Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, wrote the following:
As you know, the House is trying to block federal funding to charters controlled by for-profits. But it will be an uphill battle. I recently did an investigation into the private sale of 69 charters by for-profit NHA. It is jaw-dropping. Please read about it and share. This is a critical time to get the word out. Thanks, Carol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/09/14/charter-school-scams/
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“Waste Management” pretty well describes the primary business of these charter operators.
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Waste Mismanagement sums it up better. Even better than that, just Waste.
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What a waste.
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Interesting write up of a high profile ed reform event in New Hampshire:
“CONCORD, N.H.—Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo was back in New Hampshire, his day filled with the sorts of activities befitting a wannabe president in the home of the first-in-the-nation primary. He’d hobnobbed with state GOP members and toured a local defense contractor in the state’s booming southern suburbs. Here at the state capital, Pompeo is tag-teaming with another former Trump secretary, Betsy DeVos, at an event to promote a signature issue for the GOP: school choice.
The packed house at a downtown theater awaited Pompeo’s arrival with Alice Cooper’s anthem “School’s Out”—School’s out forever, School’s been blown to pieces—playing in the background. He took the stage to rapturous applause. “The founders understood the importance of strong families,” the campaign-coiffed Pompeo told 250 mostly maskless attendees. Parents should be able to send their kids to a school that “teaches their children what they want them to learn.” And children should be taught “real American history,” he said, “not the junk that’s brought into the classroom now.” The crowd went wild.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republicans-school-choice/
They’re anti-public school, which should not suprise anyone who actually reads and listens to them.
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“Democrat Catherine Rombeau, a former school board member who made public education and how to pay for it the central issue of her campaign, eked out a surprising victory, narrowing an already razor-thin GOP state House majority. Rombeau, like many Bedford residents, moved to this booming suburban community for its strong education system. The idea of defunding the local schools in the name of “education freedom” holds little appeal to voters here, something Rombeau appears to have understood.”
People support and value public schools, which is only shocking news if you’re a member of the ed reform echo chamber.
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Democrats need to hold firm on not funding for profit CMOs as this is an example of how corrupt the process can be. This operation has Wall Street’s sticky fingers all over it. If the public is paying repeatedly paying for exorbitant rentals and all the money goes behind the veil of private ownership, it is an easy way to scam taxpayers that are largely unaware that they have been victims of fraud. Worst of all the private company, can the profit from the sale of real estate paid for by public dollars.
This article should be shared with the Biden administration, the progressive caucus and the DOE. So-called choice is just another way to fleece unsuspecting tax payers.
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No posts or comments here yet about Florida getting rid of annual state standardized testing?
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Standardized testing is being replaced by “progress monitoring,” an individualized surveillance system. High stakes testing is being replaced by “big brother.” https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/gov-ron-desantis-education-commissioner-to-make-major-announcement-in-doral/
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Be patient
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Out of the frying pan, i.e., standardized testing and into the fire, i.e., LBO-Learning by objectives constantly monitoring the student which equals training/pseudo-learning.
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The Charter School scum that profits off of children are only slightly less bad than the monsters that kidnap children to sell and traffic as sex slaves.
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So true, Lloyd. Thank you.
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Yes, slow switch from great-depression sense of community to an individualism anathema to democracy began fueling privatization of public schools in the 1990s and continues to this day. The magnet of wealth created by the tax breaks under Ronald Reagan caused its irresistible pursuit.
Unfortunately wealth does not define wisdom as the many failed experiments paid for by Bill Gates attest. He loses money he can afford. We suffer one more damaging swipe at public education we can’t afford.
A social contract will emerge as soon as harm to enough people has been imposed. A new sense of community will cause tax increases to rectify the damage. Public schools will survive stronger than before.
That is unless the current political split proves to be deeper than observed and renders the fabric of our democracy irretrievably a chapter in a new history book, describing how the grand experiment eventually failed.
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I like to think of myself as a relatively intelligent being because I can usually disaggregate disparate pieces of information and organize them into a cogent whole. Reading the (yes, jaw dropping) article in the WaPo Answer Sheet, however, I am swimming in a sea of bunk. How convoluted are these charter money grubbing schemes! I can’t even wrap my head around the myriad of ways charter management organizations cozen our country. It’s the most tangled web of deceit. Pols who have supported charters should be echoing the words of Charles Koch when he described his activities building the Tea Party movement that led to the attack on the Capitol, “Boy, did we screw up. What a mess.”
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I can imagine the spin the powers that be would have us believe to try to justify this loophole. The whole thing with work arounds and ways to make more money for the wealthy is especially sad to understand that we the people are paying for it. Just like Florida’s work around allowing companies to “donate” a portion of what they would have paid in taxes to a third party to give out as education vouchers to skirt the law. It’s so convoluted that when you try to explain to most people their eyes start to glaze over. I am rooting for real public education and not just public financed profiteering that milks entities that call themselves public schools.
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