Follow the money!
I sense that the pendulum is swinging back towards sanity after a failed billion dollar experiment. More articles in the papers. More letters to the editor. More pressure on the politicians.
http://www.ohio.com/news/local/ohio-s-for-profit-charter-schools-drag-state-into-group-of-nation-s-worst-performers-1.539387?localLinksEnabled=false
"Ohio’s charter schools have a national reputation for hiring for-profit companies that produce poor academic results.
Only three of 26 states had lower performing charter schools, according to a Stanford University study of states with schools in operation long enough to compare results.
A factor in the difference appears to be the motivation to make money.
Tennessee, New York and Rhode Island, which the study reckons have the highest-performing charter school sectors, are among the six states that ban for-profit companies.
At the other end of the spectrum, Ohio trails only Michigan and Texas in the percentage of taxpayer-funded charter schools run by for-profit companies, according to the Colorado-based National Education Policy Center.
• Of the 16 lowest performing networks, 14 were managed by for-profit companies.
• The online charter schools Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow and Ohio Virtual Academy, which account for a quarter of all charter enrollment, averaged the lowest student growth in the state.
• Of the 12 highest-performing charter school networks, eight hired nonprofit management organizations.
• $503 million of $920 million in public funding went to charter schools managed by for-profit companies. A little over half of the $920 million went to out-of-state companies.
• Out-of-state and for-profit companies enrolled 74,458 of the 119,271 Ohio charter school students."
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