Walter Dyett High School, pictured here, is being phased out by the Chicago Public Schools. Since 2001, the district has closed, phased-out or turned around about 150 schools. The vast majority of the students affected by the school closures have been poor or African American. Introductory Essay [...]
file photographCharter operator used political connections to receive funding and approval By Mark W. Anderson | Originally Published at The Ward Room. NBC Chicago. December 26, 2013 First UNO. Now Concept. Clearly, something’s wrong. Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported a politically-connected charter school operator, Concept Schools, Inc., [...]
Photograph; House Speaker and state Democratic Party chair Michael Madigan (left) shakes hands with Mustafa Demir, the mayor of Fatih district in Turkey. By Dan Mihalopoulos | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun Times. December 23, 2013 When Concept Schools Inc. wanted to open two charter schools [...]
Michelle Rhee, Elizabeth Warren (Credit: AP/Jeff Chiu/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)Here’s how progressives — and our kids — beat the corporate establishment A populist uprising is coming in defense of public schools. Are Democrats on the side of Wall Street or the people? By Jeff Bryant | Originally [...]
Recovery School District Superintendent Patrick Dobard talks to students at James Weldon Johnson Elementary School in New Orleans in 2012. That school is now closed. Dobard announced Thursday that the system will close its final traditional schools in June 2014, making it the first all-charter district. (Catherine [...]
Photograph; Newark Schools Superintendent Cami Anderson, right, meets with Dashonnah Gittens, left, and fellow junior Armani Stevenson at an event last fall. (Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger) One more community is torn asunder. The Newark New Jersey School District was not the first; nor will it be the last [...]
Group aims to start its own school Photograph; Video Capture WDSU Television. To View Video. CONCERNED COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO TOOK A STAND TODAY AGAINST WHAT THEY CALL THE "PRISON-LIKE DISCIPLINARY CODE" AT A LOCAL SCHOOL. AS AN ACT OF PROTEST, SOME PARENTS ARE REMOVING THEIR [...]
Photograph; Katherine Myers, founder of the Great Lakes Academy Charter School, said community feedback in the South Shore neighborhood showed a strong support for the school. Say that community schools are under-utilized. Close those neighborhood schools. Insist the children walk for miles on unsafe streets or travel [...]
Graph; Louisiana's voucher program expanded statewide last year from a New Orleans pilot, gaining attention from the U.S. Justice Department. Legislative auditor Daryl Purpera said Monday there's not enough oversight of the expanded (and expanding) budget. (Louisiana Legislative Auditor) By Danielle Dreilinger | Originally Published at Times [...]
