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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, 202106

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, 202107

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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Chris Whittle Loses His Home in the Hamptons, Once Listed for $140 Million

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 18, 2021July 19, 2021

July 18, 2021July 19, 202108

Being an eduEntreneur does not always pay off. Chris Whittle founded the Edison Project, which was supposed to be for profit, but after much turmoil,...

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Nancy Bailey: Can We Save Our Democratic Public Schools?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 5, 2021July 6, 2021

July 5, 2021July 6, 2021015

Nancy Bailey writes here about the growing influence and persistence of the billionaire-funded groups that want to privatize our nation’s public schools. Despite the substantial...

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Oklahoma: Epic Virtual Charter Severs Ties to Co-Founders’ For-Profit Firm After Paying Them Millions

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7May 28, 2021May 29, 2021

May 28, 2021May 29, 202108

After a scathing state audit of its finances, the EPIC virtual charter school cut its ties to the school’s for-profit co-founders. The governing board of...

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Angie Sullivan: In the Nevada Charter Industry, Conflicts of Interest Are Rampant

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 18, 2021April 19, 2021

April 18, 2021April 19, 2021024

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”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 10, 2021April 11, 2021

April 10, 2021April 11, 2021022

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...

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Texas: Public Schools Are Better Than Charter Schools: Stop Funding Failure!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 7, 2021April 8, 2021

April 7, 2021April 8, 2021029

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...

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Florida: Inside the Dark, Dirty Secrets of Florida’s Jeb Crow Schools of “Choice”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 2, 2021April 3, 2021

April 2, 2021April 3, 2021026

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...

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Oklahoma: A Sick Joke on the Public

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 1, 2021April 2, 2021

April 1, 2021April 2, 2021028

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...

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