http://www.lwvglc.org/documents/lwvglc_paper_for_profit_virtual_charter_schools.pdf
Not recommended in New Mexico. Good analysis.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Charter School Oversight in Florida
Look what is happening in Florida.
Follow the money!
http://interactive.sun-sentinel.com/charter-schools-unsupervised/investigation.html
"Management companies, hired by two-thirds of South Florida’s charter schools, further complicate the school districts’ ability to monitor spending and discern who controls the purse strings, the newspaper found. These companies provide services ranging from targeted assignments to wholesale management of schools, and have received anywhere from 10 to 97 percent of a school’s budget, records show.
“They’re public schools in the front door; they’re for-profit closed entities in the back door,” said Kathleen Oropeza, who co-founded FundEducationNow.org, an education advocacy group based in Orlando. “There’s no transparency; the public has no ability to see where the profits are, how the money is spent.”
Great investigation
What could Ohio learn?
Follow the money!
http://interactive.sun-sentinel.com/charter-schools-unsupervised/investigation.html
"Management companies, hired by two-thirds of South Florida’s charter schools, further complicate the school districts’ ability to monitor spending and discern who controls the purse strings, the newspaper found. These companies provide services ranging from targeted assignments to wholesale management of schools, and have received anywhere from 10 to 97 percent of a school’s budget, records show.
“They’re public schools in the front door; they’re for-profit closed entities in the back door,” said Kathleen Oropeza, who co-founded FundEducationNow.org, an education advocacy group based in Orlando. “There’s no transparency; the public has no ability to see where the profits are, how the money is spent.”
Great investigation
What could Ohio learn?
Monday, August 18, 2014
New successful charter school ;-)
Progressive Charter School Doesn’t Have Students
ATLANTA—One year into its founding as the purported “bold next step in education reform,” administrators on Monday sang the praises of Forest Gates Academy, a progressive new charter school that practices an innovative philosophy of not admitting any students. “We’ve done something here at Forest Gates that is truly special, combining modern, cutting-edge pedagogical methods with a refreshingly non-pupil-centric approach,” said academy president Diane Blanchard, who claimed that the experimental school boasts state-of-the-art facilities, a diverse and challenging syllabus, absolutely zero students, a world-class library, and the highest faculty-student ratio in the nation. “Thanks to our groundbreaking methods, we’ve established a structured yet free-thinking environment where the student is taken out of the equation entirely, and in fact is not allowed on school property. And the results, we think, speak for themselves.” According to its budgetary records, Forest Gates has so far received approximately $80 million in public funding from the state of Georgia.
Good stuff from The Onion
Good stuff from The Onion
Sunday, August 17, 2014
More news
Part of a letter to the editor published in the Dayton Daily News
87% is shameful. $1 billion should be criminal
In fact, multiple charter school scandals across the state are causing Ohio citizens to wake up and ask why one billion taxpayer dollars per year are pouring into a ‘failed choice’ for almost 100,000 of Ohio’s children. Currently, 87% of Ohio’s charter school students are attending a charter school with a D or F rating. Recently, Ohio has been branded as the “Wild, Wild West of Charters” and called a charter school “free for all” by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers due to an astounding lack of accountability and transparency by the Ohio Legislature.
87% is shameful. $1 billion should be criminal
In fact, multiple charter school scandals across the state are causing Ohio citizens to wake up and ask why one billion taxpayer dollars per year are pouring into a ‘failed choice’ for almost 100,000 of Ohio’s children. Currently, 87% of Ohio’s charter school students are attending a charter school with a D or F rating. Recently, Ohio has been branded as the “Wild, Wild West of Charters” and called a charter school “free for all” by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers due to an astounding lack of accountability and transparency by the Ohio Legislature.
Turning a profit’ has turned into an empty promise for our kids.
Maureen Reedy
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
I predict Ohio politicians will be creating as much distance as they can from these low performing schools.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
10th Period: More Horizon/Charter Test Questions
10th Period: More Horizon/Charter Test Questions: After the allegations at Horizon Science Academy's Dayton campus were raised a couple weeks ago, I decided to look at Horizon's oth...
Interesting.....
Interesting.....
Monday, August 4, 2014
A little more publicity
I was pleasantly surprised to see a letter to the editor in a recent Cincinnati Enquirer about the need for the Ohio legislature to get their hands around the lack of accountability of charter schools in Ohio.
The Columbus Dispatch also published a similar letter to the editor.
This is not to say that this publicity can compete with the marketing power of radio and television blitz of the charter schools (which never mention their resport card) but it is a start.
Some charter schools are well run and successful. Others are just a conduit of incompetence to profit the sponsors, owners and administrators.
The Columbus Dispatch also published a similar letter to the editor.
This is not to say that this publicity can compete with the marketing power of radio and television blitz of the charter schools (which never mention their resport card) but it is a start.
Some charter schools are well run and successful. Others are just a conduit of incompetence to profit the sponsors, owners and administrators.
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