Charter Schools

Mother Jones writers Edwin Rios and Kristina Rizga on a widening appeal from African American civic leaders to persuade the NAACP to change its stance on charter schools. A recent Public [...]

Capital & Main’s Joel Warner reports on the funding by Gap co-founder Doris Fisher of charter schools, a system of schools  that has come under fire recently in reports by Public [...]

Joel Warner, of Capital & Main reports on efforts to make charter schools in California more accountable and transparent to the public. He refers to two reports co-authored by Public [...]

Washington Post reporter Valerie Strauss on California’s charter school system and Public Advocates-ACLU of Southern California report finding that more than 20 percent of all California [...]

Los Angeles Times OpEd by Greg Richmond calls on state to improve oversight of Charter Schools based on a recent Public Advocates, ACLU of Southern California investigative review of 1,000 [...]

The Cabinet’s Tom Chorneau reports on the release of a report by Public Advocates and the ACLU of Southern California about harmful screening policies at many charter schools in California. [...]

Maureen Magee of the San Diego Union Tribune reports that disadvantaged students are hurt by admissions rules at some charter schools, according to ACLU, Public Advocates report, Unequal Access: [...]

KPCC’s Kyle Stokes on the release of “Unequal Access” a report by Public Advocates and the ACLU  of Southern California. According to the report, one in five charter schools [...]

Over 20% percent of all charter schools in California have enrollment policies in place that violate state and federal law, according to a new report released today.   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [...]

EdSource’s Louis Freedberg reports that over 1 in 5 of California’s charter schools have restrictive admissions requirements or other exclusionary practices that keep out many students with [...]