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What a shame! "More than 35 percent of charter schools funded by the federal Charter School Program between 2006 and 2014 either never opened or were shut down, costing taxpayers more than half a billion dollars."
Report: Federal government wasted millions of dollars on charter schools that never opened
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Michigan, Betsy DeVos's home state, had the most charters that got federal money but never opened, according to the report from a public education advocacy group."So as wealthy parents are publicly praised for bridging the gap for their own kids, we must always ask, “Who will be responsible for the other kids?” The kids whose parents love them just as much, and want for their kid the same opportunities that others are given? If provision and quality of resources that wealthy parents fight for is important for their kids, is it not also important for all our kids?"
Parent fundraising made my school a great place to teach. I was grateful, until I realized the cost.
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It wasn’t until I switched roles and started to visit classrooms in other schools that I began to see things from a different perspective.Ed reformer/billionaire Eli Broad has taken his show to Yale with a $100 million donation to "advance the strategic direction pioneered by The Broad Center over the last 20 years; its placement at the Yale School of Management will enable its programs to draw on the input of management and business scholars and the resources of Yale University." Well now that management and business is here, we're all saved.
Eli Broad Pays $100M to Move His Ed-Reform-Producing “Broad Center” from LA to Yale
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Eli Broad is one of the chief billionaires pushing education reform. In 2017, Broad “inserted himself” in the Los Angeles School Board race via the largest contribution to an individual…Advocacy for Quality, Equity, and Transparency Within the Boston Public Schools System
Will the School Committee keep its word about the Dever/McCormack fields?
November 5, 2019
In 2018, the Boston Public Schools Committee issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to develop fields belonging to the Dever Elementary School and John W. McCormack Middle School. Members voted after assurances that those communities would have input into what would happen to their open space.
Now a private field house operated by The Boys & Girls Clubs is the sole proposal submitted, and the school communities were only informed after the deadline passed. Will the School Committee members live up to their word and accept the community input that they promised?
Click on the following dates to view full School Committee discussions about the RFP for developing the Dever/McCormack fields: April 11, 2018 (beginning at minute 44:30); May 9, 2018 (beginning at 2hr 26 min); and May 23, 2018 (beginning at 1 hr 12 min).
Current issues QUEST is focused on:
Facilities, Resources and School Closings
Quality education requires a commitment by the school district to the efficient, sustained, and equitable use of resources.
Privatization of Education
Public education, including its physical facilities, is a public good that should be under community control.
Student Assignment
All students should have equitable access to quality school options through a transparent and accessible system of school assignment.
ABOUT QUEST
QUEST (Quality Education for Every Student) is a volunteer grassroots organization of parents with children in Boston Public Schools. Founded in 2012, the group initially came together over concerns about the inequities of proposed changes to the BPS assignment system. We continue to ask how education policies and practices can help to dismantle past oppression, increase opportunity, and provide greater access to quality education for all.
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