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Grassroots Education Network- Summer 2024 Newsletter
The NPE Grassroots Education Network is a nationwide network of over 195 grassroots organizations that have joined together to preserve, promote, improve, and strengthen our public schools.
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How NC charter school with GOP backers, ‘classical’ education could skip state approvals
Luke Fountain exposes how a charter school with Republican political ties and a focus on a “classical” education could circumvent traditional state approvals and open in a few months if OK’d by state lawmakers.
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Two Visions of a Populist Education System
Jeff Bryant's fantastic article in The Progressive Magazine describes how community schools and the “parent empowerment” movement offer conflicting models for what schools should look like.
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Why Florida is experiencing a teacher shortage
Beth Luberecki outlines the teacher shortage in Florida and NPE Executive Director Carol Burris provides her opinion on the crisis.
Grassroots Education Network- May 2024 Newsletter
The NPE Grassroots Education Network is a nationwide network of over 195 grassroots organizations that have joined together to preserve, promote, improve, and strengthen our public schools.
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The Schools Where the Western Canon Is King: Classical schools are spreading fast. But what are they teaching?
Kiera Butler exposes how classical charter schools push their Christian nationalist worldview.
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New Data Shows Charter Schools Increase Segregation
NPE Executive Director Carol Burris breaks down a new study that shows how charter schools increase segregation.
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DeSantis said public schools were religious when U.S. began. Is he right?
Those earliest schools paid for with public funds "were not religious schools, although most schools opened with prayers or Bible reading," education historian Diane Ravitch, founder of the Network for Public Education, said via email. "But such activities were incidental, not the purpose of the schools."
Grassroots Education Network- April 2024 Newsletter
The NPE Grassroots Education Network is a nationwide network of over 195 grassroots organizations that have joined together to preserve, promote, improve, and strengthen our public schools.