Guess Who Slipped a Pro-Corporate Provision into the Infrastructure Bill?
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Sweden: Why Do For-Profit Schools Survive Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition?
Sweden is one of the few nations that allow for-profit schools to be funded by the government. The United States also funds for-profit schools with...
Burris and Rees Debate For-Profit Charter Schools
Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, debated Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, about...
Nora de la Cour: For-Profit Remote Learning is a Disaster
Nora de la Cour is a high school teacher and writer. This article about the sham of for-profit remote instruction appeared in Jacobin. Study after...
Excellent Summary of Rhode Island Me$$
A regular reader called Bethree summarized the Rhode Island situation, in which friends of the Governor won a $5 (plus) million contract, although the corporation...
Manufacturing Consent for Market-Driven Schooling
Christopher A. Lizotte of the University of Washington and Dan Cohen published an interesting research paper about how market-driven policies have been promoted and sold....
Carol Burris: For-Profit Charter Operator May Make $1 Billion by Selling His Schools
Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, wrote the following: As you know, the House is trying to block federal funding to...
Jan Resseger: Jeb Bush’s Pitiful Defense of Federal Funding of For-Profit Charters
Jan Resseger, a prominent social justice advocate in Ohio, recently wrote about Jeb Bush’s cliche-ridden defense of for-profit charter schools. The House of Representatives passed...
Peter Greene: What’s Wrong with For-Profit Charter Schools?
Peter Greene writes in Forbes about the furor that erupted when House Democrats passed legislation to ban federal funding of charters managed by for-profit organizations....
Jeff Bryant: Charter Industry Lobbies Hard to Prevent Ban on Federal Funding of For-Profit Charters
Jeff Bryant is one of the best informed writers about charter schools in the nation. He is chief correspondent for Our Schools and director of...