Would you put more money into a failing business?
If you were in charge of the charter industry, the answer is yes.
The charter industry in Ohio is lobbying for a 22% increase in tuition, even though 2/3 of the state’s charter schools are rated either D or F.
If they were public schools, most would have been closed by now.
Back when charters started, their advocates claimed they would get better results with less money. They don’t get better results and they don’t save money. Broken promises.
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Interesting: The privatizers are all for a free-market when it comes to making public schools compete with charter schools for students. But, they want government subsidies when charter schools fail or are corrupt. Taxes to support the free market? Huh? They have no shame. Hypocrisy in the service of ideology and personal gain has no limits.
Presumably, Ohioans can thank the GOP, Betsy DeVos and Fordham’s Mike Petrilli and Chester Finn.
The Republican majority in the state legislature is completely captured by Fordham, which is a charter and voucher lobbying organization.
You can go back years to find anything coming out of Columbus that is beneficial or useful or positive for public schools.
They simply don’t perform any work on behalf of our schools down there. It’s as if the only schools in the state that exist are charter and private schools.
Essentially we are paying a huge group of public employees who are ideologically opposed to the schools the vast majority of the states residents attend, so refuse to work on behalf of public school students or families. It’s ludicrous.
Public schools in Ohio succeed DESPITE the ed reform movement. They’re a net negative to every public school student in the state. Public schools have to overcome their presence and political lobbying in order to just tread water. If they were to all stop showing up for work there isn’t a public school family or student in this state who would notice and many would actually benefit.
Like Florida they still get the tribal Republicans to vote for their horrible, anti-democratic agenda.
DeWine gave his state of the state and did not bash, threaten, or announce plans to cut funding from public schools.
This was greeted with a huge sigh of relief from public school supporters in this state.
That’s the low bar ed reform has set. If they don’t actively harm our schools we’re grateful. No one even expects them to offer anything worthwhile or positive. That’s beyond our wildest dreams.
I’m hoping we can raise the bar at some point, and demand that the thousands of public employees at the state level actually add some value to any public school, anywhere, but we’re not there yet. It’s rock bottom as far as “expectations”.
All five state offices up for grabs in Ohio in the midterms went to Republicans. Apathy about education and a useless state Democratic Party inform me that no one outside of our circle of friends gives a damn about education issues. The five who one got the message that they have carte blanche when it comes to education issues. They do not pay a price for their destructive decisions. And they never expect they will.
Few teachers in this state truly care about edu issues. We’re alone in a crowd.
The key phrase is: “The Charter Industry Wants More Money!” To them, nothing else counts but the money they count on the way to the bank.
and in most cases two words missing here: PUBLIC TAX money
The defenders of privatization don’t consider evidence of deficiencies in student achievement or equity because those are not their goals. Their goals are simply more charter schools (where there are fewer unions and more opportunities for profit) and fewer democratically governed public schools; more competition among parents and less unity to fight for the needs of all children together.