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Will Nick Melvoin Be Los Angeles Charter Schools’ Game-Changer?
- Education
- June 8, 2017
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 margin for an affable defender of “school choice.”
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Trouble in Eden: A Divided Marin County Community Gets a New Charter School
- Education
- May 18, 2017
A new charter school in affluent Ross Valley marks the latest chapter in California’s education wars.
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Fast-Food Charter School Education: Hold the Learning
- Education
- April 24, 2017
Does anyone really want a handful of corporations, the likes of McDonald’s and Burger King, teaching children and locking people up in prison?
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Why the State Audit of L.A.’s Largest Charter School Chain Matters
- Education
- April 17, 2017
A state report has criticized Alliance College-Ready Public Schools’ compliance level with federal student privacy rules during an anti-union campaign. BY BILL RADEN
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California’s Failing Grade in Charter School Facilities Financing
- Education
- April 12, 2017
A new study shows that tax dollars have been used to create privately held real estate empires — charter school properties that, because they aren’t owned by the public, could, theoretically, one day be converted into luxury condominiums or shopping complexes.
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Mississippi Learning: Moving Beyond Betsy DeVos’ “School Choice” Trap
- Education
- March 27, 2017
Like many Southern cities, Clinton, Mississippi, bears the scars of American slavery. A road cutting through the city’s center marks a key route used by slave traders in the decades before the Civil War.
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