Amber Northern

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Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington, D.C.

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  • Do Charters Drain Funds From Pennsylvania’s Traditional Public Schools? In a Word, No.

    Amber Northern
    In early February, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf delivered his 2020-21 budget address and revealed what many of us already knew: He doesn’t have much love for charter schools. He characterized them as “fronts for private management companies” whose only innovations involve “finding new ways to take money out of the pockets of property-tax payers.” Foes…
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