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Jeff Bryant: How For-Profit Charters Corrupt Education and Other Once-Public Services

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 21, 2021October 22, 2021

October 21, 2021October 22, 2021014

The House of Representatives recently passed a budget that excluded for-profit charter schools from receiving federal funds. The federal Charter Schools Program has doled out...

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Good News from Oklahoma!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 9, 2021October 10, 2021

October 9, 2021October 10, 2021020

Joy Hofmeister, a lifelong Republican and Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma, has decided to join the Democratic Party and run for Governor against incumbent...

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Excellent Summary of Rhode Island Me$$

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 24, 2021September 25, 2021

September 24, 2021September 25, 2021021

A regular reader called Bethree summarized the Rhode Island situation, in which friends of the Governor won a $5 (plus) million contract, although the corporation...

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St. Paul: Hmong Charter School Loses $4.3 Million by Investing in Hedge Fund

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 24, 2021September 25, 2021

September 24, 2021September 25, 2021016

The authorizer of the Hmong College Prep Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota, wants to fire the superintendent of the school after learning of big losses...

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Angie Sullivan: In the Nevada Charter Industry, Conflicts of Interest Are Rampant

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 18, 2021April 19, 2021

April 18, 2021April 19, 2021040

Angie Sullivan teaches first-grade students in a Title I school in Las Vegas. She writes regularly to every member of the legislature and to journalists...

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Texas: Public Schools Are Better Than Charter Schools: Stop Funding Failure!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 7, 2021April 8, 2021

April 7, 2021April 8, 2021054

I recently had the pleasure of speaking to the North Texas School Boards Association by Zoom. Right now, Texas is ground zero for the charter...

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Oklahoma: A Sick Joke on the Public

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 1, 2021April 2, 2021

April 1, 2021April 2, 2021043

You may recall that the Oklahoma State Board of Education recently voted 4-3 to allow charter schools to share in local tax revenues, over the...

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Florina Rodov: Inside the Charter School Hype and Hoax

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 27, 2021March 28, 2021

March 27, 2021March 28, 2021065

Fiorina Rodov wanted to teach, and, as she writes, she believed the glowing claims about charter schools as beacons of hope for the neediest students....

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Texas: The Mayor Who Told People in His Town to Fend for Themselves

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 20, 2021February 21, 2021

February 20, 2021February 21, 2021050

This story has justifiably gotten a lot of national attention. Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, resigned after posting the following message on...

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Axios: Inside the Craziest Meeting of the Trump Presidency

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 3, 2021February 4, 2021

February 3, 2021February 4, 2021054

Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu interviewed people who were in the “room where it happened,” the meeting where Trump’s lawyers duked it out with conspiracy...

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