Charter News Roundup - It's Not Pretty
- Let's start with Diane Ravitch's call at her blog for ed reform stories from around the country. It's staggering to read and most are about charters.
- Last Stand for Children First Illinois about how turnaround schools happen in their state.
- Diane's blog again - a story about the "American Indian Charter School" in Oakland, CA. The school is about 86% Asian-American, not Native American. It has been a high-performing middle school but parents and former teachers complained. An audit found that $3.7M were wrongly spent by the founder and his wife. (The founder told Newsweek that he thought it would help to get rid of school boards. He also said he would prefer the Ku Klux Klan to the teachers' unions.) I'm with Diane; if you can't trust them with the money, do you believe the test scores?
- Via Huffington Post by the Detroit News, some pretty sad but not surprising news: The majority of the Motor City's charter high schools underperform the city's traditional public schools, according to an