Sentences with phrase «public school privatization efforts»

Excel Bridgeport, the corporate funded education reform group that has been lobbying for Bridgeport's public school privatization efforts reported spending $ 101,803.36.

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The movement toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of school privatization efforts, such as tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to private schools — have had mixed results, at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students, at worst.

«Given the massive amount of money funneled from the pro-school privatization lobby to Republican legislators, l am afraid that we will see yet another effort to decimate our local public schools and allow unaccountable private voucher schools to play by a substandard set of rules.»

In it she argues that the public school reform efforts surrounding No Child Left Behind and Obama's Race to the Top are basically ruining American education, with their reliance on a competitive business model and movement towards increased privatization.

For ALEC, it is all about tearing down our public school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.

The 2017 session will go down in history as a blatant effort to fully fund school privatization while turning a cold shoulder on Florida's three million public school children.

In her recent column, state Rep. Chris Taylor argues that the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, and presumably other voucher proponents are «all about tearing down our public - school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.»

The October issue of CTA's magazine, California Educator, is full of anti-Tuck blather, including an editorial by union president Dean Vogel in which he solemnly proclaims that the challenger is a «well - funded corporate education reformer who supports the privatization of public schools and efforts to obliterate due process for teachers.»

The organizers said they are objecting to «a national movement to Reclaim Our Schools from privatization efforts that will bankrupt public education, we will stand with Los Angeles parents, educators, students, administrators, and community members for fully funded public schools and call on corporate charter schools to pay their fair share to the district.Schools from privatization efforts that will bankrupt public education, we will stand with Los Angeles parents, educators, students, administrators, and community members for fully funded public schools and call on corporate charter schools to pay their fair share to the district.schools and call on corporate charter schools to pay their fair share to the district.schools to pay their fair share to the district.»

In her book, Reign of Error, The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, Diane Ravitch claims the United States is facing an orchestrated and well - funded effort to destroy its public education sPublic Schools, Diane Ravitch claims the United States is facing an orchestrated and well - funded effort to destroy its public education spublic education system.

But not to be outdone, Commissioner Stefan Pryor and his aides refocused their Clark Elementary School privatization effort, this time looking to hand the Hartford Public School over to a Washington D.C. based charter school company known as Friendship Charter ScSchool privatization effort, this time looking to hand the Hartford Public School over to a Washington D.C. based charter school company known as Friendship Charter ScSchool over to a Washington D.C. based charter school company known as Friendship Charter Scschool company known as Friendship Charter Schools.

By Rhee's definition, Louisiana is best in the nation because it has the strongest anti-teacher, anti-union and charter school laws and Louisiana does the best job diverting public funds to charter schools and other privatization efforts.

It is a product of the education reform industry that is set on convincing policymakers and the public that our nation's public education system is broken, that our public school teachers are bad and that the answer is more standardized testing and diverting scarce public funds to charter schools and other privatization efforts.

Although critics point out, the nation's public schools are already underfunded and vouchers and other privatization programs further undermine the ability of public schools to provide students with the comprehensive educational opportunities they need and deserve, the Trump administration is likely to «go all in» with the effort to redirect public resources to privately owned and operated school settings.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

Public school advocates and many Democrats have been bitingly critical of such privatization efforts in the state's public scPublic school advocates and many Democrats have been bitingly critical of such privatization efforts in the state's public scpublic schools.