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National Education Policy Center @nepc.bsky.social · 22h

Yikes! I hadn't read Brooks' column until now. What a stale collection of 2-decade-old talking points (plus enough misleading statements to make Trump blush, if that were possible)!
Mr. Brooks, it's simple: Kids learn when they have rich opportunities to learn. No, it won't help to bring back NCLB.

Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of wise observers of edu policy such as those at @nepc.bsky.social are pointing policy makers to a better direction for edu but Books is too busy scrolling through videos of defunct pols like Rahm Emanuel to pay attention to those who know better.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | Why Are the Democrats Increasing Inequality?

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 1d

All newly opened North Carolina charter schools are struggling to hit enrollment projections yet state charter board approves more new charters to open.
www.ednc.org/10-09-2025-c...

Charter Review Board closes new school two months after opening, reviews academic data

A Guilford County charter school is facing closure less than two months after opening due to low enrollment. Learn more here.

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 1d

Two months into the new school year, a new charter school in North Carolina closes due to low enrollment. #CharterSchoolFail
www.paxtonmedia.com/news/high_po...

High Point charter school ordered to close mid-year

HIGH POINT — A charter school that opened in August in a former church property on E. Lexington Avenue has been ordered to close in December because of low enrollment.

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of wise observers of edu policy such as those at @nepc.bsky.social are pointing policy makers to a better direction for edu but Books is too busy scrolling through videos of defunct pols like Rahm Emanuel to pay attention to those who know better.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | Why Are the Democrats Increasing Inequality?

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 1d

There's so much Brooks gets wrong about edu policy in the past 40 yrs that it's hard to decide where to start a counterargument, but what he gets right is that Dems haven't offered a clear edu agenda since they were forced by popular opinion and experts to abandon the centrist "reform" agenda.

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 1d

LOL David Brooks blames declining literacy rates on "screens" but then proposes education reforms he got from scrolling through a video on his Iphone.

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 4d

“The federalization of policing and the visible presence of the National Guard signals to students and families, particularly in Black and brown communities, that their neighborhoods are viewed as war zones, rather than learning communities.”
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Trump’s D.C. Takeover Foretells How Federal Occupations Will Threaten Education

Military and police crackdowns on communities are costly and have long-term, harmful impacts on millions of students and families.

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 8d

When you're getting negative coverage from People Magazine you know you've crossed a line.
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ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 10d

An important new read from my Our Schools media project about the supposed success of "education reform" in New Orleans since Katrina asks "success for whom?"
www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/01/t...

Twenty Years After Katrina, the City’s All-Charter Schools System Is Failing Many Families

To mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, numerous articles and opinion pieces have appeared in prominent media

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 11d

Operator of a for-profit charter school in Ohio ran a network of violent nightclubs while funneling millions in taxpayer funds from his charter school through inflated enrollment, related-party deals, and unauthorized contracts, leaving the school insolvent. #CharterSchoolFail
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Dohn Community High School: A textbook case of charter failure and illegal enrichment..

This video by NPE is based on a great investigative story by the reporters Quinlan Bently and Bebe Hodges of the Cincinnati Enquirer about how for-profit charter…

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 15d

This is the same group that just got legislation passed in Florida to allow more charters so they can get into Miami. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 15d

New York City's largest charter school chain closes schools and mandates school employees attend rally opposing NYC candidate Zohran Mamdani: “I voted for Zohran… it makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate.” #CharterSchoolFail www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The charter school pressuring teachers to get involved in politics

“It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate,” one Success Academy educator said.

www.motherjones.com

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 16d

Do charter school industry operatives like this really think Democrats will big in 2026 by calling teachers "education arsonists" and urging parents to abandon public schools?

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 17d

Chicago charter school may close mid-year due to lack of enrollment. It would be at least the 15th Chicago charter to close over the past 6 years—"a continued trend of enrollment declines and financial problems in Chicago’s charter sector". #CharterSchoolFail
www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

Another Chicago charter school could close amid concerns about low enrollment, finances

The charter school could be the latest in more than a dozen such schools that have closed since 2019 because of enrollment and financial challenges.

www.chalkbeat.org

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 24d

"Ohio Charter Schools graduated 3,243 of 4,676 potential seniors in 4 years. That’s a 69.4 percent graduation rate. The only Ohio public school district with a lower rate than that is Dayton at 68.6 percent." #CharterSchoolFail
10thperiod.substack.com/p/ohio-chart...

