Alberto Carvalho, a proponent of school choice, oversaw a growth of magnet and charter schools in Miami.
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Different sets of construction regulations allow California’s charters to build without environmental oversight.
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Where Elizabeth Warren and Gavin Newsom’s plans to reinvest in public schools most diverge is on funding mechanisms. Liz has one; Gavin doesn’t.
A Latinx novelist challenged Georgia Southern University students to think about their whiteness. They did, and the results were not pretty.
Armed with a state override of its rejected application, Promise Academy filed a new request. Then came the lawsuits.
It’s Betsy’s world and scholars just live in it.
Whistleblowers have accused staff at East Oakland’s Castlemont High of manipulating grades for nine students.
Researchers say low provider pay and low quality care are endemic to California’s patchwork childcare industry.
The packing of an education task force panel has diluted a highly anticipated Assembly bill reforming charter schools.
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Aided by an incurious media, most Democratic presidential contenders have been allowed to slide around charter school issues.
There has been no shortage of charter school failures in California, and the rate of abrupt school closures is very high across the nation.
Unearthed emails reveal a cozy relationship between the L.A. schools superintendent and the charter school lobby.
Studies Weekly found hundreds of instances of racial bias and inaccuracies within its teaching materials, which are used in several states.
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Borders, boundaries and barriers have been a way of life in the lower Sacramento Valley since the Gold Rush days. The newest form of green line here is charter schools.