Around here, there’s been a fair amount of corruption, followed by the crash-n-burn of the charter school. Students get hurt, teachers get stiffed, and the insiders take it to the bank.
Looked up some numbers. As of September, 2015, 187 Charter schools closed in Texas. Although, to be fair, many of those only closed due to mere incompetence; it would be unfair to assert fraud in all of the cases. Find the list for your state here: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/09/12936/cmd-publishes-full-list-2500-closed-charter-schools
Seems a bit of a stretch to call them a successful alternative to urban schools which were destroyed by the federal courts.
where is around here?
“Students get hurt, teachers get stiffed, and the insiders take it to the bank.”
That pretty much sums up all these special schools. Parents have A+ expectations, so these schools monkey with the grades to get that. No parent believes that they or their child are lazy losers, so anything less than an A+ must mean it is the school’s fault.
Once the corruption comes into play, and it happens very quickly, these schools are no better than any public school.
Fact is, a child can get a great education anywhere if the parents do their part, and they rarely do.