Sentences with phrase «of privatizing public education»

I also realized that charter schools had become, in many places, a way of privatizing public education.

The current Education Reform agenda is directly linked to Milton Freidman and his notions of a privatized public education system accessed by vouchers.

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Yes, it is troubling to see the full - court press to privatize big chunks of public education.

«To say that schools that have already been starved should be further starved so he can privatize options is an abandonment of public education,» she said.

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.

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

Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins said today that Republic Rob Astorino's plan to run on a Stop Common Core ballot line is a «bait - and - switch diversion designed to channel legitimate concerns over Common Core behind the Republican agenda of underfunding and privatizing public education.»

Many parents and other critics argue that the closings were part of a larger agenda to privatize public education, break unions, and gentrify African American neighborhoods, Lipman and her co-authors wrote.

Some view school choice as a social good in and of itself, while others may have indirect objectives, such as funneling public funds to religious schools or privatizing public education.

In their view, the villains are those who want to «privatize» the system through expanded charters, increased merit pay, vouchers, union - busting, and other market - oriented schemes that challenge the fundamental nature of public education.

Still others see the initiative as part of an even larger conspiracy to dismantle public schools and privatize education.

In response, American Federations of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said, quote, «In nominating DeVos, Trump makes it loud and clear that his education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public education in America,» unquote.

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.»

Her drive to privatize education is demonstrably destructive to public schools and to the educational success of all of our children.

We all know this to be intentional misrepresentation on the part of the special interests who are dedicated to destroying public education and replacing it with privatized services.

Any Finnish educator will say that Finland improved its public education system not by privatizing its schools or constantly testing its students, but by investing in the preparation, support, and retention of excellent teachers.

The frenzy to privatize America's K - 12 education system, under the banner of high - tech progress and cost - saving efficiency, speaks to the stunning success of a public relations and lobbying campaign by industry, particularly tech companies.

Every budget is a statement of values and this one could not be more clear in the vision it presents: starve the public school system and privatize education.

PAA opposes efforts to privatize public education through the expansion of charters, vouchers or other privately - run programs at the expense of regular public schools.

«Essentially we have a proposed bill that would undermine democracy in Connecticut's urban areas and likely further privatize our public school system,» said Jacob Werblow, an assistant professor of Educational Leadership at Central Connecticut State University and Harber Fellow of Education at Wesleyan University.

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Rhee, like other ideologues in this overheated debate on public education, has wealthy backers, many of whom have an agenda to privatize public education.

The goal is to encourage parents and educators to «opt out of high stakes testing and resist all market - based reforms seeking to privatize and destroy public education.»

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Florida public education has been subjected to a long list of unproven and unfair model «reforms» that are part of a national agenda to privatize district schools.

If one took all the information presented at the meeting last night, and coupled it with just plain old investigative reporting (hint, hint RR) one would see a pattern: All decisions (state / local) have been made in alignment with the purpose of the having charter schools privatize public education in SAISD and elsewhere (including these calculated layoffs, when charter school hire their own).

The Department of Education's official responseto Rocketship's grant application — that it «assists youth in developing social emotional learning» and has «not had any significant student safety issues» — reflects a shared agenda to privatize public education and to reduce the size of the labor force, while overlooking serious Education's official responseto Rocketship's grant application — that it «assists youth in developing social emotional learning» and has «not had any significant student safety issues» — reflects a shared agenda to privatize public education and to reduce the size of the labor force, while overlooking serious education and to reduce the size of the labor force, while overlooking serious concerns.

DeVos has spent most of her life using her billions to privatize public education through charter and voucher school schemes.

This view puts them in close alignment with US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who seeks to privatize public education through charters and Education Betsy DeVos, who seeks to privatize public education through charters and education through charters and vouchers.

We have ASD because it was part of our RTTT application commitments and because it is what the progressives want in order to privatize education, destroy traditional public schools, destroy traditional public school teachers, eliminate elected school boards, destroy the voice of parents and local control.

Most of these privatizing, ALEC - type, corporate think - tank financed educational reforms are about dismantling public education while destroying teachers unions.

Foster says one reason education is attacked as a profession is that a contingent of Americans want to privatize public schools.

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.

The crusade to privatize public education in North Carolina has become a hallmark of the folks currently in charge in Raleigh.

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.

Their proposal has been getting help directly from Commissioner Pryor's office and was written by the Connecticut lobbying group that is dedicated to privatizing Connecticut's system of public education.

The Malloy administration's extraordinary efforts to increase the number of charter schools and privatize even more of the state's public education system took a giant leap forward at the last State Board of Educationeducation system took a giant leap forward at the last State Board of EducationEducation meeting.

But critics see charters as part of the movement to privatize public education, and the growth of charter schools has drained many traditional public school systems.

I recently wrote about Superintendent Castarphen and her history of bullying staff and working to privatize public education.

His education agenda pushes the non-democratic takeover of public schools and supports privatizing them.

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.»

He is a product of public education but is determined to privatize the system.

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.

Because TFA, which places idealistic young teachers in tough - to - staff schools, takes funding from the Walton Foundation, which of course is the philanthropic arm of Walmart, which, according to USAS, is trying to privatize public education, which it shouldn't do because it will cost the teachers unions countless members, which will destroy their bottom line... or something like that.

The comments were hardly ringing endorsements of the state's plans, either, with some sharply critical of Cerf and what they see as his and Christie's broader political agenda to privatize public education.

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.