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MUST-READ! Sweden’s Second Thoughts About Market Reforms

By dianeravitch
April 22, 2016 //
26

While American elected officials continue to encourage market reforms like competition, charter schools, and vouchers, Swedish officials are now recognizing the damage these reforms have done to their society. Sweden abandoned its public system in the early 1990s and welcomed vouchers and privately managed schools.

 

 

“STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – When one of the biggest private education firms in Sweden went bankrupt earlier this year, it left 11,000 students in the lurch and made Stockholm rethink its pioneering market reform of the state schools system.

 

“School shutdowns and deteriorating results have taken the shine off an education model admired and emulated around the world, in Britain in particular.

 

“I think we have had too much blind faith in that more private schools would guarantee greater educational quality,” said Tomas Tobé, head of the parliament’s education committee and spokesman on education for the ruling Moderate party.

 

“In a country with the fastest growing economic inequality of any OECD nation, basic aspects of the deregulated school market are now being re-considered, raising questions over private sector involvement in other areas like health.

 

“Two-decades into its free-market experiment, about a quarter of once staunchly Socialist Sweden’s secondary school students now attend publically-funded but privately run schools, almost twice the global average.

 

“Nearly half of those study at schools fully or partly owned by private equity firms….

 

 

“A lax regulatory environment is also to blame.

 

“Sweden replaced one of the world’s most tightly regulated school systems with one of the most deregulated, leading to scandals like the 2011 case of the convicted pedophile who set up several schools quite legally.

 

“I’ve often said it’s been easier to start an independent school than set up a hot-dog stand,” said Eva-Lis Siren, head of Lararforbundet, Sweden’s biggest teachers union.

 

“In the push toward freedom of choice, one lost sight of quality control.”

 

“CORPORATE WORLD

 

“The private schools brought in many practices once found exclusively in the corporate world, such as performance-based bonuses for staff and advertising in Stockholm’s subway system, while competition has put teachers under pressure to award higher grades and market their schools.

 

“The idea that private equity firms and large corporations would run hundreds of schools was a far cry from the individual, locally-run schools envisaged at the start.”

 

 

 

 

Categories Charter Schools, Closing schools, Corporate Reform, Education Industry, Equity, For-Profit, International, Privatization

Mercedes Schneider: Do Charter School Graduates Earn More?

By dianeravitch
April 21, 2016 //
11

A study appeared recently that concluded that graduates of charter schools earn more than graduates of public schools. Mercedes Schneider turned her sharp eyes to the study and found that its conclusions were weakly supported by the evidence. She notes that only students who enrolled in private colleges and universities were in the study, but not those who attended state colleges.

 

She writes:

 

The study only involves comparison of two limited groups of students: those who attended Florida charter schools in the eighth grade and through high school versus those who attended charter schools in eighth grade and left to attend traditional public high schools.

 

Thus, the JPAM study omits all students who only attended traditional public schools. The EdWeek article does not clearly outline this key limitation in its opening statement– and it should have:

 

Charter school graduates in Florida were more likely stay in college and earn higher salaries than their district school peers.

 

That opener only confuses and misrepresents.

 

As for the finding that charter high school students are more likely to stay in college: The Florida high school graduates who attended charter schools from eighth grade through high school and who attended a private Florida college/university or an out-of-state college/university (remember, in-state postsecondary institutions were not tracked in this study) for two consecutive years (there’s your “stay in college”– two years in a row) is 9 percent higher for this specific group than for the “matched on key characteristics” control group of students who attended charters in eighth grade and then attended traditional public high schools.

 

Also, the very specific, charter high school attendee sample was 6 percent more likely to graduate from high school within five years.

 

Though the findings are statistically significant, practical significance (i.e., the difference this makes in the real world) is scant.

 

As for the charter sample’s higher earnings: This, too, is a statistically significant finding that is of questionable practical significance: An increase in maximum earnings of $2,318 between ages 23 and 25 years old, or 12 percent more than their traditional-public-high-school control group.

 

The EdWeek article mentions the 12 percent increase, but it does not include the actual dollar value of $2,318 per year for 23- to 25-year-olds. The actual dollar amount removes some of the shine from that percentage.

