Sentences with phrase «destroy public unions»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Investors are not particularly skeptical of proposals by unions and public pensions, but appear to view proposals by individual «gadfly» shareholders as value - destroying.

In a letter last July to the Times Union, Covello and three others wrote that, «If the next Executive Director is not hired from outside State government after an exhaustive search, the public trust will be inexorably destroyed.»

would just love to divide and conquer the public school system, and us, as they try to destroy unions, pensions, and anything that smacks of the word «government» or «public» — leaving them in charge, God help us, as they bring in their charter school Trojan Horses, as they remove public ownership and public oversight of eduction in this city, and in this country.

Mike Mulgrew isn't content that the teachers union he heads has helped destroy so many of the city's public schools.

If the public employee unions do not quickly find a way to give back, they will be stripped of their dues paying members and financially destroyed.

During her speech, the speaker blasted the Washington - installed fiscal control board that she said is destroying unions, workers» rights and the public higher education system in the interest of disposing of its crippling municipal debt.

Educational researcher Gerald Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered, writes in Stanford magazine that «NCLB aims to shrink the public sector, transfer large sums of public money to the private sector, weaken or destroy two Democratic power bases — the teachers» unions — and provide vouchers to let students attend private schools at public expense.»

Problems arise, however, when people are told — as they are during initiative campaigns, through massive media blitzes by the teacher unions — that vouchers will destroy the public schools.

Surely, calling on a Democratic firm is a maneuver to protect the group from the charge that these are right - wingers intent on destroying public - sector unions.

Our goal is to highlight how the same right winged billionaire and corporate Democrat's agenda of destroying unions is closely connected to their attempts to destroy public education.

Also, the mere mention of the name «Broad» is Pavlovian and symbolic to all teacher unions: Broad, as in «oh, you mean the billionaire corporate interests intent on destroying public education.»

Critics, including many Democrats and teachers union leaders, say that vouchers threaten to destroy public schools by siphoning money to private schools that are not accountable to voters or taxpayers.

Most of these privatizing, ALEC - type, corporate think - tank financed educational reforms are about dismantling public education while destroying teachers unions.

The California Teachers Association local set up an entity called «Teachers for Local Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.»

SFC is a front for corporations, hedge funders and investment bankers who have thrown their wealth behind a national campaign to destroy teachers unions and privatize our public schools.

One speaker scheduled speaker at the protest, according to the union, is «a parent from New Orleans who knows firsthand how Broad and his billionaire pals can destroy a public school district because they did it in New Orleans.»

Because TFA, which places idealistic young teachers in tough - to - staff schools, takes funding from the Walton Foundation, which of course is the philanthropic arm of Walmart, which, according to USAS, is trying to privatize public education, which it shouldn't do because it will cost the teachers unions countless members, which will destroy their bottom line... or something like that.

The focus on collaboration as a means for reform in public education comes at a critical time when teachers unions are facing attacks that threaten to destroy collective bargaining rights in several states.

Fellow presidential longshot and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wants to nationalize his plan to destroy public sector unions.

What is disgraceful is the fact that the first priority after Katrina was to dismantle the public school system just to destroy the union.

An incumbent Democratic governor who has pushed anti-labor bills and his running mate, Paul Vallas, one of the nation's leading champions in the effort to destroy public school teachers, their unions and the public education system.

As a Democratic and someone who is looking forward to a statewide career in Connecticut politics, what the hell was he thinking associating his name with a movie which seeks to denigrate teachers, destroy unions and undermine public control of public education?

But it would be a slap in the face to every teacher if our union (s) endorse this clown who is in the process of destroying public education as we know it.

This is about destroying unions, promoting charter schools and privatizing public education in the United States.

The attacks on Public Education is not about Public Education, it is about destroying all unions and the middle class.

Conservative and libertarian «reformers» love ed reform liberals because they give cover to a project that fits entirely with their principles but entirely against those of Matt Yglesias: destroying public institutions, smashing unions, and attacking liberal Democratic constituencies like public school teachers.

DeVos is «playing to her base,» which is Donald Trump's base as well — those who see gold in the «greenfield opportunity» of privatization, those intent on destroying labor unions, and those seeking to «advance God's Kingdom» through public policy.

Now both Republicans and Democrats have set their sights on destroying public sector unions who make up about 35.3 % of this workforce.

Now, my own feelings about Teach for America are hardly a secret (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/17/a-professors-encounter-with-two-teach-for-america-recruiters/), but even I was a bit surprised that TFA would tip their hand on their real agenda: destroying traditional teacher education programs, teachers unions, and public schools as we know them.