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Saturday, 08 October 2016 00:00

Federal Government Feeds Charter School Beast Despite Auditor’s Warnings

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A 2010 protest against charter schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Politicians always promise they will rid government of “waste, fraud, and abuse,” so let’s hope at least one political leader or policymaker will denounce our federal government’s new gift of nearly a quarter-billion dollars to charter schools.

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Friday, 08 July 2016 00:00

Public Ed Advocates Wary of Democratic Establishment—And Here's Why

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A march calling for full, equitable funding for all public schools and an end to high-stakes testing will take place Friday in Washington, D.C.

'How about signaling a new direction for federal education policy, one that promises to support schools and educators, not to punish them?'

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Wednesday, 27 January 2016 00:00

Education Department Releases List of Federally Funded Charter Schools, though Incomplete

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Education Department Releases List of Federally Funded Charter Schools, though Incomplete

The U.S. Department of Education has released a list of the charter schools that have received federal funding since 2006. The move comes in the wake of requests by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), dating back to 2014, for public disclosure of who had received federal taxpayer money. CMD had submitted requests for this and related information to the Department and several states. - See more at: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/01/13015/education-department-releases-list-federally-funded-charter-schools-though-incomplete#sthash.aFgywIXc.dpuf

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Wednesday, 27 January 2016 00:00

Charter School Insiders Now Admit Public Education Can't Be Remade In Wall St.'s Image

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Charter School Insiders Now Admit Public Education Can't Be Remade In Wall St.'s Image

Charter schools, which have been criticized for grabbing billions in taxpayer dollars with promises to reinvent public education using corporate efficiencies and values, are finding themselves under fire from industry insiders who are saying that these hyped market-based reforms don’t work.

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Wednesday, 27 May 2015 00:00

The Great Charter School Rip-Off: Finally, the Truth Catches Up to Education 'Reform' Phonies

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Diane Ravitch, Michelle Rhee

Last week when former President Bill Clinton meandered onto the topic of charter schools, he mentioned something about an “original bargain” that charters were, according to the reporter for The Huffington Post, “supposed to do a better job of educating students.”

A writer at Salon called the remark “stunning” because it brought to light the fact that the overwhelming majority of charter schools do no better than traditional public schools. Yet, as the Huffington reporter reminded us, charter schools are rarely shuttered for low academic performance.

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Friday, 17 April 2015 00:00

StudentsFirst Sues Teachers Unions Over Dues

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StudentsFirst Sues Teachers Unions Over Dues

The latest legal assault on the right of the state’s public-sector unions to collect dues was filed in Los Angeles earlier this month by StudentsFirst, the Sacramento-based, national school-privatization organization.

 

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Monday, 21 April 2014 00:00

Sasha Obama, My Daughter, and the PARCC Test: An Open Letter to President Obama

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Sasha Obama, My Daughter, and the PARCC Test: An Open Letter to President Obama

We have something very important in common: daughters in the seventh grade. Since your family walked onto the national stage in 2007, I've had a feeling that our younger daughters have a lot in common too. Like my daughter Eva, Sasha appears to be a funny, smart, loving girl, who has no problem speaking her mind, showing her feelings, or tormenting her older sister.

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Sunday, 18 January 2015 00:00

Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty

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Three-year-old Saria Amaya waits with her mother after receiving shoes and school supplies during a charity event in October to help more than 4,000 underprivileged children at the Fred Jordan Mission in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. Children from low-income families now make up a majority of public school students in the nation, according to a new report.

For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation.

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