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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Foreword: Karen GJ Lewis
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Preface
1. The Pressure to Compete Globally
China
South Korea
Finland
2. The Messy Beauty of American Public Education
Education as a Public Responsibility
Opening the Schoolhouse Doors to All Children
3. School Choice as a Means to Preserve Racial Desegregation
Massive Resistance
Resistance in Other Southern States
Bringing It Home—Literally
4. Milton Friedman and His Unrealistic School Choice
The Role of Government in Education
Not Greed, but Social Responsibility
Vouchers: The Choice Belongs to Whom?
5. The Origin of the Charter School
The Charter School Concept
AFT President Albert Shanker and the School-Within-a-School
Shanker, Budde, and the Charter School
Let the Charter Legislation (and Charter School Opportunism) Begin
6. Who Wants Charters?
Charter Schools: Bipartisan with a Conservative Streak
No Child Left Behind: Proposing Charters as a Solution
Racing to the Top via a Charter Cash Competition
What the Waltons Want
The American Legislative Exchange Council
Hedge Funders and the Charter School Investment
7. The Charter Take-Away from the Neighborhood Public School
The 21st-Century Charter Threat, Test Scores, and Poverty
Charter Schools: Funding Absent Accountability
Issues of Funding Parity and Evaluations of Quality
Waitlist Illusions
The Charter School Take-Away
8. For-Profit Charters (and Associated For-Profit Education Business Opportunities)
The Big Business of Charter Schools
For-Profit Imagine Schools
The Charter School Gravy Train
Nonprofit Charters and the Corporate Tax Break: Brighter Choice
The Proliferation of For-Profit Charters
For-Profit Academica
For-Profit National Heritage Academies
Regaining Prosperity in the For-Profit Education Industry(?)
For-Profit K12
What About the Kids?
9. No Excuse Charters, Broken Windows, and Micromanaged Behavior
Regulated Environment
A Bit About KIPP
No Excuses Academic Research Shyness
Escaping from No Excuses
Broken Windows Theory
The Up-Side of No Excuses
If You Can’t Bend ‘Em, Suspend ‘Em
10. Gulen Charters: A Powerful Turkish Cleric’s Followers Find a Cozy Home in the American Taxpayer Pocket
The Stahl Treatment of Gulen
Mary Addi Alerts the FBI
The Gulen Force in Turkey
More on Addi, the FBI, and Gulen Entanglements
Gulen Schools in Los Angeles
Gulen in Georgia (No Longer)
Gulen: Good for American Public Education?
11. Some Final Thoughts on School Choice
Challenges to Vouchers
The Feds and School Choice
The Confrontation
Notes
Index
About the Author
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