Even though they make up only 8% of schools  in the country, crimes, scandals, and arrests take place at a robust tempo in the nation’s privately-operated charter schools. These non-stop wrongdoings usually include fraud, embezzlement, harassment, and a range of sex crimes. This is not surprising given the weak accountability, transparency, and background checks that have plagued the crisis-prone charter school sector for more than 30 years. A small sample of headlines from j

In many ways it is. Blind dogmatic repetition of false, outdated, and capital-centered ideas and views has long been the norm for charter school proponents. Retrogressive ideas took hold long ago. But reality also vanished long ago for most politicians, the media, the rich, corporate “leaders,” and higher education “leaders.” Disinformation, lies, bromides, propaganda, and gaslighting, all turbocharged by Artificial Intelligence, have become the norm today. Every time someone

Like so many charter schools across the country, Barack Obama Leadership Academy in Detroit, Michigan, may soon be closing for the same reasons charter schools fail and close every week (declining enrollment, financial malfeasance, mismanagement, and/or low academic performance). Timbuktu Academy, which has been open since 1997, became Barack Obama Leadership Academy in 2019—ten years after Barack Obama became president of the United States. Let’s first glance at some facts a