Sentences with phrase «education privatization across»

«She has seen and studied the effects of education privatization across the country and is the nation's foremost expert on what works and doesn't work when it comes to reforming our public schools.»

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They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public 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.

A research professor of education at New York University, Ravitch recently published a book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools — which argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement, but of the destruction of public schools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best Seller list.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

Ross noted that powerful special interests are lobbying for increasing education privatization and pro-voucher mega-donors from across the country have larded Republican politicians with campaign contributions.

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.

It's in the context of Walker's budget that continues deep cuts in public education across the state, and increases statewide privatization of public schools.

Doing a google search under «education privatization,» I came across this article from Dissent Magazine.

What Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and governors across the country want to show the voting public is that corporate reform and privatization of our schools is the answer to the achievement gap between children living in urban and suburban districts, as well as between the US and the rest of the world.