End Charter Schools! Consider Creative Ways to Address Schooling
It’s time to end the charter school experiment.
Put successful charters under the supervision of the nearby school district. Charters not working well should close. No charter school should get tax dollars without oversight. This should be for both for-profit and nonprofit charter schools.
Charter School Scandals
On twitter, educators and parents can follow the Network of Public Education’s (NPE) #AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal. Executive Director Carol Burris and her team also have several reports outlining how taxpayers lose their money to corruption involving charter schools.
More recently Burris and Jeff Bryant provided a new NPE report “Asleep at the Wheel: How the Federal Charter Schools Program Recklessly Takes Taxpayers and Students for A Ride” showing more proof that this nation wastes money on corrupt charter schools.
It is appalling we permit these schools to run without oversight.
A Recent Charter School Scandal
In California, eleven people responsible for an online charter school serving students in 13 charter schools were recently indicted on criminal charges of conspiracy. They put the money into their bank accounts instead of the schools! It looks like A3 Education bilked the public $50 million.
As this scandal continues to unfold, somewhere in California’s public schools, teachers CONTINUE READING: End Charter Schools! Consider Creative Ways to Address Schooling
