Taxpayers Left Holding Bill For Charter Schools

[Disir]

In 2013, 17 charter schools in Columbus closed, joining 150 other charter schools around Ohio. It's a failure rate of 29 percent.

"$1.4 billion has been spent since 2005 through school year 2012-2013 on charter schools that have never gotten any higher grade than an F or a D," Collins said.

Collins, along with Stephen Dyer of the progressive public policy think tank, Innovation Ohio, said Ohio public schools have paid too high a price to support charter schools.

"We were told at the beginning, 'We can do it cheaper and better.' And they are doing it at twice the cost and it's worse," said Dyer.

Charter schools are funded by the state on the backs of school districts and taxpayers.

"They know tax dollars are going to it. They don't realize it's coming out of the public school district, and they don't realize the oversight is entirely different," Dyer said. "There is much more money going to the charter school kids that every kid in the state on average loses 6.5 percent of their state revenue."

The bill doesn't stop there. NBC4 Investigates: Taxpayers Left Holding Bill For Charter Schoo - WCMH: News, Weather, and Sports for Columbus, Ohio

Any other states having the same problem?

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

Charter schools are part of the public education system. What we really need is universal school choice. The hell with the status quo, for crying out loud! Enough of the statist public education system already!