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Public Schooling in America

The Best and Worst Statehouses for Supporting Public Schools

A Citizen’s Guide to School Privatization

Maurice Cunningham exposes how billionaires fund and work through what appear to be grassroots groups in order to to disrupt and privative public schools.

Billionaires Exposed: The Impact of the Portfolio Model on Denver Public Schools

Since the early 2000s, billionaires have treated the Denver Public School District as a Neo-liberal education experiment. Using a tangled web of astroturf groups, nonprofits, and training organizations, billionaires have hijacked this public school district, leaving some schools, students, and democracy behind.

In Fact or Fallacy: NPE Critiques Latest CREDO Report

Whose interests does CREDO really represent? The public or its funders? Or the interests of the right-wing Hoover Institution? Read our report and find out.Whose interests does CREDO really represent? The public or its funders? Or the interests of the right-wing Hoover Institution? Read our report and find out.

A Sharp Turn Right: A New Breed of Charter Schools Delivers the Conservative Agenda

American taxpayers across the country are funding the recent explosion of growth in far-right, Christian nationalist charter schools, including those affiliated with Hillsdale College, according to our new report.

Merchants of Deception: Parent Props and Their Funders

They show up shouting at school board meetings with endless complaints. The press interviews them as though they are “regular moms” looking out for their children, but they are not. They are a well-funded facade for the Koch, Walton, and DeVos families to disrupt and destroy public education.

Chartered for Profit II: Pandemic Profiteering

Our follow-up report explains the inner workings of the world of charters that put profits, not children, first.

Charter Schools Falling 2021-2022: Enrollment in Charter Schools Declines

The charter school lobby is pushing a false narrative about continuing enrollment growth. Our recent report has the facts.

Public Schooling in America: Measuring Each State’s Commitment to Democratically Governed Schools

The first step in stopping the privatization movement is to understand it.

Chartered for Profit: The Hidden World of Charter Schools Operated for Financial Gain

New NPE report exposes how charter school profiteers steer tax dollars from classrooms to their own corporations.

Broken Promises: An Analysis of Charter School Closures From 1999 – 2017

The charter sector has a systemic failure problem. Our analysis documents just how serious that problem is.

Still Asleep at the Wheel

How the Federal Charter Schools Program Creates a Pileup of Fraud of Waste

Asleep at the Wheel

How the Federal Charter Schools Program Recklessly Takes Taxpayers and Students for a Ride

The State Student Privacy Report Card

How well does your state protect student privacy? Read our report and find out.

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Doomed to fail: an analysis of charter closures from 1998-2022

Over one million students have been stranded by charter closures. Read this startling report on how and why thousands of charter schools have shut down.

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