A comment from a reader in Arizona who read the earlier report about the private schools for children with disabilities that fleece New Jersey taxpayers.
The reader writes:
“AZ has just as much, if not more, corruption. The administrators for BASIS schools (a charter school, most likely invading your area) make six figures and created a for profit corporation to run their schools, so now no one knows how much they make. The bookkeeper for the school is related and lives in the Czech republic. Similar to other charters, they cherry pick their students.
We also have a state legislator, Steve Yarbrough, who runs a Student Tuition organization. An STO receives money for scholarships to private schools and sends the money to the school. Yarbrough regularly votes on legislation that benefits him, so he is able to legally pocket 10% of the funds funneled through his STO, receive rent from a space owned by him, and (surprise) act as the STOs legal counsel.
http://arizona.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/steve-yarbrough-landlord.html
http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/model-to-avoid-arizonas-tuition-tax-credit-law
When they call AZ the wild west, they’re not kidding.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
What a frightful contest – perfect for the month of October, I suppose. So many strong contenders. Indiana, Florida, Illinois (Chicago, at least), New York (
City for sure, maybe State), Michigan, North Carolina, California (LA, at least). I’m not much on the “everyone gets a trophy” sorts of competitions, but I’ll make an exception in this case – they all deserve a trophy.
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ah ha! Something you and Rhee agree on. I believe her entire agenda is based on disgust at the “everyone gets a trophy” mentality.
Time to find the common ground, huh?
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Re: “they all deserve a trophy”
They sow atrophy and they reap atrophy.
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Aficionerdos of COI Distress know that Michiguna has automated the advance of corporate cronyism to a high degree of seemless perfection.
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The state of trusting in corporate reform.
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TAGO!
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Yes, This is something I tried to address in earlier posts about BASIS schools. State law in Arizona requires Public School Districts to use bids when purchases with one vendor exceed $5000. That’s total expenditures for all schools in the district during on school year. They waived that requirement for Charters because, supposedly, they are more trustworthy and know what’s best. I remember reading that BASIS directed 11 million of it’s 13 million dollar budget to family run businesses.
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Read the DOE OIG report on the total lack of accountability of charter schools in Florida, Arizona and California. When it comes to charter school fraud you have a three way tie and the study was only these three states. We believe that this is everywhere from what we read nationwide and the reports seem to match to total lack of accountability. That is why I ask you to read the DOE OIG report and to report back to the Ravich Blog whether your state does the same things so we can get a better understanding of the widespread nature of this problem. Since they do not want to tell us we have to do it ourselves.
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“. . . you have a three way tie and the study was only these three states.”
Not bad 100% lacking accountability. That’s the way it was bought off to be, so the supporters (old used unwashed ones) succeeded in doing their job 100%. Sounds good from the deformer perspective.
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Which report is it? Do you have a link? I’m looking at the site and don’t know which one to look at. Help!
Thanks!
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Hello, Diane,
Congratulations–Reign of Error is having greatly-needed impact! Thank you.
I’ve posted my review for Anton Community Newspapers, a chain of 18 weeklies covering New York’s Nassau County and the Gold Coast of Long Island.
http://www.antonnews.com/features.html
*Stop The Educational Insanity* *Diane Ravitchs new book **combines heart with the ultimate fact-check*
If you want to do one thing this year for our children, our nation and our future, buy a copy of Diane Ravitchs brilliant and engaging new book,*Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to Americas Public Schools* (Knopf, $27.95).
It is a best-seller that is destined to change the course of American education everywhere, suburban, urban and rural schools alike. When I started reading it, I was humbled, excited and sad.
Humbled by the depth of her commitment to the nations children. Excited that she put everything into one volume. And sad that her book is necessarybecause what that says about our elected leaders and their perspective on children and education is distasteful and victimizes too many children.
Ravitch wrote this book to document, with the research of a scholar (charts and statistics she is a distinguished Ph.D.), why our nation is taking the wrong path in education.
As she puts it, school reformers are putting the nations children on a train that is headed for a cliff. This is the right time to stand on the tracks, wave the lanterns and say, Wait, this wont work! But the reformers say, Full speed ahead! aiming right for the cliff.
