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By Frank Pepper —
Since I’m a public school teacher, everybody always asks me what I think about charter schools. You got an hour?
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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Voters in Washington state will have a chance to direct public funds toward private bank accounts if they adopt an initiative to create charter schools this November. Who are the bajillionaires behind the campaign?
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
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20th Century Fox
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Concerned parents in the new film “Won’t Back Down” use an educational “trigger” law to exercise their democratic right to forfeit any influence they might have over their children’s education.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By David Sirota — In recent years, major studies suggest that, on the whole, charter schools are producing worse educational achievement results than traditional public schools.
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Phil Roeder (CC-BY)
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By David Sirota — There really are “Two Americas,” as the saying goes—and that’s no accident. Nowhere is this more obvious than in education—a realm in which this elite physically separates itself from us mere serfs.
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Forty Two. (CC-BY)
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In the ongoing, hitherto successful, conservative-led effort to divert education money to corporations, Republican lawmakers in Michigan are exploiting the economic downturn to push a set of initiatives that would outsource teaching jobs, curtail collective bargaining rights and defang teachers’ unions. (more)
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AP / Rich Pedroncelli
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By Mike Rose — The Obama administration has committed serious money to education reform, but many of the Department of Education’s big ideas are flawed.
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AP / David Kohl
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By Mike Rose — What miracle talk and magic-bullet solutions share is the reduction of complexity, of the many levels of hard, creative work necessary to make schooling successful in the United States.
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