Los Angeles: Celerity Charter Schools Under Federal Investigation
The Los Angeles Times has written extensively about the Celerity charter schools and their record of financial mismanagement, self-dealing, and possible conflicts of interest. In...
Month : April 2017
Russ Walsh: No, Betsy, Choice Is Not Always a Good Thing
Russ Walsh posted this column earlier this year. I am reposting it now because it is an insightful critique of DeVos’s ideology that choice is...
Julian Vasquez Heilig: The Eight Questions Betsy DeVos Will Never Answer About Vouchers
Julian Vasquez Heilig dissects the claims about vouchers by posing eight questions about vouchers that Betsy DeVos cannot or will not ever answer. First is,...
Peter Goodman: How Would We Assess Students Without Standardized Tests?
Peter Goodman takes up the challenge that I put down a while back in a post about why we need standardized testing in every grade...
Which School is the Best High School in Buffalo? The One with Selective Admissions or…?
I am really steamed up about the utter absurdity of the U.S. News & World Report’s listing of the “best” high schools in the nation....
DeVos Will Visit a Charter School in California Tomorrow: May Day!
Betsy DeVos will visit a charter school in Woodland Hills tomorrow. On Monday, DeVos is slated to tour the CHIME Institute’s Schwarzenegger Community School, a...
Peter Greene: Arne Duncan’s New Job
Peter Greene reports that Arne Duncan has landed a fat cushy gig at a huge investment firm, based on his smashing accomplishments as superintendent of...
When Trump Met with the Teachers of the Year
“A parent of one of the (Teachers of the Year) said in an email: “ ‘There was no planning, no care, no water in the...
DeVos Cancels Charter School Visit to Los Angeles! Sad!
Only hours after the U.S. Department of Education put out a press release announcing Betsy DeVos’ visit to the Schwarzenegger Charter School, the visit was...
Gary Rubinstein: The 4th Best High School in New York State Doesn’t Exist
Gary Rubinstein wrote a post about the curiosity of the KIPP high school in New York City that was ranked one of the best in...