KIPP Charter Chain Can't Account for $52 Million - KIPP’s lack of transparency in reporting how it spends taxpayer dollars is notable. https://dianeravitch.net/2025/04/26/kipp-charter-chain-cant-account-for-52-million/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization
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'AUPE Media Release:
Hospital horror-stories no longer a shock thanks to private laundry services
EDMONTON—Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) say soiled sheets and lost valuables are the new norm in Alberta hospitals thanks to privatized laundry services, and they have the photos to prove it.
AUPE members and other health care workers report that gowns, sheets, and rags are often soiled or filled with used needles after returning from K-Bro, the private company hired by the provincial government to provide laundry services for health care centres across the province.
“Some staff have even reported finding dentures and used diapers in supposedly clean linens,” says Curtis Jackson, AUPE vice-president and chair of the union’s Anti-Privatization Committee.
“Health care works when we focus on quality, not profits,” he says. “Health care staff and patients across the province experience the awful reality of for-profit laundry services first-hand. Albertans deserve a higher standard of health care, which can only be achieved through public ownership and accountability.”
Former premier Jason Kenney's government officially privatized all publicly-operated hospital laundry services in late 2021 and into 2022. All AHS retail food services were privatized shortly thereafter in 2023.
AUPE members are now worried premier Danielle Smith’s relationships with Trump officials and allies in the United States will inspire her to further Americanize Alberta’s health care system.
“Taking publicly-delivered health services out of the public domain and awarding them as contracts to private corporations has consistently cost our province and everyday Albertans more while providing lower quality and diminished outcomes,” says Jackson.
Recent private health care disasters have also increased workers’ anxiety over privatized services, including the government’s private surgical contracts scandal as well as the DynaLife debacle, which the government insisted would save money but instead cost Albertans $100 million to save and bring back into the public system.'
"The VA invented physician assistants. They run a scholarship program for them. But they don't hire them in sufficient numbers,
often forcing PAs to give back their scholarship
.
PAs could help with the #Veterans Admin’s staffing challenges. But though the VA pays for training scholarships, PAs have found it hard to get work there.
The #VA today remains the single largest employer of PAs in the US, ~1/3 of whom are vets.
The American Prospect · Has the VA Stymied a Profession It Helped Create?Physician assistants could help with the Veterans Administration’s staffing challenges. But though the VA pays for training scholarships, PAs have found it hard to get work there.
KIPP Charter Schools Conceal $52M in Unexplained Expenses - Writing for the Center for Media and Democracy, Don Wiener unravels yet another abuse of funding by a charter school giant. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/don-wiener-kipp-charter-schools-conceal-52m-in-unexplained-expenses/ #Privatization
Network For Public EducationDon Wiener: KIPP Charter Schools Conceal $52M in Unexplained Expenses - Network For Public EducationWriting for the Center for Media and Democracy, Don Wiener unravels yet another abuse of funding by a charter school giant. The Knowledge is Power Program — known as KIPP — is one of the largest charter school networks in the country, operating 278 K–12 “college-preparatory” schools nationwide. More than half of these schools are […]
North Dakota Becomes 47th State to Authorize Charter Schools Despite Decades of Broken Promises - Charters are no better than public schools, and many are far worse. https://dianeravitch.net/2025/04/25/north-dakota-becomes-47th-state-to-authorize-charter-schools/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Carol Burris: With Religious Charters, the Charter Lobby’s Chickens Have Come Home to Roost https://dianeravitch.net/2025/04/24/carol-burris-3/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Student Outcome Focused Governance is an anti-democratic plan that undermines elected public school boards. https://tultican.com/2025/04/21/student-outcome-focused-governance-is-impuissant/ #Privatization
"The agencies would also be asked to partner with the private sector to develop relevant programs in schools."
I read this draft EO as further evidence Big Tech is poised to hasten the privatization of public education through industry-serving AI literacy and related curriculum."
-C Logan
#AI #Privatization #PublicSchools #BigTech #Resist #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/22/ai-schools-executive-order-trump-draft/
The Washington Post · Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
" #TaxCuts for very rich people leads to less revenue then cuts to the public sector. This is presented as being 'inevitable' but it's a choice which leads to a decline in quality & accessibility of public services. Then governments swoop in to offer #privatization as a viable alternative."
