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The school choice and 2-parent household official thread

Tobacco Road

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For those who want to engage in these topics without derailing other threads.
 
birdman, you need to clear out your Inbox.
 
 

From her twitter feed - "only 5 TN Charter schools (out of over 100) has a success rate of over 20%, according to the state Report Card."

And: "A friend reminded me of perhaps the most egregious charter scandal in Nashville - Nashville Global Academy. It was poorly planned from the start and delivered students home after midnight on the first day of school. Then it forgot a student on a bus, leaving the child on the bus parked offsite all day. An investigation of the school revealed poor communication, a non-workable transportation plan, inadequate board oversight, poor administration of exceptional education, failure to meet accepted standards of fiscal management & accounting practices, failure to administer required state assessments, failure to pay teachers, etc. The school misappropriated funds to the tune of $149k and failed to pay food services ($35k), gas charges ($14k), bus leases (over $23k) and employee benefits ($200k). It also failed to reconcile Charter Startup Program Grant funds totaling $81k. It collapsed nearly $500k in debt, leaving the district, teachers and vendors holding the bag. Guess who paid? Us- the taxpayers (not once, but twice)."
 
Fine let the Tennessee kids languish in make-believe schools and be taught all the unicorn shit about the world and stay dumb and the rest of our kids in blue states will keep on winning.
 
From her twitter feed - "only 5 TN Charter schools (out of over 100) has a success rate of over 20%, according to the state Report Card."

And: "A friend reminded me of perhaps the most egregious charter scandal in Nashville - Nashville Global Academy. It was poorly planned from the start and delivered students home after midnight on the first day of school. Then it forgot a student on a bus, leaving the child on the bus parked offsite all day. An investigation of the school revealed poor communication, a non-workable transportation plan, inadequate board oversight, poor administration of exceptional education, failure to meet accepted standards of fiscal management & accounting practices, failure to administer required state assessments, failure to pay teachers, etc. The school misappropriated funds to the tune of $149k and failed to pay food services ($35k), gas charges ($14k), bus leases (over $23k) and employee benefits ($200k). It also failed to reconcile Charter Startup Program Grant funds totaling $81k. It collapsed nearly $500k in debt, leaving the district, teachers and vendors holding the bag. Guess who paid? Us- the taxpayers (not once, but twice)."

Metrics and accountability!
 
Their bootstraps were probably made in China and broke. Can't pull yourself up with broken bootstraps. Sorry ! Maybe next time !!
 
From her twitter feed - "only 5 TN Charter schools (out of over 100) has a success rate of over 20%, according to the state Report Card."

And: "A friend reminded me of perhaps the most egregious charter scandal in Nashville - Nashville Global Academy. It was poorly planned from the start and delivered students home after midnight on the first day of school. Then it forgot a student on a bus, leaving the child on the bus parked offsite all day. An investigation of the school revealed poor communication, a non-workable transportation plan, inadequate board oversight, poor administration of exceptional education, failure to meet accepted standards of fiscal management & accounting practices, failure to administer required state assessments, failure to pay teachers, etc. The school misappropriated funds to the tune of $149k and failed to pay food services ($35k), gas charges ($14k), bus leases (over $23k) and employee benefits ($200k). It also failed to reconcile Charter Startup Program Grant funds totaling $81k. It collapsed nearly $500k in debt, leaving the district, teachers and vendors holding the bag. Guess who paid? Us- the taxpayers (not once, but twice)."

so are these the winners and losers that jhmd tells us need to be figured out in education?
 
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