Sentences with phrase «increasing education privatization»

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.

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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.

In it she argues that the public school reform efforts surrounding No Child Left Behind and Obama's Race to the Top are basically ruining American education, with their reliance on a competitive business model and movement towards increased privatization.

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.»

It's in the context of Walker's budget that continues deep cuts in public education across the state, and increases statewide privatization of public schools.

Public school districts are projected to lose more than $ 303 million to Commonwealth charter schools in the 2011 - 2012 school year (minus some short - term reimbursement), an increase of more than 9 % over last year, and the first time in the 15 - year history of this privatization initiative that costs have topped $ 300 million, according to figures recently released by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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.

I hope you are also willing to make it clear to the legislature that the current administration is being misguided in their attempt to increase funding for the privatization of schools at the expense of adequately funding public education.

All of which raises the question of whether students and (one might add, if one were really, really crazy) the under - served public (which is a lot of people) might be better served by the increasing for - profit privatization of law education.