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by Shawgi Tell / May 3rd, 2021 Over the years, as more problems with charter schools have been exposed, analyzed, and critiqued, more people have come to see the need for opposing them and for defending public education and the public interest. Criticism and rejection of these privately-operated schools has become more mainstream in recent years and it is safe to say that opposition to charter schools will keep growing so long as neoliberals and privatizers impose more charter schools on society. Public school boards and many different education advocacy groups, along with more legislators, f...

How the federal government’s charter school program went wrong boy in green sweater writing on white paper From the outset, charter schools were somewhat of a blind man's elephant—people saw in them whatever they wanted—but two competing theories that helped propel the charter movement were that the schools would serve as laboratories for experimenting with new education approaches that could be shared with public school districts, or that charters were created to disrupt the public school system by giving parents an alternative to district-run schools. When the...

CONWAY — The Northeast Woodland Chartered Public School learned last Friday that the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee voted 7-3 to accept the first $10.1 million of a $46 million federal grant to expand public charter schools in New Hampshire. The grant was hung up by the formerly Democratic-led committee. Following the November election, the committee is now Republican led. Last week's vote was along party lines. Northeast Woodland, which opened its doors in September in Conway to 145 K-8 students, will get at least $375,000 earmarked for startup costs when the Legislature convenes in...

Credit Allegra Boverman for NHPR New Hampshire lawmakers have approved a federal grant aimed at increasing the number of public charter schools in the state and helping existing ones expand. The grant has been at the center of a fierce partisan debate for a year and was repeatedly blocked by State House Democrats, who cited concerns about the long-term sustainability of publicly-funded charter schools. But with Republicans now in the majority, the $10.1 million grant sailed through the Legislature's joint fiscal committee on Friday with a 7-3 vote, with all Democrats opposed. The money is ...

Years we have actually rewound and education system that took 150 years to build. the fact that we have gotten more than 3 million kids in charter kids, we probably have another half a million schools of choice, schools, districts like dc have as many as 45% of kids in school of choice. this is an issue that people are more comfortable with but there's always in state but what we are fighting fighting fighting fighting in kentucky to treat charter school program that is getting pushed back by school boards. >> the opposition is interesting. i've seen it in a lot of cities, it was true in subur...