Sentences with phrase «when school privatization efforts»

These education reform bills come at a time when school privatization efforts are sweeping the nation.

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When it comes to Governor Malloy, Commissioner Pryor and the corporate education reform industry, the Bronx charter school's effort to move into Stamford is probably the most absurd, inappropriate, insulting, and anti-local control privatization scheme that we've seen so far in Connecticut.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.