Please join me and the Network for Public Education in calling for an end to the federal Charter Schools Program. For the past four years, it functional as Betsy DeVos’s personal slush fund. She handed out $440 million a year, mostly to corporate charter chains.
Two studies by the Network for Public Educatuon combed through the records of the CSP and found that nearly 40% of the schools it funded never opened or closed soon after opening. The hundreds of millions the charter industry received were never returned.
Carol Burris wrote:
It is time for a moratorium on the federal Charter Schools Program (CSP). As Congress prepares the next budget, we need to let members know enough is enough. END CSP FUNDING
Right now, there are bills in seven states that would either establish charter schools or greatly expand them. This is in addition to additional bills to expand vouchers.
Right-wing Libertarians, funded by DeVos and the Koch network, are committed to destroying public education. And while they may prefer vouchers, charter schools are certainly part of their plan.
Send your email here.
Here is the bottom line. The federal government should not be in the business of funding new charter schools, and as our two reports on the CSP demonstrate, the CSP program is rife with waste and abuse–funding schools that do not open, those that open and shut down, and those with policies designed to exclude disadvantaged students. As our latest report on for-profits shows, the CSP has generously supported the start-up of for-profit-run schools as well.
Send your email and then call your representatives in Congress. You can find your Representative’s phone number here and your Senators’ numbers here.
Below is a script you can use.
My name is [name], and I am calling to ask [Representative] to eliminate funding for the Charter Schools Program in the 2022 budget. The program has wasted approximately one billion dollars on schools the never opened or that have shut down.
In addition, it lacks quality control and real accountability. It has funded charter schools run by for-profits, schools that do not participate in the federal lunch program, and schools that make special education students unwelcome. The program should be defunded in 2022. Thank you.
Please act today.
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Thanks for all you do,
Carol Burris
Network for Public Education Action Executive Director
Diane Ravitch's blog 
It is curious to me that the federal government has been funding the demise of the people’s schools. What is even stranger to me is that many Democrats have been a part of the campaign to undermine public schools. Now we find ourselves in a strange situation where almost anything can be used as an excuse to move public money out of the public schools that serve the vast majority of students. Public schools are getting the ax in radical red states across the country while the federal government seems to be sitting on the fence instead of defending the public’s right to real public education. As a result the federal government has been incentivizing the expansion of schools that discriminate against protected classes of people. It is shameful that the federal government has been incentivizing the establishment of schools that enhance segregation. So-called choice grew out of the Jim Crow south, and the federal government should have no role in perpetuating the growth of separate and unequal schools for students of color.
Joe Biden promised to end the federal funding of charter schools, and he promised to address social justice reform. What we have seen from the proliferation of charter schools and vouchers is the opposite of equity. They perpetuate racism and discrimination, and the same must be said about standardized testing whose goal is to bog down public schools and impede their ability to serve all students. The Biden administration must keep its word to public schools. The people are watching and waiting.
It’s not strange to me. Some billionaires give strings-attached money to Republicans. Other billionaires give strings-attached money to Democrats. Many billionaires do it to both political parties. They also bribe academic institutions to muddle research. They also set up pseudoscience analyses by think tanks and foundations. Most of our elected officials, including the POTUS, are not really in charge. There are powerful people making executive and legislative decisions, and those people are not elected. We live in an oligarchy.
Any group that cant stand in the light as bad as teachers unions, doesn’t deserve to exist. Sorry. Public schools are dinosaurs meant to teach a lower quality education to cause ignorance through by teaching verifiably false rhetoric.
The internet can do a better job at a fraction of the price. Covid isnt going away anytime soon anyway. Not that it could honestly hurt anyone who have a particularly mutated gene. Not even “educators” arr wondering why there’s no dna test for people to see if they’re even vulnerable. Pfft, see? They happily teach ignorance. Public dumbification…
Hahahahahaha. You are funny!
Well when you just edit my post…
Covid is only deadly to a small fraction of people that have a mutated gene. This gene marks infected cells. On top of the question of, “why would anyone take a vaccine with more side effects than the disease it was made to prevent,” there comes the next question “why would anyone take a vaccine for a disease they’re not vulnerable to?” When you can test if someone is even vulnerable to covid symptoms at all, shouldnt that be the first thing you do?
Hilarious! Bravo! Encore!
Pedants are easily amused. Cant hold a conversation well tho… No capacity left for original thought yasee.
Prolly a pedagogue, a pedant, and a pederast. “left coast teacher” prolly thought that was clever rather than deplorable. Its likely not for the students you seek transgender rights but rather for your own honey trapped bacha bazi fetish. Or is that just what we’re supposed to take away from reading a pen name like that?
Wanna see something reeeeeealy deplorable that has jHoe obiden written all over it?
https://deplorablefeed.com/u-s-soldiers-punished-under-obama-admin-for-blowing-whistle-on-afghan-muslim-pedophiles/
How about a 4core?
When the cat’s away, the mice will play. Yep, still funny. Sad, but funny. But seriously, I did not tell you that your mini-submarine would not be able to rescue the soccer team from the cave, so there’s no reason to call me names.
Call you names? Your subjective identity does not over rule your objective identity.
That you parade about as a pederast in question by using that pen name, does not, id hazard, distract that you’re just as likely a misandrist in fact. So it’s really pfft whatever.
But the fact you’re happy to continue doing it suggests that you’re just upset it wasnt as cryptic as you had hoped. Like Qannon or proud Boys.
Sink or stink said the ink in the sink. Blink twice and ill have myself that my own shit dont stink.
Yes, the supreme polecat is away so now your just due can come back and make you pay.
Have you wondered about my pen name yet?
Not in the slightest. But I am beginning to get bored.
Okay well go back to your pederast heroin happy coast then. But see if you can find your last needle plz. The world already has much too much partisan slime and you have a deal to keep.
I really don’t believe anyone has faith in professional rhetoric pushers anymore. Saying this person made 440 million off charter schools is likely like saying a given teacher made 3 trillion because thats what the k-12 yearly budget looks like
And yaknow what 440m looks like next to 3 trill?
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.<— 1/10th way mark.