How a Florida principal with a controversial history became a SC charter school kingpin
NPE Executive Director Carol Burris provides feedback to Flynn and Turcotte in this article.
NPE Executive Director Carol Burris provides feedback to Flynn and Turcotte in this article.
Krauth noted in her article that NPE has vowed to "take legal action" if HB9 becomes law.
NPE Executive Director Carol Burris is quoted in this article written by Alison Novak. Carol discusses how differently charter schools operate.
NPE and over 50 organizations write letter to the Governor and the entire NJ legislature in strong opposition to vouchers in the state of New Jersey.
The report is “Public School in America: Measuring Each State’s Commitment to Democratically Governed Schools,” published by the Network for Public Education. NPE is an advocacy group the works to preserve, promote, improve and strengthen the nation’s public schools. NPE was founded in 2013 by education historian and scholar Diane Ravitch and public school teacher Anthony Cody; its executive director is Carol Burris, an award winning principal from New York State.
Carol Burris, executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education, which has tracked the impact of publicly funded private-school scholarship and voucher programs for years, said it's likely state Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, R-Elkhorn, introduced LB 1402 because she knows the history of this type of referendum. "When they've actually gone to the point where there has been a referendum, every single time, vouchers have gone down," she said. "Every time they've gone up to a ballot, they've been rejected."
Between 1999 and 2017, over a quarter of schools closed during their first five years of operation, and 40% had closed by the 10-year mark, according to a 2020 study by the Network for Public Education, a public education advocacy group.
A new report from the Network for Public Education gives North Carolina failing marks for its commitment to democratically governed schools. According to the report, North Carolina legislators are working hard to undermine our public schools. The report puts North Carolina in the bottom five of all states.
Today the Network for Public Education released a new report, “Public School in America: Measuring Each State’s Commitment to Democratically Governed Schools.” The report seeks to measure the extent of privatization in each state “and whether charter and voucher laws promote or discourage equity, responsibility, transparency, and accountability.”