Segregation, Conflicts of Interest and Dropping Struggling Students Common in Florida Charter Schools
Diane Ravitch links to a Florida League of Women Voters study which detailed much of what readers of this blog already know about the slimy, corrupt world of Florida’s charter school industry. Approximately one-third of charters are run by for-profit management companies. Many screen students, then drop those who are not successful, which public schools are prohibited from doing. Charters also se
5-28-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida ALL Week
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Surrogates Beginning to Flack for Jeb Bush on Common CoreIts begun. Badly needing to talk about something else than Common Core Standards, Jeb Bush’s surrogates have begun to do it for him. Consider a Lloyd Brown piece in Sunshine State News. Brown is a former speechwrit