Charter Schools' Dismal Failures
Today, the Center for Media and Democracy is releasing a complete state-by-state list of the failed charter schools since 2000. Among other things, this data reveals that millions and millions of...
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This Florida charter school sounds like every parent and teacher's education...
Paramount Charter school parents and teachers are outraged at the mismanagement of the school How would you feel as a parent if a little more than one month into the school year the principal of your...
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This week in the war on workers: Suspending kindergarteners for being regular...
Kids behaving like kids? Not allowed. The "no excuses" education model is a specialty of some charter schools, most famously New York's Success Academies. The rules, and the outcomes, are shocking:At...
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Ro Khanna Misleads at Santa Clara Co. Democratic Club Forum #CA17
Pay no attention to the millionaires behind the curtainRo Khanna recently spoke at the Santa Clara County Democratic Club, the oldest Democratic club in the county, to make his case and win their...
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This week in the war on workers: Success Academies targets kids who've 'got...
Former New York City council member Eva Moskowitz earns more than the president of the United States in her current role running Success Academies, a chain of charter schools. She applies political...
View ArticleSome thoughts on charter schools
since they have been very much in the news recently, not necessarily for the best of reasons.I write from the perspective of one who spent most of his career in public schools, but is for the second...
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New study shows online charter schools fail miserably in every way possible
Go home. Get online. The Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) along with the Center on Reinventing Public Education completed and released their findings on the growing "reforms" to...
View ArticleHillary Clinton explains how the charter school agenda puts public schools in...
Hillary Clinton was asked if a poll showing interest in charter schools among African-American parents who are unhappy with public schools made her support expanding charter schools and voucher...
View ArticleCharter schools steal from our children.
As an American and future parent I am sick and tired of for profit companies, like charter schools stealing from our children to make their profits. Only our children should profit from their...
View ArticleHillary Clinton uses the anti-public education movement's race-baiting in...
A few days ago, longtime DailyKos writer Laura Clawson tried to paint Hillary Clinton as a champion of public education, using remarks that Hillary made in a recent interview with Roland Martin, a...
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"No Child Left Behind" is dead! Long live the states' rights of Zombie...
So the good news is that with the signing of the Every Student Succeeds Act today, No Child Left Behind finally joins eraser chalk in the dustbin of History, but like whiteboards, the aroma of...
View ArticleNew report: Charter schools great at making money for private business, not...
A new study released by a research institute has concluded that the charter school movement is very good at one thing: making profits for a few people.Charter schools are able to siphon off large...
View ArticleFlorida gave 70 million to charter schools that later closed. Did not get...
From the Miami Herald today:Florida in total gave about 760 million to charter schools. About 70 million to schools which later closed.Florida gave about $70 million to charter schools that later...
View ArticleWhat is Hillary Clinton's real position on charter schools?
Laura Clawson’s post today about Hillary Clinton’s comments on schools in Iowa highlights a legitimate question on Clinton as a purveyor of failed DLC/New Democrat/Third Way policies.Were her comments...
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Taking the public out of public education
A lot of charter schools like to label themselves “public charter schools” to help blur the distinctions between their publicly funded but largely privatized model and actual public education that...
View ArticleCalifornia's charter school law repeal movement update
First published January 13, 2016 on K-12 News Network“charter schools comprise a divisive and segregated sector”—Frankenberg, E., Siegel-Hawley, G., Wang, J. (2011)Voices Against Privatizing Public...
View ArticleCharter school of 11,000 students drops foreign language—what they offer...
A little over a year ago, Sonali Kohli withThe Atlantic reported a disturbing change in American schools. She focused on one particular educational group called Success Academy Charter Schools. They...
View ArticleCharter school all-star teacher caught ripping up schoolwork, humiliating...
Let me begin by saying that a very high percentage of the people in my family are either teachers or work in the public education field to some degree or another. Teaching young kids, from various...
View ArticleNew report says that the majority of U.S. public school students are poor
Southern Education Foundation (SEF) has released a study saying that according to the latest data collected—through 2013—about 51 percent of the students in public schools across the United States are...
View ArticleTeachers should not need to work two jobs to make ends meet
There is a scene in the first episode of Breaking Bad where Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher, is working his second job at a car wash. He is on the line scrubbing the wheels of a Corvette,...
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