 

Consider this: Average maximum earnings for the traditional-public-high-school control group was $19,366 per year– not much to live on. So, this limited study found that students who attended Florida charters from eighth grade through high school and who attended in-state private colleges/universities or out-of-state colleges/universities (but state-funded colleges/universities in Florida) were earning an average of $21,684 per year between the ages of 23 and 25– also not much to live on.

 

Truth is, both $19k and $22k annually in 2016 would likely land these young people back in their parents’ basements if their only other option were to pay for housing without the assistance of one or more roommates.

 

Charters are still a fairly new phenomenon in most states, too new to have a large cohort that has completed college. But the propaganda machine is so powerful that we can soon expect to see billboards claiming that students who graduate from charter schools have greater success and make more money after college. And the logical conclusion is….that every student should go to a charter school. Except those with disabilities and ELLs.

Categories Charter Schools

Allie Gross: Detroit Charter School Fires 8 Teachers Without Explanation or Warning

By dianeravitch
April 21, 2016 //
4

Allie Gross has been reporting on the misadventures of the charter industry in Detroit in the Metro Times.

 

This week, she wrote about a charter school, University Academy, that fired eight teachers without any explanation or cause. When teachers have no union, the school doesn’t need to give any explanation about why teachers are fired.

 

Last fall, Allie wrote about the $3.5 million that Michigan doled out to charter applicants who never opened a school.

 

The latter article includes a useful summary of the U.S. Department of Education’s very costly investment in the charter industry:

 

In 1995, four years after the first charter school law was enacted, the U.S. Department of Education started its Charter Schools Program grant. The general gist of the initiative was state education agencies could vie for funding and then host their own competitions for sub-grantees who wanted to create or expand charter schools.

 

The goal of the grant is two-pronged: 1. It aims to expand the number of “high-quality” charter schools across the nation and, 2. It seeks to evaluate the effects of charter schools. The first aim is achieved through three types of grants that the U.S. Department of Education asks state education agencies to offer: planning grants, implementation grants, and, lastly, dissemination grants.

 

That first year the department gave out just over $4 million; today it doles out upward of $125 million. According to the Department of Education, the federal government has spent more than $3 billion on the charter sector in the past 20 years.

 

Michigan received $23 million from the program in 2007 and in 2010 decided to apply again, this time asking for $44 million. By this point the state had 240 charter schools, and as the application explained, there was an expectation of growth. Just a few months earlier lawmakers decided to lift the cap on the number of charter schools university-authorizers could sponsor.

 

This predicted expansion was highlighted in MDE’s application, as was the goal of ensuring authorizers would have high quality operators to choose from when they weren’t burdened with a cap.

 

In 1995, the same year that the Charter Schools Program grants started, Michigan opened its first charter school, a National Heritage Academy in Grand Rapids. Today, NHA, which was started by billionaire J.C. Huizenga, is the state’s largest charter school operator, with 48 different schools across Michigan. This multi-site, for-profit model has proliferated in Michigan — currently, 79 percent of Michigan’s charter schools are run by for-profit charter management organizations — and cracking this monopoly was a stated goal in MDE’s application. Specifically Michigan explained how “planning funds” could help level the playing field and empower grassroots community groups with charter school ideas.

 

 

Categories Charter Schools, Corporate Reformers, Detroit, Education Industry, For-Profit, Michigan, Privatization, Teachers, Unions

New Jersey Charter Grandparent: “This Dance Is Over”

By dianeravitch
April 21, 2016 //
14

This post appeared on EduShyster’s blog. It was written by the grandmother of a student enrolled in the North Star Charter School in Newark, New Jersey.

 

The child’s mother decided that the child should not take the state tests. That’s when the trouble began.

 

Her mother read about PARCC testing and decided that she didn’t want to put the child through that. She gets anxious over tests and she has nightmares after testing. From everything we’ve been following about PARCC in the news reports, these tests aren’t well designed, they don’t indicate much about the children’s progress and they’re being used to rate and assess the teachers and the schools. These tests also aren’t mandatory. Our question has always been: *What’s the benefit for the child?* We didn’t see any. She’s on her fourth school in three years and was just settling down and starting to get her grades together, and we’re not going to disrupt that for a week of testing that serves no clear purpose.

 

Our question has always been: *What’s the benefit for the child?* We didn’t see any.

