surprise surprise suprise

People want to do good things. They think they can do good things. They pretend they did the good things. There are a lot of people who just can't admit to failure, a lot of crooks and between the two kinds of people, a lot of money is being wasted on charter schools.

Public school systems should allow for and implement more variety in the structure and offerings of their schools. But private charter schools are not the answer.

Liberalizing and permitting more innovation and experimentation in public schools is. The job of educating our young children is too important, too sensitive to entrust to private groups and individuals. And that much public money should not be put in the hands of private organizations.

Theft of public money.
Anybody gonna chase them for it??

could have guessed that there were people out there who would claim something false to get taxpayers' money?

that there's gambling going on in this establishment.

Prefect Renault - Casablanca

you can bet Republicans are behind it.

this sounds like Fraud.

It should be very, very high. Does it come with criminal charges?

I can not tell you about the USA. Perhaps another DUr can say....

Are you fucking kidding? Charter schools have nothing to do with quality education.

Also, shouldn't this be turned over to the state Atty General? Looks like fraud to me.

turning this over to the AG means turning it over to Mike Dewine, an ass-hatted Repuke nutjob.

I weep for my home state. Ohio is now 100% run by the crazy ass T-bagging right and corporate Repukes. Dems better get their shit together in Ohio.

The Mega churches, T-baggers, corporate whores, gun nuts, and racist have teamed up to give Repukes a large un-checked majority to do whatever the fuck they want to do.

Sadly, this all goes back to 2010, where the Obama coalition stayed home and gave Repukes complete control following a Census year.

Let me say that again...by not supporting Democrats in 2010, REPUKES GAINED COMPLETE CONTROL FOLLOWING A CENSUS YEAR

Hmmmm, what happens after a Census? Could it be that district maps are re-drawn?

We fucked ourselves over for a generation....a generation that is going to be educated by Koch Brother teachers.

Ain't nobody there to hear it.

I have watched Republicans and the churches take over this state for the past 40 years. Sending this to the AG means Mike DeWine, who is as nasty a Rethug as they come. The whole state is run by Rethugs. Kasich will be on the short list for Vice President you can be sure. His buddies and contributors are the ones running these jokes for schools, most of them in abandoned strip mall storefronts in really bad neighborhoods. I agree with the last line in the post. This country is fucked!

cheap facilities, located next to a Subway or convenience store, teachers are unqualified and poorly paid, kids sit in front of a computer, there's no caf or caf lady. Deplorable. Sorry to hear about Ohio's entrenched RW political and church leadership. Great state, I lived on the Ohio River in WV.

We are all paying tax dollars for this scam called the "Charter Schools" in some form or fashion, from state to state and its about greed pure and simple.
Delaware, for example just had a reporting that two official's at a charter school had used "credit cards" which were suppose to be issued and used for the "charter school" they had been making car payments. Then when the state does an audit the charter school had no accountants to audit the books---I mean really, you just can't make this stuff up.
And the right wing wants to privatize our education for greed and let a corporation run the program and they want to dismantle the Department of Education---I mean really, we are now at 17 and falling, twenty years ago we were number 1.
And the right wing republicans say that the education department is a waste of tax payer dollars----my answer ------prove it, the facts speak otherwise

.... ALEC/Koch-governor Pence announced almost at the same time that he's moving $50 MILLION from the general ed fund to further fund new charter scams, uh, I mean schools in the next year.

If that fraudulent attitude were true, there wouldn't be fucking goddamn charters. They'd work with the public schools that needed the help to get them to improve. What an absolute pile of shit. Fuck charters through and through. Am I clear?

PROFITIZATION.

These charter schools know what they're doing,
those students don't exist.

They may have been there on the first day of school,
but have since gone back to public schools, but why
report it if we're making money solely on the number?

Depending on the state, they're not allowed to go on a public school ground if they're in charter school. Most likely, those students are hanging out during the day at the malls or the parks - or working under the table at "family" businesses or babysitting their younger siblings to help their families out.

There are a few "alternative" teacher-run or educational co-op type charters that are basically a home-school check-in/mentoring center where gifted or special needs students are allowed to show up for an hour or two a week to get assignments and hand them in - or sign up for field trips or lab time - but finding a good charter school that purports to use that model is very difficult, and not every student that is gifted or special needs will do well in those.

When the kidlet went to one of those a couple years ago, they let her slide into abject failure without attempting any counseling or intervention - and they were considered one of the best accredited charters that had arrangements with the local UC system to provide "hands on experience" for the education majors and TFA-bound students. She was genius-smart - but she suffered from severe depression, PTSD, and a particularly nasty streak of parental defiance - and she couldn't function without a strict rule-set to keep her focused. If she didn't do the work at the classroom with a dedicated teacher on hand to tell her what she wanted to hear and keep her from falling apart when things got a bit difficult, the work just would not get done - or would get forgotten or never turned in if she did manage to finish it.
Public schools couldn't handle her, and to do what was required for her to succeed at that charter - create an IEP and have her stick to it - would be too unprofitable for them.

However, if I had gone to a charter school like hers when I was her age, I would have graduated when I was 15 or 16.

Haele

iff a school is not providing a quality education, then we need to take a close look at that school and work with them to make sure they improve.”

It is fraud stupid...Charging for services not preformed.

Actually, a student MAY be receiving a better quality education by self-directed study. But that's no reason to throw money at any lying school.

Charter schools only exist to take funds away from established brick and mortar schools. The war on education has been happening for quite some time.

But we're all to busy with making ends meet to pay attention to anything outside of our day to day because it's set up that way. Makes it impossible for most folks to pay any attention to anything unless it's a soundbite. Unaware that the future generation is being set up to fail.

Charter Schools = Corruption

And I have complete and total contempt for anyone
who steals money that is intended to go toward
the education of our children.
What utter scum they are.
Come on MadFloridian, help spread the word!!

... NO. You need to arrest the people in charge for fraud, and establish schools that children can actually attend.

Why is it that when a Public School is struggling or in terrible disrepair, the "wingnuts" first response is to trash the teachers, blame the unions, gnash their teeth about the children falling behind, and do all in their power to take even more money from education...and yet, when there is actual fraud at a Charter School, the response is; "well, we have to work with them to make them better"?

Could it be that when Public Schools are struggling, the teachers say; "hey, quit fucking cutting our funding to bare bones, and do your fucking job and fix the falling down schools" - and when a Charter School obviously screws over kids and the taxpayers, the Charter School say; "here, have a few million more in campaign donations...now run along"?

I'm thinking the answer to that is; Yes

I hope people as taxpayers realize what is being taught as fact in these schools already in some states
Signed,
A parent who had to get the kids out of this madness
(yes it is costing us but would have cost our kids their critical thinking and logic skills)

We get them every year (public school).