charter schools

Cuomo Announces Partnership with Bill Gates to “Revolutionize” NY Schools in Wake of Coronavirus New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he will use the COVID-19 virus as an opportunity to “revolutionize” the state’s school system, inviting Bill Gates to implement his controversial ideas about...

This is a terrible decision:francis:.

Only 35% of students earn bachelor’s degrees in six years. Why? Because traditional public schools failed to prepare them. By Allysia Finley Washington Charter schools are the “polite cousins of segregation,” in the words of Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of...

Jonathan Kozol, an activist for public education, spoke at an event last week hosted by Duke’s Program in Education. For the past fifty years, Kozol has been both an educator and a researcher of public education, gaining notoriety as one of the most high-profile critics of inequalities within...

Pennsylvania's virtual charters have a 48 percent graduation rate. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has touted online learning as a school-choice solution for rural America, saying that virtual charter schools provide educational options that wouldn’t otherwise exist. But in Pennsylvania, an...