 

At the end of February, her mother sent a letter to North Star letting them know that she was opting not to have the child take the test. That started such harassment! North Star would call and call and call. Sometimes they would call two and three times a day. They wanted us to change our minds about the child taking the PARCC test. They would tell us that she’s going to have to take standardized tests in high school and taking the test now would help her learn how to take these tests. They also argued that by not taking the test the child was letting down the North Star community, and that this was part of the responsibility to the school community that her mother agreed to when she signed the papers….

 

Testing starts on April 25th. I’m concerned about what North Star is going to do to my granddaughter during that week. I contacted Save Our Schools New Jersey because I wanted to know what happens if we keep my granddaughter out of school. The state says that the school can’t just make the kids sit and stare during the tests. Her brother is at a school for kids with special needs and the school is making all kinds of accommodations for kids who won’t be taking the tests. I also contacted the Charter Schools Association in Trenton and talked to someone who said she’d contact the school and find out what their plans are for kids who aren’t taking the test. When I heard back, I was told that there is no opt out.

 

I don’t trust the school. I have a feeling that if my granddaughter goes to school, they’ll either have her doing nothing or they’ll really push on her. At first our plan was to accompany her to school, to take turns just to keep an eye on things, but her mother has two other kids and I work nights. So we decided to keep her out of school that week. I’ll take her to New York to the museums. If she sits home and plays on the computer that’s OK by me too, as long as she’s not at school being pressured.

 

The child has taken up the cause. At first she was just relieved not to have to take the test. Now she’s in the fight with us. She’s all activist-minded at this point. When we asked her how she felt about telling her story to the newspaper, she said: “Absolutely. What if there are other kids who are being pushed around and being bullied like this and their parents don’t know how to stand up for them?”

Categories Charter Schools, New Jersey, Opt Out, Testing

Mayor DeBlasio Capitulates to Charter Industry

By dianeravitch
April 20, 2016 //
28

Mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned against the charter industry and against school closings. But when he tried to slow (not stop) their invasions of public schools, the billionaires pinned his ears back with a big TV campaign and with Cuomo’s help. It all came down to this: not what was best for 1 million students, but what was best for the charter business.

 

And now:

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 20, 2016

 

CONTACTS:
Jane Maisel (917) 678­-1913

 

Contact after 3 pm:
Jim Donahue
(917) 318-8762 donohuenyc@gmail.com
or
Jim Shoaf jimshoaf@me.com

PRESS CONFERENCE
100 Hester Street, NYC
Wednesday, April 20, 5:15 pm

Mayor de Blasio’s “RENEWAL”
means public school “REMOVAL”

 
New York City– Bronx high school, Foreign Language Academy for Global Studies (FLAGS), may be closed by a vote of the Panel for Educational Policy, held this evening, Wednesday, April 20th, despite the fact that it was classified by NYS as a Receivership School and by the NYC DOE as a Renewal School and was supposed to have time and support renew itself. Its space will be given to a charter school, as the DOE has recommended, with the full cooperation of the current UFT leadership.

 

At 5:15 p.m., families and teachers will hold a press conference before the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) votes. They will decry this betrayal and explain how school closures perpetuate systemic segregation and racism, while serving the private interests of charter school profiteers.

 

According to Aixa Rodriguez, NYC DOE teacher, notice of FLAGS’ possible closure was, “like a poison. We began hemorrhaging students. The stigma of the label is what made our enrollment fall, and then our low enrollment was used as a reason to close us.”

 

“The DOE loves to break up schools into small schools, but their love isn’t sustained once there is a choice between a small school and a charter. It looks as if the small school movement is nothing more than a method for picking off public schools, one by one, as their buildings are demanded by charter schools. And the schools that are being closed are in communities with the fewest economic resources.” observed Jane Maisel, member of Change the Stakes.

 

Rodriguez describes a cascade of problems set off by the threat of closure: teachers looking for other jobs, the school improvement grant only distributed in February which was the same month the proposal to close FLAGS was delivered, while students were not informed of the closure with enough time to participate in the first round of the high school application process.

“Were the new toilets a gift for the new tenants, Academic Leadership Charter? They were never meant for us.”

 

At the April 5 meeting, the school community was already so resigned that not a single parent, teacher or student spoke. Senior Deputy Chancellor Dorita Gibson told the audience that it is never easy to make the decision to close a school, and that it really is not possible to run a good high school with only 100 students. This was the same argument used with the recent closure of three other schools, and was supported by the UFT’s current president, Michael Mulgrew.

