Maureen Reedy, a veteran teacher and a teacher of the year in Ohio, has been fighting valiantly against the privatization movement in Ohio.
In this article that she wrote in the Columbus Despatch, she demonstrates how charters of low quality have diverted billions of dollars from the state’s public schools.
Consider:
“While 77 percent of Ohio’s public schools were successful last year (rated Excellent with Distinction, Achieving or Effective), only 23 percent of Ohio’s charters were successful (rated Effective or Achieving). So 77 percent of Ohio’s public schools are receiving A’s, B’s and C’s while 77 percent of Ohio’s charter schools are receiving D’s and F’s. And the bottom 111 performing schools last year? All were charter schools.”
And consider this:
““Following the money” also leads us to family-run charter-school operations with hefty salaries and few education credentials, including multimillion-dollar salaries for the CEOs of Ohio’s two largest charter-school chains, David Brennan of White Hat Management Co. and William Lager of Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow. Our tax dollars also are going to pay for advertising campaigns to recruit students to attend their underperforming charter schools.”
And here is a fact that is very odd: When public money goes to charters in Ohio, there is no transparency or accountability. It mysteriously transformed into private money belonging to the charter operator.
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which sponsors charters in Ohio, disagrees with Reedy. It says that most charter schools are not for-profit (although the two that Reedy mentions are reaping huge profits), and that the number of failing charter schools and failing district schools are about the same.
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The response points out two courts have decided Ohio charter budgets must be public info. It also includes the following:
” In the end, the truth is this: Ohio has too many low performing schools, both district and charter—and that too many of these low performing schools are found in Ohio’s inner-cities. This is quite simply the “achievement gap” between Ohio’s disadvantaged and advantaged students. Some schools, both district and charter, are resolving the achievement gap, but many more are failing. Accepting this reality—and neither sugarcoating nor misrepresenting the performance of either charter or district schools—is the first step toward engineering better public policies that improve public education for all of Ohio’s students.”
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This is a fair statement and hopefully we can be returned to common sense and an improved public system of education. The Charters, are in my opinion, sorting schools/mecanisms to find the best and brightest (I hate that term) for the academic, math, science, and technology race across the world moved by government. The greed and money market share part of this is moved by privitized entrepreneurs looking for the education slice of the pie. Both believing themselves to be right in their pursuit of their own goals and objectives. This is not about a caring for those left behind. That will not take long because they don’t need that many of the big bang theory brains they are looking to harness.
The unintended consequences could be what is left in the wreckage of this well constructed reform movement. The awakening of the masses of professionals and parents who will have to pick up the pieces and make a better educated society by their own hand and
decision making and risk taking.
Opting out of the torture of child numbing tests is a good start. Exposing media to it’s own coverup while we still have some internet exposure is yet another. Remembering that we are the greatest number, the taxpayers (they keep downloading our money but the country still needs to run on roads and over bridges etc. and we pay for that), and we can sit down together and say enough is enough! Even if it is for the short while they are taking to find our higher level thinking skilled students, we can be working to increase our own creative bright thinkers (some take a little longer but are well worth the input, but they forget the importance of the these very able students and the humanity needed to develop other students). Collectively we are better then the elitist believe us to be and important to each other who are nearly the whole.
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I can say that I work for a pretty massive charter school system state-wide in Ohio. We just received a mandate to have no new teaching supplies–consumables only.
We keep opening new schools.
They say they can’t afford raises for us or supplies because with co-teaching: two salaries= less money for other things.
We are non-profit, but our CEO a few years back had a 75% paycut (he was almost at a 400k salary). The former CEO was caught embezzling funds.
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Reminder: Non profit does not mean low pay for those at the top of the CMO food chain, non profit is a tax classification, nothing more. In districts with multiple CMO’s, one has to look at total expenditures of tax dollars for all charter CEO and management pay and see what the ratio is between that and public school costs for the same thing.
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