charter schools

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• SOURCE: The Century Foundation
  11/4/2022
  

  The CRT Panic Isn't Over, It's Shifted Toward Charter Schools and Privatization

  After a few months in the spotlight, the movement of opposition to CRT has shifted toward the quieter work of promoting charter school networks that can use public funds to teach a whitewashed version of American history. 

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• 10/2/2022
  

  What's Driving the Latest Texas History Wars?

  by John Willingham

  An organized and well-funded alliance of charter schools and conservative activists is leveraging the Critical Race Theory controversy in Texas to pursue the real prize: school education funding. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/30/2022
  

  The Lesson from Republicans' Embrace of "Classical Education"

  Calls for "transparency" in curriculum are working hand in hand with an agenda to divert public school funding to charter schools using a curriculum steeped in Christian nationalism. But liberals would do well to heed the connection these plans draw between education and citizenship, and parents' desire to connect them more firmly.

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• SOURCE: NewsChannel 5 (Nashville)
  2/28/2022
  

  Tennessee Charter School Curriculum, Drafted at Hillsdale and Favored by Governor, Rewrites Civil Rights History

  Governor Bill Lee favors directing taxpayer funds to a network of charter schools using a curriculum developed at the conservative Hillsdale College that features substantial revisionism in the area of civil rights history. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/25/2021
  

  Organized Teachers Developed the Charter School Idea. Return to Their Original Design

  by Jon Hale

  Conservative education reformers have hijacked the original charter school movement, stripping away labor protections and turning the management of public resources to private interests. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/13/2020
  

  Once a Symbol of Desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ School now Reflects another Battle Engulfing Public Education

  by Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Viator and Meg White

  The New Orleans school integrated by Ruby Bridges is now operated by a private charter school company, part of a trend that three education scholars say jeopardizes the survival of the entire system of public education in the United States.

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• SOURCE: Nonprofit Quarterly
  6/1/2020
  

  Why Teachers, Not Reformers, Should “Reimagine Education”

  Education historian Diane Ravitch agrees with public school teachers who oppose the outsize influence of wealthy foundations in determining how public schools operate.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  The Demise of the Great Education Saviors

  by Kevin Carey

  Charter schools and testing were supposed to right historic wrongs. Now they’ve run out of political steam. What happened?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-22-18
  

  Charter schools damage public education

  by Diane Ravitch

  Once even Albert Shanker thought charter schools were a good idea.  Then he realized his mistake.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-31-17
  

  What the ‘Government Schools’ Critics Really Mean

  by Katherine Stewart

  In certain conservative circles, the phrase “government schools” has become as ubiquitous as it is contemptuous.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10-1-13
  

  The Charter School Mistake

  by Diane Ravitch

  Charter schools are a very bad idea, but billionaires love 'em.