 

Yet over the past year, the school staff’s multiple suggestions for attracting new students were all rejected by the principal. When a CEC 7 member suggested that the DOE should keep its commitment to the students by reviving rather than closing the school, building on the strength of the mostly multilingual student body, her ideas were dismissed. Apparently occupying space that has been requested by a charter school is tantamount to a death sentence for a school. Teachers and parents do not accept the DOE’s chilling logic. Parents and teachers ask the PEP members to make an independent judgement on this trend of sacrificing schools, but we will be surprised if the members of the PEP are willing to resist giving their rubber stamp approval to the DOE’s decision.

 

Jim Donohue teaches English at Renewal School JHS 145 in the Bronx. His school fought to prevent a charter co-location during high stakes standardized testing season last year. According to Donohue, “Success Academy came into our school last year and pointed out the classrooms they wanted. The DOE welcomed them with open arms and told us to get packing. We have been scattered across 4 floors of the building, and Success Academy has beautifully renovated the 19 classrooms that they staked a claim to. This is defined as RENEWAL.”

 

Tonight the PEP will also vote on the expansion of Success Academy Charter School Bed-Stuy 1 at the site of Foundations Academy, a Renewal School that will cease to exist after this year. The correlation between the Receivership and Renewal program and the sites where charters are opening and expanding is undeniable. Concerned teachers and parents wish to make this hypocrisy clear to members of the PEP. Closing Renewal Schools and allowing charter schools to take over their space undermines the restoration Mayor de Blasio promised and institutes a climate of fear and demoralization. Advocates demand a moratorium on public school closures, demand that city officials join NYC citizens in fighting the law that requires the DOE to pay for charter school space, and that all public schools be meaningfully respected and given a genuine chance to thrive.

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Categories Charter Schools, Closing schools, Education Reform, New York City

New Texas Commissioner Brings in New Faces from Charter Industry for Top Jobs

By dianeravitch
April 19, 2016 //
13

Texas Governor Greg Abbot selected Dallas school board member Mike Morath as State Commissioner of Education. Morath is one of the privatization advocates who wanted to turn Dallas into a so-called “home rule district, which was meant to clear the way for charters.

Now Morath is cleaning house, replacing experienced high-level staff with newcomers whose experience is strong in the charter industry.

Among others, Morath hired the former chairman of the Kansas City school board as deputy commissioner in charge of governance. In his former life, he was known as Airick West. Not only does he have a new job, he has renamed himself A.J. Crabill.

“The Dallas Morning News recently reported Morath had named AJ Crabill, a former chairman of the Kansas City (Mo.) School Board, to the position of deputy commissioner for governance. Crabill was known as Airick West during his time in Kansas City. He and the commissioner have declined several requests for interviews and questions about how Morath met Crabill and the circumstances surrounding his hiring in the last several weeks.”

Categories Charter Schools, Corporate Reform, Education Industry, Texas

Help Sustain the Most Independent Source of Education News in Connecticut

By dianeravitch
April 18, 2016 //
0

Jonathan Pelto is the most independent and reliable source of education news in Connecticut. He has prodigious research skills and uses them to support public education as to expose skulduggery, frauds, and privatization. Jonathan took charge of organizing the Education Bloggers Network, which now has nearly 300 pro-public education bloggers. Jonathan compares them to the Committees of Correspondence that informed and encouraged the movement for independence before the American Revolution.

 

Jonathan needs our help to keep his blog alive.

 

Connecticut is overrun with corporate reformers–millionaires and billionaires– who live in exclusive enclaves like Greenwich, Darien, and New Canaan. They don’t send their children to public schools or even charter schools, but they want to control them. The corporate reformers are major supporters of Governor Malloy, who has shown deference to charter schools in his budgeting and his appointments.

 

We need Jonathan to keep shining the light on the state government and its cozy dealing with the state’s 1%.

 

 

You can contribute by going to this site.

 

 

 

 

 

Categories Charter Schools, Corporate Reformers, Education Reform

Los Angeles: Charter Operator Fined $16,000 for Conflicts of Interests That Netted Her $19,000 a Month and Possibly Millions

By dianeravitch
April 18, 2016 //
26

Another amazing but true story from Los Angeles about the loose rules under which charters operate.

