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Running a Charter School for Profit Should Be Illegal
From insider deals to real estate flips, the problems with charter schools run by for-profit corporations can’t be ignored.
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What Happened to the 1.3 Million Children Who Stopped Going to School?
How many have dropped out, working in the underground economy or languishing at home without schooling?
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Counterpoint: Too Much Parental Involvement Hurts Kids
We must have an honest discussion about how much say parents should have in what is (or is not) taught in our public schools.
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A critique of a GAO report on charter schools
Families deserve honest information regarding closure risk when they enroll their children in a charter school.
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GOP Aims To Remove Charter School Accountability Rules
Burris offers this characterization of the move. Clearly, NAPCS thought they could make all the regulations go away. That did not happen.
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Florida ranked No. 1 for “education freedom” — by right-wing group that wants to privatize it all
"Friedman may have been an accomplished number-cruncher, but when it came to social issues, he was a crackpot," said Carol Corbett Burris
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Virtual charter schools see enrollments rise
Will these students remain at home learning over the internet, or will they return to brick-and-mortar schools? That remains unknown.
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How Hillsdale College-affiliated charter schools spread
Hillsdale’s classical charter schools aim to turn the tide on what the college sees as “a hundred years of progressivism” in public schools.
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New Biden Administration Rules for Charter Schools Spur Bipartisan Backlash
The department is not trying to hurt anyone. What they’re trying to do is clean up a lot of the mess that’s been associated with the program.