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The ESSA regulations maintain the federal government's commitment to the privatization of public schools by requiring that states must implement programs to turn the «bottom 5 %» of schools over to privately owned and operated charter schools or instituted an alternative type of privatization or turnaround program.

Hasn't CAP always ysupported privatization of public schools by charter schools which cherrypick and segregate students through rigged lottery application requirements?

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His guests will include two Michigan residents who will talk about the damage to their state's public schools caused by the DeVos privatization agenda — Detroit parent activist Wytrice Harris and outgoing president of the Michigan State Board of Education John Austin.»

Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools By Diane Ravitch

And here in New York, we're joined by Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

Privatization of libraries, hospitals, prisons, and other basic services had long been hailed by those on the political right, but how could one persuade entire communities to hand over their children and their public schools to private sector corporations, some of which hoped to turn a profit off their children, in order to reward their shareholders?

She also raised concerns that teachers at the school are not protected by a collective bargaining agreement and that the takeover would usher in privatization of public schools.

«Given the massive amount of money funneled from the pro-school privatization lobby to Republican legislators, l am afraid that we will see yet another effort to decimate our local public schools and allow unaccountable private voucher schools to play by a substandard set of rules.»

Driven by a desire to accelerate the privatization of public schools while the economic window of chaos still exists, the Broads, depends on legislation like the Parent Trigger, Broad, has resorted again to a WWII - style propaganda film: Won't Back Down is scheduled for release in Sept. 2012.

According to an article by Lauren Camera in U.S. News & World Report, the national NAACP has in the past «opposed spending public money on charters» and the «privatization» of schools.

Reign of Error begins where The Death and Life of the Great American School System left off, providing a deeper argument against privatization and for public education, and in a chapter - by - chapter breakdown, putting forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve it.

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 sSchools are public schoolsschools.

As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.

Last, and I am sorry to rant but you caught me after my second cup of coffee, the arts have been stripped from many public schools... so privatization by charter looks great when those charters hang the arts sign on their shingles.

The October issue of CTA's magazine, California Educator, is full of anti-Tuck blather, including an editorial by union president Dean Vogel in which he solemnly proclaims that the challenger is a «well - funded corporate education reformer who supports the privatization of public schools and efforts to obliterate due process for teachers.»

This animated video by Pulitzer Prize - winning cartoonist Mark Fiore looks at school privatization through the eyes of little Timmy, a kindergartener who likes his public school.

Although Malloy is the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in «turnaround» schools, the announcement that Stefan Pryor will be leaving his position at the end of this year was seen by some as a signal that Malloy was going to shift away from his corporate education reform industry and privatization policies and would use a second term to provide more support for Connecticut's real public education system.

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage, a stunning report released this week by Journey for Justice (J4J), cuts through the ideological babble on school «reform» and lets us listen as «voices from America's affected communities of color» — parents, students, and community leaders — tell us how school closures and privatization are affecting them, their neighborhoods, and their chiSchool Closures, and Public School Sabotage, a stunning report released this week by Journey for Justice (J4J), cuts through the ideological babble on school «reform» and lets us listen as «voices from America's affected communities of color» — parents, students, and community leaders — tell us how school closures and privatization are affecting them, their neighborhoods, and their chiSchool Sabotage, a stunning report released this week by Journey for Justice (J4J), cuts through the ideological babble on school «reform» and lets us listen as «voices from America's affected communities of color» — parents, students, and community leaders — tell us how school closures and privatization are affecting them, their neighborhoods, and their chischool «reform» and lets us listen as «voices from America's affected communities of color» — parents, students, and community leaders — tell us how school closures and privatization are affecting them, their neighborhoods, and their chischool closures and privatization are affecting them, their neighborhoods, and their children.

The national group, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, issued a statement explaining: «As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.Schools, issued a statement explaining: «As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.schools.»

In «Still left behind,» the CEOs of Chicago's largest corporations claimed that all — ALL — Chicago public schools were «failures» and had to be replaced by charters and other privatization schemes.

In November, In the Public Interest, a research and policy organization focused on privatization and contracting, submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act to the Department of Education requesting all communications between Jason Botel and Julia Keleher between July 1 and mid-November, and all emails sent or received by Botel during that period that mention charter schools or Puerto Rico.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education and Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, by Diane Ravitch

Strauss noted, «Bill de Blasio campaigned for New York mayor last year as a friend of traditional public education, and his victory was hailed by those who wanted to slow down corporate school reform, which has led to the growing privatization of public education.»

Public school districts are projected to lose more than $ 303 million to Commonwealth charter schools in the 2011 - 2012 school year (minus some short - term reimbursement), an increase of more than 9 % over last year, and the first time in the 15 - year history of this privatization initiative that costs have topped $ 300 million, according to figures recently released by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

It has existed during the past two presidencies with the privatization of public education through the taxpayer funding of charter schools, the dominance of the standardized testing industry, and education standards determined by the man with the most money, but that oligarchy was hidden under the misnomer of «education reform.»

Dedicated to promoting the privatization of public education, more taxpayer funds for privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and a host of anti-teacher initiatives, Students for Education Reform, Inc. (SFER) was created in late 2009, according to their narrative, by a couple of undergraduate students at Princeton University.

Though the voucher fight had been lost, charter schools, which receive government funding but operate independently of the public - school system (and are seen by conservative policy groups as a gateway drug to privatization) sprang up across the state.

Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, by Diane Ravitch (Alfred Knopf, 2013).

President Barack Obama entered office with promises of relief from unrealistic expectations and punitive incentives — only to double down on testing's importance by favoring value - added teacher evaluations and to promote privatization through the charter school sector which has increasingly placed portions of our educational commons into hands avoiding public oversight.

But, as slavery was the ongoing divisive issue since the founding of the Republic and until the American Civil War, privatization of public education by charter schools has been an ongoing issue of our day since charter school legislation of the 90s.

To me it looked like an attempt to reinforce the advancement of charter schools, vouchers and privatization by making all public schools look like «failures» by 2014.

But now many parents and taxpayers — manipulated by politicians who argue that the only way to fix public education is to weaken it with privatization — are giving up on the very idea of public schools.

The new book by education historian and activist Diane Ravitch, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, has debuted on The New York Times bestseller list in the non-fiction hardback category at No. 10.

The «problems» in public education won't be solved by promoting the rhetoric that simply luring the «best and brightest» students from America's most elite colleges and universities to teaching will somehow fix the systemic defunding and privatization of our schools and the de-professionalization of the teaching profession.