Sentences with phrase «corporate efforts at reform»

But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.

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is the corporate funded education reform group that is has been at the forefront of the effort to expand the number of charter schools in Hartford, while implementing other aspects of the education reform agenda in the Capital city.

The final reports from Bridgeport's November 2012 education reform referendum are in and it turns out that the corporate education reform industry and its supporters spent at least $ 562,955.16 in their effort to pass Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's anti-democracy initiative, a proposal that would have eliminated the City's democratically elected board of education and replaced it with one appointed by the mayor.

Like much that takes place in public education these days, this effort to secure state approval fits the «corporate education reform» agenda, is based on misleading information and deception, and will result in further undermining established teacher training programs while — at the same time — continuing to enrich those who seek to profit and privatize public education.