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Election Inflections: Why California’s Deep-Pocketed Charter School Backers Went for Broke
- Election Inflections
- November 9, 2016
Yesterday the subscriber-only political almanac California Target Book reported that spending by all independent expenditure committees (IECs) on legislative races in the general election had topped $41 million. That brought the year’s total of outside money for state Assembly and Senate seats, including primary races, to $70 million.
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The Battle of Hastings: What’s Behind the Netflix CEO’s Fight to Charterize Public Schools?
- Education
- October 12, 2016
Joel Warner reports on the Netflix CEO’s attempts to disrupt public education.
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Gap Co-Founder Doris Fisher Is Bankrolling the Charter School Agenda – And Pouring Dark Money Into CA Politics
- Education, Labor & Economy
- September 27, 2016
Born Doris Feigenbaum in 1931 in New York, Fisher and her husband struck modern-day gold in San Francisco when they founded the first Gap store there in 1969. By all indications, Doris and her husband, who passed away in 2009, worked hand in hand building the brand — which, like many global retailers, has also faced intense scrutiny for its labor practices.
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The Fight to Bring Transparency to California’s Charter Schools
- Education
- September 12, 2016
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 didn’t know what was going on behind the scenes.
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Failing the Test: Nine Solution Takeaways
- Education, Failing The Test Series
- June 3, 2016
Despite the trendy popularity of charter schools in some circles, their wholesale replacement of traditional public schools is unnecessary.
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Failing the Test: Charter School Powerbrokers
- Education, Failing The Test Series
- June 2, 2016
Charter proponents, most notably the Walton Family Foundation, contribute large amounts of money to expand charter schools in select cities around the nation.
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