Sentences with phrase «by corporate reformers»

school boards, though some of this seems to be based on recent money - fueled efforts by corporate reformers to place their allies in school board seats.

Limiting federally - mandated school improvement models to a narrow set of strategies, including closing schools and / or firing teachers, favored by corporate reformers but which have had little success in improving student outcomes.

By holding rallies and press conferences, calling their elected representatives, and speaking out about how the Parent Trigger is a ruse devised by corporate reformers to benefit charter operators rather than children, Florida parents prevented the legislation from being passed.

The idea of «choice» has been manipulated by the corporate reformers and spread by groups like ALEC, who seek to use methods such as the Parent Trigger to turn public schools over to privately - managed charters.

But the model is preferred by the corporate reformers because it has a fake ring of «real science.»

I forgot to mention that, with the assembly line reform model created by the corporate reformers, notably Adamowski, we pass students along from the elementary grades to the middle grades, to high school without their ever having had to pass any class or even attend school.

Critics have pounced on some of the language, which has been used by corporate reformers to support their agenda of emphasizing standardized tests as a way to hold educators, students and schools accountable, as well as expanding school choice through charters.

(I even hesitate to use the word, «empower,» because it has long been co-opted by corporate reformers and pasted over their obvious top - down efforts to kill community schools in favor of under - regulated «choice» strategically placed just out of true control of those whom «choice» supposedly empowers.)

As teachers, we are being exploited by the corporate reformers who profit from their failing experiments — and our families are left with nothing but ghosts of who we once were.....

Yet very quickly, Florida parents realized that this measure, which died in the State Senate on a 20 - 20 bipartisan tie vote, represented yet another underhanded ploy by corporate reformers, including Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee, to hand public schools over to private, for - profit operators.

Suffice it to note that none of the «reforms» mandated by No Child Left Behind, required by Race to the Top and by Arne Duncan's waivers, and advocated by corporate reformers has any evidence to support it.

though some of this seems to be based on recent money - fueled efforts by corporate reformers to place their allies in school board seats.

Limiting federally - mandated school improvement models to a narrow set of strategies, including charter schools and privatization, which are favored by corporate reformers but which have had little verified success