Sentences with phrase «undermine public control»

As a Democratic and someone who is looking forward to a statewide career in Connecticut politics, what the hell was he thinking associating his name with a movie which seeks to denigrate teachers, destroy unions and undermine public control of public education?

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The fact that the author of a major new book asserting that breast - feeding «enslaves» and «undermines» women also personally holds controlling interest in the agency of record for the three companies that collectively control much of the infant formula market share in the United States is glaringly disturbing... Publicis has been charged with marketing Nestlé to the public since at least 1984, and has been promoting infant formula on behalf of Abbott Laboratories since 1997.

So Krupski is undermining the whole democratic process that was designed and intended to put the public in control of the preservation program — not the politicians.

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

A PLP that currently lacks a leadership role and has been undermined and weakened by political and cultural changes, public disapproval of politicians in general, and the control freakery and internecine battles of the New Labour years.

To the best of our knowledge, and based on all evidence that we're aware of, neither the signers of the Shanker Institute manifesto, nor leaders in the Obama / Duncan Education Department, advocate a «nationalized curriculum» that would «undermine control of public school curriculum and instruction at the local and state level» and «transfer control to an elephantine, inside - the - Beltway bureaucracy.»

The paradox facing charter - school advocates is that, in the name of encouraging radically decentralized control of schools, they may unwittingly help to undermine the state's political ability to address the deeper structural and economic problems facing public education.

Conservatives balked at the administration's role in promoting the Common Core standards, saying it was federal overreach that undermined state and local control of public education.

While most legislators would agree that local control of public schools is important, this bill would take all control over the creation of charter schools out of the hands of local officials and give it to an unelected state commission — while simultaneously undermining the financial structure of traditional schools which are under local control.

This will undermine local control, mean less accountability in the classroom, and gut public education at a time when we should be focused on investing in our kids» future and creating good jobs that pay a fair wage,» We Are the People Michigan spokesman Zack Pohl told the Livingston Daily.

This from the Democratic governor whose «Commissioner's Network» program has undermined local control, handed public schools over to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain in Hartford and Bridgeport and devastated a number of urban schools by implementing a «money follows the child» system that has left troubled schools without the resources they need to even serve the students that have remained in those schools.

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

Not only has the Malloy administration undermined the very people public schools were created to help, his efforts have cut deep into the fabric of Connecticut's historic system of local control.

And yet, the Norwalk Board of Education appears to be on the verge of handing control of their public schools over to someone who has is a star witness for Governor Malloy's on - going attempt to undermine and defeat this critically important lawsuit.

From the moment Stefan Pryor arrived in Connecticut, the Malloy administration's education policy has been consistently designed to destroy local control, belittle and demean teachers, reduce parental involvement, undermine our public schools and divert scarce public resources to out - of - state consultants and carpetbagging staff.

Although the three organizations are funded primarily from local taxpayer funds and are supposed to be advocating for local public schools, all three have spent the last three years lobbying for Governor Malloy's restrictive, centralized and top - down Corporate Education Reform Industry agenda... An agenda that undermines local control of education, seeks to limit the rights of parents, denigrates teachers and turns Connecticut's public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories.

Do they stand with Connecticut's students, teachers, parents, public school advocates and taxpayers or will they continue to turn our public schools into little more than testing factories and money pits for an industry that is gorging itself on scarce taxpayer funds while undermining the role of teachers, parents and the local control of public education.

Plaintiffs alleged in their lawsuit that HB7069 took away some of the constitutional powers to make decisions about public schools and undermined local control of public schools.

This observation seriously undermines any sort of blanket claim that the public interest requires Canadian lawyers to have independence from external control.