Sentences with phrase «to privatize public schools»

«Essentially we have a proposed bill that would undermine democracy in Connecticut's urban areas and likely further privatize our public school system,» said Jacob Werblow, an assistant professor of Educational Leadership at Central Connecticut State University and Harber Fellow of Education at Wesleyan University.

This story is the second in a four - part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district.

This story is the third in a four - part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district.

A major new report from the progressive One Wisconsin Institute finds that the right - wing Bradley Foundation spent more than $ 108 million, working with 130 partner groups, to privatize public schools in Wisconsin between 2005 and 2014.

The Buffalo businessman will likely talk about privatizing public schools — a focus of his since becoming a school board member.

But we have still a long way to go to overcome the forces of big money that are intent on privatizing our public schools, and imposing policies, including school closings, more high stakes testing, and the rapid expansion of online learning, that threaten to further damage our children and are unsupported by research.

The key issue to watch in 2017 is the spiraling drive to privatize public schools through digital learning.

That strategy, called «moving the Overton window,» manipulates public perception with the goal of normalizing radical policy ideas like annually transferring $ 800 billion public tax dollars into privatizing public schools.

Looking back on your articles regarding Charter Schools in which teachers don't have to be certified and the Governor's proposed changes to make them the new privatized public school system, does this mean those teachers would also qualify for pension and retirement benefits?

I believe Mr. Duncan may be part of a national effort to privatize the public schools insofar as possible by replacing them with non-public-school charters (check Detroit) and to kill the teachers» unions.

David Koch helped inject the idea of privatizing public schools into the national debate as a candidate for vice president in 1980.

Michigan state Republicans said this week they are preparing a package of bills to privatize public school teaching — eliciting concerns about working conditions and trading academic quality for cost effectiveness.

Critics call it an attempt to privatize public schools under the pretense of parent empowerment supported by billionaire money.

And we know where they do their one - stop - shopping for all laws that support privatizing public schools — ALEC.

Governor Snyder's secret «Skunk Works» group was an unintended peek into the money grab voucher advocates and others are attempting by privatizing the public schools.

The report also shows how deeply involved some of the original CORE district leaders were with forces sympathetic with privatizing public schools and using data to drive instruction from positions of power.

Not surprisingly, major contributions came from The Broad Foundation; the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; The Walton Family Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, all leaders in the effort to privatize public schools in the United States.

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.

They constituted a pivotal moment in a struggle involving Corbett, well - funded education reformers bent on privatizing public schools, a battered teachers union, and students and parents attempting to navigate a school system in which fiscal crisis has become the only constant.

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.»

This story is the first in a four - part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district.

This story is the fourth in a four - part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district.

According to the email, the WFP is particularly pleased that its candidates fended off challenges from the «billionaire - funded «New Yorkers for Independent Action» SuperPAC seeking to privatize public schools,» adding:

Granted, the teachers» unions have some independent resources, but what they have to spend politically to defend public education is peanuts compared with what the billionaires spend to privatize public schools.

As state legislators entered the crowded room, they quickly became the centers of huddles of UFT members and parents eager to speak with their representatives and urge them to protect New York City's public schools from DeVos» efforts to defund and privatize public schools.

The union, led by Alex Caputo - Pearl, immediately seized upon the public relations opportunity to pursue the national anti-charter theme of billionaires trying to privatize public schools.

If the American public understood that reformers want to privatize their public schools and divert their taxes to pay profits to investors, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform.

But after spending millions of dollars on polling, testing, and training, the defenders of the indefensible found a way to turn the tables by turning our rhetoric against us, relentlessly portraying the reform movement as rich, separatist corporatists who want to privatize our public schools.

«They work in service of a corporate reform agenda that rids communities of veteran teachers, privatizes public schools, and forces a corporatized, data - driven culture upon unique low - income communities with unique dynamics and unique challenges.»

They believe it is faster, simpler, and less expensive to privatize the public schools than do anything substantive to reduce poverty and racial isolation or to provide the nurturing environments and well - rounded education that children from prosperous families receive.

The teacher union saw reconstitution as a plot to privatize the public schools.

The Twentieth Century Fund, a nonpartisan New York City - based philanthropy devoted to «timely analyses of economic policy, foreign affairs, and domestic policy issues,» issued a report in October on the history and effectiveness of efforts to privatize the public schools.

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The real aim is to privatize public schools and get rid of union teachers.

We must stand together as a national force against those who seek to privatize our public schools, dissolve elected school boards and shut out the voices of parents, teachers and students.

As I detail in my book Hoosier School Heist, the so - called school reform movement in Indiana and elsewhere is led by billionaires who fund legislators to support bills to privatize public schools.

This assurance is even more important given DeVos's long - standing efforts and contributions to issues, initiatives, and organizations whose common purpose is to privatize public schools.

This district flexibility is PHASE TWO of the movement to privatize public schools.

Foster says one reason education is attacked as a profession is that a contingent of Americans want to privatize public schools.

«Why the movement to privatize public education is a very bad idea» and «A primer on the damaging movement to privatize public schools» are just two recent examples of her blind allegiance to the status quo.

But this issue continues to be relevant to privatizing public schools.

But it's the false rhetoric of success that's fueling the propaganda machine which has successfully convinced a lot of policy makers to get on board with the drive to dismantle teachers» unions, privatize public schools, and turn teaching into testing.

Later in the hearing, Sen. Patty Murray (D - WA) asked, «Can you commit that you will not work to privatize public schools or cut a single penny for public education?»