Alberto Carvalho, a proponent of school choice, oversaw a growth of magnet and charter schools in Miami.
Critics charge DeVos is exploiting a national public-health crisis to promote her agenda of privatizing public education.
Why do California charters enroll far fewer students with disabilities than traditional schools?
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There has been no shortage of charter school failures in California, and the rate of abrupt school closures is very high across the nation.
Twenty-two charters — nearly all of them in high-poverty neighborhoods -- accounted for 42 percent of L.A. charter schools' nearly 3,700 suspensions last year.
LAUSD marks the passing of Michelle King. The strange case of Sebastian Ridley-Thomas. Will Oakland teachers strike?
Studies have found charter school glut and hyper-competition in many neighborhoods.
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Also in this week's column: Omarosa reveals Betsy DeVos' nom de Trump. Austin Beutner hires Chris Christie's Newark schools supe. Gary Hart's “legislative jiu-jitsu.”
A teachers' pension fund is in the money . . . Is a Kevin De León bill in the IRS's crosshairs? . . . The State...
The stage has been set for a Tuesday showdown between charter school operators and the Los Angeles Unified School District office charged with charter school oversight.
A low-turnout Los Angeles election, which set a new record as the most expensive school board contest in U.S. history, resulted in a 57-43 percent victory...
Aimee Roylance was thrilled when her son was accepted into Livermore Valley Charter School in 2010. “The experience overall was very positive,” she says. But she...
When the Olympics ended so did a multimillion-dollar assault on democracy. From the start of the games in Rio to the closing ceremony, television viewers in...
As the free market fairy tale goes, innovative charter schools force neighborhood schools to improve education, while schools that can’t compete eventually close. Parents are “customers”...
When the Great Public Schools Now Initiative, the $490 million blueprint to turn half of Los Angeles’ public school system into charter schools, was first leaked...
With Los Angeles at the forefront of the national debate over public education, Capital & Main will examine the potential impacts of large-scale charter school expansion...
The original concept of charter schools emerged nationally more than two decades ago and was intended to support community efforts to open up education.
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