Her thoroughly documented position, attested to by millions of parents, teachers and taxpayers across the county, is that what began as a movement for testing and accountability has turned into a privatization movement.
Elected and self-appointed education reformers have lost sight of the diagnostic purpose of tests, and use test results to claim that our public education system is broken. Now, that mantra of broken schools has become an excuse to turn public education into schools run for profit.
The headlines we read about how bad schools are, how bad teachers are, how important charter schools are, dont have a factual basis. These notions are propaganda underwritten by some of the nations wealthiest businesspeople who believe that education should be run like a business, with efficiency, spreadsheets and bottom-line profits as the driving forces. Are the kids learning? Only the spreadsheet knows.
The corruption and malfeasance behind this are rankand all documented in Reign of Error.
As she says, her premise is straightforward: You cant do the right things until you stop doing the wrong things. If you insist on driving that train right over the cliff, you will never reach your hoped-for destination: excellence for all. Instead, you will inflict harm on millions of children and reduce the quality of the education.
Ravitch provides solutions in the very first chapter, admittedly so that you dont have to wait to the end to start making a difference. Her advice is to take better care of our children. Treat them like children, love them and guide them. Giggling is allowed. Kids need to be healthy, and poverty is the number one enemy of education.
Chapter by chapter her book refutes the nonsense that reformers disperseshe provides summary facts, claims versus reality statements, and solutions, at the head of each chapter. And enough charts for the most data-obsessed reader.
*Facts:*
High school dropouts are at an all-time low, and high school graduation rates are at an all-time high.
Charter schools run the gamut from excellent to awful and are, on average, no more innovative or successful than public schools.
Virtual schools are cash cows for their owners, but poor substitutes for real teachers and real schools.
Poverty is highly correlated with low academic achievement.
*Solutions:*
Reduce class sizes to improve student achievement and behavior.
Eliminate high-stakes standardized testing and rely instead on assessments that allow students to demonstrate what they know and can do.
Devise actionable strategies and specific goals to reduce segregation and poverty.
Recognize the public education is a public responsibility, not a consumer good.
I cant convey her eloquence, dignity, and compassion. This erudite scholar is also very accessible. She is called Wonder Woman, Hercules, a national heroand Mom and Grandma.
Her book is an act of defiance, protest and revolution. And love.
Diane Ravitch is right, her cause is, indeed, the civil rights issue of our time.
*John Owens is editor in chief of Anton Community Newspapers, and author of Confessions of a Bad Teacher: The Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education (Sourcebooks, $13.99).*
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Diane Ravitch’s blog wrote:
> ** > dianerav posted: “A comment from a reader in Arizona who read the > earlier report about the private schools for children with disabilities > th
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I know that high school graduation rates are at an all time high, but I am curious about how to understand that number. Is there a minimum standard for graduation? What I have in mind is a statement that all high school graduates at least read at a 12th grade level, or perhaps a 10th grade level, or something lower. I have asked this a couple of times after a high school teacher claimed to have a large number of students who were reading at the 4th grade level, but have never had a response to this question.
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My understanding is that the NYT and the WSJ are written at about an 8th grade level, the Chicago Tribune is written at about a 6th grade level and the Chicago Sun-Times is written at about a 4th grade level. Assuming that’s correct, I think it’s reasonable to suggest that the majority of the population reads somewhere between a 4th and a 6th grade level, and it would be absurd to think that most people would or could graduate high school reading at a 12th grade level.
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You may well be correct that the majority of the population reads at a fourth to sixth grade level. Do you think that high school graduates have always read at a primary school level?
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Yes. In fact, I think historically the general population’s reading level has probably been lower. The thing about grade level reading is that it’s a bit like what Diane talks about with the NAEP. It sounds bad to say that “only” 30-something percent of students are “proficient”, until you realize that “proficient” is actually a very high score, equivalent to an A. It also sounds bad to say that most high school graduates don’t read at a “12th grade level”, but really 4th grade level is fully fluent for all daily needs and 8th grade level is very solid reading ability – most educated professionals read about that level. Very few people – mainly those who devote their lives to academia – will ever need to read more fluently than 8th grade level.
