#charterschool — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #charterschool, aggregated by home.social.
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The Classical Learning Test Takes Aim at the SAT–ACT Duopoly
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Just read a disturbing post on bsky about #charterschool administrators in #nyc engaging w #Epstein
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If you have a complaint about a nyc #charter #school—
Look up the complaint email here https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/school-environment/get-help-at-your-charter-school/file-a-formal-complaint-at-your-charter-school/charter-school-authorizersKipp & Success complaint emails [email protected]
Read about it on bsky or I tried to transcribe for mastodon.
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Texas cracks down on state universities teaching about gender identity
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-gender-identity-universities-audit
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Faith Family Academy is one of eight Texas charter school districts on track to be shut down at the end of the year after receiving an “F” rating.
Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-charter-superintendent-pay-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Texas #Education #School #Parents #Family #CharterSchool #Superintendent
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Did a nose count, and more than half of my #elementary #students have #ieps. No worries, we’re #PublicSchool #teachers, we can fucking do anything. A new student arrived today with high IEP minutes- he’d tried a #charterschool and had such rough start they moved to our school after 3 days. Charters simply don’t work for the huge majority of non-affluent, non-cis, neurodiverse, and/or disabled students, and public funding should never suggest otherwise. /soapbox
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Back to school grump: #aps shared it’s back to #school PD and it’s 1) Gathering the thousands of APS teachers into a room, and 2) listening to a keynote speaker talk about #studentengagement when he works at a #charterschool that declines #IEP students. So, 1) Wear a mask, people, because this sounds like how we start the 2025-26 #COVID outbreak, and 2)This #elementary #teacher will let you all know how #hiphop is going to magically get parents to take their 7 year old to school. 1/3
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Garre said no, because those #schools would still need to meet the state’s #academic #standards & could not focus their #curriculum on those subjects. As a #CharterSchool, St. Isidore would have to meet those standards, too, Garre has argued.
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #ChurchAndState #NewApostolicReformation #education #FederalistSociety #ActivistCourt
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The conservative justices asked why a #religious #CharterSchool was different from a religiously run food bank or adoption agency that receives state government money through contract agreements.
Justice Brett #Kavanaugh signaled his support for St. Isidore’s application, saying that excluding religious #schools from the charter school program “seems like rank discrimination.”
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #ChurchAndState #NewApostolicReformation #education #FederalistSociety #ActivistCourt
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Conservative Justices ask how a #religious #CharterSchool differs from a food bank. At least 3 conservative #SCOTUS members—Chief Justice #JohnRoberts, Justice Brett #Kavanaugh & Justice Neil #Gorsuch —suggested to the lawyer for #Oklahoma’s AG that his position was inconsistent with a key past ruling.
In that case, known as Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the court said Philadelphia had violated the #Constitution by not extending a foster-care services contract to #Catholic Social Services. -
The attorney representing #Oklahoma’s top #law enforcement officer told #SCOTUS that backing the #Catholic #CharterSchool would upend the traditional definition of #PublicSchools.
“It would result in the astounding rule that states not only may, but must fund & create public #religious #schools,” said attorney Gregory Garre, calling such a notion “an astounding reversal from this court’s time-honored precedents.”
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Justice Brett #Kavanaugh seemed to try to help the #school’s atty by getting him to respond to concerns raised by Justice #Sotomayor. “You’re not saying the state can favor one #religion over another?” Kavanaugh asked.
In response, atty James Campbell assured #SCOTUS that no #student in #Oklahoma is forced to attend a #CharterSchool. “There are plenty of other options,” he said.#law #Constitution #ChurchAndState #NewApostolicReformation #education #FederalistSociety #ActivistCourt
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Under questioning from Justice #ElenaKagan, the attorney for the #Oklahoma #CharterSchool board emphasized that St. Isidore’s is not seeking to exclude students based on their #religion. But what if another school wanted to do that? she asked.
Atty James Campbell replied that this would require a different analysis.
“The state’s interest in that case would be very different—the interest in ensuring that #schools open to all,” he said.
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During oral arguments, Justices #ClarenceThomas & #KetanjiBrownJackson both asked if the proposed #Catholic #CharterSchool is a #public or #private entity.
In response, the school board’s atty, James Campbell, said there’s no impermissible involvement of the #government in #religion because the school is established by 2 private Catholic orgs. And there’s no govt control of the #school because it would be operated by a privately selected board.
