Stephen Dyer, senior fellow at Innovation Ohio, writes that Ohio’s public schools overwhelmingly outperform its charter schools.
“Under Ohio law, school districts that score in the bottom 5 percent on the state’s “performance index score” are elligible to have charter schools open in those communities. Trouble is that 9 out of 10 charters currently score worse on the performance index score than the median district did to receive this “challenged school district” designation. http://bit.ly/2ybBV2b”
Calling Betsy DeVos! I know you are “not a numbers person,” but please don’t push failure.
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Betsy will continue to push her agenda because to her that agenda has nothing to do with teaching children, but with controlling who they teach by any means possible and what is taught.
For instance, creationism over science and polluting the air, soil, and water while claiming that carbon emissions are not causing or contributing to global warming even if those carbon emissions are polluting the air we breathe, the water we drink and the soil we grow our food in. Betsy will never admit that carbon emissions cause disease and shorten lifespans because that by itself is enough justification to get rid of carbon emissions.
Global warming will turn the environment hostile to life as we know it on the planet and lead to a massive extinction event that will include most if not all humans.
Carbon emissions only cause disease and shorten lifespans but don’t threaten life on earth as we know it, and that is okay for people like Trump, the Koch brothers, anyone that belongs to ALEC, the Walton family, and Betsy, because they can afford to live anywhere they want far from the worst pollution.
Charters are an enormous failure in Ohio as measured by the state’s own metric. This news should make political leaders change course, but it won’t. “Reform” is not for the benefit of students; it is for the benefit of corporations and the 1%. The goal is privatization, and the usurping of public dollars. The politicians will continue to support it as long as they are receiving donations to do so.
Too many post-political office golden parachutes to deploy for them to actually do something in the public interest.
Ohio has problems!
Read: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. OMG!
Where is the Gov Kasich now?? You won’t hear the gov of Ohio talking about how bad his charter schools are performing. That’s right folks we are living in such a fake world / country that the evidence is in our faces every day!!
The fact that the charter schools are low performing and cannot beat out the public schools is hysterical but yet people like Kasich and Devos will try to put a “spin” on the facts and give us some more bull crap. The beat (dead) goes on.
Kasich is a 65 year old out of touch gov who thinks he knows education. Kasich is the same fella who wanted all the teachers in the state of Ohio to attend a “business’ and observe how businesses operate!!!! But when Kasich was confronted saying he should attend a “school” nad observe how schools are run Kasich ran for the hills.