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Charter schools expand with public, private money - Boston.com
Charter schools expand with public, private money
OAKLAND, Calif.—As cash-strapped school districts lay off teachers and close campuses, publicly funded charter schools are flourishing and altering the landscape of public education.
Despite a painful economic downturn, the charter school movement is expanding rapidly across the country with support from the Obama administration, wealthy donors such as Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey, and the highly publicized documentary "Waiting for Superman."
Charter schools typically receive a mixture of public and private money and operate free of many regulations that govern traditional public schools in
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This Week In Education: Media: AP Buys Into Bloated Charter Claims
Media: AP Buys Into Bloated Charter Claims
This AP story (Charter schools expand with public, private money) is best understood as a courtesy to the charter school folks who are having a big annual conference this week, or a "beat sweetener" (a story written to curry favor with powerful sources) or ... a mistaken reaction to a press release? Because charter schools aren't in great shape, no matter what the charter folks say. They've lost a lot of their national expansion funding; there's increasing awareness that the quality isn't uniformly any better than anyone else's; they're involved in less than 5 percent of the turnarounds going on
