Denis Smith Warns West Virginia about Their New Charter Law: Expect a Train Wreck
Denis Smith went to graduate school in West Virginia and served as an elementary and middle school principal, director of curriculum, and director of federal...
Category : Deregulation
Karen Francisco: Why I Fight to Save Public Schools
Karen Francisco is the editorial page editor of the The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette in Indiana. She is one of the few journalists who are outspoken...
Texas: Legislature Debates Whether to Make It Easier to Open Charter Schools
The charter industry is turning its lobbyists loose in Texas. Despite the large number of charters in the state (more than 800), the lobbyists want...
Tim Wu: How America Outsourced Its Ability to Fight Pandemic
Tim Wu is a law professor at Columbia University. He ran for Lt. Governor in New York on a progressive ticket with Zephyr Teachout. On...
Jersey Jazzman Dissects the Camden, New Jersey, Story Line
Jersey Jazzman knows that the leaders of the Disruption Movement are always on the hunt for proof that their theories work. One model district...
Tim Slekar Interviews Carol Burris about Charter Scandals
Carol Burris is one of the best-informed observers of the charter industry. Tim Slekar interviewed her on his podcast #BustED Pencils. Like this:...
Tom Ultican: How Charter Operators Scammed $50 Million (or More) from California
Tom Ultican writes here about the biggest charter fraud in history (to this date). This fraud was not one of those one-day wonders that...
National Charter School Conference Honors Its Heroes
We are bummed you couldn’t make it, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a little taste of Vegas during the 2019 National Charter Schools...
EdSource: Why California Charter Schools Have Little or No Oversight
Louis Freedberg of EdSource explains here why California charter schools are largely unsupervised, leading to a drumbeat of scandals like the recent indictment of...
Steven Singer: Charters Are Gobbling Up My Public School District
Steven Singer doesn’t research or data to describe what is happening to his school district. He sees it. It is being gobbled up outsiders...