Sentences with phrase «unaccountable charter»

That has not stopped wealthy donors and their political allies from pushing unaccountable charter growth in urban centers while stripping communities of a voice in their children's education.

But I will proudly stand by my statement that a Democrat who proposed doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest school; who refuses to de-couple inappropriate standardized tests from teacher evaluation; who diverts a hundred million dollars a year from public schools to prop up unaccountable charter schools that refuse to educate their fair share of bi-lingual students and students who need special education services; and who refused to settle the CCEJF lawsuit and develop a long - term change to Connecticut's school funding formula... DOES NOT deserve the badge of honor that comes with being endorsed by teacher unions.

«I remain a choice advocate, but I don't know how you usher in so many unaccountable charter schools,» said state Sen. Bert Johnson (D), who represents Detroit.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

If we don't act now, then the 21st Century may prove to be the demise of our Connecticut Public Schools, and a direct route to private and unaccountable charter schools.

San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is spending lavishly on technology despite their budgets being decimated by California's unaccountable charter school industry.

Like the NAACP and the Movement for Black Lives, the coalition calls for an «end to the expansion of unaccountable charter schools.»

Philadelphia, PA — November 20, 2014 Over 100 people came together at Arch St. Methodist Church to kick of a campaign for sustainable community schools as a transformative alternative to both privatization in the form of unaccountable charter schools and the resource - starved, test - driven neighborhood schools that are currently in Philadelphia.

«Instead of diverting scarce resources from existing public school classrooms and spending it on unaccountable charter schools for a few students, we should be investing more in the innovative public schools we already have,» Mary Lindquist, president of the state teachers union, said in a news release in response to the signature turn - in.

Not exact matches

Even though we are outside the euro we are still subject to an unelected EU commission which is generating new laws every day and an unaccountable European Court in Luxembourg which is extending its reach every week, increasingly using the Charter of Fundamental Rights which in many ways gives the EU more power and reach than ever before.

And I know Dorothy, who is from Ohio, wanted to ask a question about charters, where there are a lot of charters that have been unaccountable and not transparent.

Many of the candidates on last night's stage have clear records of draining critical funding away from public schools to give to private schools, supporting charter schools that are unaccountable to students, parents, and taxpayers, and slashing education funding and those programs that serve students and help them in the classroom.

The reason they want to interrupt your child's instruction is to sell their unaccountable privately run charter school to your child.

Another reason to stop charter schools — they are secretive and unaccountable.

Both groups have been strong proponents of the rapid and in many cases unaccountable expansion of charter schools and have both have been silent about Mitchell's web of conflicts of interest and his refusal to release his financial information about how he spends public dollars.

This week also brought a startling story about another key part of the Right's education agenda, the rapid and still too unaccountable expansion of charter schools, which in many cases have developed into profit centers for shady operators instead of the «laboratories of education innovation» that we were promised.

Of course there is nothing new about the unions and affiliated groups savaging charters with lies, using «unaccountable» and «billionaires» as their essential buzzwords.

It's no secret that DeVos has long supported unaccountable, for - profit charter schools and vouchers, which drain public schools of critical resources and offer no choice for the most vulnerable students — those with special needs, those who don't speak English, and those living in poverty.

But those who favor the language of privatization say that «school choice» masks reality - they say vouchers and charters redirect the flow of taxpayer dollars from public schools, which most Americans support, into unaccountable private hands.

That world unfortunately exists in her home state of Michigan where for decades she's led the charge for unregulated, unaccountable, unlimited for - profit private charters and private school vouchers.

Because state takeovers have been characterized by conversion of public schools into charter schools; schools unaccountable to elected boards, with little duty to report on its finances, yet they receive millions in public funds.

The Missouri House of Representative is currently considering a HB 634 which would expand unaccountable, privately run charter schools to open in any school district in the state, regardless of whether or not another school is needed in your local community.

They are replaced by charter schools, unaccountable to the community and governed by appointed boards.

Critics say new charter schools drain money from traditional public school systems and are largely unaccountable.

The more people have learned about poorly managed, unaccountable schools with at best mixed academic records — not to mention the network of anti-union billionaires and for - profit education companies that are fueling much of the expansion — the more charter schools» popularity has declined.