First published on Schools Matter on January 21, 2020 “In the long run, charter schools are being strategically used to pave the way for vouchers. The voucher advocates, who are very powerful and funded by right-wing foundations and families, recognize that the word voucher has been successfully discredited by enlightened Americans who believe in the […]
A charter school story
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Appeared originally as my Twitter thread Researching for a case and came across a personal injury settlement between a charter school corporation in the Central Valley and multiple student plaintiffs for some $6-million+. The amount is on the low side considering the horrific injuries some of the students suffered. It was the typical charter school money-making […]
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) December General Assembly
Every month students, parents, and teachers of #StudentsDeserve gather to discuss and plan for the future of educational justice inside and outside our schools in Los Angeles. Considering the political state we are in, now more than ever we know that our grassroots work is important and necessary. For that reason, we invite YOU (students, parents, and teachers) to […]
Thank you John Oliver for exposing how charter schools steal from children
“Fraud is a feature of deregulation, not a bug. When no one is looking, some people steal. Not everyone steals, but many do. That is why Ohio, Florida, Michigan, and California are scamming taxpayers.” — Professor Diane Ravitch The vile poverty pimps and privatization pushers of the lucrative charter school industry were infuriated when John […]
California charter school industry bill attempts to eliminate only source of public oversight
“…charter schools have used their public characteristics to qualify for public funding under state constitutional law, while highlighting their private characteristics to exempt themselves from other laws that apply to public schools.”—Professors Preston C. Green and Joseph Oluwole School privatization promoting Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC) EdSource has long been a source of both political cover, […]
California’s charter school law repeal movement update
“charter schools comprise a divisive and segregated sector” — Frankenberg, E., Siegel-Hawley, G., Wang, J. (2011) Voices Against Privatizing Public Education’s (VAPPE) grassroots campaign to repeal the 1992 charter school laws imposed on California by corporate reactionaries Donald Fisher and Reed Hastings has been moving forward. In addition to their online petition, they’ve established a […]
Repeal California Charter Schools movement grows and gains a celebrity-activist endorsement
“Choice rhetoric contemplates the sphere for reformed education as a “market.” The commodification of education in this way has prompted no shortage of critique identifying the ways in which the conditions for a properly functioning education market are difficult—if not impossible—to cultivate. Problems with an education market, however, go beyond the mere absence of ideal […]
Brief statement on Washington State Supreme Court finding charter schools unconstitutional
“Though boosted through a language of choice and effectiveness, the charters provide neither. Public funds pay for a system that lacks oversight, transparency, and funnels millions of dollars to privateers, who pocket salaries upwards of $1 million.” — Dr. Megan French-Marcelin By now everyone has heard the wonderful news that the Washington State Supreme Court […]
Stoner Elementary community to hold protest against charter school co-location that has taken resources from home school
Press release – Stoner Elementary community to hold protest against charter school co-location that has taken resources from home school. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Monday, August 17, 2015, the first day of school, from 7:30-8:30AM, the Stoner Elementary School Community and local Del Rey neighborhood will be holding a protest against the co-location of ICEF […]
Protest against Eli Broad’s charter putsch by Voices Against Privatizing Public Education
The activists comprising Voices Against Privatizing Public Education, whose efforts were recently highlighted on Professor Diane Ravitch’s blog, are holding a rally/protest in front of the Broad Foundation’s headquarters. This is in response to Broad and his fellow reactionaries’ announcement of plans to privatize more than half the Los Angeles Unified School District within the […]