Two low-performing for-profit Imagine charter schools in Fort Wayne, Indiana, were supposed to close because of their poor academic records. But instead of closing, they are merging with Horizon Christian Academy, where students will be encouraged to apply for vouchers.
Karen Francisco, the editorial page editor of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, says that we now know that school “reform” has nothing to do with accountability as this move enables failing charters to evade any accountability for their performance.
Meanwhile, some public schools in Indiana are closing because of budget cuts.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
There is no real charter accountability. It is a corporate shell game. Chaneg names, merge, continue to siphon public money at the child’s expense.
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But there is hope. Lousiana just passed a reverse parent trigger that allows parents to petition for the return of continually “failing” state-run schools back to the original district. And most of the state-run schools are charters.
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The question is: Will Jindal sign it into law?
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Howard Fuller did the opposite with his failing school, he took it from voucher to charter: http://millermps.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/questions-concerning-howard-fuller-charter-proposal-to-milwaukee-common-council/
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Schneider is correct about Louisiana and the blowback to Jindal and his corporate goofyness. Read the DOE OIG report on the total lack of accountability of charter schools in Florida, Arizona and California. This report is Ed-OIG/A02L0002. It is the same everywhere and this is the tool to use along with the Stanford Credo Report. Interesting new twist to the game they are playing we need to keep this in our memory as one of their tricks.
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It is the best con going-a total racket.
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