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“If your option is to either cease to exist or be a #religious #CharterSchool, you’d probably take a shot,” said Greg Richmond, superintendent of #schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago & a former president of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.
Schools that are financially sound would probably opt out, he said. “They would look at this & say, ‘We’re doing fine. We don’t want all those #regulations.’”#law #SCOTUS #ChurchAndState #NewApostolicReformation #education
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There are also #secular implications of becoming a #CharterSchool. Charter #schools have more flexibility than traditional #PublicSchools, but there are rules about #teacher #qualifications, #curriculum #standards, #discipline processes, #employment terms, facility conditions & serving #students with #disabilities. Students are typically required to take standardized tests.
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #ActivistCourt #ChurchAndState #NewApostolicReformation #education #FederalistSociety
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Went down a #CharterSchool rabbit hole today after mapping one in #osm #OpenStreetMap. It really is just one big grift, isn't it? Nominally, "non-profits" "run" the school, but in reality, the vast majority of the expenses for the "non-profit" are payments to a for-profit entity that "leases" its employees to the "non-profit" school. And the vast majority of the "non-profit's" "revenue" is "state program revenue," i.e., your tax dollars.
Fucking disgusting.
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Mount Carmel Academy, a charter high school that has partnered with Houston ISD since opening in 2008, will close at the end of the calendar year because of dwindling enrollment and related financial woes.
#Education #EducationNews #HISD #Houston #Local #News #CharterSchool #HoustonCharterSchool #HoustonISD #HoustonAreaSchoolClosures #MountCarmelAcademy #SchoolClosure
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#US. #Christians pushing back on #Christiannationalism
They’ve come for the #Haitians: Why we need #churchstate separation for #immigrants’ rights
#SupremeCourt asked to consider #Oklahoma #religious #charterschool’s case
Oklahoma defends #Bibles-in-#schools proposal after report that only Trump’s might qualify
Organization Did Not Show That Its #AntiAbortion Views Are Religious #Beliefs
#Confessions of a (Former) #Christian #Nationalist
https://flipboard.com/@dustcircle/church-state-separation-g5hp0m0uy
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The #Oklahoma Supreme Court Just Rejected the Nation’s First #Religious Public #CharterSchool https://www.aclu.org/news/religious-liberty/the-oklahoma-supreme-court-just-rejected-the-nations-first-religious-public-charter-school
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The proposed school, St. Isidore of Seville #Catholic Virtual School, was pitched as an online #CatholicSchool for students in rural areas & throughout the state of #Oklahoma, w/ #religious instruction woven throughout the #curriculum.
But instead of operating as a #PrivateSchool w/ #families paying tuition, St.Isidore applied for status as a #CharterSchool, a type of #PublicSchool that is financed by #taxpayer dollars, but run independently.
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News in #SeparationofChurchandState :
#MikeJohnson's #ChristianNationalist Views Are Alarming
Lawsuit dropped in wake of #Biden rule restoring #religiousfreedom protections for people using federally funded #socialservices
Can a #CharterSchool Be a #ReligiousSchool?
#Religious #pluralism is an #American tradition
#NationalDayofPrayer continues to advance #Christian #Nationalism
An American requiem for the end of #whiteChristianNationalism
https://flipboard.com/@dustcircle/church-state-separation-g5hp0m0uy
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Diddy's "Crumbling" Charter School Reportedly Plagued By Violence And Dysfunction
https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/775999-diddys-crumbling-charter-school-hip-hop-news
> "The Cut" recently published a concerning new report about #Diddy's East Harlem charter school, Capital Prep
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Who could have guessed? (Anyone) #IDEA #CharterSchool #txedu
"IDEA officials used public dollars to purchase luxury driver services as well as $15 million to lease a private jet...."
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/06/idea-schools-conservatorship-texas/
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Ironically, Erskine College is itself an accreditation factory for charter schools all over South Carolina, including a new one that Moms for Liberty wants to create (can you imagine?).
And they can't get accredited themselves!
#SouthCarolina #CharterSchool #education
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Erskine again denied reaffirmation of accreditation
https://www.indexjournal.com/news/erskine-again-denied-reaffirmation-of-accreditation/article_1c38150a-9b7e-11ee-9631-fb4fe01cc8b7.html