Its services undermine the role of parents, restrict women's options to bring their babies to term and undermine school health programs, which are better qualified to develop empowerment programs with an ongoing professional staff and without a profit motive.
Even as we speak, I have no doubt that a link to Murphy's piece is being sent to Congressional offices by those who hope to undermine school nutrition standards during the upcoming Child Nutrition Reauthorization.
Though the pension fight has dominated headlines, teachers in Kentucky have also opposed attempts by Gov. Matt Bevin (R) and the Republican legislature to bring charter schools to the state, as well as various proposals to cut school funding in ways that teachers and administrators alike have said could further undermine school programs and public education in an already-struggling state.
It is a complex challenge, but the solutions can be as simple, cost-effective and easy to deliver as something like vitamin A, zinc and iron supplements, or the nourishment of mother's milk, or iodized salt, a lack of which can reduce a child's cognitive capacity and undermine school performance, or good child feeding practices.
At the moment they are undermining schools' attempts to help students to choose healthy meal options".
Mr. Pawlenty inherited a deficit in 2003, his first year in office, and his attempts to balance budgets while fulfilling a no-new-taxes pledge were checked by Democratic or split Legislatures, which accused him of undermining schools and social services.
"It's dealing with very complex subjects, and it runs the risk of totally undermining school funding in California," said Bob Cherry, associate executive director of the California Teachers Association, a powerful organization with 300,000 members.
In South Asia alone, an estimated 400 million people suffered from hunger in 2009 – around one quarter more than the regional average for the period 2004 2006.9 A pronounced decline in household income has undermined school attendance and ability to access health services among poor families.
In the first Congressional debate of the year over vouchers, committee Democrats, led by Representative George Miller of California, argued that the measure would undermine public schools by redirecting money to private schools.
Weingarten wrote that "some elements of the report actually undermine" public schools, saying the report casts "public schools in the worst possible light while ignoring facts to the contrary".
