Sentences with phrase «profits from public school»

Instead, a portrait emerges of a company that tries to squeeze profits from public school dollars by raising enrollment, increasing teacher workload and lowering standards.

Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida's Parent Trigger bill: A victory of parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public schools

Corporations profit from public schools by selling «solutions» that are anything but solutions.

For immediate release: March 10, 2012 Contacts: Rita Solnet, Boca Raton: [phone]; [email protected] Caroline Grannan, San Francisco: [phone]; [email protected] Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida's Parent Trigger bill: A victory of parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public schools Public education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a «Parent Trigger» law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist and... →

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Several years ago, the National Education Association reported that about twenty percent of our public school teachers could profit from psychotherapeutic help because of minor emotional difficulties.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitSchool districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitschool kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitschool kitchens.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

Hawkins said that Cuomo's hostility to public school teachers and their unions and his support for charter schools must be understood in light of his large campaign contributions from wealthy hedge fund managers who profit from the favorable tax treatment of investments in charter schools and who like the fact that most charters are non-union.

Howie will be addressing the proposed conversion of four schools from public institutions to for - profit charter schools, segregated schools, lack of funding for schools, high stakes testing, Common Core, and the attacks on teachers unions.

«Additional reputational challenges faced by the new for - profit medical schools stem from the view that medical education is an inviolable public good that is ethically incompatible with the for - profit motive,» Adashi, Krishna and Gruppuso wrote.

Profits from the proposed logging were to benefit public schools, said an agency administrator, Shawn Thomas.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Yes, black students who earn graduate degrees from public universities borrow less than their peers at for - profit schools, but the black students who earn graduate degrees from private nonprofit schools rack up even more debt than their for - profit - going peers, leaving with $ 55,414 on average (see Table 1).

For - profit firms are most effective when they focus on tight objectives rather than the normally diffuse activities that we demand from public schools.

So here, in this collection, I have drawn from various sources and experiences over time and around the world, ideas from inspectors and their reports, leadership training course tutors and candidates, school improvement ambassadors, union officials, faculty leaders, headteachers and principals in all their guises, governors, government officials, civil servants, councillors, parents, students, current, aspiring, ex and retired teachers, in the public, private, Academy, Charter, free, not - for - profit, voluntary and charitable sectors.

It was, according to the paper's summary, an «article on school - choice movement; competition from charter schools, publicly - financed free schools, is forcing other public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.schools, publicly - financed free schools, is forcing other public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.schools, is forcing other public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.Schools Inc described.»

Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois has proposed to use an anticipated increase in profits from the state lottery to fund a $ 30 - million increase in state aid for public schools.

Nonetheless, the results suggest that public school students profit nearly as much from increased private school competition as do a nation's students as a whole.

As the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) considered authorizing charter schools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Sschools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison SSchools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Sschools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison SchoolsSchools.

«Our results suggest that students in public schools profit nearly as much from increased private school competition as do a nation's students as a whole,» West and Woessman note.

After this defeat, she shifted her focus to diverting taxpayer dollars from neighborhood public schools to for - profit charter schools.

The only hope for the future of our society, especially for poor black and Hispanic children, is escape from public schools, especially to charter schools, which are mostly funded by the government but controlled by private organizations, many of them operating to make a profit.

Her background was in business and finance, all the better to drain money out of the public schools and place it where profits can be made from our children.

So, what happens to the republic once the traditional public schools have all been removed from the protection of the U.S. Constitution and are controlled by autocratic, for profit, often fraudulent, opaque and abusive publicly funded but private sector corporate charter schools that use bully tactics to achieve their goals?

Perhaps its most controversial elements involve the potential for increased public funding of charter schools, all of which hold nonprofit status, but some of which are operated by for - profit management franchises, and a proposal to transfer authority over the IPS district from an elected school board to a board appointed by the city's mayor and city - county council.

Charter School: Funded through public tax dollars from money meant for traditional public schools, operates in the private sector, may be managed by for - profit charter management organizations (CMO), and are not required to be transparent about how tax dollars are spent, free from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.

