@cocharterwatch.bsky.social @a4pep.bsky.social

In less than 3 years, we found over 400 stories of theft/fraud in charter schools. You can find them here networkforpubliceduc... Lack of regulation. Invitation for grift. #AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal

School voucher program? Nebraska voters are not having it. @colorado.gov #COpol #COleg

@michaelbennet.bsky.social has received tons of cash from charter school champion Michael Bloomberg. What might that mean for Colorado's traditional public schools? #COpol #COleg

Michael Bennet is not being transparent about close to $2 million donations from dark money & pro-charter school proponents. They'll want a return for their investment. Not what Colorado wants. #philforgovernor supports public education. #copolitics networkforpubliceducation.org/coming-soon-...

This was always the plan: weaken public education, then funnel public money into private schools. Now we’re seeing $90 million in taxpayer dollars used to expand private school spaces while public classrooms don't have the resources they need. edmontonsun.com/news/local-n...

This one got caught. #COpol #COleg

Charter school supporters like to keep taxpayers in the dark. #FOIA #COpol #Coleg

"Arrington’s resume includes providing legal representation for a charter school that banned its valedictorian from coming out as gay in his graduation speech." #COpol #COleg

Bad news for all us who don't believe our tax $$$ should go to churches. #COpol #COleg

"DFER’s mission has always been to convince Democrats that they should be backing ed reform ideas from the right. It’s standard to find them trying hard to convince Democrats that it would be a winning strategy ..." #COpol #COleg

In Colorado, school "choice" includes the choice to raise kids without a grasp of science, at taxpayer expense. #COpol #COleg

Well, of course, the billionaire-owned WaPo thinks Polis' voucher scheme buy-in is a good move. Sensing a pattern here? #COleg #COpol

"The voucher advocates are pushing hard for regulations that slam the door on any approach that does not further the growth of this largely unregulated voucher program." #COpol #COleg

This fool believes poor families just need a hefty federal tax credit. Look at states with existing SGO credits: They benefit only wealthy donors and parents who already send their kids to private/parochial schools. Those schools don't want to serve poor families. #COpol #COleg

Hey, Colorado: See a problem with this map? Tell @colorado.gov we don't want to be part of Trump's stealth school voucher program. #COpol #COleg

Taxpayers are not obligated to pay for your church schools, Norton and Weston. #COpol #COleg

Hey, Colorado lawmakers: This seems like a real problem ... “Nobody in the state actually regulates how BOCES operate or what they can do,” said Ken Haptonstall, co-executive director of the Colorado BOCES Association. #COpol #COleg

Why bother with an elected board when you can answer to a less-meddlesome board of political appointees? #COpol #COleg

South Dakota gets it. Education privatization is a loser for students and taxpayers. #COpol #COleg

"The end-game here is to de-emphasize the first part of the First Amendment—the Establishment Clause prohibiting government from establishing a single religion—and to emphasize the second part, the Free Exercise Clause." #COpol #COleg

Kentucky gets it: "We cannot sell the people of Kentucky a mule and call it a horse, even if we believe the public needs a mule.” #COpol #COleg

"O’Connell filed suit after a January 2022 meeting in which the board approved a controversial charter school, Merit Academy, under a vague agenda item labeled 'BOARD HOUSEKEEPING.' ” #COleg #COpol

Your state tax dollars at work, Colorado. #COleg #COpol

“This is not really education policy. This is sheer income redistribution. This is about subsidizing the wealthy. Pure and simple,” Tennessee State Senator Jeff Yarbro told WSMV in Nashville. “It’s just Robin Hood in reverse—on steroids." #COpol #COleg @colorado.gov

"The lack of innovation in deregulated charter schools is closely linked to their spending more on administration and consulting services than on instruction." #COpol #COleg

"60 Minutes" and other media outlets held up KIPP as the education miracle. Corporate charter schools were never the answer. They were always about making $$$. #COpol #COleg

"Michael Petrilli, president of the conservative Fordham Institute, questioned why Polis opted in before the regulations were finalized, adding it is 'pretty clear that the Trump administration is not going to let them narrow the scope of the program.' ” #COpol #COleg @npeaction.bsky.social

This, from the guy who actively opposed a 2024 charter school transparency/accountability bill: "Basically, we need to update the way we look at outcomes in education and make sure we have better transparency and accountability for providers at all levels." #COpol #COleg @colorado.gov

Good news for state/church separation: The Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board has rejected what would have been the first religious public school in the country. Read more ➡️ ffrf.us/4kolp3G

Are these charter schools or taxpayer-funded religious organizations? #COleg #COpol

@colorado.gov Polis' school voucher move is billionaire-endorsed. #COleg #COpol

" The Colorado Department of Education confirmed on Friday that the school’s authorizer, Education reEnvisioned Board of Cooperative Educational Services, or ER BOCES, as well as School District 49, which is the BOCES’ fiscal agent, will be audited this year." #COleg #COpol #EducationPrivatization

What other misinformation is this Colorado State Board of Ed member spreading? #COleg #COpol

“We are the very first Democratic state to opt in to the education tax credits." No, @colorado.gov, our Democratic state did NOT opt in to this Trump boondoggle: You did. CO voters have rejected vouchers 3X. #COpol #COleg

"The governor was on hand to read a proclamation officially designating School Choice Day in Colorado, but he was more excited about his decision to opt in to the new federal tax credit scholarship program enacted by the Trump Administration." #COpol #COleg

"Board member Mark Emery suggested that (board attorney Brad) Miller has an agenda shaped by religious and political leanings that’s created turmoil for the district." Ya think? #COleg #COpol

Another clue that charter schools are about real estate deals, not education: "Clark plans to talk to nearby companies that might want some or all of it for their headquarters. He said he could also see it as a charter school or as a storage facility for high-end cars." #COpol #COleg

"Given the staggering profits made by non-profit and for-profit charter schools, it should come as no surprise that charter school authorizing entities have frequently renewed contracts for charter schools across the country even when 'results' are poor year after year." #COpol #COleg

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"Charter schooling is now an industry, not a public school reform." #COleg #COpol

Just a reminder that Colorado ranks in the bottom half of states for per-pupil funding, behind Wyoming and Nebraska. #COleg #COpol

Houston Supt. Mike Miles helped broker a nearly $1M deal for HISD-style reforms between a Texas charter network and for-profit Colorado-based charter consulting firm he started. #COleg #COpol

"If the Supreme Court were to agree that Riverstone Academy in Pueblo County, Colorado, is allowed to get public funding and offer religious education, it opens up the possibility that this could happen anywhere in Colorado or the country." #COpol #COleg

"In late October ... Pueblo County health, fire, building, and zoning officials cited more than a dozen violations and put the school on 'fire watch,' which requires someone to patrol the school every half hour to look for signs of fire." #Coleg #Copol

"Once public schools are cast as broken beyond repair, charters and microschools become steppingstones toward something far more consequential: a broad voucher system that redirects public money to private and religious education." #COleg #COpol

"With the Trump administration ... slashing funds appropriated to our schools, a principal rationale for standardized testing is gutted. The previous threat hanging over districts and the state was a loss of federal money. Trump and CMAS supporters have lost that leverage." #COpol #COleg

"We can still incubate good ideas, but we should do so where they belong: inside the public system, with the sunlight, stewardship, and community voice that public money requires." #COleg #COpol

One of our most-read stories of 2025: This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students. (Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)

"The pushback from advocates of charter schools, which many Republicans support, also underscores just how difficult it will be to get Congress to fully eliminate the Education Department." #COpol #COleg