Sentences with phrase «corporate education reform»

It is more than an embarrassment that the «mass media» takes corporate education reform industry propaganda for truth.

I am very thankful to be able to elevate the voices of parents and community members who experience the fall out of corporate education reform policies.

(f) Get behind corporate education reform efforts.

The corporate / political action committees that support corporate education reform are varied and ever changing.

How many corporate education reform failures must there be.

It is sad, but nobody realizes the long term damage corporate education reforms, the medical industry, and the pharmaceutical industry are doing to our kids.

Yes, How many corporate education reform failures must there be.

In this political climate only organizing a strong rank and file base with deep community ties will effectively combat corporate education reform and the general attack on the working class.

Indeed, many of us have taken great pains to highlight the racially disparate impact of corporate education reforms, especially high - stakes standardized testing, specifically on communities of color.

All along it's been clear to us that this lawsuit is baseless, meritless, and masterminded by self - interested individuals with corporate education reform agendas that are veiled by a proclamation of student interest.

Their entire corporate education reform movement is repugnant.

Stefan Pryor, the non-educator Education Commissioner, missed his real calling in life: Pryor was born to be a third rate comedian in a fourth rate theater company; but fate dealt him a bad hand, and he ended up being a big player in corporate education reform in the great state of Connecticut.

In stunning expose written by Adam Johnson of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), it becomes undeniably clear that Bill Gates has reached the point where his billions not only fund the myriad of corporate education reform initiatives that are sweeping the country and the world, but his investment in the media taints much of the coverage of these developments.

Families for Excellent Schools, Inc. was formed by corporate education reform industry allies in 2011 and has recently expanded into Connecticut.

The Alliance is hiring a co-director to join our staff and contribute to the building of a powerful national alliance to fight back against corporate education reform and demand investment in sustainable community schools, particularly for Black and Brown communities.

When the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee meets for the first time tomorrow from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Legislative Office Building many of the seats will be filled with corporate education reform industry representatives.

Although Students For Education Reform has yet to file their IRS forms for this past tax year, in their first three years of business the group collected at least $ 6 million from corporate education reform groups, including a major start up grant form Democrats For Education Reform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and students.

Meanwhile, organizations like Achievement First, Inc., ConnCAN and other corporate education reform industry advocacy groups have spent more than $ 6 million lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» initiatives and the education reform industry money continues to pour in to support Malloy's political aspirations.

Sackler also formed ConnCAN, ConnAD and 50CAN, all major corporate education reform advocacy groups.

Malloy on Corporate Education Reform Agenda — «stay the course» «even if [policies] aren't that popular»

He replaced all of this expertise with a $ 1 million contract with an out - of - state corporate education reform company that sent in five inexperienced consultants to tell Connecticut's education leaders what to do.

As the Associated Press reported in 2000, the pro-charter school corporate education reform lobby tried to get both the legislature and the electorate to approve and fund charter schools.

Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.

This past Tuesday (October 13, 2015) former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd - Bennett, one of the nation's leading Corporate Education Reform Industry leaders, pleaded guilty for her role in a $ 23 million kick - back scheme with Gary Solomon and his education reform companies, The SUPES Academy and Synesi Associates.

Major donors associated with ConnCAN, the Achievement First charter school chain and other corporate education reform entities have donated in excess of $ 250,000 to Malloy's Democratic State Central Committee in just the last four years.

And Malloy handed Connecticut's State Department of Education over to corporate education reform aficionados like Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Special Master Steven Adamowski, education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the charter school industry.

It was Governor Malloy, with the help of Pryor and a series of no - bid contracts with out - of - state corporate education reform industry consultants, which produced the most anti-teacher, anti-union, anti-public education bill of any Democratic governor in the country.

I recently had an epiphany while listening to Melissa Katz, a wonderful student activist from New Jersey, talk about corporate education reform on the radio.

Recall that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not only among the richest Americans but he is also one of the major players funding the charter school industry and the entire corporate education reform movement.

In addition to a the RISE Program Coordinator and the RISE School Partnership Manager, Connecticut's newest corporate education reform industry group will also be adding a RISE Director Of Data Strategy, whose job will be to «play an integral role designing and leading RISE's data strategy, overseeing research, development, and capacity - building functions.»

Malloy has pledged to «stay the course» on his inappropriate, destructive and expensive Common Core - driven corporate education reform and privatization agenda.

Yet that gathering of fifteen or so educators sharing their experience, expertise, and asking questions about alternatives to standardized testing was nothing short of sedition against a Testocracy that has attempted to silence teachers as it implements corporate education reform.

If the NEA and the AFT are going to be our public voice, they have got to stop promoting corporate education reform.

With additional financial support from the Koch Brother's Americans for Prosperity StudentsFirst, the Walton Family Foundation and other major corporate education reform players, the amendment passed with proponents outspending the opposition by about ten - to - one.

Michelle Rhee is infamous for pouring tens of millions of dollars money into the local political process to try and force local officials to shift scarce public funds from their public schools to the privatized corporate education reform model.

United Opt Out National is a movement to end corporate education reform.

Since corporate education reform industry groupie Dannel Malloy was elected governor of Connecticut, Pearson Inc. has collected just over $ 3 million and counting from the taxpayers of the state of Connecticut.

I am sick and tired of dodging bullets from corporate education reform billionaires who have an endless magazine of resources to shoot at folks trying to solve the problems facing our schools.