Charter Operator Fines Students For Infractions
One of the city’s highest-performing charter school groups, the Noble Street Charter School Network, raked in nearly a quarter million dollars last school year by fining students for disciplinary infractions, a group of Chicago Public School students and parents said this morning.
The Noble Street Charter School Network collected roughly $200,000 in discipline fees during the 2010-2011 school year across the 10 high schools it operates. Noble schools charge students $5 for behavior infractions like “bringing chips to school” and “not looking a teacher in the eye,” and students with multiple infractions must