Fraud, financial mismanagement, lousy results: Reports highlight awful charter schools and people are catching on By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. October 2, 2014 8:30 AM Diane Ravitch and Michelle Rhee; drawing by James Ferguson Last week when former President Bill Clinton meandered onto the [...]
Photograph; Prekindergartners at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology in New Orleans practice singing "Jingle Bell Rock" in preparation for their upcoming holiday show. | Christopher Powers/Education Week There are Miracles that never were and those that flourish unabated. Who could [...]
By Pedro Noguera | Originally Published at The Nation. September 24, 2014 | Photograph; Charter School student works to achieve. Charters were supposed to be laboratories for innovation. Instead, they are stunningly opaque. In several cities throughout the country, there is a fierce conflict raging over the [...]
Photograph Source The Advocate By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D. | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. September 20, 2014 On Friday September 19, 2014 Louisiana’s First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled "in favor" of Research on Reforms (ROR) citing that the Louisiana Department of Education was wrong in not releasing [...]
Photograph Credit; Mario Tama / Getty Images By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign For America's Future. August 28, 2014 This time of year, while classroom teachers and administrators in public schools are busy welcoming students back to a new school year and figuring out how [...]
A teacher appreciation week banner from August 2005 remained in the library at George Washington Carver High School when it was photographed 14 months later. (The Times-Picayune archive) By Sue Sturgis | Originally Published at Facing South. August 27, 2014 3:18 PM When Hurricane Katrina struck the [...]
By Brett Dickerson | Originally Published at Life At The Intersections. August 25, 2014 | Eight in 10 pupils in New Orleans attend charter schools, which are non-unionised and operate largely independently. Photograph: Julie Dermansky for the Guardian Julie Dermansky/Guardian It’s now clear that not everyone in [...]
By Ruth Conniff | Originally Published at In These Times. August 20, 2014 Once an effort to improve public education, the charter school movement has transformed into a money-making venture. There’s been a flood of local news stories in recent months about FBI raids on charter schools [...]
