Sentences with phrase «privatize more public schools»

According to Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters and a public school parent in NYC, «The Parent Trigger was devised as an underhanded trick by the charter lobby to manipulate parents into letting them privatize more public schools.

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Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

Sadly, the more name calling you do («privateer,» «hoax, destroy, privatize,» or this doozy: «corporate interests, hedge fund managers and billionaires starve public schools and services of resources and suck up as much profit as they can»), the more press you get.

Every budget is a statement of values and this one could not be more clear in the vision it presents: starve the public school system and privatize education.

But we have still a long way to go to overcome the forces of big money that are intent on privatizing our public schools, and imposing policies, including school closings, more high stakes testing, and the rapid expansion of online learning, that threaten to further damage our children and are unsupported by research.

This assurance is even more important given DeVos's long - standing efforts and contributions to issues, initiatives, and organizations whose common purpose is to privatize public schools.

The Malloy administration's extraordinary efforts to increase the number of charter schools and privatize even more of the state's public education system took a giant leap forward at the last State Board of Education meeting.

«This appears to be nothing more than a way to privatize our public schools, and it concerns us deeply.»

The Corporate Education Reform Industry claims that the Common Core, more standardized testing, doing away with teacher tenure and privatizing public education by shifting to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools will solve the biggest problems and challenges facing public education in the United States.

The question that arises over and over again is why Connecticut's elected and appointed public officials are engaged in their ongoing effort to undermine and privatize public education in Connecticut, denigrate teachers and turn our public schools into little more than taxpayer funded testing factories.

Critics such as Councilman Brian Coleman and former school board member Dwaine Williams see the city's public school system shrinking as education becomes more privatized.

The charter school industry and its corporate education reform allies are seeking to privatize public education and turn our schools into little more than Common Core testing factories and profit centers.

Now called the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Republican and Democratic leaders, along with the Corporate Education Reform Industry and the leadership of the teachers» unions are heralding the new system which continues the effort to privatize public education, turn schools into little more than testing factories and undermine teachers and the teaching profession.

A major new report from the progressive One Wisconsin Institute finds that the right - wing Bradley Foundation spent more than $ 108 million, working with 130 partner groups, to privatize public schools in Wisconsin between 2005 and 2014.