Sentences with phrase «privatize public education at»

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«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn hit back at StudentsFirstNY on Wednesday, arguing the pro-charter school organization was bankrolled by hedge fund managers who seek to privatize public education for a profit.

PAA opposes efforts to privatize public education through the expansion of charters, vouchers or other privately - run programs at the expense of regular public schools.

«Essentially we have a proposed bill that would undermine democracy in Connecticut's urban areas and likely further privatize our public school system,» said Jacob Werblow, an assistant professor of Educational Leadership at Central Connecticut State University and Harber Fellow of Education at Wesleyan University.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

If one took all the information presented at the meeting last night, and coupled it with just plain old investigative reporting (hint, hint RR) one would see a pattern: All decisions (state / local) have been made in alignment with the purpose of the having charter schools privatize public education in SAISD and elsewhere (including these calculated layoffs, when charter school hire their own).

Despite the American Legislative Council's tentative embrace of Donald Trump's presidency, they are foaming at the mouth for the now - endless opportunities to further privatize public education — a key ALEC goal they have been promoting and pushing for decades.

Look only at El Paso to see how democratic public schools are done in by them and local business leaders who can't wait to get the charitable funding to privatize education.

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 Educationeducation system took a giant leap forward at the last State Board of EducationEducation meeting.

We oppose efforts to privatize public education through the expansion of charters, vouchers or other privately - run programs at the expense of regular public schools.

Like much that takes place in public education these days, this effort to secure state approval fits the «corporate education reform» agenda, is based on misleading information and deception, and will result in further undermining established teacher training programs while — at the same time — continuing to enrich those who seek to profit and privatize public education.

Most recently, DFER and its related entities have been particularly involved in campaigns and political activities aimed at supporting politicians committed to privatizing public education and promoting charter schools in California, Colorado, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York and in other targeted states and cities.