Web of Secrecy Surrounding Federal Half-a-Billion Handout to Charter Schools

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The U.S. Department of Education is poised to spend half a billion dollars to help create new charter schools, while the public is being kept in the dark about which states have applied for the lucrative grants, and what their actual track records are when it comes to preventing fraud and misuse.

Already the federal government has spent $3.3 billion in American tax dollars under the Charter Schools Program (CSP), as tallied by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

But the government has done so without requiring any accountability from the states and schools that receive the money, as CMD revealed earlier this year.

Throwing good money after bad, Education Secretary Arne Duncan called for a 48 percent increase in federal charter funding earlier this year, and the House and Senate budget proposals also call for an increase—albeit a more modest one—while at the same time slashing education programs for immigrants and language learners.

The clamor for charter expansion comes despite the fact that there are federal probes underway into suspected waste and mismanagement within the program, not to mention ongoing and recently completed state audits of fraud perpetrated by charter school operators.

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Bah, it's just money..............amiright?
 
But if the same money went to public schools, regardless of outcomes...?
 
public schools are a big scam...propaganda factories cranking out indoctrinated, empty headed little bots.

Charter schools are held accountable for their results.
 
Charter schools are a big scam.

Schools are a Big Scam. Some are just not totally worthless.

How many high school physics books are as good as these:

Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, (1972)
Volumes (1,2 & 3 of 3) by Isaac Asimov
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 1 (of 3) by Isaac Asimov
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 2 (of 3) by Isaac Asimov
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3) by Isaac Asimov

Has the structure of the atom changed since 1972?

psik
 
Schools, period, are a big scam. Education is going away soon and teachers will be without their high paying jobs. Internet access being what it is, kids can and will self educate. Much better alternative IMO, as the education system is a complete joke.
 
Charter schools are a big scam.

Schools are a Big Scam. Some are just not totally worthless.

How many high school physics books are as good as these:

Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, (1972)
Volumes (1,2 & 3 of 3) by Isaac Asimov
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 1 (of 3) by Isaac Asimov
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 2 (of 3) by Isaac Asimov
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3) by Isaac Asimov

Has the structure of the atom changed since 1972?

psik


 
Regardless of the outcomes...yea, let's just continue tossing money into the toilet then since you obviously care nothing about youngsters particularly actually learning something for a change.
 
Regardless of the outcomes...yea, let's just continue tossing money into the toilet then since you obviously care nothing about youngsters particularly actually learning something for a change.



Want to stick your foot in your mouth some more?
 

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