Not satisfied with turning public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories, those who would profit from the so - called «personalized learning» approach, and those who support their absurd initiative are now pushing to bring this concept to Connecticut's schools.

Another example: across the nation, some for - profit companies that run charter schools engage in self - serving real estate deals, hide their financial practices from public view, assert that they own assets that were purchased with public monies, and spend large sums to influence state legislators.

An alliance of business and political leaders in the state had urged Brown to sign Assembly Bill 709, which would have required that all charters be transparent about how they spend public funds, and would have barred charter school board members and their relatives from profiting from their schools.

The law demands more public accountability from school sponsors, seeks to eliminate conflicts of interest in operating the for - profit schools and creates more tools to address school short - comings.

Although Bernie Sanders has not published an education platform, I trust him much more than I trust Clinton to listen to teachers and put the public good (public schools) about companies that would profit from charter schools and such.

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.

But one thing missing from their agenda is anything that seeks to hold charter schools and for - profit charter operators accountable for how they spend money and educate children and their level of transparency to the public.

Bill Cobey, chairman of North Carolina's State Board of Education, has heard all about K12 Inc.'s California settlement, a purported $ 168.5 million pact with the state's attorney general amid long - running allegations that the for - profit virtual charter school operator inflated student test scores and attendance to drain more cash from public coffers.

That set - up by some charter operators allows them to financially profit from the taxpayer money they receive to operate public charter schools.

According to organizers, the rally is being called «Win Back Wednesday» because public education must be «won back» from the profit - driven entities behind high - stakes testing and school privatization schemes and returned to actual stakeholders: parents, students, and educators.

Corporate education «reformers»» self - interest, by contrast, means advocating for policies that help private corporations profit off of public schools, diverting public attention from an anti-poverty economic agenda, and busting unions that prevent total oligarchical control of America's political system.

Money is siphoned from traditional public schools and towards a diverse array of unregulated for - profit and private providers.

What do you say to those who might worry that greenfield schooling is a recipe for inequity — that increasing the role of the private nonprofits or for - profits in schooling is a de facto retreat from public schooling?

Corporate interests pushed the federal overreach of our laws in order to profit from public education, not to benefit public school children.

Non-management could take profiting from taking money out of traditional public schools without real accountability to a new level for K12.

These ALEC members are taking a victory lap for diverting money from public schools to the for - profit gateway drug of charter schools leading to private schools funded entirely with public money.

Long before Donald Trump and Parkland, teachers were chafing at GOP efforts to promote for - profit charter schools and finance tax cuts with funding siphoned from public education.

«I came into office thinking I knew everything I needed to know about the direction we needed to go with public education,» said Osmond, who served as CEO of a for - profit education company... [After] a dozen classroom visits and hundreds of emails from educators, Osmond says he came to understand the challenges public school educators face in the course of a typical day: overcrowded classrooms, outdated technology, language barriers, behavioral issues, and students who are hungry and unbathed.

The Journal is implying it is the fault of public schools that poverty endures, not decisions and actions by the business leaders to withhold profits from the working - and middle - classes.

She funded efforts in Michigan to siphon funds from students in public schools, allowing for - profit companies to operate schools with taxpayer money and no accountability.

Students interested in certificate programs that prepare them for a careers are much better off enrolling at public colleges than at private, for - profit schools, according to new data from the...

All of this chaos is to drive students from Strawberry Mansion in order to bring in outside contractors to provide corporate education technology and other programs and to transform Strawberry Mansion from a public school responsible to the community into a school contracted to corporate profit making interests for whom education is secondary.

Aside from selling more computers (Chromebooks) software and SBAC test analysis ($ 22 - $ 27 per student), new CCSS aligned textbooks, workshops for educators etc. the money to be made lies in turning over public schools to charter schools, which use public funds, in many cases to turn a profit.

Peripherally, albeit substantially, this will also impact those who greatly influence (and / or profit from) the «public school market estimated to be worth about $ 700 billion» (e.g., testing companies, value - added modelers / contractors).