John Thompson: Beware the Virtual Charter Scam!
John Thompson writes here about yet another virtual charter scam, this one in Oklahoma. He writes: After years of failing to regulate charters, especially online...
Category : On-Line Education
Network for Public Education Releases a Parents’ Guide to Online Learning
MEDIA ADVISORY FORMarch 9, 2018 For more information contact:Carol Burris, NPE Executive Director 718-577-3276 [email protected] Kew Gardens, New York – Today the Network for Public...
Ohio: You Can Buy Republican Legislators at Bargain Prices
William Lager owns the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), which according to the New York Times, has the lowest graduation rate in the nation. ECOT...
California Settles with Online K12 Inc. for $168.5 Million
California Attorney General Kamala Harris reached a settlement of $168.6 million with mega-virtual charter K12 Inc. This settlement reflects the good investigative reporting of Jessica...
What Should Be Done About Failing Virtual Charter Schools?
Gary Miron and Charisse Gulosino have prepared a guide and analysis of the growing online cyber schooling sector. Nearly 300,000 students are enrolled in these...
Is Online Teacher Education as Good as Traditional Teacher Education?
Wouldn’t you know that the narrative of “bad teachers cause low scores and failing schools” would produce new contenders to prepare “great” teachers? The regular...
Executive Salaries at K12, Inc.
While teachers across the nation have salaries lower than those of other professions and often need to take a second job to make ends meet,...
Stephen Dyer: Why Charter School Reform Failed in Ohio
Stephen Dyer of the Innovation Institute was sure that the Ohio legislature would pass a bill to reform the state ‘s unaccountable charters. But he...
A Field Guide to the Education Industry
Here is the handbook of the for-profit education industry (although it does advise you to drop the label “for-profit”). Here are some basic facts...
Who Funded Jeb’s “Foundation for Educational Excellence”?
Jeb Bush created the “Foundation for Educational Excellence” with two goals in mind. First, to burnish his credentials as a “reformer.” Second, to serve as...