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Has the Democratic Party Reversed Its Attitude on Charters?

Why the Federal Government’s Billion-Dollar Charter School Program Is a Bigger Disaster Than We Thought

Why Striking Teachers Across America Are Fighting for Much More Than Their Paychecks

How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline

Another School Leadership Disaster: Private Companies Work an Insider Game to Reap Lucrative Contracts

Nonprofit Quarterly Cites Our Schools Report by Sarah Lahm on Nonprofit Charters

Why 2020 Dems Should Target the Nonprofit Charter School Industry

A National Public School ‘Leadership’ Disaster: Private Firms Vetting Candidates for Superintendent

The Teacher Movement Against Charter Schools Helped Send Puerto Rico’s Governor Packing

Why Won’t the Charter School Industry Acknowledge Its Documented Failures and Reform Itself?

Why Many School Districts Are Being Set Up for Fiscal Failure

Our Schools’ Jeff Bryant in Radio Interview on Charter Schools Fight in West Virginia

Charter Schools Are a Major Dividing Line for the 2020 Democratic Candidates—Education Fights in Pennsylvania Point the Way

Why Democratic Presidential Candidates May Have to Choose Between Teacher Pay Raises and Charter Schools

The Federal Government Has Poured Millions into Failing Charter Schools in Louisiana

Why Charter School Proponents Have Lost Many of the Democrats Who Once Supported Them

Progressives Take a Bold Stance at an Epicenter of the Charter School Movement to Score a Major Win for Public Education

Things Didn’t Go Well When Betsy DeVos Was Confronted With Her Department’s Charter School Fraud

Sacramento Teacher Strike Is a Warning to #RedForEd Movement Everywhere

3 Questions That ‘Created Havoc’ in Betsy DeVos’ Department of Education

New Report Reveals How Charter Schools Have Scammed the U.S. Government for Up to a Billion Dollars

‘Tired of Being Unsupported and Messed With,’ Teachers Stage a Bold Protest That Scores National Attention

The Rapid Victory of the West Virginia Teacher Strike Shows What Happens When Progressives Join the Fight Against School Privatization

Charter Schools Are Pushing Public Education to the Breaking Point

Los Angeles Teachers Make the Case That Charter Schools Are an Existential Threat to Public Education