Sunday, January 12, 2014

empathyeducates – Columbus Has 17 Charter School Failures In One Year

empathyeducates – Columbus Has 17 Charter School Failures In One Year:

  • The Talented Tenth Leadership Academy for boys and the Talented Tenth Leadership Academy for girls, both located near northeast Columbus and sponsored by the North Central Ohio EducationalService Center, were closed for health and safety reasons following several visits from department employees.
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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”?

Schools closing at alarming rate, costing taxpayers and disrupting the lives of hundreds of students

By Jennifer Smith Richards and Bill Bush | Originally Published at Dispatch. Sunday January 12, 2014 8:44 AM

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”?

Schools closing at alarming rate, costing taxpayers and disrupting the lives of hundreds of students

By Jennifer Smith Richards and Bill Bush | Originally Published at Dispatch. Sunday January 12, 2014 8:44 AM
At 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 
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