Student Outcome Focused Governance is an anti-democratic plan for elected public school boards. https://tultican.com/2025/04/21/student-outcome-focused-governance-is-impuissant/ #Privatization
Arguments Mustered For Supreme Court Case Of Religious Charter School via @Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/04/22/arguments-mustered-for-supreme-court-case-of-religious-charter-school/ #Privatization
ForbesArguments Mustered For Supreme Court Case Of Religious Charter SchoolPro-choice organizations, red states, and religious groups are lining up against Oklahoma’s attorney general and a group of Constitutional scholars.
"US rule change for low-value imports threatensthousands of small online sellers, e-commerce expert says."
Higher #tariffs & shipping costs, esp high rates from the #USPS, will bankrupt many small businesses, & likely some medium & large-sized businesses. It's Trump's corrupt intent.
#Privatization #Trumpcession #Economy #USPol https://www.freightwaves.com/news/air-cargo-faces-22b-revenue-hit-when-china-tariff-exemption-ends
FreightWaves · Air cargo faces $22B revenue hit when China tariff exemption endsThe air cargo industry could see revenues cut by billions of dollars and China-US air rates plunge by 30% or more when the Trump administration revokes duty-free treatment for small e-commerce shipments, according to one logistics expert’s scenario modeling.
"Trump ramps up attacks on Powell, demands ‘loser’ Fed chair lower rates 'NOW."
We wish this were the Onion, but Trump manages to ruin Easter week, & the foreseeable future bc his tariff's are wrecking the US #economy, & most of the global economy. His #privatization plan isn't subtle. Will GOP MOC continue to appease him? The equity markets are reeling, long rates are
, the$ is
, LEI is0.7%... Economists say that HIS #tariffs are causing inflation.
#USPol #Trumpcession
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/trump-powell-attacks-interest-rates-fed.html
“The WH may not realize: manufacturing isn’t like a computer.
When you turn it off -can’t simply turn it on again.
“Factories all over the world, esp those focussed on the US market,are laying off their WKRs, bc *don’t have orders or bc they can’t afford imported raw materials & components made more expensive by the #tariffs.
-Molson
Trump is sabotaging economies, worldwide. Rs are complicit. Do they believe that the goal of #privatization will benefit them, or are they morons?”
#USPol
Texas: Republican Legislators Endorse Vouchers - Another state on the path to ending public education and destroying its rural communities. https://dianeravitch.net/2025/04/17/texas-republican-legislators-endorse-vouchers/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Texas: Religious Leaders Condemn Governor Abbott's Decision to Hold Vote on Vouchers During Holy Week - He is chicken to put the issue on the November 2025 ballot and let Texans decide. https://dianeravitch.net/2025/04/16/texas-religious-leaders-condemn-governor-abbotts-decision-to-hold-vote-on-vouchers-during-holy-week/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization
The WH said CN is facing up to a 245% tariff on imports to the US as a result of its retaliatory actions.
Trump launched an investigation into the nat sec risks posed by US reliance on imported processed critical minerals & their derivative products.
Cutting off Chinese importscomplicates American supply chains,costs & forcing bus' to source from elsewhere. Consumers faceprices.
Trump is intentionally wrecking the fed govt/economy for #privatization.
#USPol #Tariffs https://www.newsweek.com/china-245-trump-tariff-2060295
Newsweek · China Now Faces 245% Trump Tariff
Details and background on the scandle around #Alberta's moves to increase private medical care in the province.
"While AHS typically pays $4,044 per hip, $4,036 per knee and $4,833 per shoulder surgery, Alberta Surgical Group charged $8,303 per hip, $8,510 per knee and $11,243 per shoulder surgery prior to contract renewal negotiations, according to document."
#medmastodon #health #doctors #Privatization @medmastodon https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/04/15/Real-Cause-Alberta-CorruptCare-Scandal/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
#usa : #prisoner / #starvation / #humanrights / #privatization
„Why are people, arrested during mental-health crises, dying from lack of food and water?“
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/21/starved-in-jail
The New Yorker · Starved in Jail