Angie Sullivan: In the Nevada Charter Industry, Conflicts of Interest Are Rampant
Angie Sullivan teaches first-grade students in a Title I school in Las Vegas. She writes regularly to every member of the legislature and to journalists...
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Bob Braun Explains the Opposition to Billionaire-Funded “Reform”
Bob Braun was an education reporter for 50 years. After he retired from the New Jersey Star-Ledger, he began blogging and paid close and critical...
Texas: Public Schools Are Better Than Charter Schools: Stop Funding Failure!
I recently had the pleasure of speaking to the North Texas School Boards Association by Zoom. Right now, Texas is ground zero for the charter...
Florida: Inside the Dark, Dirty Secrets of Florida’s Jeb Crow Schools of “Choice”
Billy Townsend was a school board member in Polk County, Florida. He saw up close and personal how charters were sucking the high-scoring students out...
Oklahoma: A Sick Joke on the Public
You may recall that the Oklahoma State Board of Education recently voted 4-3 to allow charter schools to share in local tax revenues, over the...
Florida: League of Women Voters Exposes Voucher Boondoggle As Big Business
The Florida League of Women Voters has long been wary about the state’s rush to privatize public school funding through charters and vouchers. It has...
Peter Greene: How a Non-Profit Charter School Can be Run for Profit
Peter Greene reviewed the Network for Public Education’s report on for-profit charter schools in Forbes, where he is a regular columnist. He writes: It has...
Valerie Strauss on the NPE Report on For-Profit Charters
Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post reviews the Network for Public Education report on for-profit charters, which explains how such money-grabbers function in states where...
Don’t Believe the “Learning Loss” Hoax
The mainstream media are filled with warnings about “learning loss” and how we must measure it and why students should go to summer school to...
The Dark Secrets of the Privatization Movement: An Interview with Charles Siler
Jennifer Berkshire and I interviewed Charles Siler about his inside knowledge of the privatization movement. Jennifer is co-author of the important new book (with Jack...