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Education Gadfly Show #814: How Biden’s proposed regulations would hurt charter schools

Michael J. Petrilli Christy Wolfe Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
4.6.2022
 

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast (listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify), Christy Wolfe, vice president for policy and planning at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, joins Mike Petrilli to discuss how new regulations proposed by the Biden administration could stunt the growth of charter schools across America. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines a survey of student reading habits in grades K–12.

You can find this and every episode on all major podcast platforms, as well as share it with friends.

Recommended content:

  • Christy’s piece criticizing the proposed regulations: “Biden administration’s proposed rules for Charter School Program empower districts at the expense of communities.”
  • The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Yangsook Choi et al., “What Kids Are Reading: 2022 Edition,” Renaissance Learning, Inc. (2022).

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Have ideas or feedback on our podcast? Send them to our podcast producer Pedro Enamorado at [email protected].

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President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the Education Gadfly Weekly, host of the…

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Christy Wolfe is the Bipartisan Policy Center's director of K-12 policy. She has more than 30 years of experience working on federal education policy and legislation in Congress, the executive branch, and policy advocacy organizations.

Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she supervises the Institute’s robust research portfolio and…

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