Ohio Charter Schools Keep Failing to Graduate Students

Ohio Charter Schools graduate students at a rate that's lower than all but 1 Ohio Public School District, likely costing our kids billions of dollars in lost potential income since their inception.

10thperiod.substack.com

Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 25d

How much will YOUR community lose if Trump’s school cuts go through? 📉 Use our calculator to see. app.sosha.ai/s/YYnr350K

How much would your district lose?

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 25d

Millionaire politicians are voting to slash 27% of the budget that supports our nation’s poorest schools. That means fewer teachers, fewer resources, and fewer opportunities for students who need them most. Call your Member of Congress to stop this. app.sosha.ai/s/DAaHBoIb

Protect public schools

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 29d

The truth about the supposed success of school reform in the New Orleans all-charter system: Higher costs with inferior services. #CharterSchoolFail
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · Sep 11

Individual solutions can’t mitigate burnout, but organized teachers are looking for solutions to widespread dissatisfaction.
@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social
#teachers #organizing #unions
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Fighting Forward: Why Teachers Need Collective Action More Than Ever

Individual solutions can’t mitigate burnout, but organized teachers are looking for solutions to widespread dissatisfaction.

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · Sep 11

Those charter school waiting lists... "The closure comes after school officials said the school was notified by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) that its funding for the 2025-2026 school year would be significantly reduced due to low enrollment." #CharterSchoolFail

Network for Public Education @network4pubed.bsky.social · Sep 11

San Antonio charter school to close after 15 years due to lack of financial resources www.msn.com/en-us/ne...

Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · Sep 10

Three Texas charter school chains with failing or near failing performance ratings from the state, including one already scheduled to be shut down, have leaders who are among the highest-paid in the country. #CharterSchoolFail
www.propublica.org/article/texa...

These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas. Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing.

Three charter school districts in Texas underreported the compensation paid to their top leaders. The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years.

www.propublica.org

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Network for Public Education @network4pubed.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment and Cost - Network For Public Education

Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, Charter School Reckoning, presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating closures plaguing the charter school sector as it enters its fourth decade. The report, published by the National Center for Charter School Accountability, documents that in the first half of 2025 alone, 50 […]

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · Sep 8

And given the tremendous disparities, from state to state and district to district, in how the US distributes education finding, you can imagine how under-funded schools are in some parts of the country. #MoneyMatters

Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · Sep 8

The US ranks 22nd in educational spending among its peer countries.

Recent studies show that money DOES matter when it comes to school spending, especially in high-poverty districts.

We need to spend more on public education!

Learn more: www.epi.org/publication/...

Chart titled “22 countries invest more in public education than the U.S.” The chart provides a simple ranking of 35 countries based on average public per-pupil spending on K–12 education, expressed as a share of per capita GDP in each country in 2019.

Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wife of Florida congressman and aspiring governor runs a charter school operation that hides millions she’s made from business deals paid for by taxpayers. #CharterSchoolFail
www.floridabulldog.org/2025/09/disc...

Disclosures Deepen Mystery of Rep. Donalds's Wife's Charter School business

By Will Bredderman, FloridaBulldog.org - New Disclosures Only Deepen Mystery of Rep. Donalds's Wife's Charter School Companies

www.floridabulldog.org

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · Sep 4

By attempting to defraud the state: "The school received more than $180 million in K-12 funds it was not eligible to collect and must now repay." #CharterSchoolFail

Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · Sep 4

How does a charter school run up $180 million in debt in only two years? share.google/yirQ2CPrUPiw...

Highlands Charter’s $180M debt, superintendent’s reforms, and appeal for second chance – EdSourceFormer Sacramento superintendent takes charge at troubled charter school

Jonathan Raymond has taken the reins of Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools, which was recently the subject of a critical state audit. He is asking the state to allow the school to conti...

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