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Adding charter schools to Ontario would exacerbate student inequities

Parents and other advocates who are dissatisfied with the current state of public schooling often call for the expansion of school choice.

The Conversation

Conservative Florida Lawmakers Want To Expand LGBT Censorship to Charter Schools

New bill makes a mockery of parents’ rights, school choice, and educational freedom.

Reason

‘Aspect of his heritage’: ACLU blasts school that told Native American boy to cut his hair

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina school fired back after a civil rights group blasted its short hair rule as “discriminatory.”

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This course uses 'Abbott Elementary' to examine critical issues in urban education

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation

Houston ISD Takeover Is a Trojan Horse for Privatization

Leaders of low-income communities of color worry the state’s power grab could deepen inequalities at schools like Wheatley High.

Texas Observer

Chicago’s mayoral candidates have radically different approaches to fixing public schools. Here’s why.

Their backgrounds — Paul Vallas, a technocrat devoted to school choice, and Brandon Johnson, a teachers union organizer — help explain clashing views on school reform.

Chicago Sun-Times

Public League semifinal preview: Perspectives-Leadership has crashed the party

The Warriors knocked off Hyde Park in the quarterfinals on Tuesday and have entered the spotlight for the first time in the history of the Perspectives charter schools.

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Commentary: Running a charter school for profit should be illegal

From insider deals to real estate flips, the problems with charter schools run by for-profit corporations can’t be ignored. And growth in this sector is accelerating as operators use lax regulations and complicated corporate schemes to harvest public dollars from publicly-funded charter schools.

Tribune News Service

35 Chicago charter schools approved to stay open but with CPS closely watching over them

The charter schools received shorter term lengths than in the past and new conditions for continued approval as part of an ongoing effort to demand greater accountability.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kentucky's Governor Wants School Choice for His Kids but Not Yours

A legal assault on charter schools will deprive families of educational options.

Reason

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

Ballotpedia

Urban Prep’s fall from grace is a lesson for education leaders

Chicago and other cities where charter schools have proliferated have a lot to learn from the fall of Urban Prep due to fiscal mismanagement, a sexual misconduct investigation and other problems.

Chicago Sun-Times

It takes a village to run a school

I am the Illinois Network of Charter Schools Principal of the Year. But I didn’t win the award on my own. I belongs to the entire school.

Chicago Sun-Times

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #42

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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Chicago’s Noble, LEARN charter schools receive $23 million in donations from MacKenzie Scott

In Noble’s case, the grant is the “largest unrestricted donation from a single individual” in the charter network’s history.

WEKU

As charter schools spread across Ohio Valley, a controversial curriculum begins to take hold

Chicago Sun-Times

Charter school group’s support of state legislative candidate causes trouble for them at Statehouse

The Illinois Network of Charter Schools has sent out anti-SAFE-T Act mailers on behalf of state Rep. Chris Bos, who is being challenged by Nabeela Syed.

Reason

Zoning Laws Make Child Care Unaffordable in Utah

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

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

The Independent UK

Amid Hillsdale fallout, Tenn. staffers fretted about optics

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

Tribune News Service

Former White House aide Seth Andrew gets year in prison for stealing from NYC 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.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS cites Urban Prep, celebrated all-boys Chicago charter school, for ‘dismal’ financial management

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 Independent UK

North Carolina charter school’s skirt requirement violated female students’ rights, court rules

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

Reason

Can a State-Funded Charter School Require Female Students to Wear Skirts?

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.

Reason

Oklahoma Governor Attacks School Choice With Trans Bathroom Panic Law

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

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