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December 13, 2023

How did this charter school get a nearly $2 million federal grant?

But the prize for the most inventive story to secure a CSP grant may belong to the Cincinnati Classical Academy (CCA), a Hillsdale College member school, for securing a nearly $2 million grant. CCA, which prides itself on teaching virtue, asked for the grant on the basis of its claim that it was closing the achievement gap and serving disadvantaged students, never reporting that only 16 percent of its students are economically disadvantaged and that 2 percent are Black — a starkly different student body from the overwhelmingly disadvantaged and majority-Black Cincinnati Public School students, who, CCA says, it wants to save from poverty.

December 13, 2023

Hillsdale’s Got Trouble in Ohio

CCA “borrowed” the demographics from Cincinnati Public Schools in weaving a tale of serving low-income and minority students. As a result of their promise to serve underserved students, the school was awarded nearly $2 million in federal education funding.

November 29, 2023

Education unions, universities launch fight for freedoms campaign

In a joint statement at the annual Network for Public Education conference in D.C., the NEA and the AFT–which together have more than four million members–the American Association of University Professors, the network itself, and the American Association of Colleges and Universities all blasted the right-wing assault on teachers, schools and students.

November 2, 2023

Weekly Education

The nation’s two largest teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, and the Network for Public Education, American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges and Universities signed on to a “Freedom to Learn” pledge at the Network for Public Education conference in D.C. on Sunday.