Sentences with phrase «more privatization of public schools»

Like so much of corporate education reform, its real purpose is not to help the needy, but to steer the educational debate in the preferred direction of more privatization of public schools.

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Malloy is so incredibly committed to the privatization of Connecticut's public schools that he even added funding for two more charter schools despite the fact that there are no additional, approved charter school proposals even in the pipeline.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

Authorizing charter schools will, theoretically, demonstrate to the public that privatization can improve the quality of education, and make them more willing to do away with public education all together.

«I think we have to keep in mind that what (the GOP lawmakers) are essentially proposing, which is more privatization of the Milwaukee Public Schools, has been tried for the last 25 years without a lot of success,» Peterson says.

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.

It is deeply troubling that instead working to fix PA's public school funding crisis, many lawmakers are instead trying to advance the agenda of the school privatization lobby, which will create more costs for taxpayers and even deeper deprivation for students in 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.

It is a product of the education reform industry that is set on convincing policymakers and the public that our nation's public education system is broken, that our public school teachers are bad and that the answer is more standardized testing and diverting scarce public funds to charter schools and other privatization efforts.

And how much money did all all of those expensive coach buses cost to transport children to be used as props in a political battle for more resources for the privatization of the public school system?

Dedicated to promoting the privatization of public education, more taxpayer funds for privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and a host of anti-teacher initiatives, Students for Education Reform, Inc. (SFER) was created in late 2009, according to their narrative, by a couple of undergraduate students at Princeton University.

More specifically, we will support candidates who oppose high - stakes testing, mass school closures, the privatization of our public schools and the outsourcing of its core functions to for - profit corporations, and we will support candidates who work for evidence - based reforms that will improve our schools and the education of our nation's children.

While voucher advocates like to use words like «choice,» «freedom» and «opportunity,» AB1 is really nothing more than a measure to take over public schools and accelerate the privatization of public education — «charting a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them,» says Betsy Kippers, a physical education teacher for students with special needs who is serving as president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.

It is reprehensible — Rhee's true philosophy of education reform amounts to nothing more than union - busting and privatization of public school systems.

I differ from you in that I believe unionizing charter schools will be one more step towards complete privatization of public schools.