Carol Burris is executive director of the Network for Public Education.
She writes:
For the past four years, the Network for Public Education has collected and posted charter school scandals from across the United States on a special page of its website entitled Another Day Another Charter School Scandal which you can find here.
NPE has now turned that page into an interactive research tool, allowing you to find a collection of stories by state, by scandal type and by keyword. For example, if you want to search any published story on scandals associated with Success Academy, just type in Success Academy into the query box and ten stories pop up.
Looking for stories regarding charter theft or fraud? Use the drop down menu and 177 stories appear.
At the beginning of the month, we load up all of the stories we found during the prior month. Check back in early December to see November’s scandals. We have presently cataloged stories from 2019 to the present. We plan to add 2017 and 2018 to the research tool shortly. One thing we know from doing this work is that if it is another day, there is another charter school scandal-which is quite remarkable given that there are only about 7500 charter schools in the United States.
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This should be sent directly to anyone in government who makes policy decisions regarding privatization. Then a series of Op Eds should be published in every major news paper that simply ask these policy makers why they continue to maker irresponsible decisions with tax payer money.
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Good for NPE. You certainly won’t find any negative information about any charter anywhere in the ed reform echo chamber.
“The president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Nina Rees, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a recent report by the National Alliance which shows an increase in enrollment in charter schools across the country in the 2020-21 academic year.”
President and CEO of charter lobbying group interviewed by full time charter cheerleader, to discuss a “report” prepared by charter lobbying group, which is then disseminated to the entire echo chamber, who repeat it
It’s all like this, all across the ed reform echo chamber. I think they are barred from criticizing any charter anywhere. Forbidden. The cheerleading for all the new voucher programs is lockstep too. The vouchers ed reformers all lobbied for haven’t even gone in yet and they’re already a huge success.
Marketing. 100% ideological. If it’s a public school it goes in the failing basket and if it’s a charter/private school it’s a huge success.
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Well done, NPE and Dr. Burris!!!!
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This archive is breathtaking. In its length and complexity, it is like a list of unprosecuted crimes committed by Donald Trump, his spawn, and the Trump Organization.
How’s the golf game going, Mr. Garland?
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So glad you’re doing this. I tried doing something like this a few years ago just based on posts here, but I gave up. Didn’t have the expertise or energy to do more. Thanks again, this is the kind of summary that’s important to have in the files.
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To get the full story of charter school scandals, NPE researchers will have to go back to the early days of the charter movement in the early 1990s. Creating publicly-funded schools with no public oversight is an invitation to graft and grift.
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Oh, look. Another ed reform that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and that was uniformly rubber stamped by the whole ed reform echo chamber and that didn’t contribute anything at all to students who attend public schools:
“More than a decade ago, policymakers made a multi-billion-dollar bet that strengthening teacher evaluation would lead to better teaching, which in turn would boost student achievement. But new research shows that, overall, those efforts failed: Nationally, teacher evaluation reforms over the past decade had no impact on student test scores or educational attainment.
The research is the latest indictment of a massive push between 2009 and 2017, spurred by federal incentives, philanthropic investments, and a nationwide drive for accountability in K-12 education, to implement high-stakes teacher evaluation systems in nearly every state.”
The United States can continue to follow this lockstep echo chamber year after year, or they can invest in something else. Haven’t we invested enough in these schemes and gimmicks? Can we at least cast the net a little wider and get an opinion from someone who doesn’t work for Gates, Walton, Koch or Broad?
Have they improved public education? How long do we give this agenda? Another 20 years?
There’s an opportunity cost here. Every year we continue to blindly follow these people and hire exclusively from within their ranks we lose the chance to try something else.
Gates, Walton, Koch andf Broad. People who are hired to follow an agenda and never veer from it. What’s the harm in trying something else? They haven’t contributed anything to students who attend public schools anyway. There’s no risk at all.
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And, here come the excuses:
“Dale Chu
“Tougher teacher-evaluation systems can work,
MichaelPetrilli
said—but there was no political will to act on the results at the time of the reforms. Unions resisted firing teachers who received poor results…, he said.”
It isn’t the fault of the ed reform echo chamber they all blew billions on teacher rankings for a decade- it is (of course) the fault of public schools and the Big Bad Labor Unions.
Billions. Two decades of lost opportunity cost, and there’s no accountability at all. The next gimmick will be embraced lockstep by the echo chamber jjust like this one was.
Arne Duncan should write another book. In it, he can explain how he got suckered into blowing billions of dollars on a ridiculous teacher measuring scam and somehow managed to get thousands of lawmakers to buy this snake oil.
Where’s the accountability in this “movement”? They’re quick to impose accountability on everyone else. Who measures their work?
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Your scenario is another example of what I commented on in another post. It’s the refinement of both-siderism to make it both issue specific and generally applicable to everything. In this case, both sides squandered billions, why are you picking on us, we’re the ones with the innovative ideas. Or so they’d like their argument to be heard, especially by public information sources.
In the cases I cited, it is making the both-sider-ish terms to make actual meaning rhetorically ambiguous and therefore inconclusive and open to interpretation. It’s being done with the term “fascism” and insane conspiracies as “backed by science.” Thanks for pointing out this example. I’m sure there are many others.
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GregB,
Both siderism: The so-called left-wing mainsteam media believes that purchasing cookware in France for $500 is the equivalent of your family business making deals in the hundreds of millions with foreign countries who expect (and get) special access for participating in “deals” that are especially favorable to Republican presidents’ family businesses.
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While I generally agree, NYCPSP, I think the issue you cite is more nuanced than that and an important part or building block of the narrative, if you will. My point is that fascists and their fellow travelers are doing all they can to render accurate, often academic, language to become meaningless, especially if the left is doing it. Rather than refute arguments–something we see every day on this blog–they say the arguments are useless because the language means nothing or, put another way, anyone can make anything mean what they want. And if they can’t make it meaningless, they’ll weaponize the meaning behind certain words and images in other ways.
In the case of Harris, it’s more subtle and the dog whistle message is not aimed at anything other than restating and resurrecting the welfare queen myth in a more “sophisticated” way. Think about it. Black woman. Gets a government paycheck. That means she shouldn’t be rich. But she can still buy things we can’t and not only that, she’s doing it on government (read, our) time. And remember how sassy she was when she was in Senate hearings? Although they don’t use the words and will deny it, the fact is that Kamala Harris has replaced “welfare queen” in the imagery of Republican lies. It also makes it easier to rationalize that the election was stolen. It fits the fairy tale they want to use to hide their real motives and intentions.
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Greg,
Chris Rufo said as much. Words can be twisted into a new and frightening narrative. He said he created the CRT brand, and no matter what critics say, they are trapped in his narrative.
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Reblogged this on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé and commented:
Are you curious about all the publicly funded, private sector Charter School scandals? Thanks to laws that allow these schools to be secretive and opaque and avoid following the same transparency laws that REAL public schools must follow, laws designed to protect OUR children, there is a lot of opportunity for fraud. Click this link and learn about the epidemic of fraud and crimes caused by too many of these Charter Schools.
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That’s right about their secretive boards spending taxpayer dollars without reporting transparently to the taxpayer. Good catch. This extensive list of charter fraud incidents contains only the ones we know about, the ones who got caught. How long the list of uncovered incidents is is anyone’s guess. Maybe Bill Gates can come up with a value detracted method algorithm to take a wild guess.
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