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Betsy DeVos and Payday for the Charter Industry! by Diane ritch

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" No matter how many scandals and frauds are exposed in the charter industry, the federal money keeps rolling in. Open this link to see which of your favorite charter chains (the Walmarts of education) won millions from their friend Betsy DeVos. Eva got $9.8 million from her friend Betsy. KIPP will secure a total…IDEA in Texas scores $116 million over five years! Despite the report from the Network for Public Education showing that 1/3 of the grants by the federal Charter Schools Program are awarded to schools that never open or that close soon after opening, the money keeps flowing."

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)

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