 

This charter operator opened a charter school in 2006 called the Wisdom Academy for Young Scientists. She bought a building and leased it to the charter for $19,000 a month. She paid herself a salary of $223,615. She renovated the building and charged it to the state. Auditors think the charter operator may have funneled millions of dollars to her own accounts from public funds. The violations were too egregious to overlook.

 

Some of the allegations bordered on the bizarre.

 

Auditors questioned, for example, the use of school funds to pay a $566,803 settlement to a former teacher who sued the organization for wrongful termination after she was directed by Okonkwo to travel with her to Nigeria to marry Okonkwo’s brother-in-law for the purpose of making him a United States citizen.

 

The school was closed in 2014. The operator claimed bias. She was fined $16,000.

 

In papers filed with the state, Wisdom’s leaders accused auditors and the county office of misconduct and “open hostility … against this African American operated school,” calling it “the culmination of years of unfair treatment and retaliation … because a few [county office] staff members dislike our school’s founder Kendra Okonkwo, her family, the thickness of her accent, and the color of her skin.”

 

Ordinarily, this degree of theft of public funds would merit a criminal prosecution. The California Charter Schools Association supported this charter’s appeals to the county board and the state board.

Categories Charter Schools, Fraud, Los Angeles

Angie Sullivan: Oh, No! Nevada Wants an Achievement School District

By dianeravitch
April 17, 2016 //
15

There are three so-called achievement school districts in the nation that have some history. One in Tennessee, one in Michigan, one inNew Orleans. The three are so what different: New Orleans district is all-charter, all privatized. The other two were created by the legislature to gather the state’s lowest-scoring schools into a single district, then turn them over to charter operators.

 

Opinions differ about New Orleans, but no one claims that it has closed achievement gaps or left no child behind. It is not a miracle district. Some critics have called it the lowest performing district in one of the lowest performing states.

 

Michigan’s Education Achievement Authority has no defenders. It is a disaster.

 

The Tennessee Achievement District was studied by Vanderbilt researchers, who reported there was no statistically significant improvement in test scores. Gary Rubinstein looked at state data and concluded that there was virtually no improvement: the lowest performing schools are still very low performing schools.

 

Yet Georgia and North Carolina both plan to create achievement school districts, and now Nevada wants one too. Why? It must be ALEC model legislation.

 

Angie Sullivan wrote this about Nevada, where she teaches:

 

“This was the scary announcement yesterday in Nevada Education:

 

“Board of Examiners meeting Tuesday, Canavero announced the appointment of Jana Wilcox-Lavin as the superintendent-in-residence of a new Achievement School District.

 

“Based on similar models in Louisiana and Tennessee, the state-run district will hand over control of persistently failing schools to charter management organizations.

 

http://m.reviewjournal.com/news/education/state-board-examiners-oks-contract-research-firm-evaluate-success-school-reforms”

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“Can someone explain to me why Nevada would want to create an Achievement School District – just as other states are closing their failing achievement school districts?

 

“Does anyone in the Department of Education or on the Nevada State School Board have google? I strongly suggest everyone google: achievement school districts Tennessee or Lousiana.

 

“Does anyone do research before they make these expensive decisions?

 

“It is obvious that the real plan is to privatize and destroy public schools like Tennesse and Louisiana. The data is in and students did not do better after expensive achievement school districts were created there. Extreme and documented failure.

 

“We are hiring someone from those failures to create a Nevada failure?

 

“Why are we doing this?

 

Tennessee: Legislators Propose Closing “Achievement School District”

 

Gary Rubinstein Reviews the Failure of the Tennessee Achievement School District

 

Tennessee: Memphis School Board Calls for Moratorium for Achievement School District

 

Tennessee: “Achievement School District” In Search of High-Performing Students

 

Tennessee Dad: It’s Time to Dump the “Achievement School District”

 

https://dianeravitch.net/category/new-orleans/

 

Andy Spears: Is Tennessee Sick of the (Low) Achievement School District?

 

North Carolina Parents: We Don’t Want an “Achievement School District”


“Bottom line: Business does not do better at running schools. Business type reforms are not changing schools for the better.

 

“The same data system that kills public schools -shows that privatization and business ran schools fail too – usually worse and more expensive.

