Charter Fiscal Impact is a nonpartisan project to help Tennesseans understand the financial stress that taxpayer-funded charter schools place on public schools.
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Congrats to our friend and colleague @DrDonnaWrightd7 on being honored with the 2023 @AASAHQ Distinguished Service Award. There’s no greater friend to public education — in Tennessee or anywhere else!
Derek, who’s an East Tennessee native, in 2022 authored the groundbreaking report entitled “Local Budget Stress: Charter Schools & Fixed Costs Stranded in Public Schools” — which tops the charts in our growing library of resources. 2/2
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Congrats to our friend and colleague @DerekWBlack for being recognized in @educationweek as one of America’s most influential edu-scholars. 1/2 cc: @TNEdReport @DrDonnaWrightd7
Derek Black recognized among the country's most influential educators
Education Week's annual list celebrates elite scholars impacting educational practice and policy.
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Thank you @DrDonnaWrightd7 for your service to students, parents, educators, taxpayers … and facts!
Understanding the Fiscal Impact of Charter Schools: a presentation by former Wilson County Schools Superintendent Dr. Donna Wright. #LeadersLearn Fall School Board Retreat 💫
Meanwhile, Tennesseans who are suspicious of national charter special interests can run charter fiscal-impact scenarios for their local communities using our Charter Fiscal Impact calculator. It doesn’t take a math whiz to figure out the numbers just don’t add up. #DoTheMath 6/6
As the national pro-charter PR machine targets TN, we hope the local media will explain who these out-of-state special interests are … how they’re funded … and how much they’re paid to try to tear down public schools in TN. @davidplazas 👀 5/
Clearly, the national charter advocates are worried that TN suburban and rural communities will exert independent thought and come to their own conclusion that the charter math simply doesn’t add up without deep cuts to existing public schools. 4/
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Local Budget Stress: Charter Schools & Fixed Costs Stranded in Public Schools State-mandated charter schools lead to ...
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According to Fordham’s most recent federal tax filing, this national group had $6.5 million cash-on-hand in 2020. Meanwhile, the @tennessean op-ed’s lead author — Michael J. Pertilli — is paid $362,000 annually to push a national pro-charter agenda. 3/
The Fordham Institute is a national Washington, D.C.-based “think tank” that runs charter schools in Ohio and is exclusively funded by pro-charter special interests outside of TN, including the National Alliance for Charter Schools. 2/
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National charter advocates have a new op-ed blasting our Charter Fiscal Impact project and demanding that TN districts ignore the negative fiscal impact of charter schools. @Tennessean fails to flag conflicts of interest by these out-of-state operatives, but we’ll explain … 1/
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