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Only about half of the adult population (25-64) had a high school degree in 1960, while the current figure is 90%. Do you think that increase in the number of high school graduates had an impact on the literacy or numeracy of the population or are we simply changing what we mean by “high school graduate” to ensure that almost everyone will be a high school graduate?
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Seems like Ms. Hale is upset that BASIS recently opened a K-6 just 8 miles from her school. Of course with embarrassing academic results like these at her school (D rated, one of the worst performing in Tucson), she has nothing to hide behind other than baseless accusations of cherry picking by the competition.
http://tusdstats.tusd.k12.az.us/paweb/aggd/schoolinfo/SchoolDetail.aspx?loc_code=287
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What do you mean “baseless accusations of cherry picking”? Simply by having an application process – even if admission is guaranteed or by lottery – automatically means that the children of the more functional and education-minded parents are skimmed out while children of the less functional and less educational-minded parents are left in the public school. Charter schools by definition cherry-pick.
And that’s not even addressing the issues about charters intentionally taking fewer (if any) children with disabilities and English language learners (and/or expelling or “counseling out” those they do take before test time).
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So self selection is the same as cherry picking?
Arizona is an open enrollment state. Would you accuse the districts that advertise to recruit a large number of open enrollees as cherry pickers too?
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So Dienne are district schools cherry picking under your definition?
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I looked at the link you posted. For those who do not know Tucson, that area is among the poorest in town. It is also heavily Hispanic, so many of the students will be ELL’s. What percentage of ELL’s attend BASIS? Listed under accomplishments, it notes that the school mainstreams exceptional students. To cite this, I’m surmising the school hosts a special program with targeted services for students with learning disabilities. How many students with learning disabilities, especially severe ones, attend BASIS? It is unfair to compare BASIS to a traditional public school that must accept every student who resides in a specific geographical area. When we only rate schools by test scores, and some schools can reject or counsel out students who don’t score well, such comparisons are not valid.
And, I noticed you never mention the way the Bocks get away with refusing to disclose how the money is spent. Aren’t you bothered by that?
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In addition to teachers, 2 principals, janitors, and kitchen staff, this school also has…
– Full time nurse and nurse assistant
– Gifted staff
– 4 playground teachers (Yes FOUR!)
– Librarian
– Counselor
– Psychologist
– 2 OT/PT staff
– 5 exceptional education staff
– 1 Reading and 2 Math tutors
– 2 Parent and Child Education staff members
– 2 Early Childhood Exceptional Education staff
– 2 Speech staff
– 12 Para professionals
– 5 other associated specialist and support staff
This school seems to check off all of the Reign of Error ‘solutions’ yet it still seems to be underperforming relative to its peers. Wonder how many more staff, dollars, and wrap around services it would take to get this school up to par?
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Cynthia, I don’t expect you to agree, or even to understand what I am writing here. The school alone cannot solve the problems of poverty. Read my book. Read the chapter on how poverty blights the lives of children and families and communities. Even Geoffrey Canada’s well-resourced Harlem Promise Academies are getting mediocre test scores, because the kids are very POOR. We lead the advanced nations of the world in child poverty. We are #1! That is shameful. Of course, poor kids should have the same advantages as your own children. But they should also have the other advantages that your children have: a safe neighborhood; a comfortable home; food on the table; good medical care; enough income to live without fear.
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Ms Ravith wrote…
“The school alone cannot solve the problems of poverty.”
Straw-man, no one ever said it expects schools to do this.
“Read the chapter on how poverty blights the lives of children and families and communities.”
You are stating the obvious.
“Even Geoffrey Canada’s well-resourced Harlem Promise Academies are getting mediocre test scores, because the kids are very POOR.”
Are these scores higher or lower than comparable schools?
“We lead the advanced nations of the world in child poverty. We are #1! That is shameful.”
And?
“Of course, poor kids should have the same advantages as your own children.”
Does that include access to a private school like education, like the one that BASIS is offering in DC?
“But they should also have the other advantages that your children have: a safe neighborhood; a comfortable home; food on the table; good medical care; enough income to live without fear.”
And?
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No public school in NYC has the resources available to Geoffrey Canada’s charter schools. No public school would ever kick out its entire entering class as he did. No public schools has $200 million in the bank.
