Privatization schemes refer to strategies or plans implemented by governments to transfer ownership or control of public assets or services to private entities. This means that previously public resources, such as companies, utilities, or infrastructure, are sold or leased to individuals or corporations.
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There are a broad spectrum of public, private partnerships ranging from a single firm both designing and building new infrastructure to a
complete privatization scheme.
Support for school
privatization schemes continues to plummet and there is a demand, especially in communities of color, for full service, sustainable community schools!
After 30 years of manufactured crises and failed solutions, the elements of this package, including the standards, are being used as ideological battering rams to attack the very concept of public education, replacing it with a profit -
making privatization scheme.
More astroturf «parent» groups: Wal * Mart funds fake grassroots groups like Stand for Children (millions) and Parent Revolution ($ 6.3 million) to push the parent trigger and other
corporate privatization schemes.
With so much at stake and progress being made, it is up to all of us to resist a Trump -
DeVos privatization scheme that would forever take even more resources away from one of the pillars of our democracy: public education.
When it comes to Governor Malloy, his Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor and the corporate education reform industry, perhaps the most absurd, inappropriate, insulting, and anti-local
control privatization scheme is playing itself out in Stamford, Connecticut.
North Carolina: Chris Fitzsimon of NC Policy Watch calls attention to «the latest
school privatization scheme that continues to draw far too little attention from the media and even many education advocates.»
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.
Ford offers more corporate tax cuts and a continuation of Wynne's
privatization schemes.
His gargantuan pay packet neatly symbolizes everything that is wrong about
a privatization scheme that enriched some but did the province no good.
«Failed voucher and
privatization schemes?»
Instead of looking to improve education for all children, he parroted failed voucher and
privatization schemes that have not improved student learning.
Public school advocates declared the proposal little more than
a privatization scheme that yielded lackluster results in similar efforts in Tennessee, Louisiana and Michigan.
According to organizers, the rally is being called «Win Back Wednesday» because public education must be «won back» from the profit - driven entities behind high - stakes testing and school
privatization schemes and returned to actual stakeholders: parents, students, and educators.
We want an end to mayoral control, state takeovers and other
privatization schemes that remove our right to hold public officials accountable for the education policy they set; and curiously target cities whose public school systems serve primarily African - American and Latino children.
They also bolster misperceptions about public school failure, place urban schools in the cross hairs and lend ammunition to
privatization schemes.
Tens of thousands of students live in what Jitu Brown has described as «school deserts,» because their districts have been devastated by failed policies such as mass school closures, the proliferation of charter schools, and other
privatization schemes.
It is critical that PA lawmakers who are committed to improving educational opportunities for minority students in low - income districts SUPPORT increased state funding for our public school and OPPOSE school
privatization schemes that would drain resources away from the students who need them the most.
Vallas has been the poster boy for the «shock doctrine» style, pro-charter school, school
privatization schemes.
We urge Congress to fully fund the President's Jobs act and to restore all cuts to Title II, and for our State Legislature to do its part by ensuring that our public schools have the resources they need for smaller classes, rather than diverting public funds to vouchers, for - profit charter schools, and other
privatization schemes.»
With their proposed fiscal year 2019 budget, President Trump and Secretary DeVos have demonstrated, once again, that they are eager to drain public education funds in order to push
their privatization schemes.
Summary: NSEA heard the message loud and clear from members and the community - no achievement school districts and NSEA led the charge to kill
this privatization scheme.