Columbus Has 17 Charter School Failures In One Year
Photograph; Sam Greene | Dispatch | The school on S. 6th Street is one of four Olympus schools shuttered.
Felony theft, filth, and failure to meet payroll, and still, the public funds keep coming. A sponsorship is all you need and regardless of your record you too can become a Charter School founder. Your doors will remain open and the children will keep on giving, but let enrollment numbers fall and you will not be forgiven! Such is the state of the Ohio Charter School union. “A couple of players with standards that are not up to par,” will spoil the bunch, or add to the confusion. Should the 134 have ever opened? What caused the closes? Will the taxpayers’ recover their millions? Sure precious time was presumably wasted; but what of the minds of our children? Should there be a proposal for possible fines? Maybe. And might that too be brushed aside as … “It’s a hazard of the business”?
By Jennifer Smith Richards and Bill Bush | Originally Published at Dispatch. Sunday January 12, 2014 8:44 AMColumbus Has 17 Charter School Failures In One Year
Photograph; Sam Greene | Dispatch | The school on S. 6th Street is one of four Olympus schools shuttered.
Felony theft, filth, and failure to meet payroll, and still, the public funds keep coming. A sponsorship is all you need and regardless of your record you too can become a Charter School founder. Your doors will remain open and the children will keep on giving, but let enrollment numbers fall and you will not be forgiven! Such is the state of the Ohio Charter School union. “A couple of players with standards that are not up to par,” will spoil the bunch, or add to the confusion. Should the 134 have ever opened? What caused the closes? Will the taxpayers’ recover their millions? Sure precious time was presumably wasted; but what of the minds of our children? Should there be a proposal for possible fines? Maybe. And might that too be brushed aside as … “It’s a hazard of the business”?
By Jennifer Smith Richards and Bill Bush | Originally Published at Dispatch. Sunday January 12, 2014 8:44 AMAt the beginning of 2013, one long-struggling charter school closed. Over the summer, five more did. And in the fall, 11 more Columbus charters closed their doors, most of them brand new.
That’s 17 charter schools in Columbus closed in one year, which records show is unprecedented.
“It shows the power of a couple of players with standards that are not up to par really affecting an overall market,” said Chad Aldis, a vice president at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which sponsors 10 charter
