Carol Corbett Burris: Why Do Charter Schools Get Away with Massive Fraud?
Carol Corbett Burris was a teacher and principal on Long Island, in New York state for many years. After retiring, she became executive director of...
Category : California
Should KIPP Be Allowed to Build a School on a Toxic Waste Site?
The tiny city of Cudahy, California, is locked in battle with the mega-powerful KIPP charter chain over KIPP’s determination to build a charter school on...
California: Charter Operators Will Repay the State at Least $215 Million
Will Huntsberry of Voice of San Diego writes here about one of the biggest scams in the history of charter schools (the biggest was probably...
California: Nearly 50,000 Teachers and Parents Say NO to Biden Testing Demand
UPDATE TO NEWS RELEASE: 50,000 signatures submitted to SBE-parents, educators urge waiving standardized testing California Teachers Association February 22, 2021 1705 Murchison...
Who Is Cindy Marten?
The Biden administration selected San Diego Superintendent of Schools Cindy Marten to become Deputy Secretary of Education, the #2 job in the Department of Education....
A Teacher in California: The Madness of Test Obsession
A teacher in California, who must remain anonymous to protect her job, wrote this post. CAASP testing is the Common Core test produced by the...
Oakland School Board Election: Money Can’t Buy Everything
Ken Rice was an elected member of the Oakland Unified School District from 1997-2000. That was before the billionaire disrupters decided to take control of...
Burbank: Parents and District Debate Banning Books
The school district of Burbank, California, is embroiled in a bitter debate about book banning. The books in questions are about racism, and black parents...
California: Prop 15 Defeated, No New Funding for Schools
Big real estate interests managed to defeat Prop 15, intended to raise taxes on commercial real estate to produce billions for public schools. The Los...
Oakland: Public School Allies Win Control of School Board
Jane Nylund, parent activist in Oakland, reports on the good news from that district. Oakland has been the Disrupter/Reformer playground for nearly twenty years. For...