Showing posts with label charter schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charter schools. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Have religious conservatives lost their minds?

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  Although the phrase “separation of church and state” does not appear in the Constitution, the concept is based on the First Amendment, whi...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Why charter schools are not as ‘public’ as they claim to be

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  Proponents of charter schools insist that they are public schools “open to all students.” But the truth is more nuanced. As an education ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another battle engulfing public education

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  On Nov. 14, 1960, after a long summer and autumn of volleys between the Louisiana Legislature and the federal courts, Ruby Bridges, a 6-ye...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Higher education’s market reckoning

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  Want to buy a college campus? Maybe you’d like to commission the services of a psychology department. Perhaps you’re hoping to hire an ass...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

DeVos’ formula for success: Trash public schools and push privatization

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  When U.S Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos discussed the results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress, she describe...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Craig Ford: Charter schools in Alabama continue national trend of waste, fraud and corruption

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  One of the biggest arguments against charter schools is that they have been hotbeds of waste, fraud, and corruption. Nationally, charter s...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Ten K-12 education policy questions every presidential candidate should answer

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  After months of campaigning and two rounds of primary debates, presidential candidates still aren’t prioritizing K-12 education. While som...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Charter schools are keeping promises

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  On the campaign trail in 2012, Mitt Romney remarked that “charter schools are so successful that almost every politician can find somethin...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Families first, taxpayers last

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  Milton Friedman may have put families first, but he put taxpayers last.   Friedman (1912–2006) was one of the most influential free-mark...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Craig Ford: Should Alabama Superintendent of Education Michael Sentance be fired?

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Editor's Note: Multiple Alabama news sources reported September 13 that Michael Sentance had resigned his position.   On Thursday, th...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Craig Ford: You can’t fix schools by abandoning them

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  We all pay our taxes; therefore, all of our kids should receive a quality education.   You can’t fix something that is broken by abandon...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse: The charter schools trap

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  In recent years, the Republican Party has taken control of the legislatures in all of the southern states. Alabama’s legislature is overwh...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1450: Attacks on public education are mounting in Alabama

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  Attacks on public education are mounting in Alabama. The attacks just keep coming. They come from different directions. They come in diffe...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse: Another Common Core war on the horizon?

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  The first regular legislative session of the quadrennium is beginning. Legislators have arrived in Montgomery for their three and a half m...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Cameron Smith: Alabama's unlikely allies in education reform

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  The winds of change are blowing through America’s education system for the first time in a generation, and Alabama would be wise to catch...