Sentences with phrase «for privatizing public education»

Although the corporate reform movement has made unprecedented gains in the last twenty years, its roots go back more than sixty years to Milton Friedman's essay, «The Role of Government in Education,» which laid out the call for privatizing public education in the United States.

The article «Education Cities is the National Organizer for the Destroy Public Education (DPE) Movement» relates how this national umbrella organization is providing leadership for privatizing public education across America.

Diane Ravitch, and author and historian of American education and a best - selling author, writes in In these Times that DeVos and Prince families «have contributed generously to anti-gay and anti-labor causes over the years, but Betsy DeVos and her husband, Dick, have shown a special passion for privatizing public education.»

But over the last decade, the charter school movement has morphed from a small, community - based effort to foster alternative education into a vehicle for privatizing public education, pushed by free - market foundations, big education - management companies, and profit - seekers looking for a way to cash in on public - education funds.

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As Scott explains, they «contain 30 or more chapters providing special protections for foreign investors; extending patents and copyrights; privatizing markets for public services such as education, health, and public utilities; and «harmonizing» regulations in ways that limit or prevent governments from protecting the public health or environment.»

Ms. Teachout blamed Mr. Cuomo for the «most segregated schools in the nation» and accused him of seeking to privatize education and take resources away from public classrooms.

NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn hit back at StudentsFirstNY on Wednesday, arguing the pro-charter school organization was bankrolled by hedge fund managers who seek to privatize public education for a profit.

Why: Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones will their progressive agenda agenda for full funding public schools; Common Core; how teaching to test results is corrupting our education system and the dangers of privatizing for profit our educational system

Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

Supplemental Educational Services is an attempt to privatize public education by using public funds for private vendors.

The rush to privatize education will also turn tens of thousands of students into guinea pigs in a national experiment in virtual learning — a relatively new idea that allows for - profit companies to administer public schools completely online, with no brick - and - mortar classrooms or traditional teachers.

The piece by Lee Fang is stunning in many ways — it's long (almost 5,500 words) and it's detailed, as examples — but not in its depiction of, as Ravitch states, «how certain politicians and investors and entrepreneurs are working together to privatize public education and to generate huge profits for certain companies.»

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This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

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'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'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.

Despite the American Legislative Council's tentative embrace of Donald Trump's presidency, they are foaming at the mouth for the now - endless opportunities to further privatize public education — a key ALEC goal they have been promoting and pushing for decades.

Some politicians are intent on slowly doing away with our public education system in favor of privatized education paid for with taxpayer money.

Choice is not an attack on public schools and has never been about privatizing education; it is about creating a vibrant marketplace of high quality education options — public, private and charter — and empowering parents to choose the best setting for their child.

This corporatization works to defund public education, grossly blames teachers for all that ails society, is obsessed with testing, and aims to privatize.

For some, charters represent a determined effort to privatize public education and undermine public commitment to neighborhood schools.

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Later in the hearing, Sen. Patty Murray (D - WA) asked, «Can you commit that you will not work to privatize public schools or cut a single penny for public education?»

Teachers unions are by no means perfect, but they are an essential instrument for democratizing the inner workings of schools, and — much to Moe's dismay — for fending off efforts to privatize our system of public education.

«But it's harder for our students because the further you privatize education, the more you marginalize their ability to get a good public education.»

Throughout the campaign, Clinton's ideas around public education have been much debated, with self - proclaimed reformers worried she would be hostile to their policies, while many rank - and - file teachers remained skeptical that Clinton would stand up for unions and fight efforts to privatize public schools.

We have a better vision for the future of public education than the old expensive, unproven reforms meant to hurt children and privatize our public schools.

«The end game in Nevada is pretty simple, pretty clear, and pretty close: the voucher program marks the end of any semblance of commitment to public education and the beginning of a completely privatized system of schools for Nevada.

«When Secretary [Betsy] DeVos's own Department's independent research office tells her that siphoning taxpayer dollars into private schools has a negative impact on students, it's time for her to finally abandon her reckless plans to privatize public schools across the country,» Democratic Senator Patty Murray, the ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, said in a statement.

Expanding first to Connecticut and then to Massachusetts, Families for Excellent School has become the preferred money pipeline of choice for a group of corporate elite who seek to anonymously fund the effort to privatize public education in the United States.

Fellow pro-public education advocate columnist Wendy Lecker lays out the facts about Bronx Charter School for Excellence effort to open a charter school in Stamford and the help they are getting from Commissioner Pryor's office and Connecticut's lobbying group dedicated to privatizing Connecticut's system of public education.

Pryor and his anti-public education operatives have become the poster children for what is wrong with the corporate education reform industry's effort to destroy and privatize Connecticut's public education system.

