#charterschools — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #charterschools, aggregated by home.social.
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The story of Seth Andrew, a silver-tongued thief who wreaked havoc in my little Vermont town—until the FBI arrested him for stealing $218,000.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2022/08/seth-andrew
#SethAndrew #thief #MarlboroCollege #Vermont #DemocracyPrep #CharterSchools
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The Classical Learning Test Takes Aim at the SAT–ACT Duopoly
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The Classical Learning Test Takes Aim at the SAT–ACT Duopoly
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Indiana advances bill that would 'mandate discrimination' against trans people, ACLU warns
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Indiana advances bill that would 'mandate discrimination' against trans people, ACLU warns
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Indiana advances bill that would 'mandate discrimination' against trans people, ACLU warns
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Indiana advances bill that would 'mandate discrimination' against trans people, ACLU warns
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South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Illustrates Danger of Vaccine Misinformation
A confluence of larger national trends threaten communities with reemergence of a preventable, potentially deadly virus. -
New Test Case on #StateFunded #Religious #CharterSchools Is Being Assembled
As previously reported, earlier this year the #US. #SupremeCourt split 4-4 on the question of whether the #1stAmendment allows #Oklahoma to authorize and fund a #religiouslysponsored virtual charter #school.
https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-test-case-on-state-funded-religious.html
https://www.jta.org/2025/11/21/united-states/jewish-group-revives-religious-charter-school-fight-in-oklahoma-months-after-test-case-stalled-at-supreme-court -
"...the Charter School model is just totally, fundamentally flawed. Labour will repeal the Charter School model, we'll deal with any schools that have been established in the meantime on a case-by-case basis ..."
#ChrisHipkins, NZ Labour leader, 2025
This is the kind of bottom line we need to hear more of from Labour. "Charter Schools" can be converted to Special Character schools, just like the last lot.
#podcasts #WaateaNews #BradburyGroup #education #CharterSchools
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>So far, 48 charter operators—which are required to be nonprofits, governmental entities, or higher education institutions—have received at least $735 million in state and federal funds (passed through the school districts) under the program SB 1882 inaugurated, which came to be called “Texas Partnerships.” These operators largely control the budgets and operations of the public schools they helm.
The nonprofit distinction is pointless when those nonprofits are permitted to funnel the vast majority of their income to for-profit entities that do the actual education work.
>Under most Texas Partnership contracts, school districts retain the responsibility to maintain facilities, furniture, and equipment, offer transportation and meals to students, and provide special education services, but they give up control over administration, curriculum, and budgets.
Textbook case of privatize the profits and socialize the costs.
>In response to an Observer question about the Beaumont school’s academic performance, a spokesperson for Green Dot Public Schools noted via email that its related organization, Green Dot Public Schools Southeast Texas, ran the school and was dissolved in June 2024, adding: “We do not have additional background or context that we can provide.”
Its *shell company*. Call it what it is.
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An interesting thought experiment: what if teachers collectively chose to form these non-profits themselves? And ran the schools as they saw fit? Education co-ops, perhaps.
>Shelly Haney, a longtime educator, turned Midland ISD’s Goddard Junior High from an F-rated to a C-rated school as principal from 2013 to 2019. That’s why, in 2019, then-superintendent Orlando Riddick asked her, while she was still Goddard’s principal, to start a nonprofit and apply for a Texas Partnership contract to run the school in addition to Bunche Elementary School and later other elementaries, Haney said. The charter organization would be called the REACH Network.
Yay! So it's been tried at least.
>But Haney ran into the same obstacles that her predecessors at Bunche had faced: community poverty, low teacher retention, and then COVID-19. There were early signs of trouble when Bunche’s new principal quit in September 2019, four weeks after the school year started. Three more principals left during the four years REACH was in operation. Amid teacher shortages that got worse during the pandemic, Midland ISD waived certification requirements —as allowed under state law—and there were fewer experienced teachers available in the district’s hiring pool to help carry out reforms, Haney told the Observer.
So there is no Stand and Deliver magic formula to addressing poverty, I take it. For this approach to work, the co-op will need broader political and economic support.
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>There’s also no record that School Innovation Collaborative applied for federal tax-exempt status in the Internal Revenue Service database. San Antonio ISD terminated its contract early with the organization in 2023. CEO Doug Dawson did not respond to the Observer’s request for comment.
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>Colbert described those kinds of paperwork issues as red flags. “These are public tax dollars that are going to pay these people, and there are requirements of the law that they’re not meeting,” he said.What in the actual fuck? That's a red flag alright. But it's a red flag for the boards inking the contracts. We're talking absolutely basic, due diligence 101 shit here.
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>Regarding Texas Partnership operators in general, Quinzi, the teachers union legal counsel, said: “They’re going to put as much money into their pockets and the least amount of money in the classroom.”
At least the union rep knows how to tell it like it is. All of the trustees and politicians quoted in this article keep dancing around the core contradiction.
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Finally: this article was very heavy in data. It needed graphs. Badly. But seeing as we're going to be implementing similar bad ideas on a much larger scale going forward here in Texas, the author is at least not going to be lacking in data for the foreseeable future.
