11 warning signs that someone is trying to privatize your public school
Our pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.
April 2020
In the Public Interest
Democracy, shared prosperity, and the common good
In the Public Interest is a comprehensive research and policy center on privatization and responsible contracting.
In the Public Interest
Democracy, shared prosperity, and the common good
In the Public Interest is a comprehensive research and policy center on privatization and responsible contracting.
How to spot privatization schemes in the middle of a crisis
Two checklists for monitoring threats of privatization of public goods and services in the age of coronavirus.
April 2020
Why the tag team of conservatives and corporations keeps winning
Conservatives have long been clear about what they want. Progressives have focused on specific issues and campaigns and remained silent on the ideas that unite us.
April 2020
For-profit online education company K12 Inc. aims ads at children as stock price climbs
Our pick of recent news about the privatization of public education and the parents, students, teachers, and communities fighting back.
April 2020
Koch-funded think tank says for-profit online schools are “what the future of learning looks like”
Cashing in on Kids is In the Public Interest's pick of recent news about the privatization of public education.
April 2020
The Anti-Government Echo Chamber
A brief pulling together examples of how corporate figures, right-wing organizations, and conservative politicians talk about the role of government—or the lack thereof—in American life.
April 2020
The charter school industry is vying for federal bailout money
Cashing in on Kids is In the Public Interest‘s pick of recent news about the privatization of public education and the communities fighting back. Not a subscriber? Sign up. Make sure to like us on Facebook and [...]
April 2020
Online learning shouldn’t be an excuse to privatize public education
Here’s our pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. Online learning shouldn’t be [...]
April 2020
Congress just gave cheap, high-speed internet access to everyone. April Fools’.
Wouldn’t publicly owned and operated internet come in handy right about now? With so many students learning online and so many people working from home, wouldn’t that be nice? Americans pay more than almost anyone else [...]
April 2020
As the coronavirus crisis unfolds, we must #ProtectALLWorkers
we can’t forget about the teachers educating kids online, the postal workers sorting our mail, and the millions of other public workers still on the job. [...]
March 2020
The 40-year corporate attack on government made the coronavirus crisis worse
Many were appalled when then-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon framed the Trump administration’s agenda in its early days as the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” Appalled about Bannon’s [...]
March 2020
To slow down coronavirus, we need a public health approach that’s truly ‘public’
Protecting the public health of all us requires protecting the health of each of us, without exception.
March 2020
Unions helped stop the spread of Ebola. They’re trying again with coronavirus.
During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, unionized medical interns, residents, and fellows spearheaded patient care plans at hospitals nationwide.
March 2020
Congressman confronts Education Secretary Betsy DeVos about charter school failures
Cashing in on Kids is In the Public Interest's pick of recent news about the privatization of public education.
February 2020
Washington State is about to kick out the bottled water industry
Americans purchase some 50 billion bottles of water every year. That’s more than 95,000 a minute! All that water comes from our public water systems and groundwater. In other words, the bottled water [...]
February 2020
Michael Bloomberg has spent big on pushing charter schools in California
Our pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.
February 2020
Black men with prostate cancer are twice as likely to die as white men. Except those with VA health [...]
Go figure. When African American men don’t experience delays in diagnosis or treatment, they survive just as often as white men.
February 2020
Bay Area charter school finally scraps enrollment preference helping wealthier students
In the Public Interest's pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.
February 2020
Therapy. Gardening. Housing assistance. There’s a bright future for public schools.
A groundbreaking new study shows that community schools can improve attendance, increase graudation rates, and more.
February 2020
National School Choice Week is actually about promoting certain choices over others
Instead of investing in all public schools, the funders behind National School Choice Week want our communities to leave education up to private markets.
February 2020
Wall Street wants in on public school construction, and that’s scary
For years, we’ve heard the same false claims behind the push to use public-private partnerships to build new infrastructure, like toll roads and prisons. Private equity firms and Wall Street banks say public-private [...]
January 2020
No one asks how are we going to pay for war. So, why should we for public transit?
Tons of positive ink has been spilled about Kansas City, Missouri’s decision last month to make public transit fare-free, and rightly so.
January 2020
Education historian Diane Ravitch has a new book, and she’s coming to a town near you
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January 2020
California School Accountability Report: New charter regulation already paying off | and more
Our pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.
January 2020
A new direction in 2020 for In the Public Interest. Well, sort of.
We're going to start showing what truly public, democratic control over public goods means and looks like.
