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Regarding Charter Schools and the Privitization of a Public Trust
- COMPILATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS
- Charter school dissolves amid charges of nepotism, fiscal mismanagement, enrollment fraud
- Stanford University, School of Education: PACE issues scathing report of charter schools
- Education Secretary Arne Duncan Pushes to Aggressively Expand Charter Schools While Admitting Problems
- Now We Know Why Banks Have Taken So Much Interest in Charter Schools
- Charter schools: Vehicles for privatization
- Diane Ravitch: Obama and Duncan Are Wrong About Charters
- Privatization Will Not Help Us Achieve Our Goals: An Interview with Diane Ravitch
- *(NEW) Charter schools spending like it’s their money
- Hidden privatisation in public education
- 9/17/2004: Collapse of 60 Charter Schools Leaves Californians Scrambling
- Second chance, or second rate?
- Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy
- The Credo Report
- Styling: the Charter School Look
- The Rise of Venture Philanthropy and the Ongoing Neoliberal Assault
- The Corporatization of Public Education
- Who’s Behind the Money?
- New Video: The Renovation and Heartbreaking Dismantling of the John Ericsson Middle School 126 Library to make way for a Charter School Teacher Lounge
- Charter school in New York kicks public schools kids out of their school library… Educators Need to Know More about Libraries: The Case of JHS 126
- Public Schools Better than Charters Says DOE Progress Report Data
- *(NEW) It All Remains the Same: Schools’ Grades Reflect Persistent Disparity
- National report finds Minnesota charter schools to be academically challenged
- Former GOP insider: Billionaire Boys’ Club dismantling public education
- The Power of Big Money & Big State Over Knowledge
- Shouldn’t Every Child Have an Education Like the President’s Daughters?
- LA Times: Charter and Private Schools Might Not Make the Grade Either
- Oakland Takes Back Its Schools
- New Orleans Free Academy to be first charter school to close in New Orleans (Recommendation: Read the introduction to The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and then read this article again)
- Charter schools pawn off flunking students
- An Examination of Charter School Finances
- Who profits from for-profit charter schools in Florida?
- Charter Schools Aren’t the Solution for Virginia
- Love those Texas school-rule loopholes
- What’s not to like about charter schools?
- College-tainted Oppression Liberators Need Not Apply
Charter Schools and the Resegregation of Public Schools
- UCLA Report Says Charters Are Causing Resegregation Of American Schools
- School of Education, University of Colorado and Arizona State University Study: Schools Without Diversity
- New Report From UCLA Explains that Charter Schools’ Political Success is a Civil Rights Failure
- Seung Ok on Charter Schools
- Democracy Now Video: Study: Charter Schools Increasing Racial Segregation in Classrooms
Charter Schools and Special Education
Charter Schools and the Buildings They Are In
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