Sentences with phrase «out of the public school system rather»

I share the sentiment that some of the recent laws have gone overboard in requiring state tests, etc.Private choice programs should be clearly understood as an opt - out of the public school system rather than an invitation for the states to impose their standards and tests.

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Rather, people should understand ESAs as an opt - out of the public school system, not as an extension of it into other delivery methods.

Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education, is infamous for his claim that Hurricane Katrina was, «the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans,» because it wiped out the existing public school system which allowed it to be replaced with one that is totally privatized, completely made up of charter schools rather than public schools, and no longer employs teachers who belong to unions.

Michigan's charter school «industry» — and that's what it is, an industry; not an educational system, but rather a business model designed to steal public money and slip it into private bank accounts — is wildly out of control, an unregulated Wild West playground for unscrupulous hucksters, quacks and charlatans who see our school system and our children as an untapped well - spring of profits.