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Controversy follows receipt of Paycheck Protection Program funds by public charter schools
NPE's Carol Burris provides comment for this piece on PPP loans that were disbursed to North Carolina charter schools.
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Charter Schools, Some With Billionaire Benefactors, Tap Coronavirus Relief
The New York Times picked up a story we've been tracking - PPP loans, meant to help small businesses survive, going to publicly funded charter schools.
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Diane Ravitch on Pandemic School Privatization
Listen to Diane Ravitch talk with CounterSpin about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to "reimagine" public education in the wake of COVID-19.
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Charter schools’ public funding is still flowing, but some say they still need federal aid
NPE's Carol Burris is quoted in this Washington Post article about PPP loans that were given to DC charter schools.
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Teachers, parents and principals tell their stories about remote learning
In this post, by Carol Burris, teachers, parents and principals tell their stories about how they are coping with the covid-19 crisis.
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Leading public education advocates write open letter to Joe Biden: Your ‘statements encourage us’
Make sure to read the open letter Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris wrote to Joe Biden in Valerie Strauss' Answer Sheet
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Charter Schools Eye Coronavirus Relief Aimed at Small Businesses
In this EdWeek article Carol Burris comments on charter schools applying for federal tax dollars set aside for small businesses hard hit by the coronavirus.
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Diane Ravitch Discusses The Stark Inequities Around School Closures
You'll want to listen to this discussion about school closures on KALW with NPE President Diane Ravitch.
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Betsy DeVos’s problem with numbers
Rep Pocan grilled DeVos about NPE's 2019 Asleep at the Wheel reports. DeVos said they had been “debunked,” which Pocan noted was not true.