Sentences with phrase «wasting scarce public resources»

Feeding on the fears and desires of parents and communities to improve their education system, many of these «education reformers» are little more than white - collar crooks, stealing and wasting scarce public resources.

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The truth is that the SBAC is a colossal waste of time and scarce resources and it should be dropped as a vehicle to label and punish students, teachers and public schools.

In reality, the Malloy administration's entire maneuver was nothing be a farce designed to, once again, mislead Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and taxpayers about the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the fact that the tests are wasting millions of dollars in scarce public resources and turning public schools into little more than testing factories.

Her efforts were largely focused in her home state of Michigan, where 80 percent of state charter schools are run by for - profit entities with little transparency around how those schools spend public money, and charter and traditional schools are wasting scarce resources competing for students.