July 16, 2024 8:01 pm
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Project 2025 has an agenda for public schools: Destroy your neighborhood public schools and make parents shop for schooling using vouchers. Even as that is occurring, it would whittle away protections and support for LGBTQ students, disadvantaged students, and students with disabilities. Watch our explainer and find out how.
May 13, 2024 5:04 pm
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Register now for our 2025 NPE/NPE Action Conference: Public Schools, Where All Children Are Welcome. We look forward to seeing you, in Columbus, Ohio next April!
March 28, 2024 12:56 pm
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NPE founding board member and scholar Julian Vasquez Heilig submitted testimony to House Committee on the flaws, problems and fallacies associated with the contemporary charter school movement.
March 19, 2024 2:27 pm
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NPE celebrates Women's History month by highlighting the accomplishments of 10 inspiring women from Jane Addams to Ida B. Wells to Christa McAuliffe.
June 27, 2023 11:06 am
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Former Education Secretary and Michigan billionaire Betsy DeVos and her husband, Dick DeVos, want to advance God’s “kingdom” with taxpayers footing the bill. School choice is the banner under which the DeVoses and their Christian nationalist allies fight to turn back the clock on American culture by undermining “government schools.” Their preference is to spread religious school vouchers, but the expansion of charter schools designed to appeal to Christian nationalist families serves their plan too.
June 27, 2023 10:58 am
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Charges that public schools are subjecting children to leftwing indoctrination are proving to be mostly over-hyped or not at all based in fact. Yet, there’s evidence, according to a new report, that a fast-growing sector of the charter school industry is engaged in indoctrination, only, in this case, the schools are instructing children in white, conservative ideology.
June 27, 2023 10:47 am
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For years, LGBTQ rights seemed to be on the march in the United States, despite opposition from religious conservatives.
But in the last few years, a right-wing countermovement funded in part by powerful dark money interests and supported by conservative groups has taken shape.
June 20, 2023 12:56 pm
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Last summer, the Texas State Board of Education denied for the third time an application from Heritage Classical Academy to start a charter school in Northwest Houston. Heritage will try again next week, and although very little has changed about its application, its chances of success are now much higher.
June 9, 2023 2:07 pm
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Few doubt that the religious right has decided to stake its claim on the next generation of hearts and minds with its unrelenting push for vouchers and book and curricular bans. This report exposes the lesser-known third part of the strategy — the proliferation of right-wing charter schools.