Sentences with phrase «undermining public education programs»

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.

Not exact matches

Less than a year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo showed his commitment to public higher education by launching the Excelsior Scholarships free tuition program, he has undermined the very university system students would attend.

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.

According to the Harvard Crimson, «The effort is part of a larger national movement started by United Students Against Sweatshops that criticizes Teach For America, a nation - wide program that recruits college graduates to teach in low - income communities for at least two years, for undermining the quality of public education.»

So, we're undermining public education by our state budgets and then we're undermining through these voucher programs.

Opting one's children out of the SBAC test not only protects those students from the negative aspects of the testing program but it sends a powerful message to the state's elected and appointed officials that parents will not stand idly by as the SBAC testing scam is used to undermine public education in Connecticut.

With Betsy DeVos on the verge of becoming the United States Secretary of Education and President Donald Trump promising to divert $ 20 billion in federal funding from public schools to privatization through school choice programs, the movement to undermine public education must be deliriously excited about their prospects over the next foEducation and President Donald Trump promising to divert $ 20 billion in federal funding from public schools to privatization through school choice programs, the movement to undermine public education must be deliriously excited about their prospects over the next foeducation must be deliriously excited about their prospects over the next four years.

On the other hand, recognizing that their membership is getting angrier and angrier and that the Malloy / Wyman agenda is undermining public education, public services and is translating into public employee layoffs, some of these same unions have taken to running television advertisements urging citizens to stand up for the public servants who educate our children, provide critically important support for those in need and ensure that government programs are available to the people of Connecticut.

«His support for the Common Core and its absurd, unfair and costly Common Core testing program is undermining our public education system and wasting scarce public dollars,»

Like much that takes place in public education these days, this effort to secure state approval fits the «corporate education reform» agenda, is based on misleading information and deception, and will result in further undermining established teacher training programs while — at the same time — continuing to enrich those who seek to profit and privatize public education.

In «Betsy DeVos» Holy War,» Janet Reitman alleges that the nonprofit arts and mentoring programs I lead are a «pretense» for churches to «evangelize» in public schools; and that somehow my association with the DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative proves that Mrs. DeVos» supposedly decades - long master plan to undermine public education was working even before her appointment as Education Seducation was working even before her appointment as Education SEducation Secretary.