Network for Public Education Study Exposes Charter School Scams – Alan...
Network for Public Education Study Exposes Charter School Scams – Alan Singer’s Latest Huffington Posthttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5a12ba34e4b0e30a958508c4The just-released Network for Public...
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Design Tech High School – Another Exaggerated Charter School Success Story – Alan Singer’s Latest Huffington...
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Who will protect Tennessee public schools? The Democrat or the Republican?
Ben on his morning commuteMy son Ben is an alumnus of the University of Colorado in Boulder and is in his 2nd year of law school at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He’s still figuring out...
View ArticleThis week in the war on workers: New York fast food workers innovate and win
How about some good news for a change? Workers have their first win under New York City’s groundbreaking law requiring fast food restaurants to let workers sign up for payroll deductions to non-profit,...
View ArticleCharter schools spell segregation and white flight in Durham, North Carolina
If you want every child to have the basic right to a good education, and if you oppose segregation and discrimination against kids with disabilities as part of that right to a good education, then we...
View ArticleThe Fight for the Future of Our Education System
Americans have provided state-supported, free public education to our children since before the signing of the U.S. Constitution. This is one of the fundamental building blocks of our democracy. Our...
View ArticleArizona “Ground Zero” for Koch Attack on Public Education
By Mary BottariThe annual Koch donors summit took place at the five-star Indian Wells Resort and Spa in the California desert at the end of January. The millionaires and billionaires called to the posh...
View ArticlePrivatizing Puerto Rico: DeVos clone Julia Keleher and Gov. Rosselló push...
Looking at major media headlines that give a distorted sense of what plans are in the works to destroy public education in Puerto Rico is angry-making. Many include the phrase “raises for teachers” and...
View ArticleCharters Take a Tumble – Group with Ties to Hedge Fund Tycoons is Going Out...
Ads for charter schools never feature wealthy white men. The charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools (FES) always claimed to represent urban minority parents anxious for better...
View ArticleThis week in the war on workers: California needs to take action on charter...
California spends more than $6 billion a year in public money on privately run charter schools. You would think that with an investment that size, the state would want to oversee where the money is...
View ArticleExposing Charter School Fraud and Abuse
A must-read exposé published on “Scandal” producer Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland: The Truth About Charter SchoolsSome highlights:“ But I soon realized there was a gulf between charter school hype and...
View ArticleRepublican charter school privatization plague infects Puerto Rico. #JuliaGoHome
The hashtag “#JuliaGoHome” is probably one you are not familiar with. Angry teachers, students and parents in Puerto Rico have been fighting—albeit unsuccessfully—to rid the island of Julia Keleher,...
View ArticleTexas charter school assignment asks 8th graders to list the 'positive...
On a worksheet that echoes both Fox News’s “fair and balanced” slogans and Donald Trump’s “blame on both sides” comments about Charlottesville, San Antonio middle schoolers were tasked with an...
View ArticleCuomo Leans on Union Allies to Undercut Progressive Opposition
The American labor movement faces even harder times if the United States Supreme Court, as expected, rules in the Janus case that public employees who work in unionized positions do not have to pay...
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Houston Parents & Activists stopped board: No to charter schools
Tuesday night was a significant day for many reasons. First of all, it showed that Americans of all stripes would activate when some action by their politicians have an immediate effect on their lives...
View ArticleCuomo’s Gifts to Charter Queen Eva Moskowitz and Hedge Fund Donors
No matter how many exposés make the newspapers and how many parents and former teachers complain about the way the Success Academy Charter School Network treats children and staff, Andrew Cuomo keeps...
View ArticleCharter school rules force menstruating students to bleed through pants
NPR Illinois has the disturbing story of the Noble Network Charter Schools allegedly draconian practices. According to the report students and teachers felt that the methods employed by the network of...
View ArticleThe Only Possible Response to Janus: “Don’t Mourn, Organize!”
In 1915, labor organizer and songwriter Joe Hill was executed in Utah after being convicted of murder in a highly disputed trial. According to legend, Hill’s last words were, “Don’t Mourn, Organize!”...
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Open thread for night owls: Studies show charter schools threaten the...
At People’s Action, Jeff Bryant writes—Charter Schools Threaten the Existence of Public Education:Proclaiming May 6-12 National Charter Schools Week, President Trump kicked off a huge public relations...
View ArticleCA-Gov: Pro-Charter School Billionaires Are Bankrolling Antonio...
I’ve been pretty outspoken about my support for Lt. Governor and former San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom’s (D. CA) gubernatorial campaign. But even though I live in Los Angeles, here’s a big a reason...
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