Peter Greene: Pennsylvania Cybercharters Get $pecial Treatment
Cyber charters in Pennsylvania are a money pit because they are not subject to the same rules as public schools. Charter lobbyists must have written...
Category : Education Industry
Steve Hinnefeld: Will Virtual Charter Schools Repay Indiana for Miseducation?
Perhaps you recall when Betsy DeVos testified at her Senate hearing about her worthiness to be Secretary of Education. Among her most memorable lines was...
Carol Burris: The Ohio Orphanage With No Orphans
Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, wrote a stunning expose of for-profit charter operators in Ohio. It was published in Valerie...
Gary Rubinstein: The Lies About Tennessee’s “Achievement School District” Live On
Gary Rubinstein has been following the sad career of Tennessee’s Achievement School District for a decade. The ASD was created with $100 million in Race...
North Carolina: State Superintendent of Schools Derides “Critical Thinking”
Catherine Truitt, the Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Carolina sneered at critical thinking, as she put forth her own definition of what education...
Billy Townsend: Florida’s Education Leaders Are Rotten
Billy Townsend, a former school board member in Polk County, Florida, warns that the state education leaders are rotten. In this post, he accuses several...
Good News in Charleston: School Board Delays Privatization Effort
It is great when good things happen, especially when they prove the power of the pen. Backstory: an anonymous reader of this blog left a...
Missouri: A Parent Speaks Up for St. Louis Public Schools
The Republican-controlled legislature in Missouri has imposed charter schools on the state’s two urban districts (but not their own). The legislature is now considering HB1552,...
John Merrow: The Lives We Lost
It has become traditional at the end of the year to pay tribute to those who died during the year. Usually, they are famous or...
Peter Greene: The Charter Industry, Sucking Up Profits on Real Estate
He writes: Peter Greene reports on real estate transactions in the Florida charter industry, just one transaction that provides an insight into the financial interests...