Stephen Dyer of Innovation Ohio reports on the latest comparisons between charters and public schools.
“Here are the toplines:
“72.5 percent of all state charter funding went to charters that DO NOT outperform the local school district.
“Nearly 1 in 3 charter schools receive all their state funding from higher performing local school districts.
“50 percent of the charter dollars that leave the Youngstown Schools go to charters that perform worse on the state report card.
“80 percent of all money sent to eSchools came from higher performing local school districts.
“92 percent of Ohio school districts (563 of 609) received less per pupil state funding because of the way Ohio funds its charter schools.
“Here’s my blog about the report and some more about its methodology: http://bit.ly/1RiretJ
Stephen Dyer
Education Policy Fellow
Innovation Ohio
35 E. Gay St.
Columbus, OH 43215
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This post focuses on facts, not the bogus assertions associated with the charter industry. Citizens in Ohio should familiarize themselves with this data because, it shows that charter schools have not had a positive influence on education. In fact, charters are causing harm to the more effective public schools by diminishing their resources. It shows the negative impact that corruption causes as policymakers, in the pocket of the charter industry, toss more taxpayer money into the black hole of charters. It is time to stop the madness!
“In addition, Duncan will support the XQ Institute and the XQ Super School Project, an Emerson Collective project that proposes to reimagine high school. The program includes a grant competition open to all communities; nearly 700 applications have been submitted. The first grants are slated to be announced in the summer.”
That’s a shame. I don’t think we should have the same set of well-connected, elite ed reformers “redesigning” public high schools.
Can they really not find anyone who attended or worked in a public high school? Someone who didn’t work in the Bush or Obama Administrations?
Why are all of these orgs run by the same rotating cast of people? We just had 7 years of Duncan driving public school policy. Can someone else weigh in? Maybe someone who actually sends their kids to public school and didn’t attend an Ivy League college?
In answer to the “why”, the Center for Media and Democracy published information a couple of days ago, describing DFER’s tentacles.
I have a really disruptive idea for education reform- campaign finance. Bust up the giant campaign/lobbyist industry and let these people campaign on actual accomplishments for their constituents.
It will put a lot of very well-compensated people out of work, but such are the sacrifices we all have to make for disruptive innovation.
…but such are the sacrifices we all have to make for disruptive innovation..
Chiara: You are in rare and wonderful form today.
This caught my eye in the linked blog posting by Stephen Dyer:
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And for those who think it’s unfair to compare charter and district (rather than building) performance, here is how WestEd classified Ohio charters in a 2009 report it did on the state’s administration of federal charter school grants:
“As a public school district, community schools are subject to State and Federal accountability requirements, which are reported on a Local Report Card.” (my emphasis)
You can’t call charters districts for payment and grant purposes, then ask that they be compared with the lowest performing school buildings for accountability purposes.
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That is the way rheephorm rolls: one standard for me and mine, another for thee and thine. For example, charters are public when it comes to garnering $tudent $ucce$$ but private entities when it comes to student & parent rights and the right of staff to unionize.
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