The BASIS schools eliminate nearly half the children who enroll before they reach graduation. Some model.
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Cynthia, just looked at the stats of that school. How are they allowed to continue with the dramatically reduced scores in the school and against the district norms it is terrible. Read the DOE OIG study on Florida, Arizona and California non accountability for charter schools. This is an example of how they PORK their friends and who cares about the students lives as we got our green for free.
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Agreed, maybe Ms. Hale ( the source of the comment) could explain why her school is allowed to continue which such abysmal results.
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I wanted to correct my spelling. The founders of BASIS are the Blocks, not Bocks. But, since I’m writing again, I’ll ask you Ms Weiss, would BASIS accept and keep ALL the students from the school you say is “abysmal”?
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RetAZLib,
Look to BASIS DC for an answer. After being open for only one year…
“BASIS DC posted some of the city’s highest math and reading scores, according to results released last week, with 81 percent of students proficient in reading and 77 percent proficient in math.”
According to the Washington Post.
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Ms. Weiss, you failed to answer a perfectly clear and reasonable question. Touting a school’s test scores is meaningless unless you’re willing to answer questions about those students and how they compare with nearby public schools. Hint: BASIS is NOT serving the same students.
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Charter schools cherry pick students and parents, they do not follow most ed code and local regulations, they are unaccountable according to the DOE OIG report and our own data, they do not deal with behavioral problems, ESL and special education especially moderate to severe. What is the question about what they do? No question about the corruption of charter schools and those who are supposed to be overseeing them.
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In response to Ms. Weiss:
“The D.C. Public Charter School Board on Monday rejected a request from BASIS DC to expand, citing concerns about the high number of students who have withdrawn from the charter school since fall.”
“At the original campus of BASIS charter school in Tucson, the class of 2012 had 97 students when they were 6th graders. By the time those students were seniors, their numbers had dwindled to 33, a drop of 66%. At BASIS Scottsdale, the second campus opened, its class of 2012 fell from 53 in the 6th grade to 19 in its senior year, a drop of 64%. Those numbers aren’t unusual. Every year at those schools, the number of students dropped between 60% and 71% from 6th to 12th grade, based on the Average Daily Attendance data the schools submitted to the Arizona Department of Education.
“BASIS charter schools’ high school students do stunningly well in AP classes and on other data-based measures of student achievement. But not many people understand how the schools arrive at those high numbers. They winnow the weakest students year by year until only the most academically successful survive.”
These quotes are from the Cloaking Inequity article. You are not getting my point. I’m not saying we should not have choice in AZ; I’m saying the comparison you make is invalid because the student populations are very different. When a BASIS school takes over a school like Lynn/Urquides Elementary School, keeps all the same students, and then makes such high scores, then you can brag.
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Dr. Ravitch, among others, has argued that relatively high performing students learn more when they are in classes with other relatively high performing students.
1) do you think there are these positive peer effects?
2) if you think there are positive peer effects, how should society decide between giving a better education to the relatively high performing students or giving a better education to those that are not relatively high performing.
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Unlike many who post here, I believe in some types of tracking/sorting. My smart son was able to graduate from college a semester early, due to the AP classes he took in his traditional public high school. One time, he started the year in a general Chemistry class. He complained that the teacher “yelled” too much. Most of his high school experience was in Honors or AP classes; he didn’t have much experience in sharing a class with kids who didn’t want to be there or work hard. I just want Charter School supporters to stop claiming they have magic solutions that will work for ALL kids. BASIS is a high-standards, high-stress school. They should admit that their success has as much to do with the cooperation of ALL the parents and the hard work of ALL the students, as any teaching techniques they use. I’ve had BASIS parents follow-up my comments about this with: “Let the kids who can’t cut it here go back to regular public schools.”
By the way, TE, my son has a degree in Economics from the U of A. He got a good job and has already been promoted. Not bad, for a public school-educated kid.
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If your concern with charter schools is that they exaggerate their results, you are certainly one of the more moderate posters on the blog.
My concern is that the fate of gifted and talented students is dismissed here without much thought. Posts here often treated as a means to educate other students in the school rather than an end in themselves.
