Bruce Baker: How to Make Charter Schools More Accountable and Transparent
Bruce Baker is a school finance expert at Rutgers. For years, he has been concerned about the lack of transparency and accountability in the charter...
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How Charter Schools Select Their Students
Wagma Mommandi and Kevin Welner write in The Progressive about the ways that charter schools select and remove students. These practices are not permitted in...
An Honest Man, and Other Heroic Republicans Who Rejected the Big Lie
Ed McBroom is a dairy farmer in Michigan. He is also a Republican state senator who chairs the Oversight Committee of the legislature. It was...
House Democrats Want to Bar Federal Funding of For-Profit Charter Schools, and Charter Lobby Goes Wild
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...
Fred Klonsky: When Emancipation Came to D.C., Slave Owners Received Reparations
Fred Klonsky writes that when slaves were emancipated in Washington, D.C. in 1862, the slave owners received payment for the loss of their property, but...
Chris Lubienski: The Deceptive Language of School Choice
Chris Lubienski is a professor of education policy at Indiana University. He wrote recently with Amanda Potterton and Joe Malin about the deceptive rhetoric of...
A Proposal to Revive the Federal Writers’ Project
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration devised highly successful programs to create jobs and at the same time, perform useful public...
Nina Rees on Efforts to Reduce Funding for Charter Schools | C-SPAN.org
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...
White Evangelicals Want to Destroy the Public Schools
Katherine Stewart’s new book The Power Worshippers describes the hostility of evangelical Christians to public schools. I reviewed her book along with two others in...
North Carolina: The Racism Behind the State Statute Barring Discriminatuon
The North Carolina General Assembly is considering legislation that ostensibly bans discrimination in the state’s classrooms. But the real purpose of the statute is to...