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      The Federal Government Has Poured Millions into Failing Charter Schools in Louisiana

      The Federal Government Has Poured Millions into Failing Charter Schools in Louisiana

      Parents in New Orleans are sick of the instability that temporary charter schools have brought to their community, calling the schools an "illegal experiment" on their children

      Jeff Bryant
      May 19, 2019

      When Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education under President Barack Obama, said Hurricane Katrina was the "best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans," he was no doubt referring in part to how the storm and its aftermath led to the spread of charter schools across the city.

      The very first charter school created in the post-Katrina era to close was Free Academy, which shuttered in early 2009... due to financial problems, lack of academic progress, and disputes with the school's for-profit management company.

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      3 Questions That 'Created Havoc' in Betsy DeVos' Department of Education

      3 Questions That 'Created Havoc' in Betsy DeVos' Department of Education

      My latest brush with the education policy edifice's imperviousness to outside inquiry occurred while researching the Education Department's Charter School Program

      Jeff Bryant
      Apr 07, 2019

      U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is famous for giving a nonresponse to fairly straightforward questions. More than one commentator has had fun with her contorted evasions, but her inability to explain the rationale for current education policies isn't confined to her own personality and ideology.

      It's actually been endemic in the education policy world for years, particularly in how the federal government continues to hide its agenda to further privatize the nation's public school system by creating and expanding charter schools.

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      Backing Teachers, Sanders Says LA Strike Exposes National Need for 'Revolution in Public Education'

      Backing Teachers, Sanders Says LA Strike Exposes National Need for 'Revolution in Public Education'

      "What we accept as normal today with regard to education, I want your grandchildren to tell you that you were crazy to accept," said the Vermont senator

      Jessica Corbett
      Jan 16, 2019

      Tens of thousands of public school teachers and support staff with the Los Angeles Unified School District--the second-largest district in the country--continued the city's first strike in three decades on Thursday.

      The United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) kicked off the long-promised strike on Monday over unmet demands for higher payer; smaller class sizes; more special education staff, bilingual education instructors, nurses, counselors, and librarians; and stricter regulation of the city's many charter schools.

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