Charter schools are not public schools. They are private schools that contract with the state.
This week, a charter school in Southfield, Michigan, announced it was closing three weeks before the end of the school year. Staff and students were stunned.
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/258195926-story
Taylor International Academy closed abruptly on Wednesday.
No doubt, Betsy DeVos would say that’s the way the free market works.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Senator Elizabeth Warren just launched “Devos Watch”.
Here’s it’s premiere video:
Here’s Warren’s editorial accompanying that launch:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/opinions/devos-watch-opinion-warren/
Here’s Warren talking about it on her U.S. Senate website:
https://www.warren.senate.gov/devoswatch/
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National ed reformers are promoting Indianapolis as a national model for privatizing schools.
This cheerleading struck me as odd because I have family there and I don’t get any sense charter schools are considered better than public schools, locally. It reminds me of Ohio, where charter schools were lauded at the beginning but then reality started to intrude.
Looks like more inflated claims and hype:
“Of the Indianapolis public high schools that saw the lowest ISTEP passing rates this year, most were charter schools, including some that were taken over by the state years ago for consistently low test scores.”
Many of these schools are operated by national for-profit charter management companies, despite how we always hear that charters are non-profit.
The charter may be non-profit. The management company isn’t.
The worst performing schools are the “blended learning” schools where teachers are replaced with screens and cheap, canned, computer-delivered test prep.
Betsy DeVos thinks “blended learning” is the future of education. God help children if it is. It’s just a cheap replacement for teachers.
http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/in/2016/11/22/indianapolis-charter-high-schools-rank-near-the-bottom-on-the-2016-istep/
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I love the blatant contradictions of ed reform. The two LA pro-charter candidates bent over backwards to distance themselves from the idea that they seek to privatize every school. They assured voters they would also represent public school parents.
Ed reformers are doing their best to make liars out of them. The whole ed reform discussion around LA is now “charters won! public schools lost! yay!”
https://www.the74million.org/article/whitmire-money-hustle-good-candidates-won-la-vote-for-ed-reformers-but-tougher-fights-lie-ahead-2?utm_content=buffer6f279&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
So what gives? Were the school board candidates lying when they told the public they would support public schools? Because that’s what they said- they both denied they were “pro charter candidates”
Ed reform really has to decide. It’s okay to be opposed to public schools but for goodness sakes INFORM public school parents and children of this ideological position. We deserve to know if the public employees we are paying are opposed to our children’s schools. We deserve at least that.
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And is anything happening back in DC over these closings and owners getting rich over these scam bogus schools at taxpayer expense?
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D.C. and the Billaries started the demise of public education. The folks in D.C. Live in a permanent bubble. Plus, the D.C. folks USE PEER PRESSURE! Sick. D.C. Is interested in their monied interests.
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The market will correct .Because markets are efficient . LOL The message to consumers of education should be send your kid to a charter at your own risk.
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Buyer beware.
It is exactly the way an unregulated market works. Get ready for depression/recession/run away speculation high times cycle.
Won’t be stress free for anyone but super billionaires.
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For us peeons it will be stress free when we die!
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Oh – Can’t wait to hear how Betsy DeVos will respond to this “Best for Kids” opportunity for choice and blended learning.
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According to its June 30, 2016 audit, the school’s new management company discovered that “unbeknownst to the board” the school had $400,000 in accounts payable.
Wait, what?! Unbeknownst to the board?
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