Angie Sullivan is a teacher in a Title 1 elementary school in Las Vegas. She regularly writes the members of the Nevada legislature to share her outrage about the underfunding of the state’s neediest schools and the state’s waste of money on charter schools, which dominate the state’s list of the lowest performing schools.
Here is her latest:
Peter Greene in Forbes
Still Asleep At The Wheel
What happened?
Pile of fraud and graft.
These charter titles got money and did what?
This charter changed its name many many times. It is difficult to follow its trail – 100, One Hundred, Imagine at different locations. Is this graft? fraud? Imagine still has a failing charter campus opened? What happened to the two additional campuses? $300,000 disappeared with change in names and admin? This is what lack of accountability and transparency does.
What happened to the Montessori in Carson? I believe it is still there – complaining about cash. These charters worry me because they never have a testing year so zero data and zero accountability. This is what lack of accountability and transparency does. They received funding but complain about no money and blame Vegas. They may try to get the Silver State/Argent Building. They do not serve the poor.
Silver State Charter School changed its name to Argent and lost almost all its students. Sounds like the receiver had concerns because no one attended the “distance” low performer school. No one ever graduated. As in zero. Perhaps Joshua Kern knows where the $440,000 went? No one graduated. This is the first charter I have seen “closed” by the charter authority. I do not think it had any students left and that is what actually closed it.
School of the deaf went bankrupt. Im surprised it did not go into receivership and just get more money like Quest, Silver State and others. The Nevada Tax Payer pays millions to keep financially floundering charters open.
E-TECHS had a facebook and a twitter for $300,000. This was in 2011 and they never opened? What happened to the money?
Gardnerville’s Sierra Crest closed in 2010. Sounds like the local school board was not putting up with low quality. What happened to the $172,000?
Did Washoe Team A even exist at all? Where did the $220,000 go?
Nevada folks need to demand to see this money.
If Nevada Senator Scott Hammond is hiding behind a non-profit management system – we need to know that too. Managing 5 charters for free? What kind of accountability and transparency is this?
There needed to be a charter moratorium for good reason. Rest in Power Tyrone Thompson who knew that. Playing games like this with money when Nevada has none is crazy.
We see you Gulenist Soner Tarim 
Agenda 4a. How much money are you bringing to Nevada Strong? Expert at getting grants and not opening? Everyone should protest every Nevada Charter Meeting to close that Gulen Charter down. Nevada does not need anymore scamming known bad actors.
None of these December 2019 charter applicants should be granted anything. These scams are too much.
Asleep at the wheel and gone off the road and crashed into a ditch.
This is bad.
Angie Sullivan.
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