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NSCW was created in 2011 by the Gleason Family Foundation, which as the Media Matters report notes, also gives to a number of education privatization and Koch - affiliated anti-union groups and a number of right - wing think thanks.
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Legislature Expands Risky Experiment of Education Privatization As Traditional Public Schools Suffer, Florida Center For Fiscal and Economic Policy, August 2011
While charter school expansion is part of an education privatization movement favored by Republicans in particular, who say families need more choice when it comes to kids» educational options, the movement has been dogged by controversy as several charter schools have abruptly closed almost as soon as they opened due to financial and governance problems.
But the history of education privatization reveals a different story.
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.
Dr. Ravitch will be introduced by local officials and will hold a question - and - answer session after her remarks regarding the hoax of education privatization.
«She has seen and studied the effects of education privatization across the country and is the nation's foremost expert on what works and doesn't work when it comes to reforming our public schools.»
But the history of education privatization tells a different story.
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A far greater part of the text — thousands of pages in more than 30 chapters — has to do with harmonizing regulations (financial, health and safety standards, etc.), reinforcing intellectual property rights (patents, copyrights), opening up new sectors to privatization and foreign investment (health insurance and education), and putting strict limits on how governments choose to protect the environment or create jobs.
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The programme of dismantling the state, reducing its functions, pilfering its resources and launching sweeping privatizations leads to a demoralized public sector, weakened systems of education and health and the eventual usurping of the state by private economic interests.
The imperative to liberalize has demanded a shrinking of state involvement in national life, producing a wave of privatization, cutting jobs, slashing health, education and food subsidies, etc. affecting the poor people in society.
Even in the meaning given to Privatization of education, there is an equivalent shift.
Charter schools don't mean the privatization of education by evil companies: it's an answer to doing anything to fix this broken system.
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The other group of billionaires devoted to privatization is Democrats for Education Reform.
Obviously Cuomo's priority is the privatization of education and charter schools.
Hawkins was especially critical of Cuomo's education proposals, saying that they reflect the privatization program of hedge fund campaign donors, not a program to improve poorly performing public schools.
Hawkins said the investigation should look into the contributions of hedge fund managers who would benefit from Cuomo's education privatization agenda.
«Unfortunately, the Trump Administration has allowed for a person to come in as Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, who is for privatization and for school vouchers,» she said.
«While the rally was aimed at privatization of education in general and the publishing giant Pearson in particular, speakers were conspicuously silent about the role of the Democratic Party and of Governor Andrew Cuomo in promoting corporate - oriented education reform,» added Jones.
But President Donald Trump's choice of Betsy DeVos, a longtime advocate of school privatization, as his education secretary has made charters — and anything remotely resembling «school choice» — increasingly toxic for Democrats.
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.
They concluded that Governor Andrew Cuomo was the candidate likeliest to support privatization of public education....
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.
Instead of the privatization schemes pushed by Cuomo and Republican candidate Rob Astorino, Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones are calling for fully funded, quality public education, qualitative assessments instead of the punitive high stakes testing model, and an end to the attack on teacher's unions.»
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.
Unlike Governor Cuomo, who supports privatization in the form of charter schools, the Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones advocates a comprehensive «Quality Education for All» platform grounded in fully funding and strengthening our public school system.
And, she noted, that while Cuomo said teachers and bus drivers had lobbyists, he did not mention hedge fund managers, representatives of testing and technology companies, and privatization advocates, all of whom have weighed in on education and who have lobbyists.
Join Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones at the New Possibilities for Public Education: Rally for Kids and Schools as they stand with educators and parents dedicated to saving public schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks againstEducation: Rally for Kids and Schools as they stand with educators and parents dedicated to saving public schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks againsteducation, and the attacks against teachers
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.»
In one, dated Oct. 8 2015 stated «HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] hasn't fought for teachers on privatization or funding,» adding in another June 2, 2016 tweet «HRC is no friend of public education.»
Hawkins is a strong critic of charter schools, citing them as part of the drive by the Cuomo administration for the privatization of the education system.
«We will continue to stand with teachers and public school advocates to 1) oppose the corporate takeover and privatization of education and 2) expand education funding to meet our children's needs and so that teachers can teach,» said Howie Hawkins.
While both Hawkins and his Republican opponent have raised concerns with the Common Core, Hawkins is a strong proponent of public education and claims his two main opponents support privatization of the school system.
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
Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»
Here we find curriculum organizations, teacher education organizations, and educational policy organizations working together against standardized testing, the privatization of public schooling, the school to prison pipeline, advocating for parent and community involvement in schools.
It is a lot tougher than most companies thought it would be,» says Henry Levin, director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Columbia University's Teachers College.
Thus writes Matthew Lambert in his new book, Privatization and the Public Good: Public Universities in the Balance, an analysis of present - day public higher education, which is currently plagued by momentous challenges.
Many programs designed by educational entrepreneurs are rendered ineffective by complications with current public policy, suggests a report published by the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
The fact is that the unproven, business - model, and privatization practices they propose as education reforms have no chance of being adopted as an «integrated system,» especially in the present political climate.
A particularly egregious illustration is the outdated and strikingly incomplete «A Reporter's Guide To Privatization,» published in 2005 by the Education Writers of America (EWA).
Harvard Protesters Greet Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Speech (NY Daily News via The Associated Press) To Improve Education, Reallocate Funds, DeVos Urges (Harvard Gazette) Boston Educators & Allies: Stand for All Students #StopDeVos (Liberation) Protests Against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Decry School Privatization (Democracy Now) Coverage of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos» talk at Harvard, and the efforts and perspective of some HGSE protesters who attended the event.
«Clearly, the man can not be trusted; and Cerf's persistent proclivity towards prevarication, political smear campaigns and the privatization of public schools shows that he is not fit to run New Jersey's education system.»
«Privatization,» as participants called it, was one of the most - discussed subjects at the annual meeting of the American Education Finance Association, March 18 - 20.
First, while vouchers are a means favored by conservatives to diminish publicly guaranteed social rights, and to advance principles of privatization and marketization, they are among the few remaining means that offer the inner - city poor the possibility of a decent education.