Charter School Failure (The Schools, Not The Kids)

[mitty14u2]

Meanwhile charter school failures are too numerous to ignore and the number keeps mounting. In February 2016 the New York City Department of Education announced it was closing four charter schools, Beginning with Children Charter School, Fahari Academy Charter School, and Lefferts Gardens Charter School in Brooklyn and Staten Island Community Charter School. Detroit closed three charter schools and forced two to merge this school year. In Los Angeles, Allen Academy, one of the larger charters, was shut down because of poor academic performance. World Communications and Imani Education Charter School in Philadelphia are either closed or closing. Charters were also closed in Pinellas County, Florida, Chicago, Memphis, and Mesa, Arizona.

In Texas, 143 charter schools have closed since the program began in 1998. Michigan closed 122 of its academies during the charter school era. According to a federal report, between 2000 and 2014 2,378 charter schools were closed in the United States displacing tens of thousands of primarily Black and Latino students.

Other studies show that charter schools often have higher dropout rates than traditional public schools. Many have little or no impact on student test scores, a statistically insignificant impact on the earnings of their graduates, and illegally prevent students from enrolling or remaining at their schools. Many others charter schools are considered hyper-segregated with at least a 90 percent minority population.

These are more than enough reasons to support the NAACP call for a freeze on charter school expansion and oppose the Trump/DeVos agenda.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/charter-school-failure-th_b_13347518.html

DeVos is the worst person that Trump could have picked, its deplorable!

[Angry Dragon]

1. Trump drained the swamp and he found all his cabinet picks at the bottom

[hunter]

2. A huge number of charter schools are wittingly or unwittenly scams.

Everybody thinks they can teach because we all went to school, right?

It doesn't work that way.

"Free Market" educators are the worst.

They hire under- or unqualified teachers, pay them a pittance, and expect good results.

Some of them blatantly cheat standardized testing, or promote religious bullshit like Creationism or "Intelligent Design" or prayers in the classroom.

Instead of fixing crappy public schools, charter schools are sold to parents who want a better education for their children. When concerned parents take their kids out of public schools, the public schools suffer.

The sad thing is that seeing how the parents who send their kids to charter kids think education is important, these children ought to be doing significantly better than the children left behind in public schools. They are not.

In effect these motivated parents and children are making crappy charter schools look much better than they are.

[Squinch]

3. Kick. They suck.