Tag: UCEA

• Local Accountability is HAPPENING: New, Peer-Reviewed, and LIVE in D.C.!

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  November 20, 2014

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  Accountability, Community-Based Accountability

  What’s happening now!? Join us LIVE in DC this weekend to discuss community-based reform as an alternative to the top-down, Texas-style reform that we have utilized across the country for the past decade! I have noticed that some blogs have post titles that don’t make much sense at first glance— so I am going with…

  

• Why judges say charters are NOT public schools— students and parents should be nervous

  4–6 minutes

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  January 2, 2013

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  African Americans, Charter Schools

  The common refrain is that charter schools are public schools. Critics, such as Diane Ravitch, have said that charter schools accept public money but act private. I have levied a variety of critiques at charters (Even made Jonathan Alter a little bit mad) despite the fact that I was an instructor at an Aspire charter…