Saturday, October 22, 2011

Can New Jersey’s Virtual Charter School Profit Gambit Bring be Duplicated in Florida? | Scathing Purple Musings

Can New Jersey’s Virtual Charter School Profit Gambit Bring be Duplicated in Florida? | Scathing Purple Musings:

Can New Jersey’s Virtual Charter School Profit Gambit Bring be Duplicated in Florida?

From New Jersey.com’s Leslie Brody:

A proposal for a virtual charter school based in Teaneck that would end its first year with $4.7 million of taxpayer money left in the bank has sparked concern and calls Friday for deeper scrutiny.

State Sen. Richard Codey, D-Essex, said the proposal sounded like a “business, plain and simple.”

“With all the people out of work, there are going to be more applications for this … to get rich real quick,” he said.

A proposal for the Garden State Virtual Charter School, filed with the state on Monday, seeks to