Neoliberal-Reform

Race to the Top Competition Uses Federal Funds to Incentivize Charter Expansion and Teacher Evaluation Reforms

2009-07-24 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

On July 24, 2009, the Obama administration announced Race to the Top (RttT), a $4.35 billion competitive grant program that would profoundly reshape American education policy by requiring states to adopt charter school expansion, test-based teacher evaluations, and Common Core standards as …

President Barack Obama Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Bill Gates Gates Foundation Democrats for Education Reform +1 more education charter-schools teacher-evaluation obama-administration neoliberal-reform +1 more

IMF Forces Massive Corporate Restructuring in South Korea

1998-01-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The International Monetary Fund implements a 7 billion bailout package for South Korea, mandating sweeping economic reforms. This included forced corporate restructuring of the chaebol system, financial sector liberalization, and opening markets to foreign investors. The conditions resulted in …

International Monetary Fund South Korean Government Chaebol Corporations World Bank Asian Development Bank imf structural-adjustment economic-shock-therapy asian-financial-crisis south-korea +2 more