Rosello funneled money to charter schools in Puerto Rico. The Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico and the AFT demanded that federal recovery money restore public education on the island instead
Democrats running for president are distancing themselves from a charter school movement that once held powerful sway in the party.
“The problem with charter schools isn’t that they’re competing with public schools; it’s that they’re supplanting public schools.”
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The U.S. Department of Education has been scammed for hundreds of millions of dollars by fraudulent or mismanaged charter schools.
Teachers across the country face a systematic underfunding of public schools and a systematic devaluing of the teaching profession by leaders who say public education should be swept aside to make room for a system of private free-market education.
A teacher walkout would cast the strike as a challenge to the creeping absorption of public schools by charter management organizations.
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In a charter network where 90 percent of the students are Latino, strikers won an agreement to designate all its schools as “sanctuary schools,” off-limits to immigration police.
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