SHOCKER: Indiana Refuses to Give Three Indianapolis Schools to For-Profit Charter Chain
Indiana is a swamp of school choice corruption.
If you read this post, your hair might catch on fire if you are sensitive to things like ethics, honesty, and responsible stewardship of public money.
Seven years ago, the state superintendent of Indiana was a school choice firebrand named Tony Bennett. There was nothing he wouldn’t do to transfer public money from public schools to charter operators or religious schools. He was briefly riding high–the Thomas B. Fordham Institute named him the “reformiest of all reformers.” But then he came a cropper. An AP reporter unearthed the fact that he raised the grade of a charter school owned by one of his campaign donors. That was too much, even for the corrupt swamp overseen by Indiana Republicans. Bennett was defeated when he ran for re-election. Bennett promptly became State Commissioner of Florida. That gig lasted only weeks, and he had to resign because of the ethics problem he left behind in Indiana.
One of his decisions during his tenure in Indiana was to hand over three low-performing schools in Indianapolis to the for-profit chain called Charter Schools USA, which is CONTINUE READING: SHOCKER: Indiana Refuses to Give Three Indianapolis Schools to For-Profit Charter Chain | Diane Ravitch's blog
