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Article about a local school district that highlights some of the political and economic undertones to the charter school movement. When I was more naive, I thought things like this were unintended consequences.
Charter schools in Pennsylvania are vary widely in their academics and how well they are run. The stupidest thing is that there is zero control financially from the very school districts that fund them. It's not uncommon for them to enroll a child and then claim they have special needs - and get another several thousand dollars.
Wow. Why are charter schools so popular in poor urban areas? So popular that tuition payments from the district to the charters are higher than what the district receives in aid from the state!?
It's not uncommon for them to enroll a child and then claim they have special needs - and get another several thousand dollars.
More unintended consequences. What public school administrator wants to be vilified in the local paper as being so evil as to deny funds to a special needs child "just because he/she is enrolled in charter school"?
Article about a local school district that highlights some of the political and economic undertones to the charter school movement. When I was more naive, I thought things like this were unintended consequences.
Wow. Why are charter schools so popular in poor urban areas? So popular that tuition payments from the district to the charters are higher than what the district receives in aid from the state!?
This has to do with politics and the politicians wanting to destroy public schools and educational opportunity for kids.
The state argued Monday the district overpays charters for special needs students — a claim neither charter schools nor Court of Common Pleas President Judge Chad F. Kenney disputed in the 13-page ruling released Tuesday.
Note they pay $40,000 per special ed student to the charters and only $16,000 to the public schools, but the special education students who attend the charters are those with less needs mostly kids with only speech and language - not autistic or behaviorally disordered students that the public schools must accept. This is the second time that teachers in the Chester-Upland district have agreed to work without pay in order for the district to remain open. How is that fair?
Disgusting. And teachers will still be vilified even though they are working for free..................
And, if a teacher dares to speak out about this problem, s/he will also be vilified for "just trying to protect that cushy, high paying, gold plated pension, 3 months off in the summer, union protected" job.
I'm glad I'm out.
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