Good article here. Links to other reports, scandals and test results.
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2017/10/18/virtual-charter-schools-foundations-performance
I have not posted much on this blog lately. There has been lots of publicity on the virtual schools, none of it positive. I am not sure there is a need. They are no longer trendy and cool. They are scams making some people very rich at the expense of the children.
ECOT is on its deathbed. Trying to reorganize itself into some other structure to keep the school tax funds flowing.
Ohio Connections Academy, owned by Pearson Education, received its report card. 1 C, 2 D's, and 5 F's which I think works out to a .0375 GPA
"Some have blamed the fallout from ECOT for the disbanding of Ohio's largest charter school advocacy organization. In December 2016, the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools announced it would close at the end of 2016, after more than a decade in which it was an influential player in the state's charter school policy. Critics say poor performance by Ohio charter schools—80 percent of which received an "F" in the state's report card system—caused funder support for the alliance to dry up. In years past, the Ohio organization had counted the Gates Foundation, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation among its supporters, but by the end of 2016, none of those organizations were listed on the alliance website as current funders, according to the Columbus Dispatch."
Event the politicians are bailing.
In the words or our President, sad, just sad, what a bunch of losers. Too bad his education secretary does not see it as it is....
