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The George W. Bush / Barack Obama legacy of destroying public education in the United States will continue thanks to the «bi-partisan» re-write of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

And the student is absolutely right — The corporate education reform industry and their Common Core testing scam is destroying public education in the United States.

Valerie Strauss offers comments on her blog today from teacher and SOS march initiator Anthony Cody and Parents Across America co-founder Rita Solnet on the need for an alliance between teachers and parents to stop the twin scourges of high - stakes testing and privatization that is destroying public education in the US.

«In nominating DeVos, Trump makes it loud and clear that his education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public education in America.

In response, American Federations of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said, quote, «In nominating DeVos, Trump makes it loud and clear that his education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public education in America,» unquote.

She, and her terrible choices for Commissioner, have intentionally set out to destroy public education in our state.

On her website, Ravitch wrote simply: «Bottom line: the Alexander plan will destroy public education in the U.S.»

Public schools today are under siege... A Detroit news writer said Governor Snyder wants to destroy public education in Michigan.

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.

His piece is a «Must Read» on the antics of Steve Perry and those seeking to destroy public education in the United States.

Peter's commentary piece focused on the recent pronouncements of Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo who has pledged to use his second term to destroy public education in New York.

Not exact matches

«The elimination of federal funding to CPB would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media's role in early childhood education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history, and promoting civil discussions - all for Americans in both rural and urban communities,» Harrison wrote.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

Amazon.com: You say in the book, «It is my fundamental belief that the folk who care about public education the most, who really want to see it work, are destroying it.»

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.

People in public education unwittingly destroy school cultures all the time by treating educators as interchangeable cogs, transferring principals and teachers without regard for a school's approach and operating assumptions, by creating one - size - fits - all mandates that suggest a school's distinctiveness is a nuisance, not a value, and by sending mixed messages and edicts from the central office until people are burned out and resentful.

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.

Because billionaires know that once public education is destroyed in Wisconsin, that they can fully cash in on students in this state.

Meanwhile, choice has had the effect of producing many competing schools while destroying what ought to be the bedrock of early education, the solid, well - run neighborhood public school with its coherent and clear ideas of what children need to know to be responsible citizens in a democracy.

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.»

And in a comment on Monday, public education historian and advocate Diane Ravitch combined Wozniak's critique with Warren's, denouncing DeVos» lack of «experience or qualificiations» and saying the heiress» «only plan is to weaken and destroy» U.S. public schools.

• Hurricane Katrina in 2005 destroyed schools across the Gulf Coast states and radically reshaped the education landscape in New Orleans, where more than 60,000 children attended public schools before the storm.

This whole notion of lumping together everyone who is fighting for change and equality in the system as one cohesive «education reform» group with one agenda (to destroy public education!).

We have ASD because it was part of our RTTT application commitments and because it is what the progressives want in order to privatize education, destroy traditional public schools, destroy traditional public school teachers, eliminate elected school boards, destroy the voice of parents and local control.

We'll hear much more about this incredible development in the weeks ahead, but if we needed proof that the education reformers have no clue what districts really need and will even destroy the most successful programs in their efforts to undermine public education, they need only look to Pryor's latest action.

Duncan has put the 50 states in a competition he calls the Race To The Top, to become the most effective at destroying public education and advancing the charter school movement.

Heaven forbid that we one day have a Secretary of Education who actually believes in supporting and strengthening our existing public schools rather than undermining them and destroying them.

The entire story is a great case study in how the corporate education reform industry is trying to destroying our public education system and how parents, teachers and communities can fight back.

In May of 2017, these pro-privatization forces bankrolled a successful destroy public education (DPE) take - over of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

A «Systems of Schools» plan has been introduced by the destroy public education (DPE) forces in Oakland, California.

Seven years after Paul Vallas and the «education reformers» successfully destroyed the public education system in New Orleans and replaced it with charter schools, the average score for the standardized test known as ACT stands at 16.8, placing it among the very lowest cities in the nation.

In her book, Reign of Error, The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, Diane Ravitch claims the United States is facing an orchestrated and well - funded effort to destroy its public education sPublic Schools, Diane Ravitch claims the United States is facing an orchestrated and well - funded effort to destroy its public education spublic education system.

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.

As Wisconsinites are becoming increasingly aware, the real money in state politics is streaming in from a nationally financed campaign to destroy public schools and privatize education.

In the last two years, Ravitch has accused private entrepreneurs, the «corporate - reform movement,» Florida Governor Rick Scott, charter schools, and voucher advocates, among others, of trying to «destroy» public education.

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.

Was it, in fact, her goal to destroy public education?

The record must be set straight when people and foundations use their public office, media position, or academic status to search out and destroy public education rather than engage in constructive dialogue.

Advocates of public education in the United States have worried that President - elect Donald Trump would tap an education secretary who would speed up the privatization of public schools, a move that many fear could destroy America's public education system, the country's most important civic institution...

«No Child Left Behind was nothing more than a cynical plan to destroy American faith in public education and open the way to vouchers.»

Why destroy public education so that a handful of people can boast they have a charter school in addition to their yacht?

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?

In the coming weeks we'll dig even deeper into this absurd plan, but if you want to get a basic primary on how the education reformers are wasting our tax dollars, undermining the teaching professional and destroying our public schools, I urge you to start by reading — and then re-reading Wendy Lecker's great piece.

There is a group of corporations, led by a group of «education reformers,» and backed by a group of Republican and Democratic politicians, all of whom are engaged in an effort to destroy public education, and hand the nation's education system over to corporations and consultants, who can make a huge amount of money.

Common Core still exists in Connecticut, along with the federal government top - down, one - size - fits - all mandates which are destroying public education throughout our country.

Among the DeVos» long - running crusades in their quest to «christianize» America is their campaign to destroy 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.

From the moment Stefan Pryor arrived in Connecticut, the Malloy administration's education policy has been consistently designed to destroy local control, belittle and demean teachers, reduce parental involvement, undermine our public schools and divert scarce public resources to out - of - state consultants and carpetbagging staff.

While Connecticut's public schools continue to suffer from inadequate state funding and Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration strive to undermine, dismiss and destroy the CCJEF school funding lawsuit that would finally ensure that Connecticut meets its State Constitutional obligation to provide all students with a quality education, Malloy's corporate education reform initiative has fueled an unprecedented growth of charter schools in Connecticut.