Sentences with word «privatizers»

To their critics, the failure to pass voucher legislation has been a matter of defending the state's constitution, and protecting public education from the efforts of school privatizers and union - busters, like the DeVos» and the Republican legislators they have funded with millions in cash contributions over the years.

The same privatizers who funded the campaign to buy the school board funded the litigation here in Los Angeles that seeks to achieve through the courts what they could not win at the ballot box.

That the pleasures of sex threaten to produce offspring has always been the main stumbling block for privatizers of sex.

Politicians — cynical politicians — want charter schools because the monied interests and privatizers want charters.

Create a plan to take over public schools and hand them over to privatizers in bulk.

It sees education reformers outside of the union sphere as either corporate privatizers seeking to grasp some of the $ 640 billion this country spends annually on public schools, or their tools.

Rahm and his cronies ignore and disrespect elected, parent - run local school councils while pushing education privatizers» phony «parent empowerment» programs like school choice and the parent trigger.

How can we expose the interests who are guiding the policy, the Broad - funded privatizers who are given positions of power and authority with no public imput or scrutiny?

What happened is that the early privatizers bled their companies while selling shares to the workers at prices that were being inflated by the flow of wage set - asides into the stock market.

But privatizers add on interest and financial fees, high executive salaries and bonuses, and turn the roads into toll roads and other infrastructure into neofeudal fiefdoms to charge monopolistic access fees for people to use.

(Frankly, it's only hedge fund millionaires, right - wing privatizers and tea partiers who would use that terminology.)

The most activist privatizers are those who seek to recapture the schools from the clutches of the «secular humanists» who have supposedly been corrupting young people since...

The union has also started a «We Are Public Schools» media campaign railing against the «billionaire privatizers» for the purpose of influencing its bargaining position.

Politicians and privatizers marking 25 years of the failed school privatization experiment in Wisconsin are doing so even after the majority of voters in the state have expressed opposition to the program.

17) Michigan: School privatizers descend on Detroit.

Diane Ravitch, in turn, picked up the piece on her national blog, noting that, «In many districts, especially where the population is non-white, privatizers insist on mayoral control or state control... there is no evidence that taking away popular rule improves the schools... It does make it easier, however, to privatize them.»

But the recession dealt a heavy blow to our schools and working families, No Child Left Behind took the focus off equity and put it on testing, and privatizers swooped in to capitalize on a system struggling from swift, unbridled change with little support, financial or otherwise.

Shrinking school budgets are precisely in line with privatizers» plans to dismantle public education and many of the same billionaire funders pushing the privatization agenda in Chicago have put their financial weight behind similar initiatives in California.

While school privatizer and former Newark Mayor Cory Booker once said «real change has casualties,» these parents are declaring «our children are not collateral damage.»

Watch him snake out of it... slick they are these corporate privatizers.

Randi Weingarten likes to claim people who call her out are ultra-right-wing Tea Partiers, education privatizers, or agents of libertarian activist - philanthropists Charles and David Koch.

Resentment is growing not only toward those who ran up these debts — Iceland's bankrupt Kaupthing and Landsbanki with its Icesave accounts, and heavily debt - leveraged property owners and privatizers in the Baltics and Central Europe — but also toward the neoliberal foreign advisors and creditors who pressured these governments to sell off the banks and public infrastructure to insiders.

The privatizers wanted buy it on credit (with the tax - deductible interest charges depriving the government of collecting income tax on their takings), and sharply raise prices to pay for exorbitant executive salaries, outrageous underwriting fees to the banks, stock options for the big raiders, heavy interest charges to the banks and a nice free lunch to the ratings agencies.

RU - 486 is an icon for the privatizers of sex.

Privatizers of sex insist on their right to display sexual acts in public precisely because they believe that sex has no serious social effects.

These same «privatizers» of sex also insist that the display of pornography is protected by the First Amendment.

«What the privatizers are doing is they keep selling the same snake oil, school choice, as the answer to the problem,» said Ravitch, research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School.

Critics in the education community often stereotyped John as an ideologue, a privatizer, and a fire - breathing voucher advocate, but they just didn't know him.

Far from a top - down initiative, driven from afar by nationalizers, privatizers and moneyed interests, the Core Task Project is homegrown, teacher - led, and the product of a mid-sized and diverse public school system.

Perhaps Johnson's campaign donations from school privatizers have clouded his views on this issue.

We know this legislative cycle the privatizers will come back even harder and we continue to build a movement against any state takeovers of our public schools.

There are fewer and fewer traditionally trained teachers even in Connecticut, although there are more and more TFA and TFA «alums,» like Ranjana Reddy, Executive Director of Educators 4 Excellence, a billionaire - privatizers» organization that claims to be empowering teachers while potentially making tenure obsolete and due process irrelevant.

Walters also asserts that civil rights groups are behind the push for more charters, a talking point of the privatizers.

Ignore those privatizers who take taxpayer money and run, leaving betrayed parents and children in their wake.

But, the privatizers had a problem: public schools were not failing fast enough, and in some cases, despite the ravages of institutional racism, poverty, joblessness, crime, and social and family upheavals, they were actually successful.

How'd that work out for the privatizers?

Bingo, Mr. Morrison... as well appointed BOE members who trail behind the privatizers like lost puppies.

One supporter noted that people across the country are watching this race, as it is «the beginning of a surge of resistance» against school privatizers.

Out of a desire for «collaboration,» we will be doing the dirty work of our enemies — not necessarily our cozy new Chancellor or our liberal mayor, but the forces looming behind them: the financial and real estate interests, the venture - philanthropists, the charter school privatizers, the testing profiteers, and the Democratic Party hierarchy.

Meanwhile, the American Prospect published a story by freelancer Katherine Steward about school choice called «Proselytizers and Privatizers» but then took it down without explanation.

Do everything you can to advance the agenda of the privatizers.