Network for Public Education
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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
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...
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
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...
Diane’s new book, charter scandals, and more… networkforpubliceduc...
October 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Diane’s new book, charter scandals, and more… networkforpubliceduc...
📣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
📣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...
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
Superintendent of Ohio charter school for at-risk teens ran nightclubs beset with violence www.cincinnati.com/s... #AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal
Network for Public Education Toolkit - School Privatization Explained networkforpubliceduc...
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Network for Public Education Toolkit - School Privatization Explained networkforpubliceduc...
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
Ashana Bigard - The Billion-Dollar Experiment: How New Orleans’ Charter School Revolution Failed the Children It Promised to Save pv4ps.org/the-billio...
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
NPE/NPE Action 2026 Conference we will be in Houston! For more information check out our website networkforpubliceduc...
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
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...
📣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...
📣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
📣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...
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...
That's not demand. That’s decline.
Read our new #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
August 3, 2025 at 11:00 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...
That's not demand. That’s decline.
Read our new #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Meet Commonwealth Charter Academy—America’s largest cyber charter.
Public dollars. Dismal results.
#TooBigToSucceed
Read more in our latest report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
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
Thanks and Thanks Again @murray.senate.gov @baldwin.senate.gov Senator Capito, and Chair Collins for your strong support of federal funding for education!
$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...
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
$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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Meet Commonwealth Charter Academy—America’s largest cyber charter.
Public dollars. Dismal results. #TooBigToSucceed
Read more in our latest report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Under-enrollment is killing charters—not lack of space.
#CharterMythBusted
Learn more in our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
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...
That's not demand. That’s decline.
Read our new #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
July 30, 2025 at 9:29 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...
That's not demand. That’s decline.
Read our new #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
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
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...
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
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...
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...
school expansion. To learn more read our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...
July 30, 2025 at 4:29 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...
school expansion. To learn more read our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning networkforpubliceduc...