Sentences with phrase «privatize public schools in»

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.

Not surprisingly, major contributions came from The Broad Foundation; the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; The Walton Family Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, all leaders in the effort to privatize public schools in the United States.

Not exact matches

«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.

Oh sure it's all cucumber sandwiches and velvet pantaloons in the Tory front parlor, but out back in the pantry or whatever, the bastards are carving up public services and piling up privatized portions for their old school bros on plates like fucking Bunch - Of - Lunch.

money, follow the money: These charter school proponents would love to privatize and monetize everything in sight - including your children's future - as they increasingly suck up your tax dollars and public buildings and public resources for their own ideological and profit - making ends — leaving the public schools starved.

Ms. Teachout blamed Mr. Cuomo for the «most segregated schools in the nation» and accused him of seeking to privatize education and take resources away from public classrooms.

«This represents a further disinvestment in neighborhood public schools and confirms parents» belief that CPS has a larger plan to close neighborhood schools or turn them over to a private operator and privatize public education in Chicago's African American and Latino communities.»

Some view school choice as a social good in and of itself, while others may have indirect objectives, such as funneling public funds to religious schools or privatizing public education.

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 rush to privatize education will also turn tens of thousands of students into guinea pigs in a national experiment in virtual learning — a relatively new idea that allows for - profit companies to administer public schools completely online, with no brick - and - mortar classrooms or traditional teachers.

Earlier this year, I tangled with Ravitch after she referred to charter schools as «privatized» when she knows perfectly well that charter schools are in fact public schools.

DeVos» involvement in education has been to bankroll efforts to destabilize, defund and privatize public schools.

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 Twentieth Century Fund, a nonpartisan New York City - based philanthropy devoted to «timely analyses of economic policy, foreign affairs, and domestic policy issues,» issued a report in October on the history and effectiveness of efforts to privatize the public schools.

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.

«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.

I left teaching, in part, due to my frustration with the school reforms that plague public schools and are intent on privatizing education.

Anyone who views the strings attached to the supposedly increased dollars will immediately see that Pryor, with Malloy and Jepsen to help him, is cynically using the inequities in order to push his agenda of privatizing and increasing the number of charter schools — which are not better than well - resourced, well - staffed (no TFA, please) public schools — indeed, with their shaming rituals, bare - bones curriculum, and newbie teachers, they are much worse.

As I detail in my book Hoosier School Heist, the so - called school reform movement in Indiana and elsewhere is led by billionaires who fund legislators to support bills to privatize public scSchool Heist, the so - called school reform movement in Indiana and elsewhere is led by billionaires who fund legislators to support bills to privatize public scschool reform movement in Indiana and elsewhere is led by billionaires who fund legislators to support bills to privatize public schools.

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).

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» (HR610).

The key issue to watch in 2017 is the spiraling drive to privatize public schools through digital learning.

We have ASD because it was part of our RTTT application commitments and because it is what the progressives want in order to privatize education, destroy traditional public schools, destroy traditional public school teachers, eliminate elected school boards, destroy the voice of parents and local control.

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.

Looking back on your articles regarding Charter Schools in which teachers don't have to be certified and the Governor's proposed changes to make them the new privatized public school system, does this mean those teachers would also qualify for pension and retirement benefits?

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.

One of the three schools to open in 2016 is to slated to be a highly controversial «conversion» school, where Rocketship would takeover and privatize a formerly public school.

-- Education, where the drives to privatize K - 12 schools with vouchers and for - profit charters and dramatically reduce the state's commitment to public higher education remain in the full - speed - ahead mode.

Later in the hearing, Sen. Patty Murray (D - WA) asked, «Can you commit that you will not work to privatize public schools or cut a single penny for public education?»

«That said, I do worry that the far right and the corporations which want to privatize our public schools and make them for - profit private schools will spend millions in an attempt to defeat him,» Matthews said.

