80% of Michigan Charter Schools are For-Profits
The charter school movement began as a grassroots attempt to improve public education. It’s quickly becoming a backdoor for corporate profit. In Michigan, four out of five charter schools are run by for-profit EMO’s.
Once upon a time, the charter school movement was a grassroots phenomenon. Its proponents wanted to create a system of experimentation and innovation within the public schools. Everyone knows that the traditional public school system can be a bit burgeoning, with lots of bureaucratic red tap and uniformity which can hinder creativity in teaching.
Historically, this has meant that a lot of teacher-driven education reform has been centered around finding new, less uniform ways of teaching.
The charter school movement was born out of a desire to creatively address the many obstacles teachers faced.
