Category: Charter Schools

How the Charter School Industry’s Newest Scheme Co...

Posted by Jeff Bryant | Dec 24, 2025 | Charter Schools, School Vouchers, State Takeovers | 0

Charter Schools Push Right-Wing Indoctrination at ...

Posted by Jeff Bryant | Jul 7, 2023 | Charter Schools | 0

Inside the Chaotic Charter Schools Run by a For-Pr...

Posted by Jeff Bryant | Apr 7, 2022 | Charter Schools | 0

The Conservative ‘Plan’ to Dismantle Public Schools Is Entering the Home Stretch

by Jeff Bryant | Jul 8, 2026 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, Education in Elections, Linda McMahon, School Vouchers | 0

In what is being touted as the “Golden Age of School Choice,” the option that is most popular with...

How the Charter School Industry’s Newest Scheme Could Be ‘the Death of Public Schools’

by Jeff Bryant | Dec 24, 2025 | Charter Schools, School Vouchers, State Takeovers | 0

The letters started coming in October 2025. In the first wave, according to the Florida Policy...

A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools

by Jeff Bryant | Dec 24, 2025 | Charter Schools, Community Schools, Education in Elections, Linda McMahon, School Vouchers | 0

Recently, opinion pieces in mainstream media outlets have begun speculating that education policy...

Book Review: Will Teachers Save Our Democracy?

by Jeff Bryant | Oct 27, 2025 | Charter Schools, Education in Elections, In the News, Linda McMahon, School Vouchers | 0

With nearly every day presenting more evidence of America’s eroding democracy, it’s understandable...

Ashana Bigard – Elizabeth K. Jeffers: Twenty Years After Katrina, the City’s All-Charter Schools System Is Failing Many Families

by Jeff Bryant | Oct 27, 2025 | Charter Schools, State Takeovers | 0

To mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, numerous articles...

How the Trump Administration Wields the Federal Government’s Power Over Public Education

by Jeff Bryant | Jul 31, 2025 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, Education in Elections, Linda McMahon, School Vouchers | 0

The U.S. Supreme Court’s July 14 decision to allow President Donald Trump and his secretary of...

Are Community Schools the Positive Disruptor Public Education Needs?

by Jeff Bryant | Jul 31, 2025 | Charter Schools, Community Schools | 0

“It’s important for people to know they can trust schools,” Jenna Fernholz told The Progressive...

Why Education “Reformers” Will Find a Home in the Trump Administration

by Jeff Bryant | Mar 6, 2025 | Charter Schools, Linda McMahon, School Vouchers | 0

During Donald Trump’s first presidential term and the Joe Biden presidential administration,...

Chicago Teachers Want to Transform Their City into a ‘System of Care’—Will Dems Go Along?

by Jeff Bryant | Sep 25, 2024 | Charter Schools, Community Schools, Education in Elections | 0

There was an ironic moment in former President Barack Obama’s speech at the 2024 Democratic...

After Years of Failed Education Reforms, Chicago Embraces Community Schools

by Jeff Bryant | Jul 16, 2024 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, Community Schools, Education in Elections, Teacher Uprisings | 0

“Until now, we haven’t even tried to make big-city school districts work, especially for children...

Rising Talk of School Closures Fuels Expansion of the Community Schools Movement

by Jeff Bryant | Apr 9, 2024 | Charter Schools, Community Schools | 0

Judging by a rash of news reports beginning in late 2023, communities across the country may be...

The Right’s Long Game to End Public Education

by Jeff Bryant | Mar 7, 2024 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, Education in Elections, School Vouchers | 0

On February 13, President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, did something...