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Youngstown News, State continues to blindly shift funding to charter schools

Youngstown News, State continues to blindly shift funding to charter schools

State continues to blindly shift funding to charter schools

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Published: Sun, April 17, 2011 @ 12:00 a.m.

State continues to blindly shift funding to charter schools

In attempting to hold public school districts accountable for their success or failure in educating students, the Ohio General Assembly has created a budgetary monster that is consuming hundreds of millions of dollars with virtually no accountability.

In last Sunday’s Vindicator, a story on for-profit charter schools operated by White Hat Management of Akron not only made the point that these schools are not performing as well as their public counterparts, but they are doing it behind a cloak of fiscal secrecy.

Only 2 percent of the students attending White Hat schools show a level of academic progress that is expected under federal education law. Yet, once