charter schools

Do we need public education?

March 18, 2014 By Beatrice Lumpkin

The public pays for charter schools through their taxes, has no input into their educational practices. Unlike Chicago public schools, neither parents nor community control anything a charter school does.

Hang in there, Mayor de Blasio

March 17, 2014 By Jarvis Tyner

The wolves of Wall Street are out to destroy New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's universal pre-kindergarten plan.

AFT exposes for-profit charter school industry

March 6, 2014 By PAI

AFT is launching a campaign to expose the for-profit charter school industry as more interested in profits for its CEOs and stockholders than it is in teaching kids.

Despite “right to work,” union organizing not letting up in Michigan

December 21, 2012 By John Rummel

Tea Party Republicans should have witnessed what took place last night at the Cesar Chavez Academy, a large for-profit charter school in Southwest Detroit.

CEO, with no education background, to run NYC schools

November 11, 2010 By Dan Margolis

Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Cathleen Black to head New York schools.