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  • “Free Market” Charter Schools Wreak Havoc in Michigan

    “Free Market” Charter Schools Wreak Havoc in Michigan

    While the essence of the “free market” chaos, anarchy, and violence underpinning the charter school sector is the same across the U.S., the form it takes varies from state to state for different reasons. In Michigan, for example, about 80% of charter schools are openly for-profit charter schools, which is a disproportionately high number of […]

  • NH: Most Criminal Charter School Proposal Ever?

    NH: Most Criminal Charter School Proposal Ever?

    The chasm between consciousness and anti-consciousness continues to grow in the context of failing economies and failed states at home and abroad. In this fractured and decaying context where the gap between authoritarianism and democracy grows wider with greater speed, every day brings new criminal thinking and agendas masquerading as much-needed innovative ideas and plans. […]

  • Poor Financial And Operational Performance Are Not Unique To Chicago Charter Schools

    Charter schools are outsourced schools, also known as contract schools. They are privately operated, deregulated, and laser-focused on siphoning substantial sums of public money, services, and facilities from public schools. Charter schools are essentially pay-the-rich schemes masquerading as great inventions designed to close the century-old “achievement gap.” There is nothing grass-roots about them. Recognizing that […]

  • Florida’s Charter Schools Lower State’s 2024-25 Graduation Rate

    Florida’s Charter Schools Lower State’s 2024-25 Graduation Rate

    While corruption is endemic to the decades-old charter school sector, it is extra rampant in Florida’s charter schools. To add insult to injury, Florida also has the nation’s second highest charter school failure and closure rate. No amount of “school choice” rhetoric in Florida has improved this record. School privatization is notorious for lowering the […]

  • Cannabis and the Closure of Agnes J. Johnson Charter School

    Cannabis and the Closure of Agnes J. Johnson Charter School

    Privately-operated charter schools fail and close every week. The top four reasons include declining enrollment, mismanagement, financial malfeasance, and poor academic performance. Such closures are usually sudden, abrupt, and take place mid-year, leaving many parents, students, teachers, and principals stunned and stressed about what to do next. Currently, 69 students are enrolled in the K-12 […]

  • Can Charter Schools Be Meaningfully Reformed?

    Charter schools are the main form of school privatization in the United States. As such, they have never been part of a true organic grass-roots movement, that is, they have always been part of a top-down neoliberal agenda right from the start.1 This is why, for example, about 95% of charter schools have not been […]

  • Whatever Happened to Trump’s “Golden Age” for American Workers?

    Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the facts. Indeed, Trump has taken the lead in reducing workers’ incomes. One of his key actions along these lines occurred on March 14, 2025, when he issued an executive order that scrapped […]

  • To a 2026 of Not Fighting Over Crumbs

    Every single person in the United States, from those who’ve been most harmed to those who’ve been most privileged, would be better off if we had a normal government that put even a moderate effort into universally improving everyone’s lives. If we had a government that took trillions of dollars away from the war machine […]

  • Charter Schools Continue to Neglect Special Needs Students

    One of the most common and persistent criticisms made about charter schools over the last 30+ years is that they frequently shortchange special needs students. Every year numerous articles appear on this troubling topic and highlight the refusal of the charter school sector to overcome this nagging problem and put it behind them once and […]

  • Low Enrollment Continues to Plague Many Charter Schools

    Nearly three years ago Dissident Voice published an article titled “Low Enrollment Plagues Many Charter Schools.” Since then countless news articles have documented low enrollment at many charter schools across the country, raising doubts about, among other things, so-called “long waiting lists” at many charter schools. Low enrollment has always been one of the four […]

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