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House Democrats Want to Bar Federal Funding of For-Profit Charter Schools, and Charter Lobby Goes Wild

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 24, 2021July 25, 2021

July 24, 2021July 25, 202108

The federal government has handed out billions of dollars to start new charter schools. The federal Charter Schools Program program started small, in 1994, with...

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Nina Rees on Efforts to Reduce Funding for Charter Schools | C-SPAN.org

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 23, 2021July 24, 2021

July 23, 2021July 24, 202109

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ Nina Rees talked about congressional efforts to reduce federal funding of charter schools.— Watch on www.c-span.org/video/ House Democrats want...

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Paul Butler: UNC’s Treatment of Nikole Hannah-Jones Was a Demonstration of CRT

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 21, 2021July 22, 2021

July 21, 2021July 22, 202109

Paul Butler is a professor at the Georgetown University School of Law. In the Washington Post, where he is a contributing columnist, he writes that...

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The Teen Who Inspired Zaila Avant-Garde to Win the National Spelling Bee

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 19, 2021July 20, 2021

July 19, 2021July 20, 202108

The Washington Post wrote about the teen who inspired Zaila Avant-Garde, the first African American to win the national spelling bee. A 13-year-old girl from...

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Charter Chain Fights Audit Demanded by Private Funder

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 11, 2021July 12, 2021

July 11, 2021July 12, 202106

I remember the original promise of charter schools when the idea was first floated in the late 1980s. They would cost less than district schools...

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The Failure of the Obama-Duncan “School Improvement Grants” and Its Lessons for Today

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 8, 2021July 9, 2021

July 8, 2021July 9, 202108

A while back, I read a vitriolic article in a rightwing publication that expressed contempt for the public schools and congratulated Betsy DeVos for trying...

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UNC Board Grants Tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones After Protests by Black Faculty and Students

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 1, 2021July 2, 2021

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The Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina recently offered the prestigious Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism to...

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Gary Rubenstein: Faking the ASD Story

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 19, 2021June 20, 2021

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Gary Rubenstein has been following the tale of the so-called Achievement School District in Tennessee for a decade. It was started with $100 million of...

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Mercedes Schneider: The Leading Candidate for Mayor of New York City Has a Horrible Plan for the Schools

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 18, 2021June 19, 2021

June 18, 2021June 19, 2021010

Mayoral control of the schools was never a good idea. The current race for mayor of New York City demonstrates that it is a horrible...

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Ohio: Proof That High School Students Are Smarter Than Legislators

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 15, 2021June 16, 2021

June 15, 2021June 16, 2021014

This post appeared on the Network for Public Education website. Paul Huang and Olivia Peebles: It’s time to pass a Fair School Funding Plan This...

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