Sentences with phrase «on privatizing public education»

Rauner is already taking some heat over his education policies, which center on privatizing public education; Rauner brags about Noble, which named one of its high schools after him after he provided the school's start - up funding.

Not exact matches

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn hit back at StudentsFirstNY on Wednesday, arguing the pro-charter school organization was bankrolled by hedge fund managers who seek to privatize public education for a profit.

Educators, administrators and parents alike have been raising the alarm since Common Core was rolled out, but this governor's current vitriol on public education makes it clear that he has only one goal: to privatize public education.

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.»

Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

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 «Harbormasters» — A new corporate education reform industry term for unelected entities seeking to privatize our public schools.

«This lawsuit was never about helping students, but is yet another attempt by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on public schools and students while working to privatize public education.»

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

Responding to the Vergara decision, National Education Association leader Dennis Van Roekel informs us that, «This lawsuit was never about helping students, but is yet another attempt by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on public schools and students while working to privatize public educatioEducation Association leader Dennis Van Roekel informs us that, «This lawsuit was never about helping students, but is yet another attempt by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on public schools and students while working to privatize public educationeducation.»

I left teaching, in part, due to my frustration with the school reforms that plague public schools and are intent on privatizing education.

FFF enjoys unparalleled access to on every political level in Tallahassee and is the driving force behind the effort to privatize Florida public education.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

The Trump administration is focusing on privatizing education by expanding school voucher programs that transfer public funds to private schools through bills such as the «Choices in Education Act»education by expanding school voucher programs that transfer public funds to private schools through bills such as the «Choices in Education Act»Education Act» (HR610).

The Corporate Education Reform Industry and its allies like President Obama, Former President George W. Bush, presidential candidate Jeb Bush and Democratic governors Andrew Cuomo and Dannel Malloy have repeatedly claimed that the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme, diverting scarce public funds to charter schools, privatizing public education and evaluating teachers based on the Common Core test results would be good for the nation's public school students, their parents and the country'Education Reform Industry and its allies like President Obama, Former President George W. Bush, presidential candidate Jeb Bush and Democratic governors Andrew Cuomo and Dannel Malloy have repeatedly claimed that the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme, diverting scarce public funds to charter schools, privatizing public education and evaluating teachers based on the Common Core test results would be good for the nation's public school students, their parents and the country'education and evaluating teachers based on the Common Core test results would be good for the nation's public school students, their parents and the country's future.

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.

Privatizing public education is corporate welfare on steroids.

But over the last decade, the charter school movement has morphed from a small, community - based effort to foster alternative education into a vehicle for privatizing public education, pushed by free - market foundations, big education - management companies, and profit - seekers looking for a way to cash in on public - education funds.

«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.

They constituted a pivotal moment in a struggle involving Corbett, well - funded education reformers bent on privatizing public schools, a battered teachers union, and students and parents attempting to navigate a school system in which fiscal crisis has become the only constant.

Public school activists charged that the three were part of a reform movement trying to privatize public education and started a recall effort that attracted national attention, including money from outside the state from partisans on both Public school activists charged that the three were part of a reform movement trying to privatize public education and started a recall effort that attracted national attention, including money from outside the state from partisans on both public education and started a recall effort that attracted national attention, including money from outside the state from partisans on both sides.

The lawsuit was brought by deep - pocketed corporate special interests intent on driving a corporate agenda geared toward privatizing public education and attacking educators.»

Columnist and education advocate Wendy Lecker writes about Governor Dannel Malloy's attack on Connecticut's public schools and his ongoing effort to privatize public education in Connecticut.

The Empowerment Parents Want: A Real, Effective Voice in our Children's Education As corporate efforts to privatize and capitalize on public education are increasingly being exposed as ineffective and damaging, the wealthy sponsors of these controversial strategies — e.g. school closings, turnarounds, charter school expansion — have been attempting to re-brand them as «parent empowermenEducation As corporate efforts to privatize and capitalize on public education are increasingly being exposed as ineffective and damaging, the wealthy sponsors of these controversial strategies — e.g. school closings, turnarounds, charter school expansion — have been attempting to re-brand them as «parent empowermeneducation are increasingly being exposed as ineffective and damaging, the wealthy sponsors of these controversial strategies — e.g. school closings, turnarounds, charter school expansion — have been attempting to re-brand them as «parent empowerment.»

As corporate efforts to privatize and capitalize on public education are increasingly being exposed as ineffective and damaging, the wealthy sponsors of these controversial strategies — e.g. school closings, turnarounds, charter school expansion — have been attempting to re-brand them as «parent empowerment.»

First published on Washington D.C.'s The Hill Website, Beware of Trump and DeVos» grand plan to privatize public education;

is dedicated to shining the light of truth on the Corporate Education Reform Industry's efforts to privatize public education and to speak out on the political and policy issues that threaten the people of ConEducation Reform Industry's efforts to privatize public education and to speak out on the political and policy issues that threaten the people of Coneducation and to speak out on the political and policy issues that threaten the people of Connecticut.

We, as a nation, must stop privatizing public education with profit - making, racial profiling charter schools for SOME of our children and, instead, focus on ALL of our children.

post entitled, «SFER — The $ 7 million + «student run» Corporate Education Reform Industry Front Group,» provided an update on how charter school advocates and the broader education reform industry is using a variety of advocacy groups to back their effort to privatize public education and undermine the teaching prEducation Reform Industry Front Group,» provided an update on how charter school advocates and the broader education reform industry is using a variety of advocacy groups to back their effort to privatize public education and undermine the teaching preducation reform industry is using a variety of advocacy groups to back their effort to privatize public education and undermine the teaching preducation and undermine the teaching profession.

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

Like much that takes place in public education these days, this effort to secure state approval fits the «corporate education reform» agenda, is based on misleading information and deception, and will result in further undermining established teacher training programs while — at the same time — continuing to enrich those who seek to profit and privatize public education.

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.

Students, parent activists and teachers took the stage to celebrate the defeat of Ballot Question 2, which called for a lift to the statewide cap on charter school expansion — a victory that Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni said quashed efforts to privatize public education.

Its mission is to focus public tax dollars on the K - 12 education of public school students by opposing legislation in the Indiana General Assembly that would fund private school vouchers, expand private school tax credits, privatize charter schools by allowing private colleges and agencies to be authorizers, put for - profit managers in place to take a profit from operating public schools and privatize public schools through any other means.»

For immediate release: March 10, 2012 Contacts: Rita Solnet, Boca Raton: [phone]; [email protected] Caroline Grannan, San Francisco: [phone]; [email protected] Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida's Parent Trigger bill: A victory of parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public schools Public education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a «Parent Trigger» law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist anpublic schools Public education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a «Parent Trigger» law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist anPublic education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a «Parent Trigger» law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist and... →

... so the 1 %, who are pulling ALL of the CCSS and RTTT strings, and their lackeys in Washington and state capitals across the land can grab all of those billions and billions of public dollars spent on public education AND PRIVATIZE AMERICA»S SCHOOLS.

Warren, who is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee which will hold a hearing on the nomination this week, also voiced concerns over DeVos» «deep record of activism, bankrolling and lobbying for policies that would privatize public educatioEducation, Labor and Pensions Committee which will hold a hearing on the nomination this week, also voiced concerns over DeVos» «deep record of activism, bankrolling and lobbying for policies that would privatize public educationeducation.»