Sentences with phrase «public education dollars get»

ALEC is working to ensure that public education dollars get diverted to private profits.

Not exact matches

The money gets pumped back into the state's economy through tuition dollars to public schools — and there's a direct connection between education and workforce development, he said.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.

Some educators say they are fueled partly by their war with Ducey over his latest expansion of a voucher - like program — a pioneering «education savings account» that allows virtually any family to get public dollars to pay for private school expenses.

The National Coalition for Public Education — which includes 50 organizations, including the Children's Defense Fund and the National Urban League — has also written that portability would expand the amount of students served through Title I and result in the poorest districts getting less of overall Title I dollars.

Add to that impulse dwindling public education dollars and the specter of a beloved child doing without, and you get someone like Kevin D. Green Sr., who pounded the pavement in Jackson, Mississippi, to collect donations for the annual PTA raffle.

Although they claim to be «public» educational institutions, and are in fact funded with taxpayer dollars, no genuine public school would ever try or get away with the dubious education policies and practices that Achievement First engages in.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

Because the schools are private, they can teach that with impunity — and public dollars are paying for children to get such an education.

«Public education is one of the largest items in the state budget, so Texans need to know where their dollars are getting the highest return in terms of student performance,» Combs said.

School choice is an increasingly popular issue in state legislatures nationwide as more and more states consider expanding educational options to help children get a better education, spur public school improvement, and save taxpayer dollars.

In the coming weeks we'll dig even deeper into this absurd plan, but if you want to get a basic primary on how the education reformers are wasting our tax dollars, undermining the teaching professional and destroying our public schools, I urge you to start by reading — and then re-reading Wendy Lecker's great piece.

But critics of the program say that the vouchers siphon funds away from the underfunded public school system and sends those tax dollars to private schools without accountability and transparency measures that ensure students are indeed getting a better education.

It is a cynical policy that has sold out our children and public education in order to get a few dollars from the Feds through RTTT.