From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): Lawmakers are in Harrisburg negotiating a state budget and considering legislation that will impact PA’s public school students. The PA House has already passed two pieces of legislation that would weaken public education in PA and … Continued
From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): Decisions PA legislators make in the upcoming weeks will have a lasting impact on PA’s public school students. From now until June 30th, when the state budget is due, lawmakers will be passing legislation … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-11-15/education/shift-in-federal-ed-priorities-worries-advocates/a54963-1 Play Audio in Browser Window Advocates say shifting funds to charter and private schools would hurt public education. (Hunter Kahn/Wikimedia Commons) HARRISBURG, Pa. – The coming administration in Washington, D. C., may redirect billions of dollars of … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/instead-of-building-more-charter-schools-for-the-few-improve-public-education-for-all/ Roland S. Martin is a journalist and the host and managing editor of TV One’s News One Now. For years he has promoted market-based school choice. He recently moderated a town hall, “Is School Choice the Black … Continued
The Washington Post “As far as federal labor law is concerned … charter schools are not public schools but private corporations … Charters … supplant public schools, which are run by elected officials, with nonprofit and for-profit corporations that are … Continued
From Public Citizens for Children and Youth (http://www.pccy.org): Charter schools spend twice as much as district-run public schools do in administration costs. Charters pay their top officials far more. And since 2007, district reimbursements to charters have outpaced actual charter … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/government-schools-vs-public-schools/ Last weekend, the NY Times published an important story by Julie Bosman about the political importance of how we name our institutions: “Kansas has for years been the stage for a messy school funding fight that has … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/how-charters-destabilize-public-school-districts-let-us-count-the-ways/ Three recent press reports—from Nevada, Chicago, Illinois, and Massachusetts—document how expansion of charter schools is undermining the public schools that serve the majority of students including those with the greatest needs. The same theory of charter school … Continued