Sentences with phrase «to undermine public education»
But critics, notably teachers unions, claim that school choice programs divert much - needed funding away from public schools, thus undermining the public education system.
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So, we're undermining public education by our state budgets and then we're undermining through these voucher programs.
Many parents feel they should have a choice in the matter, but others, particularly teacher unions, feel such changes might undermine public education as we know it.
I think this has the potential to dramatically undermine public education.
Rather then fight back, far too many politicians and school administrators climbed on board the education reform initiatives train that are undermining public education today.
Teachers unions oppose additional charters — as well as the proposed tax credit, which they say will undermine the public education system.
«I think this has the potential to dramatically undermine public education,» he said, noting that a small pilot could easily be expanded.
With Malloy's signature, Senate Bill 458 became Public Act 12 - 116 and Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and their allies were off and running in their effort to undermine public education in Connecticut.
One day after a split Matthews board endorsed a town charter school bill, the Charlotte Mecklenburg school board tried to persuade taxpayers, parents and voters that it's a selfish move that could undermine public education across North Carolina.
Public Loss, Private Gain: How School Voucher Tax Shelters Undermine Public Education - Executive Summary (2017)
«I'm glad that he wants to respect teachers, but his positions undermine public education and public employees.»
Critics say choice plans undermine public education, are often underregulated and can amount to profiteering.»
Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.
«Her complete lack of public education experience alone is troubling, but worse yet is her decades of work to undermine public education through for - profit charter school and voucher schemes.»
The dangerous trend of undermining public education has just begun in Connecticut, but in Chicago we can see the profound impact these «reforms» will have.
These policies undermine public education and facilitate its replacement by a market - based system that would do for schooling what the market has done for health care, housing, and employment: produce fabulous profits and opportunities for a few and unequal outcomes and access for the many....
In an Economic Policy Institute report published on the last day of February 2017, the author found that vouchers have not only failed to improve student performance, but are succeeding in undermining public education programs and methods that have been successful.
You didn't read any of these facts in Burris» post because they don't fit her conveniently concocted narrative of charter schools undermining public education.
And teachers are firing back saying, you know, these corporate reformers, as they call them, are undermining public education by pushing charter schools vouchers and trying to roll back teacher tenure.
The Common Core and Common Cores testing frenzy is undermining public education in Connecticut and across the country.
«And yet I'm most upset that this budget would undermine our public education system and the working families who depend on them.»
The deep - pocketed corporate interests who have been undermining public education across the nation had reason to celebrate on June 10, 2014, when a superior court judge in California ruled that laws governing teacher due process were unconstitutional.
«After this strong rebuke from the Supreme Court of Canada, there is no question that Christy Clark deliberately attacked and undermined public education in British Columbia — even to the point of breaking the law.
Even as the UFT continues to combat attacks intended to undermine public education, UFT President Michael Mulgrew told delegates that the union must also celebrate the great work that members do in New York City public schools every day.
«Undermining public education is not a choice,» Senator Patty Murray said in a speech Wednesday, railing against the education secretary's policies.
Writing on her blog earlier this week, Ravitch lauded a challenger to Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy and said «teachers and parents should not vote for a governor — whether it is Malloy or Cuomo — who consistently sides with the billionaires who seek to undermine public education.»
«Opting out sends a powerful message to the governor, the legislature, and the Board of Regents: that enough is enough when it comes to overtesting our kids, demonizing teachers, and undermining public education.
As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»
In the author's conspiracy - laden world, the Right works to «maintain the status quo, particularly its hierarchies and privileges» and to «undermine public education.»
Speakers lined up to accuse the new superintendent of having ties to Russian oligarchs, links to Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos, and secret plans to undermine public education.
Michelle Rhee has helped to set genuine education reform back a decade or more, even as she pushes for conservative policies that undermine public education.
Frankly, these guys and gals will do anything they can to undermine public education.
Allison expressed opposition to «anything that undermines public education,» including vouchers.
It's offensive and flat - out false, and its only purpose is to undermine public education — which is the foundation of our democracy.
We'll hear much more about this incredible development in the weeks ahead, but if we needed proof that the education reformers have no clue what districts really need and will even destroy the most successful programs in their efforts to undermine public education, they need only look to Pryor's latest action.
As the NEA declared earlier this summer, handing over students» education to privately managed, unaccountable charters jeopardizes student success, undermines public education and harms communities.»
But rather than respect the staff, for political and malevolent reasons the board has undermined the public education system that once was known as the jewel of Colorado.
For too long, lawmakers have degraded the teaching profession with myths, exaggerations and outright lies, all designed to undermine public education and advance a school privatization agenda.
The group discussed how educational reforms and massive cuts in financing were undermining public education.
Labeling or penalizing schools that score poorly is misguided and may be part of a broader strategy to undermine public education in the state, Hughes says, agreeing with those opting out.
But critics charge he is unqualified for the job and may undermine public education.
«People did not elect Governor Walker to undermine public education, but that's exactly what this attack on workers» rights does,» Wisconsin Education Association Council President Mary Bell said, her voice cracking with emotion, during a press conference.