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Charter schools targeted by left despite enrollment surge during pandemic


Charter schools targeted by left despite enrollment surge during pandemic
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By Valerie Richardson
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The Washington Times
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
Charter schools have been praised as some of the heroes of the coronavirus pandemic, but don’t expect them to win any awards from Democratic governors or the Biden administration.
The publicly funded independent schools, which marked their 30th anniversary during National Charter Schools Week, face an increasingly hostile political climate as previously friendly Democrats line up with teachers’ unions calling for more accountability and less funding.
Ironically, the pivot on the left comes with charter schools enjoying an unprecedented surge in popularity over their ability to react nimbly and reopen safely during the pandemic, even without many of the must-haves demands by teachers’ unions. ....

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School choice PACs have huge reserves thanks to Pa.'s Jeff Yass


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In this file photo from Nov. 19, 2019, the dome of the Pennsylvania Capitol is visible through the trees in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The richest man in Pennsylvania is poised to spend millions of dollars influencing upcoming elections all while trying to keep his name away from the political spotlight.
Montgomery County billionaire Jeff Yass, a professional gambler turned powerful Wall Street trader, has long been a major donor to conservative causes in Pennsylvania. He’s particularly well known for putting tens of millions of dollars into the commonwealth’s school choice movement.
With Pennsylvania gearing up to redraw its congressional districts, choose a new Supreme Court justice in the fall, and elect a U.S. Senator and a governor next year along with a slew of congressional and state House and Senate races Yass has poured $10.5 million of his own money into his political action committee, Students First, over the past six mo ....

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Wolf proposes sweeping charter school reforms


Taking a step to fulfill one of his budget priorities, Gov. Tom Wolf and Democratic legislators on Friday offered a detailed charter school reform plan that they said would save $229 million annually, but which opponents said would hurt charter students.  
“Pennsylvania’s charter school law is among the worst in the country,” Wolf said during an online press conference discussing the reforms contained in separate bills introduced in the state House and Senate. 
Wolf and reform supporters repeatedly said the bills would bring equitable funding, accountability and transparency to charter schools, which include cyber schools that have exploded in popularity during the pandemic.   ....

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