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Child care centers should have the same development flexibility as charter schools.

Top Kentucky education official says he's unlikely to defend charter school law

Tennessee state staffers watched intently this summer while local school officials voted down a contentious Hillsdale College-linked charter school

NEW YORK — A former education adviser to the Obama administration was sentenced to one year in prison Thursday for stealing more than $218,000 from the network of New York City charter schools he founded.

The privately operated, publicly funded school has used cash advances and “predatory loans” for funding, city school officials say. Urban Prep leaders say its financial issues are resolved.

The school’s founder said the skirt requirement was part of the school’s ‘chivalry’ policy, which described females as being a ‘fragile vessel’

Perhaps the real question is whether such a school is a state actor for purposes of Section 1983. The en banc Fourth Circuit says it is, so that a skirt requirement for girls is unlawful.

Charter schools are included in the mandate that students use facilities of their birth sex, regardless of what students and families might want.

This is what public policy looks like when a major political party plays kissy-face with public sector unions.

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The answer for students who feel unwelcome or underserved where they are is to expand the schooling market.