Will Big Charter Schools Poor Record in Florida Be Protected by Political Patronage?
From Lisa Rab of the New Times:
A Homestead charter school run by a for-profit company that promises to help at-risk kids graduate issued standard diplomas to only 18 students in the past two years, according to the Miami-Dade school district.
.Mavericks High of South Miami-Dade had 52 seniors enrolled during the 2009-2010 school year. Only two of them — or 3.8 percent of the class — graduated with a standard diploma.The next year, district records show 16 Mavericks students received standard diplomas and six earned certificates of completion, meaning they had finished their coursework but didn’t pass the FCAT, or
