Month: September 2018
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California just banned for-profit charter schools. Existing California law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, authorizes charter schools to elect to operate as a nonprofit public benefit corporation. However, despite the original legal and policy vision for non-profit schools, thousands of students are now enrolled in charters controlled by for-profit corporations. Currently in California, according to the Assembly Education…
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Looking for a few faculty peer reviewers for Critical Questions in Education Special Theme Issue The Digitally Connected Academic: Public Scholarship and Activism in the Era of the Internet. Guest Editors: @tjamesonbrewer and Julian Vasquez-Heilig http://www.tjamesonbrewer.com/cqie-special-issue.html Email jvh@alumni.stanford.edu if you are interested.
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Charters that take everyone’s tax dollars but are no longer subject to all stakeholder input = taxpayers are no longer stakeholders. In Texas, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has been re-drafting its charter application process and requirements and included only pro-charter organizations in “stakeholder” meetings. This communication came from a source in Texas: TEA is…
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When I was teaching at UT Austin, school discipline was a dissertation topic that students wanted to investigate, but there weren’t available faculty at the institution that were conducting research in the area at the time. As a result, student interest in the disparate and unequal discipline practices occurring in schools began to drive my…
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Dear Mike Kirst, Thanks for hiring me as your Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) Research Assistant at Stanford. I might have starved otherwise. Also, thank you for expertly modeling and mentoring me for a faculty and education policy influencer role right from the start. California State Board of Education President Michael W. Kirst headlines…
Cloaking Inequity 
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