Oklahoma’s Epic Charter Schools seems to be as creative in fraud as Ohio’s ECOT
Epic gave the State Superintendent $23,000 in campaign donations. The Education Department did not investigate Epic’s fraudulent practices.
Epic had ghost students. Epic paid $800-$1000 to each student who didn’t enroll in a public school. One family with 10 children received $8000 and then withdrew the children from Epic.
The bottom line is that unregulated, for-profit online charters are prone to corruption. When will public officials acknowledge that online charters are a public policy mistake?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Indiana is planning to require all schools to apply for STEM certification. This is supposed to make all schools better. In my opinion, filling out more forms does not make a school better, especially forms put out by the state.
How about paying decent salaries? How about giving districts enough to update textbooks and repair schools? How about giving K-12 public schools more money than private charters? Nope…just apply for a STEM certification and all problems will disappear.
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STEM School Certification
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Uploaded on Jul 31, 2019
on the nose: fill out a form, give yourself a new label, that’s now considered to be “good” educational policy
I have been suffering from that never-ending beast known as a “summer cold” (yes, I have to agree w/the commercial it is, indeed, “an ugly animal”), so have been watching more tv than is normal (daytime & very late night, as well). Guess what commercials have been on–repeatedly? That’s right, “Classrooms are not for every child…enroll your child in a K-12 Virtual School!” Over & over…every channel…repeatedly.
In case the parents don’t know how to use a computer (or don’t have one/can’t afford one), they can enroll by calling the very large phone number on their tv screen! Oh, &, BTW, they don’t have to pay for a thing (such as, the computer itself)–K-12 takes care of all costs!
No, we taxpayers, paying for public schools, take care of “all costs.”