Privatization

False And Diversionary Charter School Dichotomies

October 11, 2019 Shawgi Tell, Dissidentvoice.org Strategize! Charter Schools, Education, Privatization

There is no shortage of articles, books, reports, blogs, and websites that continually detail the perpetually scandalous and troubled nature of charter schools. Not a day goes by without a report on some sort of infamy, fraud, mismanagement, corruption, or failure in the unaccountable charter school sector. But even articles and reports that are critical of charter schools often lapse into confused logic and arguments, revealing that the thinking around charter schools remains muddled. This endless confusion and incoherence repeatedly conceals and renders forgettable the profound significance of the core feature of all charter schools: their inherently privatized nature.

GEO Group Runs Out Of Banks As 100% Of Banking Partners Say ‘No’ To The Private Prison Sector

October 3, 2019 Morgan Simon, Forbes.com Educate! Banks, Prisons, Privatization

All of the existing banking partners to private prison leader GEO Group have now officially committed to ending ties with the private prison and immigrant detention industry. These banks are JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, SunTrust, BNP Paribas, Fifth Third Bancorp, Barclays, and PNC. This exodus comes in the wake of demands by grassroots activists — many under the banner of the #FamiliesBelongTogether coalition — shareholders, policymakers, and investors.

Charter School Advocates Grow More Belligerent

September 25, 2019 Shawgi Tell, Dissidentvoice.org Educate! Charter Schools, Education, Privatization

Steadily mounting opposition to privately-operated nonprofit and for-profit charter schools is inevitable and becoming a bigger thorn in the side of nervous neoliberals, privatizers, and corporate school reformers. Terrified of discussion, investigation, and analysis, and hell-bent on privatizing schools, no matter the cost to society, on September 11, 2019, “Chiefs for Change” issued a letter righteously and arrogantly demanding that everyone blindly submit to the destructive neoliberal agenda of privatizing schools to further enrich major owners of capital.

Ending The Privatization Of Money: Money For The People

September 25, 2019 Mary Mellor, Greattransition.org Strategize! Money, Privatization

Local initiatives can lead to modest gains in sustainability, but not the large-scale transformation we need. Meeting that challenge will require, among other critical factors, substantial changes in how we create and use money. As its history demonstrates, money is a social and political construct. It is the privatization of money—and not money itself—that has fueled social exploitation and environmental destruction. Money could, by contrast, help advance a Great Transition—but only if it is reclaimed for the public.

Charter Schools Cannot Be Prettified

July 29, 2019 Shawgi Tell, Dissidentvoice.org Educate! Charter Schools, Education, Privatization

A July 2019 “study” funded by the pro-privatization Walton Family Foundation, “Charter School Effects on School Segregation,” reports that charter schools intensify racial and ethnic segregation, but not by much and for reasons that are supposedly understandable and acceptable. The authors of the “study” want the public to believe that we should not be too concerned about the role of charter schools in increasing segregation. We are to believe that deregulated privately-operated charter schools are really not that bad.

How Teach For America Evolved Into An Arm Of The Charter School Movement

June 21, 2019 By Annie Waldman, Propublica.org Educate! Charter Schools, Education, Privatization, Teach for America

When the Walton Family Foundation announced in 2013 that it was donating $20 million to Teach For America to recruit and train nearly 4,000 teachers for low-income schools, its press release did not reveal the unusual terms for the grant. Documents obtained by ProPublica show that the foundation, a staunch supporter of school choice and Teach For America’s largest private funder, was paying $4,000 for every teacher placed in a traditional public school — and $6,000 for every one placed in a charter school.

Are You Sure You Actually ‘Like’ Your Private Health Insurance?

June 21, 2019 Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram, Independent Media Institute Create! Health Care, Health Insurance, Privatization

In 2018, as millions of Americans borrowed $88 billion to pay for health care, 62 CEOs of health care companies made a combined total of $1.1 billion in compensation. When I talk to friends, family, and colleagues about Medicare for All, sometimes someone asks, “but don’t people like their insurance?” It’s not hard to see where they got that idea. America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the leading lobbyist for the for-profit insurance industry, says 71 percent of Americans “like” their private health insurance.

Thousands Of Charter Schools Perform Poorly

May 29, 2019 Shawgi Tell, Dissidentvoice.org Educate! Charter Schools, Education, Privatization, Schools

“Performance-based accountability” is a hackneyed, Skinnerian, neoliberal buzz-phrase often repeated dogmatically by charter school promoters in order to falsely claim that privately-operated nonprofit and for-profit charter schools are more accountable and higher-performing than public schools. But it is becoming clearer to everyone with each passing day that charter school promoters have long vastly over-promised and under-delivered, while rapidly enriching themselves at the expense of students, parents, the public, the economy, and the national interest.

