Showing posts with label Corporate Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corporate Education. Show all posts
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August 6, 2016
Mike Pence Loves ALEC and Keeps Pushing Public School Privatization, Despite Lousy Indiana Record With Charters and Vouchers @alternet
Mike Pence Loves ALEC and Keeps Pushing Public School Privatization, Despite Lousy Indiana Record With Charters and Vouchers @alternet:
"Mike Pence is a hardcore right-winger playing the long game, especially when it comes to privatizing public schools. It’s not just that the Republican vice-presidential nominee and Indiana governor last weekend told a roomful of deregulation-obsessed executives and lobbyists in Indianapolis, “You are the model for Washington, D.C., after this election. You really are.” The nation is “at a fork in the road,” Pence said at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting, referring not only to who would be president for the next four years but who would control the Supreme Court for the “next 40 years.” The choice is “whether we will have justices appointed to the Supreme Court, as my partner in this endeavor is committed to doing, that reflect the brilliance and the greatness and the principles of the late justice Antonin Scalia,” he said. “So I would say to all of you, for the sake of the rule of law, for the sake of the sanctity of life, for the sake of our Second Amendment and all of our God-given liberties, we must ensure that the next president making appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States of America is President Donald Trump.” Pence was no stranger to the stage of ALEC, a corporate-funded behemoth that drafts bills and finds right-wing lawmakers to carry them. He’s been an ALEC fixture for years, touting deregulation, privatization and extreme social conservatism"
"Mike Pence is a hardcore right-winger playing the long game, especially when it comes to privatizing public schools. It’s not just that the Republican vice-presidential nominee and Indiana governor last weekend told a roomful of deregulation-obsessed executives and lobbyists in Indianapolis, “You are the model for Washington, D.C., after this election. You really are.” The nation is “at a fork in the road,” Pence said at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting, referring not only to who would be president for the next four years but who would control the Supreme Court for the “next 40 years.” The choice is “whether we will have justices appointed to the Supreme Court, as my partner in this endeavor is committed to doing, that reflect the brilliance and the greatness and the principles of the late justice Antonin Scalia,” he said. “So I would say to all of you, for the sake of the rule of law, for the sake of the sanctity of life, for the sake of our Second Amendment and all of our God-given liberties, we must ensure that the next president making appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States of America is President Donald Trump.” Pence was no stranger to the stage of ALEC, a corporate-funded behemoth that drafts bills and finds right-wing lawmakers to carry them. He’s been an ALEC fixture for years, touting deregulation, privatization and extreme social conservatism"
November 21, 2015
We Kicked the Koch Brothers' A**: How Denver Parents Beat Back Big Money, Charter Schools and Right-Wing Lies @alternet
We Kicked the Koch Brothers' A**: How Denver Parents Beat Back Big Money, Charter Schools and Right-Wing Lies @alternet
"Both news stories told of a national program bearing down on the school district, with “money pouring in from Americans for Prosperity, the national organization founded by the Koch brothers,” in an effort to impose an agenda from outside the community that included a new history curriculum, new restrictions on teachers’ job security, and more privately-operated charter schools. Students, teachers and parents were openly revolting against the school board, staging school walkouts, holding boisterous protest rallies and waging a petition campaign to demand an election to recall the school board majority. The national outlets consistently got the story of the election wrong, adopting a talking point from a libertarian think tank that the contest was a “proxy war” between the Koch Brothers and “teachers’ unions,” when, in fact, the recall effort was mostly led by parents."
"Both news stories told of a national program bearing down on the school district, with “money pouring in from Americans for Prosperity, the national organization founded by the Koch brothers,” in an effort to impose an agenda from outside the community that included a new history curriculum, new restrictions on teachers’ job security, and more privately-operated charter schools. Students, teachers and parents were openly revolting against the school board, staging school walkouts, holding boisterous protest rallies and waging a petition campaign to demand an election to recall the school board majority. The national outlets consistently got the story of the election wrong, adopting a talking point from a libertarian think tank that the contest was a “proxy war” between the Koch Brothers and “teachers’ unions,” when, in fact, the recall effort was mostly led by parents."
October 7, 2014
Charter school fraud has cost Pennsylvania at least $30 million
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/02/1333858/-Charter-school-fraud-has-cost-Pennsylvania-at-least-30-million
"Pennsylvania should be doing more to uncover wrongdoing before it's so blatant that parents are screaming about it."
"Pennsylvania should be doing more to uncover wrongdoing before it's so blatant that parents are screaming about it."
August 20, 2014
The Con Artistry of Charter Schools
The Con Artistry of Charter Schools
"Riding the wave of pro-privatization, right-wing propaganda that public schools have "failed" and need to be turned over to private business operators, charter school lobbyists, working with ALEC, have been able to get legislation passed to allow them to open schools all over the country that take public funds but skip the kind of oversight that regular public schools must submit to."
