At first, Rosalba Naranjo was thrilled that her two daughters were attending Richard Merkin Middle School, a charter school located near downtown Los Angeles.
Despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from California’s taxpayers, California Virtual Academies (CAVA), the state’s largest provider of online public education, is failing key tests...
A report released March 15 by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Center for Civil Rights Remedies revealed jaw-dropping figures about school discipline at charter schools. During the...
Get this. In some states, charter school operators can purchase school buildings from public school districts — using taxpayer money. That’s right. The public pays twice...
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Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools were recently exposed for having a “Got to Go” list of students, which singles out the children they would like to...
Last week, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) released striking data about the rapid turnover of charter schools. CMD’s state-by-state list of closed charters shows...
As a nation we often talk about the importance of educating our children, but sometimes we talk the talk more than we walk the walk. In...
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For more than 30 years each, Cheryl Smith-Vincent and Cheryl Ortega have shared a passion for teaching public school in Southern California. Smith-Vincent teaches third grade...
When it comes to schools and kids, progress might actually just involve a unified push from everyone in a community – no matter how hard it...
Rather than senior researchers, public finance experts and classroom learning specialists, seven of the governor’s 11 appointees appeared to have been recruited from the charter-industrial complex.
The record-shattering spending on candidate Marshall Tuck mirrors the threat level that a Sacramento without Jerry Brown represents to the charter school lobby.
Joel Warner reports on the Netflix CEO’s attempts to disrupt public education.
Cashing in on Kids, a joint project of In the Public Interest and the American Federation of Teachers, is working to ensure that parents, teachers, students and taxpayers continue...
But teachers and their allies are fighting back in Arizona, Kentucky and elsewhere.
From Our ArchivesLionized in death as a champion of Los Angeles’ cultural institutions, Broad also left behind a contentious education legacy.
Different sets of construction regulations allow California's charters to build without environmental oversight.
LAUSD will begin a new program Wednesday to keep district students fed during the closure of schools due to the coronavirus.
About $3.5 million worth of attack mailers have targeted Jackie Goldberg and other LAUSD school board members.