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  • Money & Politics
    Pence Has Pushed Hard for School Privatization With Lousy Results
    August 22, 2016
    | Steven Rosenfeld
    Donors love Trump's VP's conservative, ALEC-aligned rhetoric, but ignore the effects of his policies.
  • Money & Politics
    How Long Can Big Money Keep Democrats Backing Charter Schools?
    June 20, 2016
    | Jeff Bryant
    Charter schools are the latest source of dark money to political candidates, under the guise that it's "for the kids."
  • Society
    Failing the Test: Charter Schools’ Winners and Losers
    June 3, 2016
    | Capital & Main Staff
    Charter schools may offer better opportunities for students, but they also may hurt the education system.
  • Society
    How Hedge Funders Built the Pro-Charter Political Network
    May 17, 2016
    | Justin Miller
    School board elections have graduated from quaint races to big-money contests, thanks to well-funded education reform advocacy groups succeeding at the local level.
  • Society
    As the School Year Ends, the Future of Public Education Is in Jeopardy
    June 24, 2015
    | Ruth Conniff
    Communities — from urban, mostly black and brown districts, to conservative, rural areas — are rising up against budget cuts and the threat of school closures.
  • Democracy & Government
    When Charter Schools Are Nonprofit in Name Only
    December 18, 2014
    | Marian Wang
    Some charters pass along nearly all their money to for-profit companies hired to manage the schools. It’s an arrangement that’s raising eyebrows.
  • Charter School Power Broker Turns Public Education Into Private Profits
    October 16, 2014
    | Marian Wang
    Every year millions of public education dollars flow through a North Carolina businessman's chain of nonprofit charters to his for-profit companies.
  • Study Finds Charter Schools Dogged by Corruption
    October 6, 2014
    | Joshua Holland
    “Where there is little oversight, and lots of public dollars available, there are incentives for ethically challenged charter operators to charge for services that were never provided.”
  • Morning Reads: 47 Arrested in Ferguson Overnight; Children Deported by US Murdered in Honduras
    August 20, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Morning Reads: The Real Goal of Boehner's Lawsuit; Charter School Using Far-Right Textbook
    July 15, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...


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