Charter School Economics Private School 
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 7, 2014
Tuition at many of New York City’s top private schools is over $40,000 a year. It’s grown almost 50 percent in the past decade–faster than private university tuition. In fact, in several grades, students with similar demographic backgrounds did better in math when they attended public schools.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 17, 2018
Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school. Charters are public schools, ostensibly open to all. Kim Smith, a mother of three in Greene County.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 11, 2019
.” Take Elizabeth Warren’s recent attack on charter schools. Ahead of Saturday’s event , Warren appears to dismiss a decade of results when she insists that these publicly funded but privately run campuses, serving 3.2 Carpenter, who is black, added “None of the schools in my community was working.”
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
NEW ORLEANS — The central tenet of nearly any successful recruitment strategy is to emphasize the positives and downplay problems, but Josh Densen was engaging in a different kind of hard sell at a school tour back in early November. I believe Bricolage is a school for all kids, but not all adults.”.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 15, 2019
There are 60,000 fewer public education jobs than there were before the recession began in 2007, according to an analysis of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report by the think tank Economic Policy Institute. The charter school era was predicated on the notion of breaking up the monopoly that unions have on schools.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 16, 2020
The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”. Fordham Institute.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 14, 2020
The call to “defund the police” says that funding should be diverted from a state-monopolized system to programs and policies that aid “economic and social growth, democracy and unity.” But there is a very significant parallel between government-run policing and government-run schooling. I’ve never run a school or earned a Ph.D.
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