Angie Sullivan teaches young children in a Title 1 school in Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada. She writes an email blast to every legislator in the state.
Angie writes:
Folks in other states are banning for-profit charter management corporations.
With good reason.
Whole campaigns are built on banning for-profit scams in other states. We need folks in Nevada to notice this mess.
http://m.wtol.com/toledonewsnow/db_347256/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=yQmm1LBE
Attendance should match testing.
In Nevada we have for-profits corporations claiming they have thousands enrolled but only a few test?
We cannot afford to give $18 Million to a corporation if they are only providing $1 million in educational type services. Note: I did not state learning – because providing a type of service is NOT learning if students do not graduate.
Meanwhile, we elect lawmakers who sit on for-profit charter boards, manage a for-profit branch, or work at a for-profit charter. They will sit in legislative session next year and have their hands on bills to line pockets. Note: I did not say teach kids, because that is NOT the bottom line or mission of a corporation. No wonder no one graduates.
Let’s not repeat mistakes of other states which expanded charters at an alarming rate and now the tax payer suffers. Nevada has a big enough mess already.
Nevada Charters are definitely not a remedy or an example. It is a travesty that a real public school in CCSD is threatened with being turned into a charter. Scary.
It is not fiscally responsible to allow Academica, Gulen Corals, or On-lines to run rampant without the same transparency and accountability required by all public schools.
Time for a for-profit charter moratorium and to clean up this $350 million mess.
CCSD Parents need to be demanding expansion of CCSD Magnets – which are the top schools in the nation – instead of these scammers. And we need funding to maintain quality in Magnets. That is what works. People need to demand what works.
The Teacher,
Angie
Please don’t think that banning “for-profit” charters alone solves any problems. There are plenty of ways to profit off a “non-profit” too. If anything, if you get for-profits banned, you might find yourself in a worse situation because you might have little recourse left to reign in the “good” “non-profits”. Distinguishing between “for-profit” and “non-profit” gives unwarranted legitimacy to the “non-profits”. After all, hey, we got rid of those bad for-profits, didn’t we? What more do you want?
The Center for American Progress’ paper, “Profit Before Kids”, illustrates through examples, how non-profits are a front for for-profits.
The Center for American Progress’ policy “experts” are foresight-challenged (or, self-serving since they’re funded by Gates). CAP posted, “Profit Before Kids”, on Oct. 10, 2018. Spoiler alert (sarcasm) – they found that the ed reform schools had very poor outcomes (e.g. Nevada is identified). CAP’s “experts” provide readers with 8 reasons for failure and, then lament that legislation hasn’t kept up with the abuses. How smart are the “experts” if they didn’t foresee the greed of tech tyrants, hedge funders and other grifters influencing state capitols before they continued the CAP refrain, “states should authorize charters” (March, 2018)?
Following up on Nov. 13, CAP’s “experts” perpetuated the myth that charter schools are “public”.
If CAP’s GOP operatives stopped claiming the think tank was liberal, states like Michigan and Nevada would have a better chance at protecting America’s most important common good.
Good for her.
Ohio left the architects of the ECOT scandal in power- no one got fired or was held accountable in any way- and now they’ll bury it and pretend it never happened:
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20181115/in-wake-of-ecot-lawmakers-explore-new-e-school-funding-methods
They convened a group of legislators to “study” the issue- that means it’s buried and charters will remain unregulated. They all must be heaving a huge sigh of relief- charter operators can continue to rob the citizens of this state with impunity.
They’ll be another ECOT scandal. It’s inevitable.
The majority of Ohio voters stupidly allow all of the state’s residents to be fleeced.
Hi Diane
I’m not sure how to send you something unrelated to one of your posts.
Just in case you hadn’t seen this…..
There was a lot of information here that I either didn’t know or didn’t remember or chose not to remember.
Hope all is well.
Joel
A School Strike That Never Quite Ended
The struggle over who should teach in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district of Brooklyn 50 years ago changed the trajectory of modern liberalism.
Thanks for the link.
“A strong labor movement, integrated public schools and a legal commitment to equal treatment of races makes (nationalist politicians like Trump) less appealing”.
“As state lawmakers move on from the ECOT scandal that led to the closure of Ohio’s largest online charter school as a result of state enrollment overpayments, the next step is figuring out a better way to fund e-schools.
A new joint legislative committee kicked off that effort Thursday, with the goal of coming up with a new e-school funding system in time to be considered in the next two-year state budget, which Gov.-elect Mike DeWine is to introduce in March.”
“As state lawmakers move on…”
The exact same people who created and profited off the ECOT debacle are still in power- many of them got promoted. The former attorney general who refused to investigate and prosecute ECOT? He’s now the governor.
The fix is in more firmly than it was before. Public schools will never recover the funds that were stolen and the next charter scandal will be bigger- we sent a clear message to operators- they can rob Ohio citizens blind and nothing will happen to them.
More schools need to join Dayton Public Schools’ lawsuit to recover from ECOT. Kasich’s lax oversight of private firms who bilked Ohioans of $1 bil. gives national voters with all they need to know about a Kasich run in 2020.