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...
Category : Funding
Jan Resseger: The Disaster of Student-Based Budgeting
Jan Resseger hopes that Pedro Martinez, the new superintendent in Chicago, will eliminate the disastrous policy of “student-based budgeting.” The importance of the topic is...
Jan Resseger: Ohio’s “Fair State Funding” Plan Is Grossly Unfair
Jan Resseger explains how the Ohio legislature, which is devoted to charters and vouchers, managed to cheat districts like hers while boasting about “fair student...
Los Angeles: School Board Votes Tuesday on Rightwing Funding Scheme
The board of the Los Angeles Unified School District will vote Tuesday on a funding scheme promoted by conservatives and neoliberals. Its promoters call it...
Bruce Baker: What Does Research Say about Differences Between Spending of Charter Schools vs. Public Schools?
Bruce Baker of Rutgers University is one of the nation’s foremost experts on school funding and spending. He reports here on the differences between charter...
Peter Greene: What If Every Teacher Had Staff?
Peter Greene was reading a sports column and saw a reference to the coach’s staff. This reference sent him on a flight of fancy: what...
Maurice Cunningham: Why is the Press Uninterested in the Corporate Invasion of Public Education?
Readers of this blog have followed the advance of privatization of public school funding for nearly a decade. We know the big foundations and individuals...
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...
Missouri: GOP Passes Vouchers
The voucher movement should be dead, in light of the numerous evaluations showing that voucher schools do not get better results than public schoools, and...
The Obscure Foundation Funding the Uproar Over “Critical Race Theory”
Readers of this blog are accustomed to the rule “follow the money.” Thus, you should not be surprised that the national campaign to discredit teaching...