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Agnosticsherbet

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2. The major Conservative complaint is teacher's unions. Unions take the brunt of the change.

Reply to Baobab (Original post)

Fri Feb 26, 2016, 04:04 PM

Feb 2016

And that is a direct attack on the Democratic Party. Charter schools can pay much less for teachers, so that covers a second complaint by conservatives, government spending. Hurting government spending and the Democratic Party is a "twofur."

A lot of conservatives and libertarians I have known hold it as gospel that private enterprise will always run with greater efficiency that any government. They believe that making schools run like a business that they will get better results and better students.

Two men, Albert Shanker and Ray Budde, conceived the idea in Minnesota back in 1974, long before the 90's era trade agreement and before any Neoliberal conspiracy would have conceived it.

Obama and McCain supported it in 2008.

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A theory that may explain school privatization, charter schools, etc. [View all] Baobab Feb 2016 OP

Number (c) could also be used against the US Postal Service. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #1

Actually, there is an essay at policyalternatives.ca about GATS and the Canadian Postal Service Baobab Feb 2016 #4

The major Conservative complaint is teacher's unions. Unions take the brunt of the change. Agnosticsherbet Feb 2016 #2

I will check that out. Baobab Feb 2016 #5

An analogy could be drawn between charter schools being given liberty to discriminate in Baobab Feb 2016 #10

Another facet of Charter Schools is their freedom to use religion. Agnosticsherbet Feb 2016 #11

I have no idea how they would fare under progressive liberalisation Baobab Feb 2016 #12

Implementation of GATS is hindered largely by Non Tariff Barriers such as immigration restrictions leveymg Feb 2016 #3

Temporary tactic used to establish the service sector as covered by GATS, TISA, TPP rules Baobab Feb 2016 #6

L1 visas are explicitly non immigration visas. So when they say it doesnt involve immigration Baobab Feb 2016 #7

Immigration is a generic term that includes immigrant and nonimmigrant visas leveymg Feb 2016 #8

TiSA has a negative list which (see post below) Baobab Feb 2016 #9

Its different - a different set of conditions completely, I think. Some ideas on finding more info Baobab Feb 2016 #13