“Every charter school automatically has a negative impact on school district finances.”
CHARTERS CAUSE DIVISIONS IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES
- Learn how other communities have been bitterly divided, including in nearby Novato
- Another interesting blog about the recent, and strikingly similar, charter kerfuffle in Novato & the push for suburban charters
- Bloomberg's article on how taxpayers in Los Altos are paying a VERY high price to educate millionaires' kids, also using RVCS's "Consultants," EdTec
- The tensions in Los Altos over Bullis Charter School cost that district $1.7 million in legal fees last year alone. RVSD has spent approximately $100,000 on legal fees in the last year, related to RVC.
- Issue on charter schools' impact on public schools from The Nation Magazine
- What folks in Chicago are saying after living with this model for many years.
- NY Times on suburban charter battles in New Jersey
CHARTERS AS MODERN TOOLS OF SEGREGATION
- Read about "Educational Choice" and the "different opportunities and different outcomes, contained within a single school," which are similar to Manor School's, written by Education Professor, Rick Ayers
- How the parent volunteer requirement is "unconstitutional" in SFGate
- Robert Reich on "Patrolling the Boundaries" in suburban districts
CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE PART OF A NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO PRIVATIZE PUBLIC EDUCATION
- Forbes Magazine article on Wall Street (i.e., Goldman Sachs) investment in the charter school "gravy train"
- The Wrong Kind of Education Reform from Slate
- Charter Schools and Vouchers from Salon
- Report on Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud and Abuse from The Popular Center for Democracy
- Bill Moyers on Charter Schools for Sale?
- Bill Moyers on the lack of charter school accountability
- Blog by Diane Ravitch, noted academic, former US Secretary of Education under George "W." Bush, and charter critic
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