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To preserve, promote, improve and strengthen public schools for both current and future generations of students. Together we can save our public schools. To learn more about NPE visit our website https://networkforpubliceducation.org/
Action Alert! Take action today - Federal Special Education Staffing Gutted Putting IDEA Protections at Risk. To learn more and send your email today, go here actionnetwork.org/le...
October 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Join NPE President Diane Ravitch as she discusses her memoir: An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else - Monday, November 10, 2025 • 03:30 PM • Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00) - To register go here actionnetwork.org/ev...
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Diane’s new book, charter scandals, and more… networkforpubliceduc...
October 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
📣NPE’s National Center for Charter School Accountability (NCCSA), provides research & recommendations on increasing transparency & accountability for charter schools. Find it here on our website networkforpubliceduc...
October 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Superintendent of Ohio charter school for at-risk teens ran nightclubs beset with violence www.cincinnati.com/s... #AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal
September 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Network for Public Education Toolkit - School Privatization Explained networkforpubliceduc...
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Ashana Bigard - The Billion-Dollar Experiment: How New Orleans’ Charter School Revolution Failed the Children It Promised to Save pv4ps.org/the-billio...
September 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NPE/NPE Action 2026 Conference we will be in Houston! For more information check out our website networkforpubliceduc...
September 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Public Voices for Public Schools - The Billion-Dollar Experiment: How New Orleans’ Charter School Revolution Failed the Children It Promised to Save pv4ps.org/the-billio...
September 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📣NPE’s National Center for Charter School Accountability (NCCSA), provides research & recommendations on increasing transparency & accountability for charter schools. Find it here on our website networkforpubliceduc...
September 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
📣NPE’s National Center for Charter School Accountability (NCCSA), provides research & recommendations on increasing transparency & accountability for charter schools. Find it here on our website networkforpubliceduc...
August 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
In 2023–24, 903 charter schools served fewer than 100 students, and 52 had zero.

That's not demand. That’s decline.

Read our new #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
August 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
There is no Charter School “million-student waitlist.”

There are empty classrooms, declining enrollment, and schools closing mid-year. #CharterMythBusted

Stop the waste. Start the reckoning.

Read our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
August 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning documents the 50 schools that shut down or
announced imminent closures during the first half of 2025, nearly half had received
a combined total of $102 million in CSP funds for start-up or expansion. Learn more here networkforpubliceduc...
August 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
One school. 23,000 students. 4.7% math proficiency.
Meet Commonwealth Charter Academy—America’s largest cyber charter.
Public dollars. Dismal results.
#TooBigToSucceed

Read more in our latest report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
August 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thanks and Thanks Again @murray.senate.gov @baldwin.senate.gov Senator Capito, and Chair Collins for your strong support of federal funding for education!
August 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
$500 million a year.

That’s how much federal money is flowing into a shrinking charter school sector.
Growth is flat. Closures are rising.

Why are taxpayers still paying?

Find our more in out new report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
August 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One school. 23,000 students. 4.7% math proficiency.

Meet Commonwealth Charter Academy—America’s largest cyber charter.
Public dollars. Dismal results. #TooBigToSucceed

Read more in our latest report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
August 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Charter CEOs are getting rich.
One pocketed $700K from a side job—while his school failed its students.

Where’s the oversight for mega-charters?
#CharterGrift

Read our latest report #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
August 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
From 2010 to 2011, the U.S. added 421 new charter schools.

From 2023 to 2024? Just 12.
The boom is over. But the federal funding goes up. Where’s DOGE?
#CharterSchoolDecline

Learn more in our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
July 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Of the 50 charters that closed in early 2025, 54% cited low enrollment.
Under-enrollment is killing charters—not lack of space.
#CharterMythBusted

Learn more in our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
July 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In 2023–24, 903 charter schools served fewer than 100 students, and 52 had zero.
That's not demand. That’s decline.

Read our new #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
July 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Of the 50 charter schools that announced closures in the first half of the school year, 54% cited low enrollment as the reason-debunking McMahon’s claim there are a million students on charter school wait lists. Read our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
July 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
U.S. Secretary of Ed McMahon claimed in Senate Budget Hearing, “We’ve got about a million students on charter school waiting lists.” Welner & Miron debunked that claim over a decade ago. Read more in our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
July 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Federal investment has not resulted in meaningful growth for charter schools. Charter school expansion has been slowing, even as more federal tax $ have been allocated to charter
school expansion. To learn more read our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
July 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM