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A strategy and communications hub for a new movement in America to make sure all children and youth have the opportunity to learn

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Watch: Community schools—that meet all the needs of students including health, nutrition, physical/mental development and academics—are a proven strategy. One presidential candidate @ewarren has explicitly endorsed this. They all need to. https://t.co/A0PnRNzg8m @future4learning

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When a Memphis charter fired its principal for students' poor scores on a badly flawed test, this teacher defended the principal and got fired too. Now the teacher is fighting back. https://t.co/SQEPUvDNmz #CharterSchoolFail

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North Carolina state officials fast track new charter school even though the school district listed on its application isn't the district where the school says it will actually be located. https://t.co/2Y2MEiHzCk #CharterSchoolFail

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Oklahoma's scandal-ridden virtual charter school uses public dollars to fund $2.5 million marketing campaign that includes TV, radio and online ads and sponsorship of children's play areas in shopping malls. https://t.co/iS8MflUHbl #CharterSchoolFail

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This is a cruel and outrageous abuse of innocent children. "Some top aides to President Donald Trump sought for months for a way to give states the power to block undocumented immigrant children from enrolling in public schools." https://t.co/xLqTYW981L

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California has charter schools that give students’ families as much as $2,800-$3,200 every year to spend on anything they want from a list of thousands of vendors approved by the charters. https://t.co/xDpy846d5U #CharterSchoolFail

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After teachers unionize a Washington DC charter school, the charter closes, stranding teachers with no pay or health insurance. https://t.co/WgirpQxdii #CharterSchoolFail

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Utah charter school w/ business plan to recruit tuition-paying students from abroad and market the school to locals as "international" collapses due to $millions spent by for-profit arm on overseas stocks and flashy recruitment incentives. https://t.co/h9WJGwB8rr

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CEO of Louisiana charter school chain resigns over accusations she let teachers change student failing and near-failing grades and falsified a $1 million contract with a bus company. https://t.co/akoC97INcD #CharterSchoolFail

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In Milwaukee’s recent school board election, a slate of five candidates swept into office under a banner of turning back years of efforts to privatize the district’s schools. https://t.co/b9xKxwf4sN

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In Kansas City new charters continue to open even though market analysis finds at least 1 in 5 school seats is unoccupied; one-third of charters have failed mostly for financial mismanagement or under-enrollment https://t.co/xkZxwCzVe9 #CharterSchoolFail

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Florida real estate developer wants to build a new charter school on land currently being used as a toxic dump. https://t.co/JFxtDWyvYN #CharterSchoolFail

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Three new charter schools want to open in a Florida district where population of charter school students is declining by 3%, but whether there is a need for a charter school is not among the reasons to deny a request to open a charter https://t.co/Tbo4cIG0Xp #CharterSchoolFail

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Pennsylvania charter school dogged by financial problems, low test scores and high absentee rates makes teachers sign non-disparagement agreements preventing them from speaking out about the school. https://t.co/3l0lk4aW3j #CharterSchoolFail

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New charter school in rural Alabama gets approval from state board despite community opposition, lack of need for the school, Gulen affiliation, and shady land deals with a real estate holding company and development firm in Utah. https://t.co/V5sHtSepfR #CharterSchoolFail

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In order to get a deal to lease an empty Milwaukee school building w/ deferred payments up to about $1 million, a Milwaukee charter school operator bribed the school board president and disguised the payments as book purchases
https://t.co/u1jbFYikmZ
#CharterSchoolFail

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Local Pennsylvania school board can't intervene when charter school loses half its staff in 2 yrs, revealing flaws in laws that allow charters to accept millions in public funds w/ limited accountability over who is hired/fired
https://t.co/m4tRJXic4x
#CharterSchoolFail

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Inside Job: Steering committee members for a new charter school in an Oklahoma district include a school board member, 2 former board members , 2 former City Councilmen, and president of the local Latino Development Agency
https://t.co/Awo6R6YBKX
#CharterSchoolFail

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Memphis charter school chain taking over classrooms owned by private Catholic schools signs lease agreement forbidding schools from teaching or promoting any position that would be considered "gravely immoral" to the church
https://t.co/V3vv7jjxrd
#CharterSchoolFail

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No end in sight for Ohio's charter school scandal: The state might never recoup all of the nearly $137 million in overpayments to charter schools that reported inaccurate student enrollment and participation data
https://t.co/e7rY7ZkkMW #CharterSchoolFail