The charter-school lie: Market-based education gambles with our children
New proof that vouchers and charter schools don't reform education, just subject it to the whims of businessmen
TOPICS: EDUCATION, SCHOOLS, VOUCHERS, CHARTER SCHOOLS, NEA, MICHELLE RHEE, DIANE RAVITCH, EDITOR'S PICKS, BUSINESS NEWS, NEWS
(Credit: Lightspring via Shutterstock/Salon)Just 10 days into a new academic year, classes were abruptly over at one North Carolina charter school this year.
In September, parents who had enrolled their children in Kinston Charter Academy received a letter from the principal directing them to take their children someplace else.
According to a local news report, a mere two days prior to those letters being received, the local board met in an emergency session to close the school after “low performance and disciplinary challenges made the enrollment numbers dwindle.”
Said one dismayed parent, “I feel like we should have got more notice. If they was going to close the school, they should’ve gone ahead and let us know that before we enrolled the kids.”
Meanwhile, folks at the North Carolina Justice Center are wondering what the school did with the $666,818 in state education funding it received in July that was supposed to last through