Sentences with phrase «privatization efforts»

The Institute for Justice has long been involved in litigation and advocacy efforts around the country that involve school privatization efforts as well as issues revolving around private property, economic liberty, and free speech.

Public school advocates and many Democrats have been bitingly critical of such privatization efforts in the state's public schools.

For ALEC, it is all about tearing down our public school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.

Coming from Chicago, former home of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Lipman described the devastating consequences of Duncan's privatization efforts as CEO of Chicago public schools.

These cuts came along with increased funding for school - privatization efforts such as vouchers.

It is a product of the education reform industry that is set on convincing policymakers and the public that our nation's public education system is broken, that our public school teachers are bad and that the answer is more standardized testing and diverting scarce public funds to charter schools and other privatization efforts.

He oversaw one the largest European privatization efforts ever and paved the way for Italy's entry into the euro.

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McCoy's challenger, former Albany School Board member Dan Egan, took an offensive stance from the get - go, sideswiping McCoy on nearly every issue - praising county legislators for saving the Albany County Nursing Home from an initial privatization effort McCoy had led.

ALBANY, NY (03/05/2018)(readMedia)-- The New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) has scheduled Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In The Public Interest, to speak about the trends and developments in the delivery of public services, with an emphasis on current privatization efforts and strategies on how to protect public services.

Narrow thinking can even lead to strategies that do harm, like privatization efforts in Peru that modestly improved water infrastructure but priced the poor out of the market.

AMY GOODMAN: The DeVoses have bankrolled their school deregulation and privatization efforts through a dark money group called American Federation for Children, a major contributor to the right - wing corporate education movement.

Rather than work through democratically elected boards of education, where public policy belongs, harbormasters are designed to do an end run around the American political system and install pro-privatization gurus and consultants to take over and run privatization efforts.

The former head of School Portfolio Development for Mayor Bloomberg's school privatization efforts also served as a consultant to the superintendent of the Louisiana Recovery School District in New Orleans.

At the core of the issue is the Malloy administration's failure to properly fund Connecticut's public schools and their obsession with diverting scarce public resources to charter schools and related privatization efforts.

The organizers said they are objecting to «a national movement to Reclaim Our Schools from privatization efforts that will bankrupt public education, we will stand with Los Angeles parents, educators, students, administrators, and community members for fully funded public schools and call on corporate charter schools to pay their fair share to the district.»

He also serves on the Charter Oak Challenge Foundation, one of the vehicles that the corporate reformers have used to funnel money to Vallas and Bridgeport privatization efforts.

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.

Excel Bridgeport, the corporate funded education reform group that has been lobbying for Bridgeport's public school privatization efforts reported spending $ 101,803.36.

As a member of the State Board of Education, Comer will be in a unique position to directly and indirectly help her employer and the charter school industry continue their ongoing privatization efforts.

Ms. DeVos is known for her involvement in several education reform organizations that support or promote privatization efforts, including private school vouchers.

While the entire report is a «MUST READ» for those following the «school choice» debate, it is an especially important addition to the debate for those concerned about the Malloy administration's commitment to expanding the number of charter schools in Connecticut and their on - going privatization efforts to turn public schools over to private charter school operators.

Other feature in this issue of MoJo include a profile of»... cable's high priest of populism, Lou Dobbs,» a look at highway privatization efforts by Indiana governor Mitch Daniels and financial powerhouse Goldman Sachs, and a breakdown of the financial considerations involved in installing a solar power array on a home.

In her recent column, state Rep. Chris Taylor argues that the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, and presumably other voucher proponents are «all about tearing down our public - school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.»

By Rhee's definition, Louisiana is best in the nation because it has the strongest anti-teacher, anti-union and charter school laws and Louisiana does the best job diverting public funds to charter schools and other privatization efforts.

NSEA will continue working with NEA to stomp out the Trump - DeVos public education privatization efforts and work to see all revenue is directed toward strengthening public education.

Nicosia said the district has not been able to demonstrate that its privatization efforts have resulted in significant savings.

Kopel, who later approved the deal, said at the time he was «skeptical» about the privatization effort.

The privatization effort took effect a few weeks before the September 11 attack when Larry Silverstein assumed a 99 - year lease for $ 3.2 billion.

CSEA President P.T. Thomas spoke out against the layoffs saying that if the budget cuts interfered with their prior contract or the public ownership of Summit Park nursing home, the CSEA would pursue legal action to counter what he calls a «privatization effort» against the troubled healthcare center.

The decision by Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke came just as the first major independent evaluation of eai's role in the city's schools gave mixed reviews to the closely watched school - privatization effort.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

After giving shout outs to Michigan and Wisconsin for leading the privatization effort, she lauded the 43 state legislatures in 20 states that have expanded privatization efforts just this year.

These education reform bills come at a time when school privatization efforts are sweeping the nation.

What these voucher pushers never mention is that their privatization efforts have failed to do what they initially promised — increase academic performance and graduation rates for low - income, primarily African - American kids.

Education support professionals in Waterford, Michigan, recently beat back a school privatization effort that would have cut 200 jobs.

According to the North Carolina State Board of Elections, since 2010 John Bryan has given well over $ 100,000 to candidates who have a record of pushing school privatization efforts, including House Speaker Tim Moore, Rep. Jason Saine, former Guilford Rep. Marcus Brandon, Rep. Paul Stam, and Sen. Ralph Hise.

CHICAGO AND NEW ORLEANS: Weighing in on the privatization effort in Little Rock, New Orleans parent Karran Harper Royal and Chicago grandmother Irene Robinson published a powerful column in the Arkansas Times warning about the harmful impact that privatization has had on their cities» schools and communities.

Teachers unions continue to use empty rhetoric to bash promising school privatization efforts.

With billions promised by the Trump / DeVos administration in new federal school privatization efforts to make the country over in the likeness of Michigan's privatized chaos, perhaps now would be a good time to inform the Secretary of Education that Uber is a convenience.

His findings revealed «strong elements of both privatization efforts and neoliberalism within the NISL program.»

Malloy, who has proposed record - breaking cuts to Connecticut's public schools while diverting more and more scarce taxpayer funds to privately owned and operated charter schools has become a poster - boy for the insidious and devastating impact that the education reform and privatization effort is having on public education in Connecticut.

But not to be outdone, Commissioner Stefan Pryor and his aides refocused their Clark Elementary School privatization effort, this time looking to hand the Hartford Public School over to a Washington D.C. based charter school company known as Friendship Charter Schools.

Achieve Hartford Inc. is not only paying for the airfare and hotel accommodations for the 14 members of the Clark Turnaround Committee to fly to Washington, but the corporate lobbying group has been one of the biggest supporters of Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor's public school privatization efforts.

Charter schools are the Wal * Marts of public education: Fewer people are aware that Wal * Mart and the more than $ 1 billion it has given to privatization efforts have been having a similar effect.

These privatization efforts will probably include education savings accounts and school vouchers, either paid for directly with tax dollars or funded through a system of tax credits.