By Robert Mann | Originally Published at Something Like Truth. December 16, 2013 Gov. Bobby Jindal’s troubled private-school voucher program took another hit today. This time, it came in the form of highly critical report by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, who cited numerous accountability deficiencies in the [...]
Image above: Former State Superintendent, Mike Ward speaks at news conference announcing lawsuit By Félix Pérez | Originally Published at Education Votes. December 13, 2013 A group of North Carolinians, including active and retired educators, a former state school superintendent, the president of the state’s largest educators’ [...]
Originally Published at Education Justice. December 13, 2013 On December 11, 2013, plaintiffs in Hart v. State of North Carolina asked the Superior Court there to declare the state's new voucher law unconstitutional. The Complaint, filed by parent-taxpayer plaintiffs, cites several provisions of the North Carolina Constitution [...]
By Valerie Strauss | Originally Published at The Washington Post. Updated: December 12 at 5:00 am Education reform policy around the country is increasingly being made in secret or without public input — and with a lot of private philanthropic money. A number of recent stories reveal [...]
By Anna Simonton | Originally Published at Salon. December 5, 2013 | This article originally appeared on AlterNet. It has been corrected since it first published. Why are finance types investing in local school board elections? Just follow the money Given that Arthur Rock has a [...]
By Mary Ellen Flannery | Originally Published at National Education Association [NEA] Today. November 26, 2013 Clarence Montgomery has talked to dozens of parents and guardians whose children have attended voucher schools in Milwaukee, and they all have said the same thing: they want the best education [...]
New proof that vouchers and charter schools don't reform education, just subject it to the whims of businessmen By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. November 4, 2013 | Image Adaptation: AngertAesthetics Just 10 days into a new academic year, classes were abruptly over at one [...]
Photograph; Mike De Sisti | Students from St. Anthony School in Milwaukee perform before Gov. Scott Walker spoke at an event that drew at least 400 people, including dozens of children from private voucher schools, public charter schools and Milwaukee Public Schools. By Lydia Mulvany | Originally [...]
By: Stephanie Simon | Originally Published at POLITICO October 6, 2013 10:50 PM EDT Ever since the Obama administration filed suit to freeze Louisiana’s school voucher program, high-ranking Republicans have pummeled the president for trapping poor kids in failing public schools. The entire House leadership sent a letter [...]
