Urgent: Tell Congress (Again) Do NOT Increase Charter School Program Funding
Despite mounting charter school scandals, the charter lobby is aggressively pushing Congress to increase federal Charter School Programs (CSP) funding. Unhappy that the Administration’s budget calls for a decrease in CSP funding, the lobby is pushing back once again, asking for more federal tax dollars to expand charter schools. That potentially means less funding for other important programs, such as community schools.
Please send your letter to your Congress today and urge them to support cuts, not increases, to the federal Charter School Programs.
Despite mounting charter school scandals, the charter lobby is aggressively pushing the Senate to increase federal Charter School Programs (CSP) funding. Unhappy that the Administration’s budget calls for a decrease in CSP funding, the lobby is pushing back once again, asking for more federal tax dollars to expand charter schools. That potentially means less funding for other important programs, such as community schools.
Please send your letter to your Congress today and urge them to support cuts, not increases, to the federal Charter School Programs.
Two New Studies Show that Charter Schools Increase Segregation
On the eve of the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, a critical question looms: Why are our nation’s schools witnessing a resurgence of segregation despite strides in neighborhood integration? A recent study by Sean Reardon of Stanford University and Ann Owens of the University of Southern California delivers a jolting revelation — more than half of the responsibility lies with the proliferation of charter schools.
A second study by Ryan Pfleger and Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project found that the charter sector has a higher proportion of intensely segregated schools than the public magnet sector, and this gap is widening over time.
In my latest piece in The Progressive, New Data Shows Charter Schools Increase Segregation, I discuss these two important reports and how the Network for Public Education has been exposing white-flight charters. Charter schools, whether by chance or in some cases by design, are erasing the civil rights gains of seventy years.
Please read and share here.
Time to Register for the 2025 Conference!
Remember to register for the 2025 national conference next April. Register HERE now to get your Early Bird discount. We will announce our exciting keynote speakers and open our panel proposal soon. After registering, scoop up one of our discounted hotel rooms HERE from our block. Don’t wait—they will go fast. We can’t wait to see you in Columbus, Ohio.
Scandal Rocks Houston, as the Press Uncovers Appointed Superintendent Sending Texas Tax Dollars to His Colorado Charter Chain
Watch this in-depth report on how Houston Superintendent Mike Miles funneled Texas tax dollars to his faltering Colorado charter chain.
Corey DeAngelis Makes the Endgame Clear: Destroy Public Education with Culture War Lies
I listened to DeAngelis promote his new book at the Heritage Foundation yesterday. His hatred of public education and his willingness to lie to promote school choice were disturbing. He openly admitted that the strategy is to “lean into the culture wars” to turn the public against public schools–first red states, then blue.
Here is how DeAngelis, who works for Betsy DeVos, defined our neighborhood public schools: “failing union indoctrination centers that they call schools.” His response to a question about vouchers for the wealthy with children already in public schools was, “So what?”
However, now and then, fellow conservatives call out his lies.
This is a must-read story that broke in Pro Publica entitled She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism. It describes how the co-host of a right-wing talk show ran for school board and, after reading the curriculum and lesson plans, realized that all of the culture war claims she was fed were false. The willingness of this deeply conservative woman to step up and say she was wrong and support her public schools is a remarkable profile of courage and grit. It is a story worth sharing.