February 2019 – Time Out For Charters

From Center for Public Policy Priorities:For more information on Charter School Funding: Charter School Funding: A Misguided Growing State ResponsibilityFor …

Julian Vasquez-Helig: Cloaking Inequity

Q: “Did you see the numbers?” A: Yes, I have.

Is there a revolt inside the NAACP? Are charters segregated? Do African American have appreciably higher achievement in charters? Tomorrow is statewide strike and a day of action for public education in California. There will likely be more than 2,000 people at the capitol advocating pending legislation that will provide more funding for public education […]

Breaking News: TFA kicked out of Houston

I just learned that the Houston Independent School District board deadlocked and TFA is out in Houston. More info as details become available. Houston ISD trustees vote against renewing the district's contract with Teach For America, which gave principals the authority to hire TFA corps members at their campuses. About 30-35 TFA members have been […]

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Matt Barnum: Summit Learning Misleads About Percent of Schools That Quit Every Year

Matt Barnum of Chalkbeat reports that the Chan-Zuckerberg tech-based schools called Summit have been underreporting the percent of schools that quit their program every year. After multiple news reports of high school students walking out in protest against the Summit tech platform, Summit responded by saying that only 10% of schools leave every year. […]

Samuel Abrams on the Coming Charter Expansion in Puerto Rico

Samuel Abrams, director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, writes here about the likely effects of the influx of charter schools in Puerto Rico. This is the abstract. With the passage of the Education Reform Act in March 2018, Puerto Rico joined states across the mainland in authorizing charter […]

Month: February 2019

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