CA Charter Schools Grow Amid Questions of Corrupt Conflicts Including Sac Mayor Johnson
There is a systemic conflict of interest in California schools in which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation (Wal-Mart Inc.) are illegally placing lobbyists on school boards and other government agencies where they vote on public money going to charters owned by them. This also includes Sacramento mayor and his "non-profit" St. Hope Foundation which is funded by the Gates Foundation. These
CA Charter School Grow Amid Questions of Corrupt Conflicts Including Kevin Johnson Mayor Of Sacramento
CA Charter Schools Grow Amid Questions of Corrupt Conflicts Including Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson
By Seth Sandronsky
http://www.populist.com/12.03.sandronsky.html
Traditional public school students and their teachers are facing a shortfall of tax support across the US. But things are brighter for tuition-free public charter schools, which operate with a contract (charter) from a public entity.
There were over 2 million students enrolled in about 5,600 public charter schools around the US in 2011, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a Washington, DC-based, non-profit advocacy group. A recent NAPCS statement said that total student enrollment represents a 13% increase in one year.
According to the federal Department of Education, 4% of US public school students, pre-kindergarten through grade 12,
By Seth Sandronsky
http://www.populist.com/12.03.sandronsky.html
Traditional public school students and their teachers are facing a shortfall of tax support across the US. But things are brighter for tuition-free public charter schools, which operate with a contract (charter) from a public entity.
There were over 2 million students enrolled in about 5,600 public charter schools around the US in 2011, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a Washington, DC-based, non-profit advocacy group. A recent NAPCS statement said that total student enrollment represents a 13% increase in one year.
According to the federal Department of Education, 4% of US public school students, pre-kindergarten through grade 12,