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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.

Supplemental Educational Services is an attempt to privatize public education by using public funds for private vendors.

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.

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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 educatioEducation 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, privatizededucation 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, privatizedEducation 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.