Gary Rubinstein: U.S. News Changes Ranking Formula for High Schools—Charters Tank
Gary Rubinstein reports that U.S. News & World Report altered the way it measures “the best high schools,” and charters suffered. Many got top...
Month : May 2019
NYC: Class Size Champion Strikes Again, in Court
Leonie Haimson is a force of nature. She and her! Student Privacy allies beat Bill Gates’ $100 Million inBloom data-collection project. She and her...
Pennsylvania: Finance Experts Warn that Charter Costs May Bankrupt 500 School Districts
Finance experts in Pennsylvania warned that the costs of charter schools and cyber charters threaten to bankrupt as many as 500 school districts. Finance experts...
California Teacher: Charters Are Wreaking Havoc on Communities of Color
Erika Jones is an experienced teacher in California. In this post, she responds forcefully to the claim by charter advocates that privately managed charter schools...
California: Charter Reform Fails, Charter Lobbyists Celebrate Victory for Privatization and Non-Regulation
The California Legislature failed to take action on bills to impose a moratorium on new charter schools, and charter lobbyists were exultant. Despite the ongoing...
Who Benefits from Unlimited Expansion of Charter Schools?
Whenever there is a battle over the expansion of charter schools, we read in the papers that “charter parents” prevailed and the teachers’ union lost....
My New Book Was Just Announced!
I am very excited! My new book was just announced! The title is: SLAYING GOLIATH: The Impassioned Fight to Defeat the Privatization Movement and to...
San Diego: Eleven People Indicted in Connection to Online Charter Fraud
The California Legislature is considering four bills to reform the state’s massive charter school industry (1,300 schools, mostly unregulated and unsupervised). One of the...
Los Angeles: Turn Out and Vote for Measure EE on Tuesday, June 4!
Thousands of public school teachers in Los Angeles went on strike in February, demanding basic services for their students: smaller class sizes (many classes have...
Jan Resseger: Ohio, Don’t Be Fooled! Replacement for HB 70 Is Still a State Takeover!
Ohio enacted a dreadful state takeover bill in the dead of night called HB 70. It has placed Youngstown and Lotain City Public Schools under...