Like Trump, Bloomberg is a fervent backer of privatizing and dismantling public schools across the country
Indiana is a leader among the 50 states in shifting resources from public education to vouchers and charter schools
Arkansas teachers and students face a well-funded school privatization effort backed by major corporate entities with influence that stretches from the Governor’s office to the state Board of Education to the University of Arkansas.
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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