The colossal and disastrous effort to privatize public education in the United States is alive and well thanks to a plethora of billionaires who, although they'd never send their own children to a public school, have decided that individually and collectively, they know what is best for the nation's students, parents, teachers and public schools.

With his selection for education secretary, President - elect Donald Trump made his plans for public education crystal clear — defund, devalue and privatize our school system.

The union always claims that the Vergara Lawsuit, the film «Waiting for Superman», Students First, Michelle Rhee, Students Matter, are all part of a proposal / plot by billionaires to do the following: A. Privatize all public education to funnel billions of dollars in profits to the top 1 % and mostly to a few billionaires.

Like Malloy, Walker spent his first term trying to destroy teacher tenure, eliminate collective bargaining rights for teachers and dramatically expand public funding for charter schools and the overall effort to privatize public education.

We, as a nation, must stop privatizing public education with profit - making, racial profiling charter schools for SOME of our children and, instead, focus on ALL of our children.

Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education, is infamous for his claim that Hurricane Katrina was, «the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans,» because it wiped out the existing public school system which allowed it to be replaced with one that is totally privatized, completely made up of charter schools rather than public schools, and no longer employs teachers who belong tEducation, is infamous for his claim that Hurricane Katrina was, «the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans,» because it wiped out the existing public school system which allowed it to be replaced with one that is totally privatized, completely made up of charter schools rather than public schools, and no longer employs teachers who belong teducation system in New Orleans,» because it wiped out the existing public school system which allowed it to be replaced with one that is totally privatized, completely made up of charter schools rather than public schools, and no longer employs teachers who belong to unions.

Michelle Rhee is infamous for pouring tens of millions of dollars money into the local political process to try and force local officials to shift scarce public funds from their public schools to the privatized corporate education reform model.

Both Democrats for Education Reform and the Northeast Charter School Network are corporate - funded charter school advocacy groups based in New York City and both receive the bulk of their money from the billionaires and millionaires who are trying to privatize public education in the UniteEducation Reform and the Northeast Charter School Network are corporate - funded charter school advocacy groups based in New York City and both receive the bulk of their money from the billionaires and millionaires who are trying to privatize public education in the Uniteeducation in the United States.

In response to Polis» ringing endorsement of the failed policies of the education reform industry, Michelle Rhee, the Patron Saint of the effort to privatize public education said, «I am honored to stand with the New Democrats as we seek to build a better educational system for America's children.»

Democrat Malloy, along with Democrats New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel have become the poster boys for the anti-union, anti-teacher, anti-public school corporate education reform industry and their unprecedented effort to privatize public education in the United States.

But there's the funding dilemma for TFA — are these funders really in it for the kids, or are they in it to promote policies that would speed us to the day to privatize public education and turn it to a profit center?

Students, parent activists and teachers took the stage to celebrate the defeat of Ballot Question 2, which called for a lift to the statewide cap on charter school expansion — a victory that Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni said quashed efforts to privatize public education.

Its mission is to focus public tax dollars on the K - 12 education of public school students by opposing legislation in the Indiana General Assembly that would fund private school vouchers, expand private school tax credits, privatize charter schools by allowing private colleges and agencies to be authorizers, put for - profit managers in place to take a profit from operating public schools and privatize public schools through any other means.»

Julie Woestehoff, head of Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE), a PAA affiliate in Chicago, pointed out:» Though Michelle Rhee has consistently refused to disclose her funders, according to press accounts, they include billionaires and hedge fund operators who support a destructive agenda to privatize our public schools.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

For immediate release: March 10, 2012 Contacts: Rita Solnet, Boca Raton: [phone]; [email protected] Caroline Grannan, San Francisco: [phone]; [email protected] Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida's Parent Trigger bill: A victory of parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public schools Public education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a «Parent Trigger» law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist anpublic schools Public education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a «Parent Trigger» law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist anPublic education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a «Parent Trigger» law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist and... →

But opponents criticize charter schools for being unable to serve students with special needs, sucking resources from traditional public schools and what some say is a system that privatizes public education.

Mary Bell, president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state's largest teachers union, said expanding vouchers and avenues for independent charter schools while cutting public education is all part of a Republican attempt «to privatize what has been a very successful and very stable public education system in WisconsiEducation Association Council, the state's largest teachers union, said expanding vouchers and avenues for independent charter schools while cutting public education is all part of a Republican attempt «to privatize what has been a very successful and very stable public education system in Wisconsieducation is all part of a Republican attempt «to privatize what has been a very successful and very stable public education system in Wisconsieducation system in Wisconsin.»