Robert Maranto

When April and I first studied Arizona charter schools back in 1997, they had 222 campuses, a 3.3% market share, and suffered criticism from folks who had never set foot inside a charter. 15 years later they have 520 campuses, a 12% market share, and still face critics who...
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Sometimes the New York Times gets the facts right but completely misses the story. On June 7 the Gray Lady, which promises “all the news that’s fit to print,” published an exhaustive, 90-paragraph, page 1, above-the-fold investigative piece detailing that one of the best charter schools in the nation was founded by Turkish immigrants,...
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Recently the Washington Post reported the grimmest news a parent can read, a 17th birthday party celebrated for a Virginia boy who had killed himself five months...
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