Because TFA, which places idealistic young teachers in tough - to - staff schools, takes funding from the Walton Foundation, which of course is the philanthropic arm of Walmart, which, according to USAS, is trying to privatize public education, which it shouldn't do because it will cost the teachers unions countless members, which will destroy their bottom line... or something like that.

As Wisconsinites are becoming increasingly aware, the real money in state politics is streaming in from a nationally financed campaign to destroy public schools and privatize education.

If you believe there is no way to «reform» the public school system, then it is understandable that you would want to throw in the towel and privatize the whole business.

In an article he called «Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow — Using Accountability to «Reform» Public Schools to Death» Alfie Kohn shared,

«The end game in Nevada is pretty simple, pretty clear, and pretty close: the voucher program marks the end of any semblance of commitment to public education and the beginning of a completely privatized system of schools for Nevada.

«When Secretary [Betsy] DeVos's own Department's independent research office tells her that siphoning taxpayer dollars into private schools has a negative impact on students, it's time for her to finally abandon her reckless plans to privatize public schools across the country,» Democratic Senator Patty Murray, the ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, said in a statement.

David Koch helped inject the idea of privatizing public schools into the national debate as a candidate for vice president in 1980.

They constituted a pivotal moment in a struggle involving Corbett, well - funded education reformers bent on privatizing public schools, a battered teachers union, and students and parents attempting to navigate a school system in which fiscal crisis has become the only constant.

Yet, our legislature continues to move down the path of privatizing our state's educational system in lieu of supporting the public school system that has been effectively educating children for decades.

Expanding first to Connecticut and then to Massachusetts, Families for Excellent School has become the preferred money pipeline of choice for a group of corporate elite who seek to anonymously fund the effort to privatize public education in the United States.

Columnist and education advocate Wendy Lecker writes about Governor Dannel Malloy's attack on Connecticut's public schools and his ongoing effort to privatize public education in Connecticut.

So instead of creating quality schools in every neighborhood, what CPS has done is created this two - tier system and actually is closing down, as you said, neighborhood schools under Renaissance 2010 and replacing them with charter schools and a privatized education system, firing or laying off, I should say, certified teachers, dismantling locally elected school councils, and creating a market of public education in Chicago, turning schools over to private turnaround operators.

Fellow pro-public education advocate columnist Wendy Lecker lays out the facts about Bronx Charter School for Excellence effort to open a charter school in Stamford and the help they are getting from Commissioner Pryor's office and Connecticut's lobbying group dedicated to privatizing Connecticut's system of public educSchool for Excellence effort to open a charter school in Stamford and the help they are getting from Commissioner Pryor's office and Connecticut's lobbying group dedicated to privatizing Connecticut's system of public educschool in Stamford and the help they are getting from Commissioner Pryor's office and Connecticut's lobbying group dedicated to privatizing Connecticut's system of public education.

The Empowerment Parents Want: A Real, Effective Voice in our Children's Education As corporate efforts to privatize and capitalize on public education are increasingly being exposed as ineffective and damaging, the wealthy sponsors of these controversial strategies — e.g. school closings, turnarounds, charter school expansion — have been attempting to re-brand them as «parent empowerment.»

Taxpayers in this town have no say over how our exorbitantly high dollars are being used to fund the incestuous relationship between Achievement First and NHPS.And since there seems to be no oversight or public input int the decisions made by our so called public school system we're forced to watch this corporation privatize what should at its core be a public good.

His efforts to privatize public education in Connecticut know no bounds and the charter school industry's newest proposal is simply a stunning money grab from school districts that are already massively underfunded.

In this post, she wrote: «Today, the question of democracy looms large as we see increasing efforts to privatize the control of public schools.

The colossal and disastrous effort to privatize public education in the United States is alive and well thanks to a plethora of billionaires who, although they'd never send their own children to a public school, have decided that individually and collectively, they know what is best for the nation's students, parents, teachers and public schools.

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.