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Charter schools are publicly funded — but there’s big money in selling them
In Carol's latest for the Answer Sheet she reveals the shocking details of the sale of 69 campuses of a national for-profit charter chain.
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Elites Profit From “Nonprofit” Charter Schools: An Interview with Carol Burris
Carol was interviewed by Jacobin about the House Appropriations Committee blocking charters run for profit from receiving federal funds.
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Why Are Federal Funds Flowing to “White Flight” Privatized Charter Schools and Contributing to the Re-segregation of Education?
Jeff Bryant writes about CSP subgrant funds that went to charters in affluent, majority-white suburbs that seceded Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
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Is the Charter Schools Program financing white-flight academies?
NPE's latest investigation of the Charter Schools Program (CSP) does a deep dive into the North Carolina charters that received subgrants.
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The movement to privatize public schools marches on during coronavirus pandemic
Read Carol's latest for the Answer Sheet about the real reasons behind the school privatization push in state houses across the country.
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Former lobbyist details how privatizers are trying to end public education
Don't miss Carol's interview of Charles Siler, a former Goldwater Institute lobbyist who now fights against the privatization of public ed.
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McKee is right, but he has it backward
In this op-ed Joseph H. Crowley, past president of the RI Association of School Principals, speaks out in favor of a charter moratorium.
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How a soccer club won a $1.2 million grant from DeVos’s Education Department to open a charter school
Don't miss Carol's post for the Answer Sheet about the latest shenanigans out of the federal Charter Schools Program.
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What public education advocates want to see in Biden’s pick to succeed Betsy DeVos
This is a historic moment for federal education policy. Now is the time to reverse two decades of failed federal mandates.