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Updated research from One Wisconsin Institute exposing the right - wing Bradley Foundation's spending over $ 108 million in support of education privatization from 2005 to 2014 provides some answers.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The authors distinguish themselves from the education Right in articulating the problems with the privatization of school management.

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.

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.

In the Huffington Post, Chris Stewart explains why opposition from the NAACP and the Movement for Black Lives» proposal to «end privatization of education» «just won't work.»

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

Critics of the school choice movement fear the call from conservative quarters to expand charters is a dangerous first step to privatization of the public education system.

Critics on the left fear the push from conservative quarters to expand charters is a dangerous first step to privatization of the public education system.

Michael Ian Cohen (Educational Leadership and Policy Studies) will present ideas from his forthcoming book, co-authored with Gary Anderson (New York University), The Emergent Democratic Professional: Beyond Privatization & Corporate Management in Education (Teachers College Press).

Wendy Lecker puts her finger on two things of great importance: first, certain of the power brokers in public education in Connecticut are determined to increase the number of privately managed charter schools, and they are using every opportunity that presents itself — from the Sheff settlement to the Turnaround option in Obama's Race to the Top — to pursue just this goal; and second, a key factor in the advance of school privatization is «the corporate education «reform» industry's narrative... that our public education system is failing.»

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.

The bottom line: The activists are worried that if she becomes president, she won't depart much from President Obama's education reform policies, which critics say have contributed to the privatization of public education.

The News & Observer reports that only Republicans were invited to the six - hour event where the presenters included education privatization advocates from the John Locke Foundation, Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education, and something called the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation in Caeducation privatization advocates from the John Locke Foundation, Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education, and something called the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation in CaEducation, and something called the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation in California.

According to organizers, the rally is being called «Win Back Wednesday» because public education must be «won back» from the profit - driven entities behind high - stakes testing and school privatization schemes and returned to actual stakeholders: parents, students, and educators.

The organizers said they are objecting to «a national movement to Reclaim Our Schools from privatization efforts that will bankrupt public education, we will stand with Los Angeles parents, educators, students, administrators, and community members for fully funded public schools and call on corporate charter schools to pay their fair share to the district.»

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.

«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 authors» study is available in its entirety from the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Columbia University at .

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

North Carolina: Chris Fitzsimon of NC Policy Watch calls attention to «the latest school privatization scheme that continues to draw far too little attention from the media and even many education advocates.»

The report is recommended by education historian and school privatization opponent Diane Ravitch, who notes that the report «also includes an analysis of flaws in existing oversight, recommendations for reform, and an appendix of instances of fraud and abuse from 1997 through 2017.»

Sadly, theses forces of privatization received major support from Arne Duncan, the former Secretary of Education appointed by President Barack Obama.

Public school teachers, parents and administrators need to elevate the issue of how public education in this country is under siege and currently undergoing its greatest challenge for survival from the threat of privatization and high - stakes standardized testing.

With Betsy DeVos on the verge of becoming the United States Secretary of Education and President Donald Trump promising to divert $ 20 billion in federal funding from public schools to privatization through school choice programs, the movement to undermine public education must be deliriously excited about their prospects over the next foEducation and President Donald Trump promising to divert $ 20 billion in federal funding from public schools to privatization through school choice programs, the movement to undermine public education must be deliriously excited about their prospects over the next foeducation must be deliriously excited about their prospects over the next four years.

With so much at stake and progress being made, it is up to all of us to resist a Trump - DeVos privatization scheme that would forever take even more resources away from one of the pillars of our democracy: public education.

With billions of dollars in taxpayer funds being diverted from public schools to privately owned and operated charter schools, a motley collection of the nation's super-wealthy, including sports and music stars, are looking to cash in on the existing bi-partisan political support for the privatization of public education in the United States.

Michael Morton — the new Communications Manager who recently transferred from Texas to take on the task of explaining to Connecticut voters why charter schools, privatization and Malloy's damaging education reform strategies are what Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public schools need to ensure a better future.

including; With money from Walmart's Walton Foundation — They call themselves Democrats for Education Reform and Figures that the super-rich would turn privatization of public schools into a game and Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) explains why Common Core testing is so important and Charter School Political Action Committees target Connecticut legislative races and DFER NEWS: Adam Goldfarb, former Chief of Staff to Governor Dannel Malloy's Commissioner of Education, lands COO post at Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)

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.

Education Week is the recipient of grant money from the Walton Family Foundation, which funds school - privatization groups and whose resources come from Walmart, a corporation with a long anti-union track record.

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.

After noting the total contributions from those interests, she framed the piece this way: «Some observers say the big dollars foreshadow the next chapter of a fierce fight in Tallahassee: the privatization of public education.»

All in all, and beyond the different possible interpretations of a same set of data (which is always possible in social science), what we have to acknowledge is that the privatization of education is far from being the panacea once sold by the advocates and designers of the Chilean neoliberal educational model.

The «problems» in public education won't be solved by promoting the rhetoric that simply luring the «best and brightest» students from America's most elite colleges and universities to teaching will somehow fix the systemic defunding and privatization of our schools and the de-professionalization of the teaching profession.

A member of the Harvard Law faculty since 1981, Minow is described in the announcement as a «distinguished legal scholar with interests that range from international human rights to equality and inequality, from religion and pluralism to managing mass tort litigation, from family law and education law to the privatization of military, schooling, and other governmental activities.»