Charter School Support Slipping Among Democrats

May 17, 2019 Jeff Bryant, Blackagendareport.com Resist! Charter Schools, Education, Electoral Politics, Privatization

The politics of charter schools have changed, and bipartisan support for these publicly funded, privately controlled schools has reached a turning point. A sure sign of the change came from Democrats in the House Appropriations Committee who have proposed a deep cut in federal charter school grants that would lower funding to $400 million, $40 million below current levels and $100 million less than what the Trump administration has proposed. Democrats are also calling for better oversight of charter schools that got federal funding and then closed.

Citing School Officials’ Campaign Contributions To Pugh, Hopkins Students Protest Private Police Plan

April 12, 2019 Fern Shen, Baltimorebrew.com Resist! Baltimore, Higher Education, Police, Privatization

Occupying a campus building for nearly a week, protesters say plan is tainted by its ties to a “pay-to-play” mayor. They chant every hour, often choosing “No justice. No peace. No private police.” They chant whenever President Ronald J. Daniels passes by, calling on the Johns Hopkins University president to “Ne-go-ti-ate!” And now, after nearly a week camped out in the Garland Hall administration building, students protesting the school’s private police force initiative have another message...

Berlin Activists March To Demand City Seize Housing From Landlords

April 8, 2019 Caroline Copley, Reuters.com Resist! Germany, Housing, Privatization, Protests

BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of Berlin residents took to the streets on Saturday to vent anger over surging rents and demand the expropriation of more than 200,000 apartments sold off to big private landlords, which they blame for changing the character of the city. Activists have started collecting signatures for a ballot proposal that would require the city to take back properties from any landlord that owns more than 3,000 apartments. Polls suggest such a measure could pass, forcing the city to consider spending billions of euros buying privatized housing back.

Privatization Is Fundamentally An Attack On Democracy. The Teachers Strikes Show Why.

March 16, 2019 Jeremy Mohler, Inthesetimes.com Educate! Education, Privatization, Strikes, Teachers

One key feature of the Trump era is a renewed public focus on the issue of democracy. Last year’s congressional elections had the highest midterm voter turnout since 1966. Americans across the country have poured into the streets and packed the halls of Congress to protest President Trump’s power grabs. Over one million people convicted of felonies have regained the right to vote in Florida, thanks to a successful statewide ballot measure. New York City residents pushed their elected officials to all but force the world’s richest person, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, to walk away from $3 billion in tax breaks.

The VA Is Privatizing Veterans’ Health Care While Launching A Campaign To Deny It

March 13, 2019 By Suzanne Gordon, Prospect.org Educate! Health Care, Privatization, Veterans

Acutely aware that its privatization plan has little support among veterans, the VA has launched a PR blitz to obscure what it's doing. The Trump administration’s multipronged effort to privatize the VHA and push millions of veterans out of the VA system remains deeply unpopular among American veterans. But rather than adjust its proposals to meet the needs and wishes of veterans, the administration has a better idea: deny that the changes—which include funding private care at taxpayer expense—amount to privatization at all.

West Virginia Teachers Strike Over Retaliatory Privatization

February 20, 2019 Russell Mokhiber, Morgancountyusa.org Resist! Privatization, Strikes, Teachers, West Virginia

This year, to retaliate for that embarrassment, those same legislative leaders want to privatize state teacher jobs with charter schools and push public schools teachers to the brink. “Charter school lobbyists have run roughshod over the Capitol for the last two weeks,” Spring Mills High School teacher Jessica Salfia told This Week in Morgan County’s Russell Mokhiber. “And this morning at the hearing, we were given 70 seconds a piece to testify.” “We are seeing a push to dismantle already struggling public schools,” Salfia said. “It’s frustrating. Teachers do the work they do because they are called to it. The pay is not good.

After 3 Decades, Privatization Has Been Proven A Failure. Let’s Bury It For Good.

January 24, 2019 Jeremy Mohler, Inthesetimes.com Educate! New Economy, Ownership, Privatization

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s suggestion to raise the top marginal tax rate to 70 percent has reignited a long overdue debate about taxation. The idea that lower taxes on corporations and the wealthy is key to a healthy economy—known as “trickle-down economics”—has been the mainstream political consensus since the 1980s. By explaining that massively increasing taxes on the super-rich can help fund social programs like Medicare for All, tuition-free college, a jobs guarantee and a Green New Deal, Ocasio-Cortez has rightly disrupted the politics of austerity that has dominated both major political parties for decades.

«1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 »

assetto corsa mods

Daily movement news and resources