#Texas #txlege #vouchers #education #SchoolVouchers #SchoolChoice #txpol #CharterSchools #NPIC #501c3 #NonProfit #NonProfitIndustrialComplex
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#SchoolVounchers passed the #txlege last night / this morning -__- This is gonna hit rural areas harder and faster than it does suburban and urban areas. The domino effect is exactly what these ghouls want, eventually siphoning off *all* public monies for education into private hands.
#txpol #texas #CharterSchools #privatization #education #PrivateSchools #grifters
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Here’s your friendly reminder that #charterschools came about as a white reaction to #desegregation, which tells you all you need to know about the intended beneficiaries of #SchoolVouchers. But if there’s no #departmentofeducation there’s no one to ensure #IDEA and other #civilrights are being enforced in your new for-profit “#schools. Neither will there be a nonprofit group collecting #data to track #educational outcomes for #students attending for-profit schools.
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Hey, the various types of schools (at the K-12 levels especially) are too competitive with one another. #Privateschools, #charterschools, #homeschooling #publishers and/or collectives.... #defendpubliceducation! I think it would be beneficial to see #education pros of all stripes acting as brethren! Oppose the #DepartmentofEducation cuts!
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How Some #Christian #GroupHomes Avoid #Florida’s Standards
Are #Religious #CharterSchools Legal?
Encourage Your Representative to Join the Fight for #ChurchState Separation
#Louisiana law requiring #TenCommandments to be displayed in #classrooms is back in court
Are #Texas #schools receiving funds for #TEA's #Bible #curriculum?
#Faith groups across #Kansas are diving into local #politics
https://flipboard.com/@dustcircle/church-state-separation-g5hp0m0uy
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I just happened to come across this. It seems that #SanFrancisco hasn't been a #progressive bastion for years. #SFBA
#DanLurieBILLIONAIREmayor #California #LevisHeirMayor
'Moderate' means #rightwing to me. He had alot of Republican support as well. What's this #GOP group the #BrionesSoceity? They seem to be anti-homeless people, and for '#market-based solutions to housing' (Market-based anything is the last thing the public needs in the #UK, the U.S. or anywhere else. 'Market-based is the problem).
They also believe in #schoolvouchers (believes in reallocating #SFUSD's budget to fund vouchers), #charterschools, so-called 'school choice', nothing about support for public schools, 'civic education, not political indoctrination' sounds like #righwing dog-whistle shit to me.
Homeless: 'A hand-up, not a hand out ' sounds like the same old boomer nonsense from Tony Blair's era, reduce funding of #harmreduction programmes, lower threshold for #mentalhealth conservatorships (I suppose turn the homeless into #BritneySpears)
Doesn't sound good.
Also, #billionaires, #rightwingers and #farright scum have been trying to take cover cities known for a progressive reputation.
So, it all sounds sus IMHO.
America has a #BillionaireProblem.
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#Delaware Politics
FFRF Action Fund is pleased to endorse #MattMeyer in his gubernatorial bid.
Meyer has served as the New Castle County Executive since 2017. Also, a prior public school math teacher and small business owner, #Meyer is the clear candidate that will best align with the separation of church and state. He has expressed support for a Medical Aid in Dying bill that the #FFRF Action Fund supports, which the current governor vetoed in September. He also lists protecting #ReproductiveAutonomy and #LGBTQ+ rights as a top priority.
#charterschools
#ReproductiveRights #reproductivefreedom
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@ai6yr the #GOP have been elected on this anti-science and anti-knowledge platform for years. They have been trying to dismantle public education and replace it with #ChristianIndoctrination via #CharterSchools, #HomeSchooling, and letting ever hack found a #MicroSchool drawing down state educational budgets and hurting children by not letting them have a comprehensive education and poor public schools so they cannot effectively compete for jobs and depriving them of a common American experience that public schools are ... I guess this is the base that's then angrily votes for ever more #RightWingExtremists and the cycle continues.
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#School #segregation surges 70 years after #BrownVBoardofEducation #ruling
Resegregation of our #publicschools coincides with the rise of #charterschools and #school #choice #options, and as #CivilRights groups turned away from #desegregation #battles
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews#BlackMastodon
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/school-segregation-brown-eudcation-ruling-70th
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— #CharterSchools receiving public funds should be #prohibited in any way from engaging in #discrimination against #staff or #students in any way, for any reason, including on the basis of #religiousbeliefs
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https://archive.org/details/phillips-exeter
Elite Education and the Private School: Excellence and Arrogance at Phillips Exeter Academy by Alan H. Levy
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#PhillipsExeterAcademy, #PhillipsExeter, #unitedstatesofamerika, #privateschools, #prepschools, #charterschools, #gradeschool, #eliteschools, #eliteschooling, #rulingclasseducation, #exeter, #newhampshire, #educationinnewhampshire, #educationinnewengland, #newenglandelite, #elitism, #secondaryschool, #secondaryschoolingConsiders many components of current crises and dilemmas in education through an analysis of one of the most celebrated secondary schools in the nation, Phillips Exeter Academy. Illustrates how styles and techniques at Exeter have grown to eclipse educational content, a stasis resulting from an "education school" mentality among the teaching establishment that adversely affects American instruction. Levy examines the "corporate culture" of Exeter and the way in which a surreal relationship of genuine and illegitimate standards stymies intellectual development among faculty, and hence, among students. Also deals with the way students' problems with drugs, depression, sexuality, and suicide are either mishandled or ignored.