Privatization refers to the process of transferring control of companies, organizations, or resources from the government to private ownership or management. It involves selling or divesting public assets, such as state-owned enterprises, to individuals, corporations, or investors in the private sector. This shift aims to decrease government involvement and allow the private sector to take responsibility for running and managing these assets.
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The event is a presentation for labor leaders and union activists to learn strategies and gain a better understanding of the impacts of
privatization of public services.
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.
Clinton also worked for Walmart, so one assumes she likes the Walton agenda
for privatization of public schools.
ALEC continues to push a corporate - driven school
privatization agenda through legislatures across the country.
This model, in which principals are no longer hog - tied by elaborate bureaucratic or confining union rules, proved attractive to teachers eager to take over campuses, but who equate charters
with privatization of school management.
Two decades later, with vouchers and similar schemes serving one - third of one percent of the public school population, Moe has written a scathing critique of the single force in American politics most responsible for preserving public education
against privatization efforts: American teachers and their unions.
Opening Pandora's Box: Polly Williams» Doomed Partnership with the Education Privatization Movement
When the data is analyzed, the Vallas Turnaround Model is not a tribute to improving public education, but a lesson in
privatization by replacing failing public schools with failing charter schools and creating a two - tiered education system where certain students get access to higher performing institutions, while leaving all the other students behind.
An interesting piece from Grist came on the radar, focused
on privatization of water supplies, and it's worth a read:
Park District Supt. Forrest Claypool, who met with employees and union officials Tuesday, characterized the latest interest in
privatization as «testing the market.»
Support for school
privatization schemes continues to plummet and there is a demand, especially in communities of color, for full service, sustainable community schools!
At the time, the Ghanaian government was working to secure parliamentary approval of a new
water privatization plan — a vote that would likely occur following the elections.
Recently, more religious leaders have promoted
privatization programs as a way to save religious schools with dwindling enrollment.
Meanwhile, Hochul has criticized the Medicare
privatization plan in Rep. Paul Ryan's budget passed by the House Republican majority.
They examine the startlingly broad range of education policy changes enacted in Florida during Bush's first term, including moves
toward privatization with a voucher system, more government control of public education institutions with centralized accountability mechanisms, and a «superboard» for all public education.
If your public school is so exclusive that it might as well be private, don't rail
about privatization in education.
Whilst this is a welcome initiative to tackle the legacy costs
from privatization on the region, it does nothing to deal with rising bills elsewhere in the country.
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...
They intend to make a killing on scarcity caused by climate change
through privatization of water and other public resources.
Betsy DeVos is doing nothing for public schools other than
pushing privatization for her «stakeholder» friends, especially those in the tech industry.
You pollute the term «school choice» by
including privatization and vouchers, when you should know that in California, proponents of vouchers are NOT included in the push for reform or choice and the in California all CHarter Schools are public schools.
The News & Observer reports that only Republicans were invited to the six - hour event where the presenters included education
privatization advocates from the John Locke Foundation, Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education, and something called the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation in California.
Puerto Rico's governor announced on Feb. 5 that he will pursue school
privatization policies as the island continues to suffer from the devastation of Hurricane Maria.
Although critics point out, the nation's public schools are already underfunded and vouchers and
other privatization programs further undermine the ability of public schools to provide students with the comprehensive educational opportunities they need and deserve, the Trump administration is likely to «go all in» with the effort to redirect public resources to privately owned and operated school settings.
In the next discussion, the Ukrainian delegation informed the United States of the current and future - planned
privatization process in Ukraine, as well as Ukraine's ongoing efforts to improve the investment environment in the energy sector.
Blackstone Real Estate has become almost like a «kid in the candy store» these days, taking advantage of the wave of REIT
privatizations driven by REIT discounts.
Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Darienne Driver responded, saying
further privatization of education in the city would drain resources from MPS.
I had become more politically aware after the Progressive Conservative government attempted to ram through a law allowing for
increased privatization of health care in Alberta.
Opinion polls showed that voters had
opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.
This mode of resistance to the
Corporate privatization movement will resonate with a wide swath of people for a variety of reasons, and it is the most basic, direct, loud, easy resistance to this larger corporate take over
He pointed to the Westchester County Airport
privatization deal as a microcosm of what he said were short - sighted budgetary practices.
Even the city's first attempt
at privatization was met with challenges, including allegations of cruelty and neglect against the shelter operator.
In my view, this is one of the great indictment of the corporate «reform» movement: they claim that everything they do is «for the children,» but then they will let almost anyone «run a school,» just so long as so doing
advances privatization.
While the Trump / DeVos Department of Education budget will put billions more
into privatization, as a whole there would be $ 9 billion less spent on education, a 13 percent cut.
A large percentage of respondents expressed concern that too much money was being directed
towards privatization including charter schools and educational technology.
More privatization means that fewer public school teachers (read union members) will be needed, thus hurting the unions» bottom line.
Faced with intense and widespread opposition, Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker last week withdrew his plan to place the Philadelphia school system under private management, canceling what would have been the largest such
privatization experiment in the country.
Impact of Social
Security Privatization on the Disabled «Cuts in Disability Benefits Seen in Social Security Plan»
3) National / Wisconsin: The Economic Policy Institute releases a report by Prof. Gordon Lafer on school
privatization proposals in Milwaukee.
For example, he was quite explicit before he was elected about supporting a big tax cut and the
partial privatization of Social Security.
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