unions on 10 May as part of the on - going campaign against government attacks on public sector pensions.

(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.

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.

The story here is about a millionaire government axe - wielder who decided that the best way to spend # 40,000 of public money was on his own relationship who then orchestrated one of the most intensive attacks on the public sector since Thatcher.

Ms. Redford quickly proved those believers wrong with deep funding cuts to colleges and universities and attacks on public sector workers and their collective bargaining rights.

In the months leading up to the games, the agency has identified 1,600 groups responsible for more than 20,000 attacks on public institutions in recent years.

I blogged recently about the likely pending attack on public service workers.

She said yesterday: «The government's unnecessary attack on public sector pensions has convinced NUT members that there is no alternative but to support strike action.

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.

Also at 6 p.m., Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa will speak at Professor Noliwe Rooks's presentation, «Privatization, Segregation & Underfunding: The Attack on Public Schools,» Giffen Elementary School, 274 South Pearl St., Albany.

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.

Decisions on Labour's response to the most devestating attack on the public sector in living memory will be made in the next few days.