We at EmpathyEducates would like to thank Stop Special Needs Vouchers for putting it all together. The caution in context is instructive. We are aware of the need to learn from history. Within this treatise, there are lessons to be learned. Operators of Failed WI Voucher School [...]
Photograph; Students at a charter school in Washington, D.C., in 2012.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images By Amy B. Dean | Originally Published at Al Jazeera. January 13, 2014 Immigrant children deserve excellent schooling too Public schools have historically been key institutions in our nation of immigrants. [...]
Photograph; Sam Greene | Dispatch | The school on S. 6th Street is one of four Olympus schools shuttered. Felony theft, filth, and failure to meet payroll, and still, the public funds keep coming. A sponsorship is all you need and regardless of your record you too [...]
Padded Cells, Corruption, Lousy Instruction And Worse ResultsCharter schools are sold as an answer. With awful discipline and shocking scandals, many really cause new problems By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. January 10, 2014 | (Photograph Credit; RonTech2000 via iStock) Imagine your 5-year-old boy went [...]
Illustration By David Biskup. New York Times Once upon a time every state in the Union, unequivocally guaranteed a free public education in its Constitution, but that soon may end. Within the month we will know more. The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to decide what Governors [...]
Photograph; Sonia Wang, a founding member of the prospective Be the Change Charter School, said some local parents support the school's bid to open in Bridgeport. [Facebook/Be the Change] "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." It happens without a word. [...]
Advocate staff photo by Richard Alan Hannon -- BESE board member Lottie Beebe, left, talks with Ann .Burruss, a parent and Swamp BESE co-founder By Marsha Sills msills@theadvocate.com | Originally Published at The Advocate. January 03, 2014 LAFAYETTE — Two Lafayette Parish public-school parents, who fought last [...]
Originally Published at Deb Meier. December 31, 2013 Dear readers, It’s been a while since I’ve written in this space. But I’m mending my ways. What set me off? My granddaughter just came across something interesting—and not new. In 2001 PBS put together a video called School: [...]
Students and community leaders have protested plans to open a new charter school across the street from Prosser High School, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel appears to be pushing ahead. |Lauren Fitzpatrick/Sun-Times Media By Ben Joravsky. | The Chicago Reader. December 31, 2013 Combatants in the great charter [...]
