The letter grades for Ohio schools were posted recently, and most charter schools in Summit County were rated F.
Across Ohio, 47% of 251 charters saw a drop in scores. In Summit County, with 9 charters, only two improved. The only charter to receive an A grade is run by the county, not entrepreneurs.
The other 7 charters in Summit County were rated F.
“Charter schools managed by for-profit companies reported the lowest test results.
“The lowest performers included: Imagine Leadership Akron on Romig Road, managed by Virginia-based Imagine Schools; STEAM Academy Akron, run by Mosaica Education, an international company; Main Street Preparatory Academy, managed by Florida-based Cambridge Education Group, which also runs [high-performiing] Colonial Preparatory Academy; and University Academy and the defunct Brown Street Academy, each managed by Akron-based White Hat Management.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
And now the campaign is on to pour millions into charter pre-schools.
For the marketing campaign intended to tap public funds for big profits see http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-seeds-of-achievement
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Last week when I was at a physical therapist, I began to speak to another patient about education. She was a business woman and felt that all public schools should be closed down and replaced by charters who will be able to teach students “more efficiently, cheaper and better.”. I told her, even before this article, that most research and statistics show that the majority of public schools show better performance. I mentioned the fact that no 8th grade students from Eva’s Success Academy made it into any specialized high school. Her answer was and I quote,, “I do not care if public schools get better scores, I still think charters are better.” No, this is not a good example of critical thinking!!!
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And it is assumed, these scores are from the GREAT political goals set by the GREAT politicians. How ludicrous. Does one laugh, cry, or vomit?
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Hey, anybody can teach, right?
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YEP!!
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Will the corporate owned and controlled media ever report the whole story?
I think we already know the answer. Corporations own the media. Corporations are pushing for-profit and even non-profit, private-sector Charters.
The key evidence is: corporations that do not answer to the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights the same way democratically run public schools must do. The public schools answer to the voters. The corporate run Charters only answer to CEO’s and share holders who want their share to increase in value through profits.
transparency versus opaqueness and money
democracy versus the oligarchs
The United States has been here before.
Is anyone watching the PBS series on the Roosevelts. The series started last Sunday with a two hour broadcast and will run for thirteen more Sundays. I think the billionaires who are taking over PBS missed the message this series reveals about their mirror-like predecessors from the late19th and early 20th centuries.
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Where do we find another trust buster? We could use some responsible people in power to care for the common good now. Despite his flaws, Theodore Roosevelt understood the danger of unbridled capitalistic greed.
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“A Lewis-Emanuel race would crystallize the split within the Democratic Party over the role of teachers unions. But the race isn’t likely to be solely — or even primarily — about education policy. While Emanuel is a supporter of charter schools who’s generally seen as being a reform-friendly, reformers don’t hurry to claim Chicago as a hotbed of change, which could blunt the election’s symbolic weight.
Instead, Lewis is likely to run on a broader populist platform that channels anger against Emanuel on a variety of fronts — a campaign similar to Zephyr Teachout’s against Andrew Cuomo in New York.
Emanuel’s disapproval ratings are at an all-time high: just 35 percent of voters approve of the job he’s doing. Still, the mayor has $8.3 million in campaign funds.”
I love the idea that the only people who care about public schools are “teachers unions”
It’s “teachers unions versus reformers”! Just forget about all those students, parents and community members. They probably didn’t even notice he closed their local schools and replaced them with charter schools, just like no one in Ohio has noticed the state is abandoning public schools and promoting charter schools, because, who cares, right?
Gosh, there must be a hell of a lot of teachers in Chicago if Emanuel is at 35% approval based solely on the opposition of “teachers unions”.
http://www.vox.com/2014/9/16/6152017/what-karen-lewis-rise-says-about-the-changing-politics-of-education
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