Economics is a great major. My middle son would be a great economist, but is a math major and almost certain to go to graduate school in mathematics. He to went to public school (as did I, my spouse, and all my children), though in the last couple of years in high school we had to piece together classes from a variety of sources.
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I agree that many here are not looking for common ground. My concern is that supporters of Charter Schools are not being honest about the segregation they are able to use. When all schools are judged by test score averages, and some schools can get rid of lower scoring students, the comparison is not valid. Ms. Weiss said a local school had “abysmal” results. I gave some background about the neighborhood and again raised the question about unfair comparisons. Discussions about comparing schools would be helpful if they weren’t being used in such high-stakes ways. Schools with some of the hardest or most expensive-to-educate kids are being closed and teachers are being fired. What happens to those students? On the other hand, we’ve neglected our brightest students for too long. That is a weakness of liberals, we don’t acknowledge that equality of opportunity does not always mean equal outcomes.
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I have made a few attempts to find the edge of the common ground here, but it has not proved successful. It seems to me that vertically everyone who post here believes that allowing students to choose some classes in high school is laudable, but very few think that allowing a first grader to choose a school is a poor idea (unless the first grader’s family is willing and able to attend private school). I had hoped to have a discussion about where the common ground crumbled under are feet and why it happened, but there was little interest in the project.
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Honestly, TE, if you don’t understand the difference between selecting classes offered to all (with certain required prerequisites, perhaps) at a public school vs. choosing a school that pulls money away from public schools, then I don’t know how anyone here can help you.
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I am interested to find out where and why the consensus breaks down. For example, would you allow a high school student to take a class from outside of the school building? If so, who should decide if the student is allowed to do this? What criteria should be used? Who should pay the tuition for that class? If you require the school district to pay for the class, the school district sends resources out of the district (in my son’s case the tuition for one class went ultimately to K-12). If you require the family to pay, the opportunity is restricted to the relatively wealthy.
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Those scores are ‘abysmal’ relative to the Tucson school district and the state averages. I never compared the nearby BASIS to the school the school that Ms Hale (the cherry picker commenter) is Assistant Principal at.
You asked if BASIS can serve a low SES population, and it looks like it is trying to do that at BASIS DC, where the schools is over 50% black and showing some of the best scores in DC.
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If BASIS follows its pattern in Arizona, most of the kids will drop out or be kicked out before they graduate high school. They will end up back in the DC public school system. But hey, Rhee and Henderson fixed all the problems there, so they will get a great teacher in the DC system, right?
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RetAZLib,
As you can see, there is little interest in exploring the extent of common ground and trying to find the reasons that it stops where it stops. I think this is unfortunate as the discussion would do much to illuminate the reasons people have for holding their positions.
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I went to high school in Newark and was treated from an early age to some of the realities of New Jersey politics as shared in “The Sopranos.” (An alumni from my high school, Hugh J. Adonozio, used to come to our school once a year to give his good government speech — until he was indicated and sent up for his governmental work as mayor). My grandfather was a precinct captain for the Hague organization in Jersey City. When someone would mention, as we rode the train into New York on those old “Pennsylvania Railroad” electric trains I loved, that our family had gotten a lot of votes for FDR out of those cemeteries you pass heading toward Penn Station (the old one and the new, ugh), when younger I’d be shocked. Then some uncle would point out that for every dead person voting for the New Deal in Hudson County there was a cow in Huntington County voting Republican.
And then I came to Chicago to study… No culture shock at least. Even the vicious segregation was familiar. That was before a generation was taught not to use the routine white people words like depicted accurately in the writing of Mark Twain…
Ah, Chicago…
Chicago isn’t a state, but given the contributions of the Chicago plutocracy to the current mess we’re in, maybe we need to at least get an honorable mention. After all, Arizona only has those what’s her names? Chicago has RAHM, and the University of Chicago Charter Schools (which are getting part of that $10 million from the Crown billionaires), and UNO, and the “Chicago International Charter Schools”, and …
We gave the world Arne Duncan and Barack Obama and a couple of other recent Nobel Prize winners. Surely Chicago is the 52nd State… At least for this stuff.
