Lets face it. The Ohio legislature and Governor John Kasich protect failing charter schools from any accountability. Could large campaign contributions have anything to do with it?
Stephen Dyer reports the latest gambit.
he writes that:
“The worst-performing general education schools in the state — E-Schools — are not being counted by the state when they calculate the performance of sponsors. SO, for example, even though the Ohio Council of Community Schools sponsors two of the worst-performing schools in the state — the Ohio Virtual Academy and David Brennan’s OHDELA, the astounding number of Fs those schools get on the state report doesn’t count for OCCS’s rating. So the state says they’re academically perfect, even though OCCS gets $1.5 million in taxpayer money to oversee these schools.
“The other schools not counted? Dropout Recovery schools. So the schools David Brennan earns his money on aren’t counted on sponsor ratings? So that means that no sponsor should fear oversight of a horrible White Hat school, especially now that they’ll only be online schools or dropout recovery schools, because they won’t count.
“Amazing what $4 million will buy you these days, isn’t it?”
Remember: it’s all about the kids!
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There’s another problem with the layers before we get to the schools and it’s how we never hear from the principals running these schools.
I can’t tell you how odd this coming from a public school perspective. There just aren’t discussions about local public schools where the superintendent and/or principal isn’t heard from, and that applies to both good and bad incidents or developments.
It’s truly bizarre when you realize one of the justifications for this was “principals would run schools because we’d get rid of those nasty labor unions and divisive elected school boards”
Where ARE these school managers? Who are they?
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It’s the “Politics Of Rampant Criminal Corruption” (PORCC)
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Here we have more “cooking of books” from the state so they can assist corporate America with its crooked plans. This is political hand washing and collusion. Voters of Ohio; wake up!
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And, Kasich thinks he’d be a great President. His behavior needs to be exposed. We try. We tried. He still got reelected by those who don’t care what he does simply because he has an R by his name. I am not being snotty. I worked the polls. People came in knowing nothing about the issues. Nothing. They said so. They only wanted to vote straight R. No one who was voting for Dems asked a question about how to do that. But countless people said, “I only vote for Rs”… So we have a clown for governor.
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Many of those that vote “straight R” are voting against their own self interests. One of the reasons we want to educate young people is so they can be responsible citizens. I wish there were more critical thinkers among the voters. Fewer people are voting because they feel they don’t have a voice. Apathy allows the “straight R” crowd to win elections.
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