tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post411300857043966312..comments2023-10-21T03:07:18.017-05:00Comments on Enclave: Charter school with 25% turnover rate flips revenues into irresistible capital projectsS-townMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-20568344994567963212012-03-01T08:53:08.542-06:002012-03-01T08:53:08.542-06:00One more link for public consumption:
"The B...One more link for public consumption:<br /><br />"The Big Enchilada"<br /><br />http://schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com/2012/02/big-enchilada.html<br /><br />"Trying to make a killing in the charter school business"?! Yeah, that's right, the charter school business is so profitable that I'm telling all my friends in the hedge fund business that they're in the wrong business. My message: "If you really want to make a lot of money, start a charter school!" LOL! -- Whitney Tilson"<br /><br />"In 2007, hedgefunder and charter school maven, Whitney Tilson chided me for implying that there was a profit to be made in the charter school market and that he and his group DFER were pursuing exactly that course, under the banner of school reform. It was Tilson himself, a couple of years later however, who let the cat out of the bag in a New York Times article by Joe Nocera."<br /><br />Read it and weep for TN public schools.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12813056667733621829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-74833159917912771292012-03-01T08:18:58.053-06:002012-03-01T08:18:58.053-06:00Thank-you- thank-you- and thank-you for this post....Thank-you- thank-you- and thank-you for this post.<br /><br />The Obama administration,ignoring evidence,bribed states to lift the legal barriers on charters to get Race to the Top money. The research is clear that charters are no better, and many are worse than public schools. A 2009 study of 2,330 middle school students at charter schools in 15 states found that they performed no better in math and science. <br /><br />“Nearly half of the charter schools nationwide have results that are no different from the local public school options and over a third, 37 percent, deliver learning results that are significantly worse than their student[s] would have realized had they remained in traditional public schools.” - Washington Post (WP)<br /><br />A more extensive CREDO Study in 2010 at Standford found that 83% are no better and worse than traditional public schools: <br />charters:http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/newsroom/releases/2010/Charterschool_6_10.asp<br /><br />Charter schools license to launder public money to private interests was reported by Juan Gonzalez in 2007 in the Daily New and Democracy Now<br />http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-05-07/local/29438011_1_charter-law-albany-charter-state-aid<br />Charters in Ohio cost taxpayers 2.5 times more money than traditional public schools:<br />http://www.plunderbund.com/2011/03/22/charter-school-students-cost-ohio-taxpayers-2-5-times-more/ <br /><br />Ignoring facts, DoEd says RttT reforms "opens up doors" for children. They fail to mention why tax money pays $300,000 to $400,000 salaries to charter school leaders to oversee a tiny number of students. They fail to mention the unsavory real estate deals or high teacher turnover, or the systematic expulsion of children with disabilities in charters. <br /><br />Those of us in the education milieu live in the reality based world that equality is a core concept of public schools. Obama and Duncan, just like Bush, are creating a reality serving the 1% re: education reform. Hence, the rush to impose their reality on an unsuspecting population with RttT and NCLB waivers (recycled RttT). <br /><br />In summary, the current privatization efforts via accountability and charter schools cannot be separated from the US history of successful re-segregation and more recently 12 years of re-gentrification of the inner cities. Charters and vouchers re-segregate children based on family income, class, race, and disability under the guise of giving families “choice”, when in fact, every charter chooses its students (and families) and expels the undesirables. <br />Look at New Orleans public schools for the results of 6 years of charterized schools. They are more racially, economically, and disability segregated than before the 1980's. 15 years of Duncan-led reforms in Chicago Public Schools Rahm spins his lies as "saving poor kids":<br />http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2012/02/survival-of-fittest-in-rahms-chicago.html<br /><br />It's difficult to believe the mogul class when they claim edu-reforms care about equality for poor kids. Reality shows separate means equal when it comes to schools for "those" kids.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12813056667733621829noreply@blogger.com