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“Red Pedagogy” Sinks Indigenous Charter School Approval in NC Native Country

November 25, 2019 by Debby Warren Leave a Comment

By a 4–3 vote that reversed its earlier decision, the North Carolina Charter Schools Advisory Board (CSAB) has rejected a proposal to create a charter school focused on growing “indigenous leader practitioners” in the state’s poorest and the nation’s most ethnically diverse rural county. NPQ has covered Robeson County before, when it was selected to serve […]

Filed Under: Nonprofit Quarterly Tagged With: Charter Schools, Red Pedagogy, Robeson County

Charter Schools Raise Core Questions Regarding How We Educate Our Children

October 30, 2018 by Debby Warren Leave a Comment

This month, the US Department of Education awarded eight states a total of $313.4 million over five years to grow the number and size of “high quality” public charter schools to serve “traditionally underserved students;” the money is estimated to benefit about 300 schools and is part of a larger five-year, $399-million initiative. Arkansas, one of the eight states […]

Filed Under: Nonprofit Quarterly Tagged With: Charter Schools, US Dept of Education

Waco Looks Inward to Turn Around Troubled Schools

June 27, 2018 by Debby Warren Leave a Comment

It’s now a familiar story: low-performing schools, nearly 100 percent poor kids of color, are given a stark set of choices by the state education agency, first through No Child Left Behind and now through the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA)—close, reconstitute with new staff, or cede control to non-district charter operators. The affected communities […]

Filed Under: Nonprofit Quarterly Tagged With: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Waco

Political Kickbacks and Schools as Guinea Pigs

March 27, 2018 by Debby Warren Leave a Comment

NPQ has frequently reported on the well-financed national strategy to privatize schools, on charter school proponents’ misplaced belief that changing schools and teachers rather than focusing on systemic poverty will remedy the racial achievement gap, on charter schools’ accountability, and on the increasingly unusual approach taken by the Waco school board to partner with a […]

Filed Under: Nonprofit Quarterly Tagged With: Charter Schools, Innovative School District

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