Charter School Advantage

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One of the biggest honors of my life. California Assembly Resolution No. 1459 @ California State Assembly I will miss you California!

NEW study released: Are charter schools more intensely segregated?

We are honored today to release a new study entitled Choice without inclusion?: Comparing the intensity of racial segregation in charters and public schools at the local, state and national levels that examines segregation in the entire universe of US public and charter schools. In its landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 [1], the […]

Florida Will Give $500 Million in Tax Cuts to 1% of Corporations

The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Republican-controlled legislature passed a tax cut of $500 million that will apply only to the state’s biggest corporations, excluding 99% of all businesses. https://digitaledition.orlandosentinel.com/html5/mobile/production/default.aspx?pubid=7f2e94da-42a6-42b3-91be-f4782530a2d0&edid=d491e409-f75d-4016-8652-f74f7e2d6e68 The tax bill was quietly passed last year in response to intense lobbying by the state’s biggest corporations. At the time, it’s sponsors said the […]

Jan Resseger: Tax Cuts in Kansas Produce Civic Disaster

Jan Resseger describes the after-effects of former Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s crash program to cut corporate and income taxes and expect an economic boom. The boom never came, but public services were strained to the breaking point. Jan quotes liberally from Governing magazine: Governing Magazine just published an extraordinary profile of Kansas state government—what […]