Angie Sullivan teaches in a low-income elementary school in Carson County, Nevada. She often writes every legislator to expose the persistent underfunding of the schools.
Remember when DeVos lied in front of the whole nation about the Nevada K12 Charter? Hardly anyone graduates – yet she claimed that charter had a 100% graduation rate. Here are the Nevada online charters again – grabbing cash and suing to keep their cash cow. Hard earned tax payer money going to whom for what?
Apparently they had $2 million in lobby money. Enough to grease all sorts of folks.
I am sure there was more money than that spread around.
One for-profit online made $6500 x 3000 students = $19 million. 3000 enrolled but only 200 test? That is not “choice”. It appears no one is actually participating. Are we paying for education that is non-existent?
It annoys me that folks blame Patrick Gavin. Gavin is dirty. He is part of this – but only one part. No one has been accountable. No one has provided data. No one has asked hard questions.
Do you see all these names in this article?
Bipartisan dirty hands.
All these folks including Canavero need to be asked serious questions about this. And they need to reveal any money that has ended up in their personal bank accounts. Who has lobbied them?
All legislators running a for-profit charter or sitting on for-profit charter boards – we see you too. Unethically voting for yourself and your corporations.
I give credit to Guinasso for trying to clean up this $350 million mess. Everyone on all sides and every level is dirty. That job cannot be fun. So many folks involved in this garbage.
The Charter Authority needs legal teeth. It also needs a board willing to shut terrible charters down if they are floundering in bankruptcy and fraud. If unaccountable charters are not publishing data – they need to be closed. If failing charters are not graduating, they need to be closed. When for-profit charter corporations start suing the state, they need to be immediately closed.
Someone has to stand up to these billion dollar for-profit corporate bullies.
How is one person supposed to keep a billion charter corporation from scamming Nevada tax payers?
Folks screaming for “choice”.
This is Nevada “choice”?
Money changing hands and no one being educated?
That is not choice – that is a scam.
This is dirty dirty dirty. It is bipartisan dirty.
Canavero? Canavero? Canavero? This has your name all over it. Where are you? Busy arbitrarily attacking public schools to make way for . . . charters? There is something disgusting about that.
Accountability.
Folks seem to only like that word – when it is not applied to THEM.
Senator Woodhouse? Senator Denis? Senator Hammond? Where have you been?
30 years of looking the other way. Lots of folks got used to ignoring that $350 million was being severely wasted and abused. Were they paid well?
Former Majority Leader and newly elected Attorney General Aaron Ford – you advocated for this trash. Who donated to your campaigns? What are you going to do about it now?
God help us. The corruption is thick.
Nevada Charters are NOT a remedy. No one should want to turn a public school into this. No one should think this is fine.
This is garbage and a huge horrific wicked web. 🕷
Everyone needs to be accountable.
And all hypocrites – stop pointing your finger at CCSD public school teachers. We are actually the only ones getting real education work done. We get attacked and removed from students we serve and love. You threaten our communities with charter reform. Why? Which charter is an example of excellence? I see charter segregation by money, race and religion.
While these charter scammers get paid millions to educate no one?
This is bad leadership. And total mismanagement.
Yep accountability.
We need some of accountbility pointed at the right people. I see them crawling all around. 🕷🕷🕷
Maybe Patrick Gavin should tell us all about it.
The Teacher,
Diane Ravitch's blog 
When corruption is this “thick” and protests are ignored, and voting doesn’t stop it either, then there is only one option left and Thomas Jefferson told us what that was.
‘The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure,” Jefferson wrote in a letter to William S. Smith, a diplomatic official in London, on November 13, 1787. … “God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion,” Jefferson remarked.’
http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/100
I think the odds are leaning heavily toward a bloody Civil War in the next few years or even sooner.
Exposing the most devastating cut from the “school reform” game — with a few words added: “We are actually the only ones getting real education work done [AND FOR THIS] We get attacked and removed from students we serve and love.”