Sentences with phrase «on destroying public education»

None of our international enemies are as powerful, organized and, thus far, as successful as our home grown progressives who are bent on destroying public education as we know it in America.

Also, the mere mention of the name «Broad» is Pavlovian and symbolic to all teacher unions: Broad, as in «oh, you mean the billionaire corporate interests intent on destroying public education.»

Not exact matches

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

Their plan is to destroy ALL People programs from Medicare to SS to food stamps to public education to veteran healthcare and pensions to college grants to every single welfare program and the list goes on and on.

«They've helped to destroy successful schools across the city of New York,» Thompson said during a panel discussion on education policy at NYU, hosted by the New York City Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for mayor.

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.

«In nominating DeVos, Trump makes it loud and clear that his education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public education in America.

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.

On her website, Ravitch wrote simply: «Bottom line: the Alexander plan will destroy public education in the U.S.»

Because billionaires know that once public education is destroyed in Wisconsin, that they can fully cash in on students in this state.

And in a comment on Monday, public education historian and advocate Diane Ravitch combined Wozniak's critique with Warren's, denouncing DeVos» lack of «experience or qualificiations» and saying the heiress» «only plan is to weaken and destroy» U.S. public schools.

Valerie Strauss offers comments on her blog today from teacher and SOS march initiator Anthony Cody and Parents Across America co-founder Rita Solnet on the need for an alliance between teachers and parents to stop the twin scourges of high - stakes testing and privatization that is destroying public education in the US.

The California Teachers Association local set up an entity called «Teachers for Local Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.»

On the heels of the great cheating scandal of 2009, APS hired a leader of the destroy public education (DPE) movement as schools» chief.

The focus on collaboration as a means for reform in public education comes at a critical time when teachers unions are facing attacks that threaten to destroy collective bargaining rights in several states.

It appears the CTA leadership has discovered a legion of billionaires teaming up with President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to destroy public education and «push failed educational policies on CaliforniEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos to destroy public education and «push failed educational policies on Californieducation and «push failed educational policies on California.»

In the coming weeks we'll dig even deeper into this absurd plan, but if you want to get a basic primary on how the education reformers are wasting our tax dollars, undermining the teaching professional and destroying our public schools, I urge you to start by reading — and then re-reading Wendy Lecker's great piece.

His piece is a «Must Read» on the antics of Steve Perry and those seeking to destroy public education in the United States.

One by one Diane successfully challenged the lies and hoaxes being perpetrated by those intent on destroying and privatizing America's public education system.

Call it devastating, draconian or simply a vicious attack on Connecticut's children, parents, educators and public schools, the governor who has consistently worked to undermine and privatize public education, since taking office in 2011, has now proposed a new state budget that destroys Connecticut's already failing constitutional requirement to adequately fund its public schools.

I am willing to bet the Smarter Balanced people haven't learned yet how to keep a reasonable rate of reliability (or for that matter validity) on these testing approaches so they are using our kids as «guinea pigs» while they calibrate and re-calibrate their tests to show which of our kids our «most stupid» and they can call them pejorative names and close their schools and fire the teachers etc etc with harsh punitive measures that are meant to destroy public education.

The attacks on Public Education is not about Public Education, it is about destroying all unions and the middle class.

Peter's commentary piece focused on the recent pronouncements of Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo who has pledged to use his second term to destroy public education in New York.

Now, my own feelings about Teach for America are hardly a secret (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/17/a-professors-encounter-with-two-teach-for-america-recruiters/), but even I was a bit surprised that TFA would tip their hand on their real agenda: destroying traditional teacher education programs, teachers unions, and public schools as we know them.