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What you need to know about Betsy DeVos; For decades, we've covered DeVos, her family and her personal role in the creation of Detroit's charter school program.
Topic Started: Feb 7 2017, 07:51 PM (141 Views)
dr345
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Free Press special report (June 2014)

In reviewing two decades of charter school records, the Free Press found wasteful spending and double-dipping; board members, school founders and employees steering lucrative deals to themselves or insiders; schools allowed to operate for years despite poor academic records; no state standards for who operates charter schools or how to oversee them; and a record number of charter schools run by for-profit companies that rake in taxpayer money and refuse to detail how they spend it, saying they’re private and not subject to disclosure laws.

Michigan leads the nation in schools run by for-profits.


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When bad schools go on and on ...

Poor-performing charter schools in Michigan continue to get renewed, time after time. According to a Free Press review, almost two-thirds of Michigan’s oldest charter schools, those open more than a decade, are in the bottom half of state rankings. Many critics point a finger at authorizers and the state, which sets no standards for when to close a school. Authorizers defend themselves vigorously, saying that they must give schools every chance to succeed.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2017/01/18/betsy-devos-charter-schools/96718680/
un jour on se souviendra de ca comme on se souvient de ca
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Attaburnsinhell

Charter schools are a huge scam

And in order to keep them in check you have to create a giant bureaucracy of rules and regulations so they dont rob the taxpayers blind
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