Sentences with phrase «education privatization agenda»

Despite widespread public opposition to the corporate - driven education privatization agenda, at least 172 measures reflecting American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model bills were introduced in 42 states in 2015, according to an analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy, publishers of ALECexposed.org and PRWatch.org.

Together, Jones and the Show - Me Institute — backed with Sinquefield cash, and using ALEC model legislation — have pushed an education privatization agenda in the state.

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

Hawkins said the investigation should look into the contributions of hedge fund managers who would benefit from Cuomo's education privatization agenda.

Not exact matches

Mulgrew said the work the union and its members did to help shape the state budget should help protect New York City public schools from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her privatization agenda.

Conservatives frame privatization as a civil rights issue, but Trump's extreme agenda is energizing racial justice and public education advocates.

The Greens selected NYC Educator Brian Jones to highlight their opposition to Cuomo's education policies promoting privatization of the education system, including his promotion of the Common Core agenda and charter schools.

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.

His guests will include two Michigan residents who will talk about the damage to their state's public schools caused by the DeVos privatization agenda — Detroit parent activist Wytrice Harris and outgoing president of the Michigan State Board of Education John Austin.»

A leaked strategy memo from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) details its legislative agenda for local education.Not surprisingly, MMAC's agenda supports privatization of public education and the erosion of the Milwa...

A leaked strategy memo from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) details its legislative agenda for local education.Not surprisingly, MMAC's agenda supports privatization of public education and the erosion of the Milwa... more

Privatization advocates and their funders have appropriated the language of civil rights and use the dissatisfaction of underserved communities to promote the marketization of public education, an agenda that promises to leave many students of color behind.

Michael W. Apple, a professor at University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Education, says that universal vouchers, or voucher programs for which all income levels are eligible, expose the privatization movement's hidden agenda.

Rather, they result from policies pushed by the corporate education reform movement and its privatization agenda, and embraced by the U.S. Department of Eeducation reform movement and its privatization agenda, and embraced by the U.S. Department of EducationEducation.

Murphy, himself a former teacher and principal at one of Milwaukee's independent Black private schools, describes the conservative strategy as a «two - fer» — an agenda to eliminate teachers» unions and build the myth of school privatization as a cheaper education alternative.

Those concerned about the future of public education should not be fooled: the agenda of these players is about privatization and market - based reform.

We want to be involved in all those areas and woe to the school principal, school CEO, or US Education Secretary who tries to relegate us to cookie baking, science projects, or cover for a school privatization and union - busting agenda.

As teacher unions step up their calls to stop the «corporate agenda» in education and to confront the «privatization» movement, there is a far more real and serious threat facing teacher unions.

And now the Koch brothers and deep - pocketed conservative activists are attempting to use that anxiety to push an anti-public education agenda of vouchers, privatization, and attacks on teachers and their unions.

DeVos and her ilk have succeeded in politicizing the education debate to such an extent that historically nonpartisan contests have seen clear divides between candidates who defend public education (and are often backed by Democrats, progressives and teacher unions) and candidates who align with the DeVos agenda (and who are often backed by Republicans, social conservatives and corporate interests that favor privatization).

For too long, lawmakers have degraded the teaching profession with myths, exaggerations and outright lies, all designed to undermine public education and advance a school privatization agenda.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charterEducation Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded chartereducation through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

For example, conservative groups sponsored an anti-Common Core conference in September 2013 at the University of Notre Dame, while the liberal Network for Public Education held its own conference in March 2014 at the University of Texas - Austin to protest the privatization of education (the Common Core was not the sole topic, but it was a prominent portion of theEducation held its own conference in March 2014 at the University of Texas - Austin to protest the privatization of education (the Common Core was not the sole topic, but it was a prominent portion of theeducation (the Common Core was not the sole topic, but it was a prominent portion of the agenda).

Her visible position as the head of the Department of Education provides her with an important platform (aka bully pulpit) to advance her agenda of privatization, but even if she can convince Congress, she will still need to make her case with the states.

Lubienski, for one is skeptical of «self - proclaimed experts on the topic of education» like Murdoch who «aren't accountable to the public» and who have a profit motive coupled with a political agenda of widespread privatization.

Watch Julie Underwood, the eighth dean of the UW - Madison School of Education, discuss ALEC's school privatization agenda.

Malloy has pledged to «stay the course» on his inappropriate, destructive and expensive Common Core - driven corporate education reform and privatization agenda.

Twenty cities took part in coordinated actions on September 20th to express our opposition to the Trump / DeVos agenda of cuts to public education, vouchers and privatization.

As a critical friend of the privatization movement, he was one of the first to see through the guise and sales talk of the corporate school reform agenda of Dr. Tony Bennett, the Mind Trust, and the mayor's Office of Education Innovation.

In hindsight, it must be said that the former commissioner came up through the ranks of policy development and, lacking classroom teaching experience, was unable to recognize and see the damage his privatization agenda was doing to public education.

The leaders of this effort, including US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, are fond of appropriating the language of the civil rights movement to justify their anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-testing privatization agenda.

These members of the Deformer «advance force» parrot a regressive agenda of union - busting, tenure - smashing, and teacher - demonizing, paired with an obsessive devotion to standardized testing, «data driven decision making», charter school expansion, and privatization as the «answers» to the «crisis in public education» — while remaining seemingly oblivious to the fact that it was their policies that manufactured the crisis they claim to be addressing, and which are paying off so handsomely for the investors who fund their charter schools and pay their generous salaries.