Sarah Lahm: Why a State Known for Charter Schools Is Now Joining a Nationwide Trend for Community Schools
Minnesota is widely known as the land of 10,000 lakes—actually, there are more than 10,000. But...
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For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education
Charter school industry lobbyists, who appear to have lost a fight in the U.S. House of...
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Sarah Lahm: How Increasingly Popular Community Schools Boost Rural America
The often hidden reality of rural schools in America is that a higher percentage of students in...
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Sarah Lahm: In Minnesota’s ‘Most Diverse City,’ Schools Are Addressing the Community’s Deep Trauma
Sizi Goyah, a high school math teacher in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is overflowing with...
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Industry Lobbying Firm Rushes to Defend Charter Schools That Think of Children as a Business
The top lobbying group for the charter school industry is rushing to preserve millions in funds...
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The Right Wing Is Pumping Out Critical Race Theory Attacks to Boost its Propaganda War on Public Education
“No one deserves the school I went to,” says Celia Gottlieb. Gottlieb is currently enrolled...
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Why Are Federal Funds Flowing to “White Flight” Privatized Charter Schools and Contributing to the Re-segregation of Education?
In June 2018, when the North Carolina state legislature enacted a law that allowed four affluent,...
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Here’s the Truth Behind the Right-Wing Attacks on Critical Race Theory
When North Carolina public school teacher Justin Parmenter penned an opinion piece for the...
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A Florida School Improved Reading and Math Scores With Streetlights—And Joe Biden Is All For It
“What I’m working on—like making sure students have access to food, clean clothing, and...
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How the Federal Government’s Charter School Program Went Wrong
From the outset, charter schools were somewhat of a blind man’s elephant—people saw in them...
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Florina Rodov: Charter Schools Should Get Zero Federal Dollars
The U.S. Department of Education’s Charter School Program (CSP) wasted more than a billion dollars...
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Biden Promised to End Standardized Testing in Schools—It Was Never Going to Be Easy
Barely a month after President Biden was inaugurated, educators and public school advocates reeled...
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Florina Rodov: I Believed the Charter School Myth—Until I Learned About the Reality and Who Was Behind It
I fell for the charter school hype. I agreed with former President Obama’s education...
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For-Profit Charter Schools Gone Wild—Proof That Greed and Education Don’t Mix
A new report by the Network for Public Education (NPE) explains why charter schools are often...
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Jeff Bryant on The Attitude: “Betsy Devos Is the Tip of the Iceberg in the School Privatization Agenda”
Jeff Bryant on the New Hampshire-based radio show The Attitude hosted by Arnie Arnesen explains...
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