January 2020
Summit Public Schools appears to be skirting the intention of California’s recent charter [...]
Our pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.
December 2019
Charter schools are opening and failing like start-ups. That can’t be good for kids.
Thousands have been shuttered since the turn of the century. More than 35 percent of those given federal grant money between 2006 and 2014 either never opened or were shut down, costing taxpayers more than half a billion [...]
December 2019
D.C. proposes closing neighborhood school, as charter school backers demand access to public [...]
Our pick of recent news about the privatization of public education in the District and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.
December 2019
Billionaire Eli Broad buys credibility for charter school movement with $100 million gift to Yale University
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December 2019
Don’t like D.C. public transit? Then support the bus drivers striking to fix it.
You wouldn’t be wrong to blame Transdev for crippling public transportation in Northern Virginia since October. The multinational corporation all but guaranteed a strike by taking every dollar of profit it could out of its [...]
December 2019
California School Accountability Report: San Jose charter to close | School privatization explained [...]
Our pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.
December 2019
How to talk to your family about charter schools during the holidays
What you should say when someone starts dissing traditional, neighborhood public schools and hyping up charter schools.
November 2019
People are fighting water privatization right now from Chile to the Rust Belt
Residents of a small Ohio city are pushing back against the proposed sale of their water and wastewater systems.
November 2019
D.C. School Accountability Report: Scott Pearson to step down | Rocketship kidnapping | and more
Our pick of recent news about the privatization of public education in the District and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.
November 2019
D.C. charter school chain faces off against neighborhood
Cashing in on Kids is In the Public Interest‘s pick of recent news about the privatization of public education. Not a subscriber? Sign up. Make sure to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. San Diego [...]
November 2019
Californians should own the state’s largest for-profit power utility, not Wall Street
Lessons from recent social science research show who should not be allowed to own PG&E—namely Wall Street.
October 2019
Now is the best time since 2016 to invest in private prisons, says Wall Street
Stocks in CoreCivic and GEO Group have fallen about 35 percent since June. But business is looking up.
October 2019
Privatizing D.C.’s Medicaid system makes zero sense—not even to save money
The nation’s capital recently announced it plans to fully privatize its Medicaid program—which is chilling news. Yes, most of D.C.’s Medicaid recipients already have their health care managed by private insurance [...]
October 2019
Guide: 10 questions to ask before any privatization deal
Privatization, the handing over of public goods and services to corporations, remains all the rage. The promises are always oversold — we get cost overruns instead of cost savings, less transparency, and cut corners [...]
June 2019
Privatization report: The charter school movement is in trouble | Nashville fights off [...]
Here’s our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and in communities nationwide, in order by sector. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS The national charter school movement looks to [...]
June 2019
California School Accountability Report: New data on the cost of charter schools | AB1505 passes | [...]
Here’s our pick of recent news about the ongoing effort to privatize public education in California. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. New data on the cost of charter schools. Last week, In the Public [...]
May 2019
Privatization report: How much charter schools really cost | Illinois could ban private prisons | [...]
Here’s our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and in communities nationwide, in order by sector. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS A new study (by In the Public Interest) has [...]
May 2019
California School Accountability: Charter reform bills in motion | Bernie wants to rein in charter [...]
Here’s our pick of recent news about the ongoing effort to privatize public education in California. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. Big week in Sacramento. Multiple charter school law reform bills are on the [...]
May 2019
Privatization report: Bernie wants to rein in charter schools | CoreCivic’s lucrative quarter | and more
Here’s our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and in communities nationwide. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS Citing harm to public schools, presidential candidate Sen. Bernie [...]
May 2019
Privatization report: Remembering ATU’s Larry Hanley | Florida to use school vouchers | and [...]
Here’s our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and in communities nationwide, in order by sector. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS The Southern Poverty Law Center weighs in on [...]
May 2019
Privatization report: Former Trump appointee joins private prison corp | Nashville looks to [...]
Here’s our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and in communities nationwide, in order by sector. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS Trump’s former chief of staff, John [...]
May 2019
Fact Sheet: The perils of privatizing parking assets
In 2008, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley rushed a proposal through Chicago’s city council to lease out the city’s downtown parking meters for 75 years. Councilmembers (and the public) were given only a few days to examine [...]
April 2019
Weekly privatization report: Pelosi and Trump talk infrastructure | GEO Group up close | and more
Here’s our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and in communities nationwide, in order by sector. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Charles [...]
April 2019