Sentences with phrase «privatization efforts as»

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.

Not exact matches

The movement toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of school privatization efforts, such as tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to private schools — have had mixed results, at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students, at worst.

The neoliberal privatization movement has presented «choice» as a civil rights effort — and as the only option for changing the status quo for these historically underserved students of color.

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.

The 2017 session will go down in history as a blatant effort to fully fund school privatization while turning a cold shoulder on Florida's three million public school children.

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

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.

on Gates Foundation and carrion fly into Hartford as part of public education privatization effort

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

Hopefully similarly strong organizing will help defeat any privatization efforts in Puerto Rico as well.