Sentences with phrase «corporate education reformers»

There is a national trend toward corporate education reformers investing heavily in state and local campaigns — including city council and school board races.

The state of Louisiana then collaborated with corporate education reformers in the most expansive overhaul ever seen in the history of public education.

And corporate education reformers claim that they have only begun their effort to privatize the country's public schools.

By Jesse Hagopian, first published in The Progressive magazine Corporate education reformers who seek to reduce teaching and learning to a single score are beginning to realize they are losing the public relations battle.

Most importantly, in this election the Social Equality Educators helped to popularize a program which asserted that our union is strongest when we partner with parents and community organizations in a common struggle to defend public education from corporate education reformers.

Statewide union leaders in Massachusetts, scared to face off against corporate education reformers at the legislature, instead backed a «less bad» package that restricted collective bargaining rights.

It must really annoy Duncan and the other corporate education reformers when Diane Ravitch and the other truth - tellers provide the public with information about what is really going on.

NEWS FLASH: Malloy allied corporate education reformers may bring lawsuit to end teacher tenure in Connecticut

In addition, donors to the Democratic State Central Committee and political action committees supporting Malloy's re-election bid include the anti-teacher Democrats for Education Reform, one of the nation's leading corporate education reformers, billionaire Eli Broad, and Connecticut billionaire and education reform - funder, Steven Mandel.

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Despite the infatuation for tests shared by policymakers, philanthropists, and corporate education reformers on both sides of the aisle, resistance continues to build.

Seven parents led by former TV personality turned corporate education reformer Campbell Brown filed suit in State Supreme Court in Albany today to invalidate due process and seniority rights for teachers in New York state public schools.

In true corporate education reformer fashion, Hartford's out - going superintendent of schools is announcing that she will attempt to rush through a proposal to close the John C. Clark, Jr..

A new advocacy group focused on countering corporate education reformers in Tennessee announced its formation this week.

As silly as this scenario seems, it is what corporate education reformers (including the Walton family, which helps funds the website Sanzi writes for) are imposing on our public schools.

Average citizens defeated a Bridgeport charter revision proposal backed by a veritable who's who of well - endowed corporate education reformers.

Thanks to the changes in Connecticut's campaign finance system that were initiated and signed into law by Governor Malloy, corporate education reformers Jonathan Sackler and Mary Corson each wrote $ 10,000 checks to Connecticut's Democratic Party this year.

Here in Connecticut, we've become used to daily coverage of the failures associated with the Jumoke / FUSE charter school company and the exploits of charter school champions such as «Dr.» Michael Sharpe, «Dr.» Terrence Carter, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education Steven Pryor, Capital Prep principal Steve Perry, corporate education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the others who are pushing the charter school gravy train.

One of the key discoveries was not only has Congressman Polis, the seventh wealthiest Member of Congress, sponsored his own charter schools but he has been a key foot soldier for the corporate education reform organization, Democrats for Education Reform, as well as a loyal follower of corporate education reformer Michelle Rhee.

Although corporate education reformers love to talk about providing students with «school choice,» this latest effort to put another Achievement First, Inc. school in the North - end would mean that the children of Clark any remaining public school children would be provided «choice,» as long as their «choice» was a charter school.

Friedman argued that the nation needed to scrap its historic commitment to local public schools and replace these hallowed institutions with a system in which parents could use public funds to send their children to «private for - profit schools, private nonprofit schools, religious schools or even «government schools,»» a derogatory term corporate education reformers use to describe local public schools.

Corporate education reformers disdain input form working educators.

The same could be said at present for the cadre of corporate education reformers touting Ivy League degrees and billion - dollar bank accounts without an ounce of empathy for those harmed by their efforts.

But they are supported by hundreds of thousands of educators across the country who are fed up with flawed evaluation systems being pushed by politicians and corporate education reformers in school districts across the country.

But if there is one thing that Luke Bronin has made clear in his campaign for mayor, (it even cost him the endorsement of the Hartford Teachers Union), is that money from Paul Tudor Jones and the other corporate education reformers is far more important to his candidacy than any support from teachers and their unions.

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Betsy DeVos — platinum card member of the 1 % and leading corporate education reformer — was voted in today by the Senate as the next U.S. Secretary of Education.

Unlike the modern corporate education reformers, who vilify teachers and educational experts, courts value their firsthand knowledge of school conditions and the resources needed to give all students an equal opportunity to learn.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Scheduled to take place tomorrow at New Britain's Institute of Technology and Business Development, Alliance District superintendents and district leadership will be regaled by a variety of consultants and corporate education reformers.

While you can read Bronin's political meandering on education on his website — See CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, what is far more telling is the amount of money that is pouring into his campaign from the corporate education reformers, the charter school industry and the people who are pushing the Common Core and Common Core SBAC testing scheme.

They need to look at the actions of the corporate education reformers: these people have plenty of money, which buys them access to power; and they use this access to get the public policies that serve their interests.

The Corporate Education Reformers and their allies in the charter school industry are so desperate to hijack the voices of public schools students that they actually create front groups with names like Students For Education Reform.

Bill Cibes made a fundamental difference then and does so now when he tells ConnCAN and the other «corporate education reformers» that we will not back down in our commitment and dedication to protect what is right about public education while we seek to develop and implement policies that make a real, honest and positive impact on the quality of education in our state.

I believe that Bill Cibes» decision to step forward and speak out about the activities of the «corporate education reformers» and their on - going efforts to destroy our public system of education is part of a bigger and broader movement that can turn the tide in this battle.

Governor Malloy, Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor, Bridgeport «Superintendent of Schools,» Paul Vallas, «Special Master,» Steven Adamowski and the corporate education reformers claim to have the solution — simply hand our public schools over to private corporations.

According to approach being taken by the corporate education reformers, the only way parents will get more resources for their inadequately funded schools to acquiesce to a redesign - a redesign that will necessarily disrupt their school community — fire teachers, exclude children.