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Carol Burris – Network for Public Education, 2024
Studies of charter closure rates typically focus on year-to-year closures. While important for researchers, such studies provide little guidance to families seeking to understand the risk of enrolling their child in a charter school. That is because studies determining how many schools close each year provide no information on how long the school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Closing, School Choice, Trend Analysis
Burris, Carol; Cimarusti, Darcie – Network for Public Education, 2023
In this follow-up to our 2021 report, we again focus on the world of charter schools run for profit, a world both hidden and misunderstood. We focus on how for-profit operators expanded their reach and enrollment during the Pandemic years so that one in every five charter school students attends a school controlled by a for-profit corporation. We…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Proprietary Schools, State Legislation, Laws
Karen Francisco; Carol Burris – Network for Public Education, 2023
This investigation focused on two types of charter schools. The first is classical charter schools. These schools identify and market themselves as such, often including the word "classical" in the school's name. The second type of school offers a "back to basics" curriculum without necessarily identifying the curriculum as…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Support, Politics of Education, Christianity
Burris, Carol – Network for Public Education, 2022
In 2018, the Network for Public Education and the Schott Foundation issued a report entitled "Grading the States." That report examined America's commitment to democracy by grading each state and the District of Columbia on the number of publicly-funded but privately-governed educational "choice" programs it had and whether…
Descriptors: Democracy, School Choice, Governance, Public Schools
Burris, Carol; Cimarusti, Darcie – Network for Public Education, 2021
In this report, we focus on the world of charter schools run for profit, a world both hidden and misunderstood. We pull back the veil on tactics and practices designed to reap as many public dollars as possible from charter schools while hiding behind laws designed to keep profit-making hidden from the public's eyes. This report exposes how both…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Proprietary Schools, State Legislation, Laws
Burris, Carol; Pfleger, Ryan – Network for Public Education, 2020
Charter schools began in the 1990s as an experimental alternative to public schools. Today they are a multi-billion dollar sector composed of both nonprofit and for-profit corporations that embrace the philosophy of the marketplace. Supporters of charters see school failure as a natural feature of the model. They argue that schools do not fail at…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Closing, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
House, Tanya Clay – Network for Public Education, 2018
This report examines the nation's commitment to democracy by assessing the privatization programs in the 50 states and the District of Columbia with the goal of not only highlighting the benefits of a public school education, but comparing the accountability, transparency and civil rights protections offered students in the public school setting…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Privatization, Accountability, Civil Rights
Barret, Xian Franzinger; Cody, Anthony; Martinez, Jessica S.; Burris, Carol; Koonlaba, Amanda; McKelvy, Tiffany; Nolan, Lee-Ann; Meeks, John Louis, Jr. – Network for Public Education, 2016
Teachers choose the teaching profession because of their love of children and their desire to help them grow and blossom as learners. Across the nation, however, far too many educators are leaving the classroom. Headlines report teacher shortages in nearly every state. One factor reported in almost every story is the discouragement teachers feel…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Public School Teachers