Sentences with phrase «corporate education reformers in»

Moreover, the change in the stifling use of standardized tests as a weapon against public school teachers will deal a deadly blow to the corporate education reformers in the country who relied on these tests for denigrating teachers as well as for closing public schools and for the expansion of charter schools.

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Earlier this week, Salon ran an excerpt from Diane Ravitch's new book in which she takes aim at the different but sometimes overlapping groups of education reformers she calls «corporate reformers,» who favor a greater role for for - profit enterprises in education.

Something of a patron saint and unifying voice for battle - fatigued public school teachers across the country, Ravitch was in Oakland for the fourth annual conference of the Network for Public Education (NPE), the largest gathering of education reformers opposed to the corporate - styled privatization of the «school choice» Education (NPE), the largest gathering of education reformers opposed to the corporate - styled privatization of the «school choice» education reformers opposed to the corporate - styled privatization of the «school choice» movement.

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.

Parents need to start this revolution by opting out their children from state testing programs in order to take back public education from the corporate reformers who are destroying the education of our children.

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, SteveEducation Reform, one of the nation's leading corporate education reformers, billionaire Eli Broad, and Connecticut billionaire and education reform - funder, Steveeducation reformers, billionaire Eli Broad, and Connecticut billionaire and education reform - funder, Steveeducation reform - funder, Steven Mandel.

In accordance with the bogus theory of «value added» education, the corporate reformers claim that «low - performing schools» are a consequence of bad or ineffective teaching.

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.

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..

But he's a «corporate» reformer when it comes to education in America?

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.

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

For starters, if the court rules in FEA's favor, striking down Florida's voucher program, it will be very difficult for reformers in this state to convert the current corporate tax credit scheme to the much broader next generation Choice 2.0 Education Savings Accounts (ESA).

In the fight against the corporate «education reformers,» reading Jersey Jazzman's blog should be a regular endeavor.

However, anytime I see «grassroots» groups promoting the agenda of the corporate education reformers, like what happened here in Washington State with charter school reform in 2012, I'm always compelled to follow the money.

The October issue of CTA's magazine, California Educator, is full of anti-Tuck blather, including an editorial by union president Dean Vogel in which he solemnly proclaims that the challenger is a «well - funded corporate education reformer who supports the privatization of public schools and efforts to obliterate due process for teachers.»

And in a stunning display of representative democracy, some of the community's elected officials see the light, change their position and join together to save the school and defeat the corporate education reformers and their disastrous plan for domination.

The problem is that nobody in the mainstream media is holding the corrupt corporate education reformers accountable for their very obvious business dealings and for their equally obvious lies about education in the United States, a fact that indicates to me that the media is in bed with the corporate reformers.

But the core of her column is about the approach the corporate education reformers are taking here in Connecticut.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

Oh, and as if the flow of money wasn't enough to show how Finch and the corporate education reformers control the endorsed slate, in a weekend editorial entitled, CT Post Endorses Baker, Gardner, Hennessey in Tuesday's Primary for Board of Education, the City's paper endorsed the challenge slateeducation reformers control the endorsed slate, in a weekend editorial entitled, CT Post Endorses Baker, Gardner, Hennessey in Tuesday's Primary for Board of Education, the City's paper endorsed the challenge slateEducation, the City's paper endorsed the challenge slate writing;

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.

They claim the corporate reformers have manufactured an imaginary education crisis in our country by cherry - picking low - performance facts from poverty - stricken school districts and continually repeat accusations that are simply not true.

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.

It is huge defeat for Finch and the «education reformers» who, along with the corporate community, spent half a million dollars or more in a record breaking attempt to undermine the right of people to vote.

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 graEducation Steven Pryor, Capital Prep principal Steve Perry, corporate education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the others who are pushing the charter school graeducation reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the others who are pushing the charter school gravy train.

Hence, it was obvious that former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was not a public school advocate but rather a paid shill who was in the pockets of the corporate reformers and the testing industry.

Just as Bernie Sanders believes that the middle class in our country is in jeopardy from the oligarchs, likewise oligarchs such as Bill Gates, Bill Walton, Michael Bloomberg, to name a few of the corporate education oligarch reformers, are threatening to change and destroy public education in the nation by replacing public schools with charter schools.

In other words, as the corporate education reformers who have unsuccessfully attempted to do with No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race to the Top (RTTT) by falsely highlighting so - called «failing» public schools, now want more of the same medicine with Common Core.

The event, a veritable who's who of corporate education reformers, included the Chief Operating Officer of Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst, a couple of national board members of Teach For America, members of KIPP's national board of directors, a board member of New Leaders Inc. (a program to «train» school administrators in the ways of education reformers) and one of the founders of the national group, Democrats for Educatioeducation reformers, included the Chief Operating Officer of Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst, a couple of national board members of Teach For America, members of KIPP's national board of directors, a board member of New Leaders Inc. (a program to «train» school administrators in the ways of education reformers) and one of the founders of the national group, Democrats for Educatioeducation reformers) and one of the founders of the national group, Democrats for EducationEducation Reform.

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch has made a huge political blunder and by associating himself with in - state and out - of - state corporate education reformers, he has ensured that he will be seen as one of Connecticut's leading anti-public education, anti-union and anti-teacher politicians.

With SB24 in place, corporate - style education reformer Vallas standing astride Bridgeport, and charter school administrator Stefan Pryor holding the reins, it's surprising that Rhee's rating isn't higher.

Instead of honestly acknowledging the root causes of struggling schools and investing in real equity in public education, today's policymakers and deep - pocketed corporate education «reformers» offer misguided strategies that fail to address the central problem: a failure to invest in Black, Brown and poor children, the educators who teach them and the communities in which they live.

The new Achievement First schools was part of a broader strategy on the part of the Hartford political leadership and the corporate education reformers to close existing neighborhood schools in Hartford and give the properties to charter school companies.

And even, in the fevered imaginings of some charter opponents, as the cat's paw of «corporate» reformers supposedly hell - bent on the privatization of public education.

Mayor Bill Finch, «education reformers» and elite members of the corporate community are spending a record amount to try and convince Bridgeport voters that it is in their best interests to give up their democratic rights to select members of the Bridgeport Board of Eeducation reformers» and elite members of the corporate community are spending a record amount to try and convince Bridgeport voters that it is in their best interests to give up their democratic rights to select members of the Bridgeport Board of EducationEducation.

As a nationally recognized corporate education reformer, Commissioner Pryor's language is designed to play to his corporate education reform allies, not teachers or those who believe in the important of unions and collective bargaining.

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.

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By comparison, one need only go to Steve Perry's corporate website to see how the corporate education reformers deal with pesky things like determining the «strengths and weaknesses in knowledge of reading instruction.»

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.

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.

A coalition of «education reformers» and corporate executives in Fairfield Country are spending a record amount of money to convince Bridgeport voters that it is in their interest to VOTE YES on Question 1, although they go out of their way to make sure that voters don't understand that a YES vote on Question # 1 actually means the people give up their right to select who should oversee Bridgeport's schools.

Check your pockets when a Corporate Education reformer claims to care about parent empowerment; nearly always, as in this case, they are working for their own private ends.

At the same time, we have seen national initiatives to challenge bullying in our schools; the intimidating and confrontational manner in which the Corporate Education Reformers have attempted to steamroll, teachers, and parents, into submission is as frightening as it is undemocratic.