Employee Quote by Nancy MacLean

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We…

— Eli Broad

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

— Hank Johnson

“The corporate reform movement has co-opted progressive themes and language in the service of radical purposes. Advocating the privatization of public education is deeply…

— Diane Ravitch

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

— Diane Ravitch

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power…

— Winifred Holtby

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes.…

— Kenneth Baker

Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their…

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the…

— Rebecca Solnit

There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is…

— Bernie Sanders

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond…

— George Papandreou

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

— Manmohan Singh

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

— Anonymous