Bill Phillis of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy reports that public schools are welcoming back students who enrolled in the failed Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT).
He writes:
“Trumbull County school districts welcoming ECOT students back
“The public school district is the best choice-the real choice-for students. Misleading ads and false promises by the charter industry have enticed lots of students. Public school districts need to put out the welcome mat for ECOT students.
“After an expenditure of $10 billion and nearly two decades of low academic performance and graduation rates, it is clear the Ohio charter experiment is a failure. Public school districts are the best choice. Additionally, the scope of programs, services and curriculum in most charters is scant. And, of course, the industry is rife with scandal, double dealing, non-transparency, nepotism and inefficiencies.”
William L. Phillis | Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding | 614.228.6540 | ohioeanda@sbcglobal.net| http://www.ohiocoalition.org
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It is really hard for me to understand that this is an acceptable practice but yet a few years ago, teachers are sent to jail for helping students pass tests. Where is the justice?
There is no JUSTICE.
There is a MORALITY crisis in this country.
Justice & Morality are NOT the same. SAD.
Last time I checked there is not a conversation that involves Justice or Morality. Until there is then nothing will change.
“. . . there is not a conversation that involves Justice or Morality.”
I discuss both justice and ethics (a subset of morality I presume) in my book. “Infidelity to Truth: Education Malpractice in American Public Education”.
For a good discussion of truth in discourse (and politics and ed deform) see: https://thecrucialvoice.com/2018/01/21/political-conformity/#comment-6056
For without truth in discourse, there can be no justice, ethics or morality.
It’s worse than that.
Ohio lawmakers were and are so captured by the ed reform “movement” they grossly neglect their duties regarding the state’s public schools- the schools 90% of the families in the state use.
If you’re not a charter or a private school don’t bother the folks in Columbus. They’re not interested.
90% of public school families in Ohio have no advocates at the state level. Thank goodness for teacher’s unions. If it wasn’t for them we’d never have anyone speaking on behalf of public schools.
Here’s how public school families are treated in Ohio under ed reform governance:
” America’s public education system is “socialism” and should be privatized, the vice chairman of the Ohio House Education Committee wrote in a recent online column.
“We need to do something that was done about 25 years ago in the former Soviet Union and eastern bloc: sell off the existing buildings, equipment and real estate to those in the private sector,” wrote state Rep. Andrew Brenner, a Republican from Powell, on Brenner Brief News, a website operated by his wife.”
Public school families are paying thousands of state employees like Mr. Brenner- people who actively work to eradicate the schools our children attend. Not improve our schools, not support our schools, but eradicate them.
That public school families are actually PAYING these people to attack the schools their children attend is ludicrous, but that’s the extent of the capture.
“We need to do something that was done about 25 years ago in the former Soviet Union and eastern bloc: sell off the existing buildings, equipment and real estate to those in the private sector,” wrote state Rep. Andrew Brenner, a Republican from Powell, on Brenner Brief News, a website operated by his wife.”
The Russian oligarchy is definitely provides a model of school governance that we want to follow.
cx: The Russian oligarchy definitely provides…
Isn’t this where the Russian need for money laundering came in: the few stealing huge sums of public money as the Soviet Union fell and then buying real estate from New York “business” men as a means to launder their ill-gotten gains….
I think someone is Trumbull County is cashing in big.
And who would that be? Just curious, since these online students are being accepted back into public schools. I was born and reared in Trumbull County, although I don’t live there now. But … you know, just curious about who you think is “cashing in big?”
I’d say that the owner of ECOT cashed in to the tune of billions of dollars
I apologize, I misread one of the lines, perhaps a bit of late onset dyslexia. As one who grew up with a tradition of corruption in Louisiana, I am still a bit edgy when it comes to what ECOT and others are getting away with my adopted state.
There’s a real news story inside the ed reform capture of Ohio lawmakers.
Public schools are really resilient. They are under a state government that is openly hostile to their continued existence and they STILL manage to do better than the privatized system our lawmakers prefer and lavish attention and money on.
At what point does the public demand that ed reformers return some value to PUBLIC schools? How long are we supposed to put up with this, where we have thousands of public employees who refuse to do anything for the schools 90% of kids attend?
10 billion. Just unbelievable.
That wasn’t waste! Republican politicians call them corporate profits! Such biased language … tsk, tsk.
The “School Choice” market sector, and that’s all it is, a market sector, is quite likely the single most corrupt one in the entire economy.