"Riding the wave of pro-privatization, right-wing propaganda that public schools have "failed" and need to be turned over to private business operators, charter school lobbyists, working with ALEC, have been able to get legislation passed to allow them to open schools all over the country that take public funds but skip the kind of oversight that regular public schools must submit to."
August 9, 2014
Flipping Schools: The Hidden Forces Behind New Jersey Education Reform
Flipping Schools: The Hidden Forces Behind New Jersey Education Reform
"By allocating millions of dollars in little-known bonds exclusively to charters while imposing austerity on public facilities, the state has quietly stacked the deck for charters, leaving neighborhood schools to molder in decline."
"By allocating millions of dollars in little-known bonds exclusively to charters while imposing austerity on public facilities, the state has quietly stacked the deck for charters, leaving neighborhood schools to molder in decline."
May 9, 2014
April 9, 2014
Kansas GOP Legislature Eliminates Due Process For Teachers In War On Public Education
Kansas GOP Legislature Eliminates Due Process For Teachers In War On Public Education
"Teachers in Kansas can now be fired from their jobs simply because a principal doesn’t like them — or because a student who received a C instead of an A has a vengeful parent on the school board. There will be no fair hearing, no appeal, no due process of any kind. That’s it, you’re out the door."
"Teachers in Kansas can now be fired from their jobs simply because a principal doesn’t like them — or because a student who received a C instead of an A has a vengeful parent on the school board. There will be no fair hearing, no appeal, no due process of any kind. That’s it, you’re out the door."
April 8, 2014
NYC Parents vs. Wall Street-Backed Charter Schools | Common Dreams
NYC Parents vs. Wall Street-Backed Charter Schools | Common Dreams
"Parents and public school advocates staged a dramatic protest outside the New York City Department of Education on Tuesday against a bid, backed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and financed by Wall Street lobbyists, to evict special needs students in order to make room for charter school expansion."
"Parents and public school advocates staged a dramatic protest outside the New York City Department of Education on Tuesday against a bid, backed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and financed by Wall Street lobbyists, to evict special needs students in order to make room for charter school expansion."
April 4, 2014
'Stand Up, Fight Back!': Newark Students Protest Charter Schools | Common Dreams
'Stand Up, Fight Back!': Newark Students Protest Charter Schools | Common Dreams
"Following moves by the state of New Jersey to defund public schools in exchange for a flood of privately run charter schools, hundreds of students in Newark walked out of classes in protest on Thursday."
"Following moves by the state of New Jersey to defund public schools in exchange for a flood of privately run charter schools, hundreds of students in Newark walked out of classes in protest on Thursday."
April 3, 2014
March 29, 2014
When Charters Try to Crowd Out Marginalized Public School Kids
www.alternet.org/education/when-charters-try-crowd-out-marginalized-public-school-kids
"A battle in NYC shows what happens when corporate-backed schools fight special needs public school kids for space."
"A battle in NYC shows what happens when corporate-backed schools fight special needs public school kids for space."
March 25, 2014
Why Religious Fundamentalists Are So Excited About Charter Schools
www.alternet.org/belief/why-religious-fundamentalists-are-some-biggest-beneficiaries-charter-schools
"The bill is a nationwide voucher program that would turn 63 percent of public school education funds into private school vouchers"
"The bill is a nationwide voucher program that would turn 63 percent of public school education funds into private school vouchers"
March 24, 2014
Billionaire Bucks Winning Charter School Debate In New York
Billionaire Bucks Winning Charter School Debate In New York
"As long as the Billionaire Bucks pay for propaganda that convinces people they're really just good people trying to do good things for the little children of Harlem, they're in for the long haul.
I just wish one person would ask the folks in these ads whether or not they think the millions spent on the ads might have done a better work inside their schools."
"As long as the Billionaire Bucks pay for propaganda that convinces people they're really just good people trying to do good things for the little children of Harlem, they're in for the long haul.
I just wish one person would ask the folks in these ads whether or not they think the millions spent on the ads might have done a better work inside their schools."
March 12, 2014
Mayor De Blasio Has It Right On Charter Schools | Common Dreams
Mayor De Blasio Has It Right On Charter Schools | Common Dreams
"Eva Moskowitz, of course, is the operator of a celebrated chain of charter schools in New York City who has generated much controversy by earning nearly $500,000 in annual salary– way more than New York City Chancellor earns – to procure free space for her schools by co-locating in existing public schools and forcing out school children from their current classrooms."
"Eva Moskowitz, of course, is the operator of a celebrated chain of charter schools in New York City who has generated much controversy by earning nearly $500,000 in annual salary– way more than New York City Chancellor earns – to procure free space for her schools by co-locating in existing public schools and forcing out school children from their current classrooms."
March 7, 2014
March 5, 2014
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