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?

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