Topic: Charter Experiments and Breakaway Districts
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 6 PM - 8 PM CST
Location: McKinley High School Alumni Center
Presenters: Tania Nyman, Maria Harmon
Presentation Links:
Documents from Maria's Presentation:
How Charter Schools Undermine Good Education Policy Making
Dr. Helen F. Ladd for the National Education Policy Center
November, 2022
Charter school improperly charging fees despite state law, taxpayer funding, audit says
Charles Lussier in the Advocate
November, 2022
Guest Column: A flawed, undemocratic school system is failing Louisiana kids
J. Celeste Lay in the Advocate
October, 2022
Federal Audit of Federal Charter Schools Program Finds Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Diane Ravitch
September, 2022
The City Fund Uses Oligarch Money to Privatize Public Schools
Thomas Ultican
April, 2022
The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Lease Agreements or Redlining? Predatory Lease Arrangements Currently Allowed by Louisiana Charter School Law and Their Implications for Majority African American Communities
Tania Nyman, 2021
New Orleans Charter Schools - Performance Audit
March, 2021
Advancing Educational Equity for Public Schools in Baton Rouge
A Report by the Urban League of Louisiana, 2020?
The New Secession
Adam Harris for The Atlantic, 2019
Smaller communities are "seceding" from larger school districts. It's accelerating school segregation.
P. R. Lockhart for Vox, 2019
Five Things You Should Know about Charter Schools in Louisiana
Tania Nyman, 2018
What the public isn't told about high-performing charter schools in Arizona
Valerie Strauss for the Washington Post
March, 2017
The Charter School Experiment in Louisiana: 2016 Update
Friends of Public Ed
2016
Why White Parents Won't Choose Black Schools
Abby Norman for Huffpost
October, 2015
Whose Choice? Student Experiences and Outcomes in the New Orleans School Marketplace
Adamson, Cook-Harvey, and Darling-Hammond, 2015
Movie:
Backpack Full of Cash
This 2017 feature-length documentary explores the growing privatization of public schools and the resulting impact on America’s most vulnerable children. Filmed in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Nashville and other cities, BACKPACK FULL OF CASH takes viewers through the tumultuous 2013-14 school year, exposing the world of corporate-driven education “reform” where public education -- starved of resources -- hangs in the balance.
Podcast:
The Cost of School Choice
The Reveal Podcast discusses New Orleans charter schools and the OneApp.
August, 2019
The session recording is available HERE.
(Tania's voice is hard to hear at the beginning, but her presentation slides are available above in their entirety.)