The Battle Over a ‘#Catholic #PublicSchool’ in #Oklahoma
https://flip.it/OSMyGn
#separationofChurchandState #SOCAS #charterschools #privateschools #religion #theocracy #religiousschools

Charter schools are a scam to drain public school resources, provide even more sub par schools, and hand the profits off to a corporation. And they always start with grift and corruption.

Federal probe in Florida should raise more than eyebrows in Arkansas - Arkansas Times
https://arktimes.com/news/2023/08/14/federal-probe-in-florida-should-raise-more-than-eyebrows-in-arkansas #arkansas #education #charterschools #publiceducation

The Issue Of #Religious #Public #CharterSchools
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1192491029/the-issue-of-religious-public-charter-schools

"Something deeply un-American is underway in the state of Oklahoma.

In June, Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved the nation’s first religious public charter school. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa were given permission to open St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in August 2024."

~ Rachel Laser

#Oklahoma #ChurchandState #CharterSchools
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opinion/religion-schools-constitution-oklahoma.html

CREDO, a research group with deep ties to the right, promotes pro-charter reports that regularly fudge the facts.
#charterschools
https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/right-wing-think-tank-charter-school-industry-burris-230801/

First religious charter school in the #UnitedStates faces legal challenge

Nine state residents and the #Oklahoma Parent Legislative Action Committee filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the nation's first openly religious charter school from operating.

Oklahoma's Statewide Virtual Charter School Board had voted 3-2 last month to approve the application of the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.

#Religion #Education #CharterSchools
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4129093-lawsuit-seeks-to-block-first-religious-charter-school-in-the-us/

#SeattlePublicSchools board has been spending time and money on training and implementing "Student-Outcomes Focused Governance" (#SOFG), which despite its claim to focus on Black boys (whose test scores on average have never been lower in Seattle than right now) is essentially a #neoliberal recipe to force the schools to self-destruct to benefit #charterSchools. It closely follows the model of the state takeover of Houston schools. https://twitter.com/cruickshank/status/1684275439500668929 #Seattle

Worthless GOP fucks and their essentially private schools with lower standards funded with public money. https://www.wral.com/story/cooper-vetoes-big-changes-for-nc-charter-schools/20965718/
"The biggest change in the bill would allow charter schools to seek taxpayer money for capital expenses, such as construction, renovation or building purchases." #NorthCarolina #charterSchools #GOP #Politics

Skirts rule for girls shot down
Moms prevail in courtroom fight
Charter autonomy still on?

#charterschools #skirtsrule #feminism #courtroom #haiku #poetry

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/charter-school-lost-case-skirts-rule-girls-debate-100444488

Supreme Court won’t hear charter school’s bid to force girls to wear skirts
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Declining to hear a case is not the same as ruling on it. Expect this issue to return as states attempt to use charter schools to circumvent the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
#SCOTUS #CharterSchools #EqualProtection

Non-paywalled Washington Post
https://wapo.st/44aJMZs

#SCOTUS has effectively ruled -- in this case -- that public #CharterSchools are subject to #EqualProtection constitutional protections for their #students.

1. I would not count on their ruling the same in other cases.

2. There were plenty of bodies rooting for the idea that such students are not so protected.

https://wapo.st/44aJMZs

While politicians pit parents against schools, educators are finding a way to make parent involvement integral to what the school does.

#charterschools #parents #psa
https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/how-community-schools-transform-parent-involvement-bryant-230620/

#CharterSchools Pose #SupremeCourt’s Next #ReligiousLiberty Test
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/charter-schools-next-religious-liberty-fight-at-supreme-court

Rabbi: #Oklahoma #parents are desperate. #Religious #charterschools aren’t the answer.
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/opinion/2023/06/11/rabbi-public-money-should-not-go-toward-religious-institutions/70298368007/

A religious charter school that’s privately operated but publicly funded will be a dramatic step in limiting the separation of church and state in public education.

In Oklahoma, they are preparing to open a tax-funded Catholic school in 2024, building on a series of Supreme Court decisions weakening precedents on the First Amendment’s establishment clause.

https://theconversation.com/oklahoma-oks-the-nations-first-religious-charter-school-but-litigation-is-likely-to-follow-207103

#News #SchoolChoice #CharterSchools

Backed by taxpayer money, the religious right has been rapidly opening charter schools across the country.
#charterschools #republicans #betsydevos
https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/how-right-wing-christians-taking-over-charter-schools-burris-230609/

Seven Oaks Classical School in Ellettsville received a 5-year extension to its operating charter from Grace Charters LLC, a nonprofit formed by Grace College and Theological Seminary to authorize charter schools, which are publicly funded and privately operated. The board met on the Grace College campus in Winona Lake, Indiana, nearly 200 miles from Ellettsville.

#HoosierMast #Education #CharterSchools

https://inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2023/06/05/remote-authorizing-for-charter-schools-raises-questions/

Hmmm.....Smart Kid 💯...👍
#SchoolChoice #CharterSchools #EducationMatters #DemocraticParty
#sundayvibes

@mnutty given that one of the goals of the mainstream money-humping wing of conservatism is to profitize public schools, it would be counterproductive to drive people out of them.
Then again, the basic anarchist/all government is bad types probably love the idea of everyone being homeschooled.
Then again, making #charterschools even more like prisons in the name of security is probably something they see as a viable upcharge to parents desperate to protect their children.

Rep. Tricia Cotham was once a leading opponent of Republican abortion restrictions in North Carolina. As of yesterday, she’s a Republican.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9pqa/north-carolina-tricia-cotham-abortion
#News #northcarolina #triciacotham #Republicans #abortion #abortionrestrictions #Roycooper #charterschools