Malloy, like newly sworn - in Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has been a consistent supporter of efforts to
privatize public education by turning over scarce public resources to charter schools despite the fact that these schools discriminate against Latino students, students who need help learning the English language and students who require special education services.
Supplemental Educational Services is an attempt to
privatize public education by using public funds for private vendors.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
In
education policy circles, the «charter schools are a plan
by ultra-conservatives to
privatize the
public school system» is a conspiracy theory that is quite popular.
The piece
by Lee Fang is stunning in many ways — it's long (almost 5,500 words) and it's detailed, as examples — but not in its depiction of, as Ravitch states, «how certain politicians and investors and entrepreneurs are working together to
privatize public education and to generate huge profits for certain companies.»
Any Finnish educator will say that Finland improved its
public education system not
by privatizing its schools or constantly testing its students, but
by investing in the preparation, support, and retention of excellent teachers.
The frenzy to
privatize America's K - 12
education system, under the banner of high - tech progress and cost - saving efficiency, speaks to the stunning success of a
public relations and lobbying campaign
by industry, particularly tech companies.
«This lawsuit was never about helping students, but is yet another attempt
by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on
public schools and students while working to
privatize public education.»
Responding to the Vergara decision, National
Education Association leader Dennis Van Roekel informs us that, «This lawsuit was never about helping students, but is yet another attempt by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on public schools and students while working to privatize public educatio
Education Association leader Dennis Van Roekel informs us that, «This lawsuit was never about helping students, but is yet another attempt
by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on
public schools and students while working to
privatize public educationeducation.»
The current
Education Reform agenda is directly linked to Milton Freidman and his notions of a privatized public education system accessed by
Education Reform agenda is directly linked to Milton Freidman and his notions of a
privatized public education system accessed by
education system accessed
by vouchers.
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.»
The Trump administration is focusing on
privatizing education by expanding school voucher programs that transfer public funds to private schools through bills such as the «Choices in Education Act»
education by expanding school voucher programs that transfer
public funds to private schools through bills such as the «Choices in
Education Act»
Education Act» (HR610).
Destructive and unproven educational policy driven not
by research but
by federal mandate, corporations, the ultra-wealthy, and those seeking to
privatize public education and weaken teacher unions.
By providing parents, students and teachers with a way to engage in the process, set districts priorities and lift up our democratically elected School Board, we are giving
education justice a fighting chance against
education «reformers» who seek to
privatize and profit off our
public schools.
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.
Their proposal has been getting help directly from Commissioner Pryor's office and was written
by the Connecticut lobbying group that is dedicated to
privatizing Connecticut's system of
public education.
But over the last decade, the charter school movement has morphed from a small, community - based effort to foster alternative
education into a vehicle for
privatizing public education, pushed
by free - market foundations, big
education - management companies, and profit - seekers looking for a way to cash in on
public -
education funds.
Teachers unions are
by no means perfect, but they are an essential instrument for democratizing the inner workings of schools, and — much to Moe's dismay — for fending off efforts to
privatize our system of
public education.
The lawsuit was brought
by deep - pocketed corporate special interests intent on driving a corporate agenda geared toward
privatizing public education and attacking educators.»
And now, there are powerful corporate and billionaires forces, led
by Betsy DeVos, that want to
privatize public education.
The union always claims that the Vergara Lawsuit, the film «Waiting for Superman», Students First, Michelle Rhee, Students Matter, are all part of a proposal / plot
by billionaires to do the following: A.
Privatize all
public education to funnel billions of dollars in profits to the top 1 % and mostly to a few billionaires.
One
by one Diane successfully challenged the lies and hoaxes being perpetrated
by those intent on destroying and
privatizing America's
public education system.
Its mission is to focus
public tax dollars on the K - 12
education of
public school students
by opposing legislation in the Indiana General Assembly that would fund private school vouchers, expand private school tax credits,
privatize charter schools
by allowing private colleges and agencies to be authorizers, put for - profit managers in place to take a profit from operating
public schools and
privatize public schools through any other means.»
Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted
by politicians and corporate
education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American
public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to
privatize education and undermine the
public trust.
Is the intent of the movement to indeed serve all students, as the tradition of
public education has held — particularly since Brown v. Board of Education was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court 60 years ago — or are we willing to accept a system of schools that serve only those who are willing to participate as consumers in a free - market, privatized
education has held — particularly since Brown v. Board of
Education was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court 60 years ago — or are we willing to accept a system of schools that serve only those who are willing to participate as consumers in a free - market, privatized
Education was decided
by the U.S. Supreme Court 60 years ago — or are we willing to accept a system of schools that serve only those who are willing to participate as consumers in a free - market,
privatized network?
I have been particularly dismayed
by the intransigence and unwillingness of state agencies to consider new information in light of the mountain of evidence supporting the success of American
public education, especially when the lack of oversight and transparency in our
privatized charter schools became glaringly evident this past year.