Sentences with phrase «included education privatization»
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 California.
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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.
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.»
Those concerns were also discussed at the UFT breakfast the prior morning, when UFT President Michael Mulgrew upbraided school privatization advocates including education secretary Betsy DeVos.
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.
They examine the startlingly broad range of education policy changes enacted in Florida during Bush's first term, including moves toward privatization with a voucher system, more government control of public education institutions with centralized accountability mechanisms, and a «superboard» for all public education.
The October issue of CTA's magazine, California Educator, is full of anti-Tuck blather, including an editorial by union president Dean Vogel in which he solemnly proclaims that the challenger is a «well - funded corporate education reformer who supports the privatization of public schools and efforts to obliterate due process for teachers.»
The demands are related to major parts of the national Movement for Black for Lives platform, including a federal right to education (Invest / Divest) and an end to school privatization / charter schools, school closures, and mayoral - controlled school boards (Community Control), all issues we are grappling with in Hartford, Connecticut.
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.»
We have no way of knowing how many graduates of this neoliberal, privatization philosophy we have working within our public institutions up to and including our own U.S. Department of Education.
Edgerley has also donated millions in support of the privatization of public education, including hundreds of thousands of dollars to New Profit, Inc. and Strategic Grant Partners, a Massachusetts based foundation that has been funding the expansion of charter schools and charter school advocacy groups in that state.
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.
These privatization efforts will probably include education savings accounts and school vouchers, either paid for directly with tax dollars or funded through a system of tax credits.
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)
Ms. DeVos is known for her involvement in several education reform organizations that support or promote privatization efforts, including private school vouchers.
On Monday, the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) put out a statement that said, «while the Protect Our Schools Act is supported by teachers, the Maryland PTA, civil rights groups — including the ACLU of Maryland and CASA de Maryland — and leading education scholars, it is only opposed by national school privatization advocates and Governor Hogan's administratioEducation Association (MSEA) put out a statement that said, «while the Protect Our Schools Act is supported by teachers, the Maryland PTA, civil rights groups — including the ACLU of Maryland and CASA de Maryland — and leading education scholars, it is only opposed by national school privatization advocates and Governor Hogan's administratioeducation scholars, it is only opposed by national school privatization advocates and Governor Hogan's administration.»
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, of course, include the Koch Brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council (better known as ALEC) who advance the privatization of public education and are funding many school choice campaigns.
The general consensus on Trump's student loan ideas include the elimination of the Department of Education and the privatization of student loans.