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I think there are many different issues being discussed. The first is in reference to the way money is handled with different standards being afforded to charter schools with little to no transparency in the money trail. The public schools are held to a different and much more onerous standard. Money handled legally by charter schools is good business sense and allows for individuals to profit from tax dollars. Under current law, this would be considered fraud and embezzlement if the public school districts handled money in the same way. The second question is the student selection process. Student self-selection almost guarantees that students in charters have parents that are academically involved. In Basis Schools, the parents are extremely involved and eager for the “world class education”. Why other charter schools flounder (educationally) has more to do with a faulty business model and a focus on earnings without the requisite focus on education. Basis has taken a much more sophisticated approach in that they do provide an education and have used the AP test as their benchmark to prove this to academically focused parents who respond as expected, with an eagerness to gain this for their children. When you know more about the AP and school rankings, you can see how this can be manipulated. Struggling students and students who want more out of school than AP exams and limited club opportunities self-select out of the program annually which insures that even hard working, engaged students (including gifted students) will be gone when it comes time to take, and ace, the AP exams. This keeps the Basis schools at the top of the AP rankings and then the cycle repeats. Third, are the Basis schools all in neighborhoods where eager and bright students are not able to find challenging schools that meet their needs? No. It may be the case in DC and Tucson but in Scottsdale, Chandler, Ahwatukee, etc., there are many excellent schools that provide academic offerings for the top student as well as the struggling student. This also accounts for some of the attrition as the parents realize that Basis is not necessary in order to obtain a good to great education. The local schools include differentiated instruction, programs for gifted students, AP classes at the high school level every bit as challenging as Basis, opportunities at community college to earn college credit while in high school in addition to providing training courses for those students who prefer and are more suited to a skilled trade, and for students with learning disabilities and physical and emotional delays. This is all provided while also including sports, music, clubs, extracurricular activities, etc.. It is amazing what these schools do for such a wide variety of students. As charters were originally conceived to fill a gap and enhance education, charters are not required in these locations as the school districts are providing an excellent education, for all students.
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Duane Swacker, sorry I missed your comment with the request for the report. I searched this: DOE OIG report on the lack of accountability of charter schools. The report is ED-OIG/A02L002. You can email me at georgebuzzetti@gmail.com and I will attach and send if you want. I also have the child abuse laws for Calif and N.Y. and the Parent Trigger laws for Calif. and Florida which no one to this date on this blog has obviously read.
Now to the question at hand. Let me ask this “Name the school district or state that does take care of business properly.” This should make the job easier as most are run like criminal enterprises. Look at the iPad fiasco. School districts are paying over $2,500 and within a year shutting them down even in England where 1/2 did not work in a year. Or out of nowhere for only $384 for 3 years a district is leasing them. How does this happen? Corruption, is the answer and massive profits. We have prices for the iPads from $384 to lease for 3 years to $2,538 for a device in Texas and everywhere in between. Thanks to a commenter on the Ravich Blog posted was the Feb.12, 2013 Jaime Aquino Power Point on the electronic devices. In that power point on the same device there are 5 prices from $200 with a 5 year guarantee or $40/year/student to $1,598.57 with a 3 year guarantee and the board just approved $1,000/device without infrastructure for wifi and we just paid up to $30,000/classroom for internet connection and that is totally inflated. So why did we put it in to not use it? Big money for their friends so let’s spend another $500,000,000 for fun. They approved this without any terms and conditions almost at all. Board members are also lying to the public and I have lambasted them at the board and twice on talk radio. The document the parents sign does not say if you lose or damage you pay. It says if you WILLFULLY or NEGLIGENTLY lose or damage. This is a much higher legal standard. The board member lied or staff convinced the board member they had the proper document when they didn’t. I have the originals from a nice district official who does not like this as is usual. I have sympathy for long time employees from when a district was properly run having to finish their career without losing everything due to retribution. Not so much for new employees as I tell them this “Leave before they take your soul and it is too late.” Much of the tragedy here goes through me or some of my friends and it is getting old and must stop. This is happening everywhere I look nationwide and in other countries also especially if the U.S. has a large presence there.
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it’s Florida by a land slide, Palm Beach / Broward / Miami-Dade are a cesspool of corruption to the point that not being corrupt is frown upon. Just do a simple Google search.
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