Tag: charter schools

Advocates for school improvement in Jackson, Mississippi, want investments in education infrastructure, not more charter schools and privatization.

Parents in DeVos’s backyard tell right-wing radicals, “No thank you to divisive, partisan agendas in schools.”

Teachers ended a nearly three-week strike, citing advances in pay and working conditions for many members. But more work remains.

Rocked by vanishing industries and charter school expansions, Erie public schools are fighting back with a “transformative” education approach.

Educators use the community schools approach to tackle underlying causes of disparities that show up in classrooms.

The program gives millions to schools that disrupt rather than improve a system of public education that needs to serve all students.

In education policymaking in Washington, D.C., the “bean counters” are still in charge.

"It's a plan focused on supporting students from birth to college and career, and on supporting teachers throughout their careers."

The legacy of the federal government’s charter school grants in Louisiana should not be understood just by the sheer waste of precious education funds, but also by the real human consequences of spreading makeshift charter programs that throw communities into confusion, distress, and a sense of betrayal.

There is only one way to deal with this blatant grift program for the charter school industry – shut it down.