Sentences with phrase «divert scarce funding»

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Today, billions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted from the nation's public schools to charter schools and with those funds has come a growing crisis of so - called education entrepreneurs who are using some of those scarce public funds to line their own pockets.

Other major donors to Luke Bronin's campaign for mayor of Hartford is New Haven charter school activist Alex Johnston who, as the original head of ConnCAN, consistently pushed for diverting scarce public resources from public schools to the privately owned, but publically funded charter schools.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry and its allies like President Obama, Former President George W. Bush, presidential candidate Jeb Bush and Democratic governors Andrew Cuomo and Dannel Malloy have repeatedly claimed that the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme, diverting scarce public funds to charter schools, privatizing public education and evaluating teachers based on the Common Core test results would be good for the nation's public school students, their parents and the country's future.

Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor's education reform and economic development strategy came into greater focus this week with news that a few months ago Stefan Pryor continued his un-ending effort to divert scarce taxpayer funds to consultants.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

Cotto lays bare the truth about the charter school industry is taking Connecticut's taxpayers for a ride while diverting scarce public funds from Connecticut's real public education system.

All together the various corporate funded «education reform» groups dropped another $ 1.4 million, over the last six months, to promote and lobby on behalf of Governor Dannel Malloy's anti-teacher, education reform initiatives that included diverting even more scarce public funds to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

«Meanwhile, we're left to scramble for scarce funds that are being diverted to private schools.»

In a brazen effort to hand over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary over to Friendship Charter Schools without any further debate or discussion.

In a brazen effort to hand over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution ``

[Polis» proposal being that in the face of scarce public funds, more and more taxpayer dollars should get diverted away from the public schools, and instead be used to subsidize schools like the ones he is involved in].

Instead, the new «mandate» is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is successfully diverting scarce public funds away from teacher - student instruction to private companies.

Education Reform Advocacy Now Inc. is part of the massive three - headed corporate education reform behemoth that includes Education Reform Advocacy Now, Inc.; Education Reform Now, Inc. and Democrats for Education Reform, the related Political Action Committee that donates directly to pro-corporate education reform candidates and supports opponents of candidates who don't support the reformer's efforts to turn schools into little more than testing factories, while diverting scarce public funds away from real public schools and redirecting them to privately owned charter schools.

During the recent legislative session, Families for Excellent Schools / Coalition for Every Child ran television ads calling upon Connecticut's elected officials to divert even more scarce taxpayer funds to charter schools.

It is a product of the education reform industry that is set on convincing policymakers and the public that our nation's public education system is broken, that our public school teachers are bad and that the answer is more standardized testing and diverting scarce public funds to charter schools and other privatization efforts.

However, what has remained relatively secret is that Bronin's PR person is a well - paid adviser for Families for Excellent Schools, the New York based charter school industry group that spent more than $ 1 million lobbying Connecticut legislators on behalf of Governor Malloy's proposal to divert millions of dollars in scarce state funds so that Bridgeport and Stamford could get new, privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry very rich.

Connecticut charter schools already collect more than $ 100 million in scarce public funds from the state of Connecticut, diverting money away from the real public schools that do fulfil their responsibility to accept and educate all students.

Funneling money through a variety of different organizations and front groups, the charter school advocates have been able «transform» public education in Connecticut by promoting Malloy's plans to divert hundreds of millions of dollars in scarce public funds to privately owned and operated charter schools.

Malloy has consistently sought to divert scarce public funds to the charter schools, while degrading the value of Connecticut's teacher preparation programs.

have been among the most vocal proponents of diverting scarce public taxpayer funds to Achievement First, Inc, the large charter school management company, to former charter school operator Dr.» Michael Sharpe and his disgraced FUSE charter school chain and Steve Perry, the controversial anti-teacher former Hartford school administrator and self - described «most trusted educator in America,» who, thanks to Governor Malloy is opening his own privately owned but publicly funded «boutique» charter school company.

In addition to the millions of dollars that Commissioner Pryor wasted on out - of - state consultants and his successful effort to divert hundreds of millions in scarce taxpayer funds to Connecticut's charter school industry, another one of Pryor's controversial actions was to hire his close personal friend and former Newark aide, Adam Goldfarb, to serve as his chief of staff.

Outside groups have begun a campaign to persuade voters in New London and Bridgeport to support Democratic candidates committed to diverting even more scarce public funds to privately owned and operated charter schools.

A recent article by Wendy Lecker entitled, Beware the new Connecticut legislative plan to channel even more public funds to charters, noted that a group of Democratic state legislators have released a plan aimed at diverting even more scarce public funds to Connecticut's charter schools will doing little to address the underlying system that inadequately funds Connecticut's public schools.

At today's State Board of Education meeting, Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's appointees will vote to re-commit Connecticut to the Common Core and then vote to divert scarce public funds to new charter schools in Connecticut.

In addition, Malloy's state department of education announced earlier this week that it is seeking proposals to fund even more charter schools, a strategy that will divert even more scarce funds away from public schools and to the private sector.

on The «done deal» to divert scarce public funds to another Achievement First Inc. hits a road block

As the New Haven Board of Education considers approving the deal to hand over money to help fund Achievement First Inc.'s new Elm City Imagine school, a question that arises is who exactly is behind the proposal to divert scarce taxpayer funds from New Haven and Connecticut residents to subsidize Achievement First Inc.'s effort to create the Elm City Imagine School in New Haven?