Here's a website that collects news items about charter school scandals at the end of each month. There's like one a day. Theft, fraud, "financial irregularities," sudden closures. Charter schools are truly the Wild West, little oversight or transparency networkforpubliceducation.org/another-day-an…
One of my guiding beliefs that a society should provide its children with a non-janky education system
Personally I think we should stop letting incestuous networks of LLCs registered to empty units in anonymous suburban office parks educate entire subsequent generations of people
These guys in California stole $50 million of public money by doing stuff like backdating student enrollment, signing kids up for a fake online summer school, transferring students without their consent to cook the attendance books, etc courthousenews.com/eleven-charged…
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
I've long struggled to grasp how charter schools turn a profit and for whom. Yesterday I spoke to somebody at @Network4pubEd who helped me wrap my mind around one aspect of it. I'll publish that interview later but first let me spell this out:
Okay so most charter schools have to be nonprofits. These nonprofits get public money, and what they do with that money is theoretically subject to all kinds of regulations. They're meant to use it to run a school, which involves paying for goods/services that should be itemized
But one of the items on their itemized list is often "management services," often provided by a for-profit company. Thus the nonprofits sweep public money, sometimes most or even ALL of it, into a for-profit management company which is far less regulated and transparent