Sentences with phrase «education privatization as»

Legislature Expands Risky Experiment of Education Privatization As Traditional Public Schools Suffer, Florida Center For Fiscal and Economic Policy, August 2011

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In Russia «liberal» means people who oppose welfare state, free education and medicine, support privatization and free markets, oppose protectionism and government regulation, support the US and NATO on international issues (such as NATO bombings).

«Unfortunately, the Trump Administration has allowed for a person to come in as Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, who is for privatization and for school vouchers,» she said.

But President Donald Trump's choice of Betsy DeVos, a longtime advocate of school privatization, as his education secretary has made charters — and anything remotely resembling «school choice» — increasingly toxic for Democrats.

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

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

Join Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones at the New Possibilities for Public Education: Rally for Kids and Schools as they stand with educators and parents dedicated to saving public schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks againstEducation: Rally for Kids and Schools as they stand with educators and parents dedicated to saving public schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks againsteducation, and the attacks against teachers

Hawkins is a strong critic of charter schools, citing them as part of the drive by the Cuomo administration for the privatization of the education system.

UFT members from Districts 13, 14 and 17 as well as high schools from those areas heard UFT President Michael Mulgrew speak about the proposed federal education budget cuts, the attack on unions by far - right privatization advocates, the dangers to hard - won benefits if a state constitutional convention is held in 2018 and other pressing issues.

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.»

The fact is that the unproven, business - model, and privatization practices they propose as education reforms have no chance of being adopted as an «integrated system,» especially in the present political climate.

«Privatization,» as participants called it, was one of the most - discussed subjects at the annual meeting of the American Education Finance Association, March 18 - 20.

And here in New York, we're joined by Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Eeducation under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Eeducation, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining EducationEducation.

Privatization could thus serve as an important equalizer in public education.

All four schools systems are widely recognized as examples where corporate education reform and privatization have or are failing the vast majority of students.

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.

The movement toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of school privatization efforts, such as tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to private schools — have had mixed results, at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students, at worst.

The memo by Lewis Powell who President Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court within months of its release, inspired the growth of conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Cato Institute and others who became strident supporters of public education reform and privatization.

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.

As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.

As mentioned, much of the mainstream media does their best to support the monopoly, and denigrates any privatization of education.

The privatization and corporatization of the Public Education arena is following the same course as that of the prison system.

Thanks to the General Assembly, that's what our tax dollars are paying for this year as the dangerous education privatization crusade continues in North Carolina.

If your public school is so exclusive that it might as well be private, don't rail about privatization in education.

Boycotting the tests and depriving the state of data is seen as the only way to effect change in our schools, and to curb the further privatization of public education (see what's happening right now in the United Kingdom).

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.

Weingarten and NEA President Dennis Van Roekel have portrayed Obama as someone who genuinely cares about education and Romney as someone who will gut the public system in favor of privatization.

Although Malloy is the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in «turnaround» schools, the announcement that Stefan Pryor will be leaving his position at the end of this year was seen by some as a signal that Malloy was going to shift away from his corporate education reform industry and privatization policies and would use a second term to provide more support for Connecticut's real public education system.

We see the connection between school closures and the privatization of our education system as well as the anti-displacement movement.

«As we look at the problematic issues facing public education in Detroit due in large part to the advocates of privatization, we realize the extent to which we must remain vigilant regarding any potentially dangerous national policies coming from Sec.

The national group, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, issued a statement explaining: «As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.»

ALEC also seeks to advance the privatization of public institutions such as public education, public transportation, public utilities, state lotteries, and other municipal and state services.

Our secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, has repeatedly signaled her support for school choice and privatization, as well as her scorn for public schools, describing them as a «dead end»...

Strauss noted, «Bill de Blasio campaigned for New York mayor last year as a friend of traditional public education, and his victory was hailed by those who wanted to slow down corporate school reform, which has led to the growing privatization of public education.»

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.

The fight against school closings in Chicago travels to Rahm's house... The fight against privatization in Puerto Rico just begins, as the Governor and Education Secretary announce their initiative, and the Legislative Assembly takes up a charter law.

He sees the school's opening as a dangerous entry into the privatization of public education.

Their anti-public education stance and their erroneous philosophical beliefs are evident as Governors Malloy, Cuomo and Christie have all appointed commissioners of education in their states who support and promote privatization practices.

Rose also worked as senior executive at the massive public education privatization company known as Edison Schools where he served as the company «s Associate General Counsel, Chief of Staff, General Manager, and Vice President for School Operations

on Gates Foundation and carrion fly into Hartford as part of public education privatization effort

DFER is used as a political action committee and a «dark - money» bundling group that has poured millions of dollars into political campaigns on behalf of candidates who support the Common Core, the Common Core testing scam and the privatization of public educations through the massive expansion of charter schools.

And even, in the fevered imaginings of some charter opponents, as the cat's paw of «corporate» reformers supposedly hell - bent on the privatization of public education.

looking for a case study about the growing privatization of public education in America need only look as far as Connecticut and the tenure of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy.

Many of Connecticut's public schools remaining significantly underfunded but for those looking for a case study about the growing privatization of public education in America need only look as far as Connecticut and the tenure of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

3) National / Florida: The privatization of education is a women's issue, says Emma Collum, the founder of the Women's March Florida chapter as she attended this weekend's Florida Women's March.

Issues affecting Florida, such as sea level rise and the privatization of public education, are women's issues, she said.

While the Trump / DeVos Department of Education budget will put billions more into privatization, as a whole there would be $ 9 billion less spent on education, a 13 perEducation budget will put billions more into privatization, as a whole there would be $ 9 billion less spent on education, a 13 pereducation, a 13 percent cut.

After floating a raft of names — from former rival and now designated Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson to New York City charter magnate Eva Moskowitz to former Washington D.C. School Chancellor and Patron Saint of Firing Teachers Michelle Rhee to actually qualified school choice advocate and Hoover Institute Fellow Dr. Williamson Evers — Donald Trump has settled upon Michigan billionaire and school privatization zealot Betsy DeVos as his nominee for Secretary of Education.

Eskelsen García just addressed the 96th NEA Representative Assembly meeting in Boston, accusing President Donald Trump of residing «at the dangerous intersection of arrogance and ignorance» and labeled DeVos as «the queen of for - profit privatization of public education.»