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Missouri foundation accused of fueling harassment against St. Joseph school board members • Missouri Independent School board members say the Herzog Charitable Foundation has triggered scrutiny of their political beliefs and personal lives.

Missouri foundation accused of fueling harassment against St. Joseph school board members. missouriindependent.com/2025/07/23/h...

New and damning school voucher data confirm worst fears • NC Newsline School vouchers in our state have nothing to do with quote “opportunity” and everything to do with undermining and privatizing public education.

New and damning school voucher data confirm worst fears ncnewsline.com/2025/08/04/n...

Ohio House passes bill that increases the penalties for illegally passing a stopped school bus • Ohio Capital Journal The Ohio House has unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that increases the penalties for illegally passing a stopped school bus.

Ohio House passes bill that increases the penalties for illegally passing a stopped school bus. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/16/o...

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Peter Greene: A Major For-Profit Chain Implodes Peter Greene writes in Forbes, where he is a columnist, about the failure of a major for-profit chain, the kind that will enjoy the benefit of voucher programs. Ray Girn graduated from the Universi…

Peter Greene: A Major For-Profit Chain Implodes dianeravitch.net/2025/08/07/p...

Peter Greene: A Major For-Profit Chain Implodes Peter Greene writes in Forbes, where he is a columnist, about the failure of a major for-profit chain, the kind that will enjoy the benefit of voucher programs. Ray Girn graduated from the Universi…

Peter Greene: A Major For-Profit Chain Implodes dianeravitch.net/2025/08/07/p...

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Missing the Boat With a few notable exceptions, Democrats keep getting education wrong

Missing the Boat
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Lesson: Public Schools Are a Winning Issue, Everywhere Recent Decision To Unfreeze Education Funds Part of a Clear, Consistent Pattern

Lesson: Public Schools Are a Winning Issue, Everywhere! open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

Network for Public Education Tracks a Charter School Sector in Decline What’s going on with the charter school sector now that traditional public schools are no longer troubled by the COVID plague and now that states—and even the federal government—a…

NPE's new report rejects the myth, promoted by Education Secretary Linda MacMahon, that there are long waiting lists of children trying to find a place at a charter school.
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Network for Public Education Tracks a Charter School Sector in Decline What’s going on with the charter school sector now that traditional public schools are no longer troubled by the COVID plague and now that states—and even the federal government—a…

Network for Public Education Tracks a Charter School Sector in Decline janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/n...

PBS accounts for nearly half of first graders’ most frequently watched educational TV programs • Ohio Capital Journal Local PBS stations in rural areas are announcing a flurry of program cuts after President Trump and Republicans in Congress clawed back more than $1 billion in funding. PBS accounts for 45% of the edu...

PBS accounts for nearly half of first graders’ most frequently watched educational TV programs ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/06/p...

U.S. Sen. Committee Protects Dept. of Ed. in Proposed Budget; Impoundments and Rescissions Still a Worry On July 31st, K-12 Dive’s Kara Arundel reported some very good news: “The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a bipartisan spending bill for fiscal year 2026 (FY 26) th…

U.S. Sen. Committee Protects Dept. of Ed. in Proposed Budget; Impoundments and Rescissions Still a Worry janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/u...

What Research Tells Us About School Takeovers "School Takeovers" Part II

What Research Tells Us About School Takeovers
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Texas: The Hoax of Charter Schools This article appeared in The Dallas Weekly. The Charter Trap: How Texas’s Approval System Fuels Inequity in Public Education This feature investigates how Texas’s charter school approval system — c…

Texas: The Hoax of Charter Schools dianeravitch.net/2025/08/01/t...

Christian Nationalism and Education By Thomas Ultican 7/28/2025 Since 2024, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas have passed laws requiring ten commandment posters in all classrooms. These kinds of laws come to us courtesy of a single Chris…

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Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment and Cost Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating ... TikTok video by Network for Public Education

New report by the National Center for Charter School Accountability --Part I busts the myths showing charters in decline www.tiktok.com/@network4pub...

Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment and Cost - Network For Public Education Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, Charter School Reckoning,  presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating closures plaguing the charter sch...

Continuing a flood of federal dollars to the Federal Charter School Programs to prop up the expansion of a failing charter sector makes no sense. Get the facts. Read our report. networkforpubliceducation.org/charter-scho...

Colorado: Aeronautics Charter School Closes Suddenly, Two Weeks Before Start of Semester A charter school in Colorado shocked parents and students by announcing its closure two weeks before school opened. CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Colorado Skies Academy, a Centennial-based charter school wit…

Colorado: Aeronautics Charter School Closes Suddenly, Two Weeks Before Start of Semester dianeravitch.net/2025/08/01/c...

Decision to unfreeze migrant education money comes too late for some kids • Ohio Capital Journal Earlier this summer, the Trump administration froze more than $6 billion in education funding for after-school programs and other grants. The administration has recently agreed to release the funds, b...

Decision to unfreeze migrant education money comes too late for some kids ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/01/d...

New federal school voucher program poses a quandary for states: Opt in or opt out? • Ohio Capital Journal When President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, he gave state leaders — not federal regulators — the power to decide whether and how to participate in the first-ever national tax credit sc...

New federal school voucher program poses a quandary for states: Opt in or opt out? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/31/n...

A “Moment of Reckoning” or Just More Empty Hysteria? I’ve been more or less off the grid for the past two weeks, vacationing in Alaska and determined not to let the repellent Epstein Saga or other assorted travesties spoil the snow-capped mountain vi…

Education data is not easy to interpret, nor is it truth. So let's not slice and dice the numbers and tell people that the schools where their kids are learning every day are due for a "moment of reckoning" (dun-dun-duuunh) teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/07/29/a...

Do you guys think billionaires like Betsy DeVos ever worry about the cost of school supplies? ✂️✏️📓🫤

More than 80 Ohio high schools have Native-themed names and mascots • Ohio Capital Journal Four years after the Cleveland Indians announced they would change its name to the Guardians, many Ohio high schools have retained their Native-themed names and mascots.

More than 80 Ohio high schools have Native-themed names and mascots. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/30/m...

There is no reading crisis in the U.S. Here's what's really happening.
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Florida: School Libraries Told to Remove 55 Books–But Most Had Never Been Checked Out The Orlando Sentinel reported that school libraries were directed to remove books, because they are “pornographic.” On review, it turns out that most of the books had never been checked…

Florida: School Libraries Told to Remove 55 Books--But Most Had Never Been Checked Out #nonissue dianeravitch.net/2025/07/25/f...

Federal education funding reportedly being released following outrage from Ohio, national educators • Ohio Capital Journal School districts in Ohio and across the country will now be receiving billions of dollars that were being withheld by the Trump administration, funds local public education workers and supporters said...

Federal education funding reportedly being released following outrage from Ohio, national educators ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/28/f...

Vouchers Deliver Blow to Rural Schools: ‘They’re Taking Money From Our Students.’ | NEA School voucher programs have a proven record of failure and are especially harmful to rural students, families, and communities. ‘Why are we diverting funds from our schools,’ asks an Oklahoma educato...

Vouchers Deliver Blow to Rural Schools: ‘They’re Taking Money From Our Students.’ www.nea.org/nea-today/al...