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Governor Roy Cooper (D) vetoes five bills from July 3-9

Governor Roy Cooper (D) vetoed five bills from July 3-9. The five bills are below:

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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #67

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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Charter school lost case over skirts rule for girls, but debate over charter autonomy isn't over

One of the mothers who successfully sued a North Carolina charter school over its requirement that girls wear skirts says she always knew she'd prevail

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America's education system is failing–but a growing school choice movement believes it has the solution

School choice programs mean that students aren't locked into attending a district public school based on home address.

Fortune

2023 is on track for more ballot measures than previous odd years

Welcome to the Friday, June 16, Brew.

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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #65

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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Denver to elect a new mayor for the first time since 2011

Welcome to the Tuesday, May 30, Brew.

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Which states have the most students enrolled in charter schools?

Charter school enrollment more than doubled since 2010.

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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #62

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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Money matters: Charter schools with education department grants are more likely to succeed

Analysis from the Government Accountability Office found key differences between charter schools that did and did not receive special grants.

USAFacts

Adding charter schools to Ontario would exacerbate student inequities

Parents and other advocates who are dissatisfied with the current state of public schooling often call for the expansion of school choice.

The Conversation

Conservative Florida Lawmakers Want To Expand LGBT Censorship to Charter Schools

New bill makes a mockery of parents’ rights, school choice, and educational freedom.

Reason

‘Aspect of his heritage’: ACLU blasts school that told Native American boy to cut his hair

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina school fired back after a civil rights group blasted its short hair rule as “discriminatory.”

Tribune News Service

This course uses 'Abbott Elementary' to examine critical issues in urban education

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

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Houston ISD Takeover Is a Trojan Horse for Privatization

Leaders of low-income communities of color worry the state’s power grab could deepen inequalities at schools like Wheatley High.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s mayoral candidates have radically different approaches to fixing public schools. Here’s why.

Their backgrounds — Paul Vallas, a technocrat devoted to school choice, and Brandon Johnson, a teachers union organizer — help explain clashing views on school reform.

Chicago Sun-Times

Public League semifinal preview: Perspectives-Leadership has crashed the party

The Warriors knocked off Hyde Park in the quarterfinals on Tuesday and have entered the spotlight for the first time in the history of the Perspectives charter schools.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Running a charter school for profit should be illegal

From insider deals to real estate flips, the problems with charter schools run by for-profit corporations can’t be ignored. And growth in this sector is accelerating as operators use lax regulations and complicated corporate schemes to harvest public dollars from publicly-funded charter schools.

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35 Chicago charter schools approved to stay open but with CPS closely watching over them

The charter schools received shorter term lengths than in the past and new conditions for continued approval as part of an ongoing effort to demand greater accountability.

Reason

Kentucky's Governor Wants School Choice for His Kids but Not Yours

A legal assault on charter schools will deprive families of educational options.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Urban Prep’s fall from grace is a lesson for education leaders

Chicago and other cities where charter schools have proliferated have a lot to learn from the fall of Urban Prep due to fiscal mismanagement, a sexual misconduct investigation and other problems.

Chicago Sun-Times

It takes a village to run a school

I am the Illinois Network of Charter Schools Principal of the Year. But I didn’t win the award on my own. I belongs to the entire school.

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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #42

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Chicago’s Noble, LEARN charter schools receive $23 million in donations from MacKenzie Scott

In Noble’s case, the grant is the “largest unrestricted donation from a single individual” in the charter network’s history.

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