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Mike DeGuire – Network for Public Education, 2024
Since the early 2000s, billionaires have treated the Denver Public School District as a Neo-liberal education experiment. Using a tangled web of astroturf groups, nonprofits, and training organizations, billionaires have hijacked this public school district, leaving some schools, students, and democracy behind. In this report, Denver's Mike…
Descriptors: Public Education, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance)
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
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
Stickland, Rachael – Network for Public Education, 2019
In 1974, Congress passed legislation known as the "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act" or FERPA, in response to "the growing evidence of the abuse of student records across the nation." The law was written to protect the confidentiality of information held in a student's records. With the introduction of technology in…
Descriptors: Privacy, Information Security, Student Rights, Parent Rights
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