 

“Somehow we are supposed to only use data to kill public schools but then ignore data that suggests expensive reforms are failures?

 

“Doesn’t Nevada already have enough failing segregated disenfranchising charters? Why don’t we clean up the charter messes we already made -rather than import a mess maker from another state to make another mess. Why are we renewing failing charters?

 

“We better start thinking about kids Nevada – rather than about making some business people very rich at the expense of our kids.

 

“We do not need to be scammed like Lousiana and Tennessee.

 

“Scary.

 

“Angie”

Categories Accountability, Charter Schools, Corporate Reform, Data, Education Reform, Michigan, Nevada, New Orleans, Tennessee

Louisiana: Why Allow Billionaires to Take Control of Our Schools?

By dianeravitch
April 16, 2016 //
6

Retired educator Mike Deshotels expresses his frustration with the charter industry in Louissiana, which has stymied every effort to regulate them, allow local districts to decide if they want them, or to hold them accountable. The new Governor John Bel Edwards pushed for charter reform, but was repeatedly rebuffed by legislators who were funded by charter advocates.

This must be child’s play for the billionaires, none of whom live in the state.

Deshotels wrote:

This story in The Advocate describes some of the House Education Committee actions yesterday, killing several bills designed to curb abuses by charters. Charter school administrators descended on the Education Committee in force Wednesday while the administrators and teachers in the real public schools were teaching children.

The charter advocates are a highly effective special interest group because they are backed up by big business in Louisiana and nationwide who are determined to privatize education as much as possible. In my opinion these folks have no respect for public schools or professional educators. They just see public education as a way to make money off of children.

As part of their strategy, charter advocates funnel huge amounts of political contributions to legislators and BESE members to insure that no legislation will pass to limit their growth and profits. So when legislators vote against reasonable bills to prevent charter abuses, it is the political contributions they received or expect to receive that are controlling the voting. If you are a supporter of public education, you need to know who voted against you repeatedly this week. I will provide that later.

Here is the testimony I gave to the House Education Committee in favor of HB 98, that would delete a provision in the 2012 Jindal legislation that allows BESE to approve independent charter school authorizers. Those authorizers could approve many new charter schools over the objection of our elected school boards.

Testimony on HB 98

Good morning. My name is Michael Deshotels and I live in Zachary. I do education research and write a blog on education for educators and parents.

I am here in support of HB 98, because we need to correct an error that was made in 2012 when the legislature rushed to try everything that they thought would improve public education in Louisiana. This part of the legislation was a mistake because it can take away our right to run our public schools through our elected school boards.

Most citizens believe in local control of our government services. It is wiser to have our schools run by our local school boards than by unelected groups or even by BESE. In addition, my research shows that it is also more effective to have our schools managed by our local school boards.

At one time it was thought that if low performing schools were taken over by BESE and given to charter school operators, that their student performance would improve over their performance in school board operated schools. That has now been proven to be wrong!

All of my research shows that the schools operated by BESE approved charters generally do a poorer job. All but one of the takeover schools in the Baton Rouge area, have been total failures. They have done so poorly that parents pulled their children out and some schools had to be shut down for lack of support. My research shows that the takeover schools in New Orleans still do not do as good a job of educating low-income students as do our local school boards across the state.

This experiment with our children has failed! It would be mistake therefore to allow new groups that are independent of the taxpayers to approve more charters.

It is a well-known fact that big contributors from outside Louisiana are the ones pushing for these new charters. Those contributors are the Waltons, the Broads from California (not spelled with an x), the Gates foundation from Washington state and Mike Bloomberg from New York. These big donors are the primary financiers of our present BESE elections and they are the primary financiers for New Schools for Baton Rouge, one of the groups that wants to be a charter authorizer. But to add insult to injury, these donors are not contributing money to help our public schools. They are donating millions to get politicians elected to privatize our schools and to use our tax money to do it with.

It is a serious error to say that that MFP money for each child belongs to the parent and that they should be able to take it to any school they choose. Citizens who have no children in public schools pay most of the MFP allocation and we are happy to do it. We deserve the right to choose how our schools will be run through our elected school boards. Please vote for this bill.”

All of the bills to regulate charters failed, despite the governor’s support.

Categories Billionaires, Charter Schools, Corporate Reform, Louisiana, School Choice
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