Tag: Charter schools
Can a charter school be religious? The Supreme Court decision about...
Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Oklahoma can open St. Isidore:...
Oklahoma OKs the nation’s first religious charter school – but litigation...
Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton
U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can...
Plans for religious charter school, though rejected for now, are already...
Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton
U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can...
Why charter schools are not as ‘public’ as they claim to...
Kevin Welner, University of Colorado Boulder
Proponents of charter schools insist that they are public schools “open to all...
Through her divisive rhetoric, Education Secretary DeVos leaves a troubled legacy...
Mark Hlavacik, University of North Texas; Dustin Hornbeck, University of Texas Arlington; Kevin Welner, University of Colorado Boulder; Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University, and Stanley...
Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another...
Connie L. Schaffer, University of Nebraska Omaha; Martha Graham Viator, Rowan University, and Meg White, Stockton University
On Nov. 14, 1960, after a long summer...
George H.W. Bush laid the foundation for education reform
Jack Schneider, University of Massachusetts Lowell
George H.W. Bush fulfilled his desire – articulated late in his 1988 campaign for president – to be “the...
What we can learn from closure of charter school that DeVos...
Claire Smrekar, Vanderbilt University
When Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and first lady Melania Trump visited Excel Academy Public Charter School last spring, DeVos praised the...