Courtesy of USA Today:Charter schools touted by @BetsyDeVos lure at-risk students and when they stop coming, the state keeps paying. https://t.co/iB0FOeQHxC— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) October 5, 2017
Last school year, Ohio’s cash-strapped education department paid Capital High $1.4 million in taxpayer dollars to teach students on the verge of dropping out. But on a Thursday in May, the storefront charter school run by for-profit EdisonLearning was mostly empty.
In one room, vacant chairs faced 25 blank computer monitors. Three students sat in a science lab down the hall, and another nine in an unlit classroom, including one youth who sprawled out, head down, sleeping.
Only three of the more than 170 students on Capital’s rolls attended class the required five hours that day, records obtained by ProPublica show. Almost two-thirds of the school’s students never showed up; others left early. Nearly a third of the roster failed to attend class all week.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has championed charters and for-profit education, contending in Congressional testimony that school choice can lower absenteeism and dropout rates. But at schools like Capital, a ProPublica-USA Today investigation found, the drop-outs rarely drop in—and if they do, they don’t stay long. Such schools aggressively recruit as many students as possible, and sometimes count them even after they stop showing up, a practice that can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for empty desks.
If Betsy DeVos has her way this will be how ALL of the country's educational needs will be met.
They will just continue charging the American people for an education that nobody shows up to receive.
You ever wonder how they create more Republicans?
THIS is how they create more Republicans.
This is a criminal act. It is called FRAUD.
ReplyDeletePublic schools only get paid for when a student attends class those minimum hours. They must attend so many days per year or they do not get credit for that year or those classes. It’s the law.
Any for profit school that is LYING about student attendance and taking Federal tax dollars for ADA is committing FRAUD.
But do you think Trump’s administration will crack down on them? Do you think anyone will go to prison?
Yep. This is exactly how they create and maintain the Republican party.
That isn't true. Public schools get paid the rest of the year under their foundation formula for every student who is present by the cutoff date in October. It's the only way the system works. Otherwise their funding would fluctuate based on attendance through the year.
DeleteI would guess any school that targets at risk youth has similar attendance issues.
Nope. The October cut off is for staffing. Otherwise there would be no reason to take daily attendance or even hourly at the secondary level. If ADA didn’t count after October there would be no reason to make up absences or truancies.
DeleteAt my grandkids schools it is spelled out that the kids must attend so many hours per school year,or no funding.In fact,that is why when schools use more than the allotted number of snow days,etc,the kids end up going longer into summer to make up for it.
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'“Very eerie. Yeah, the dust from the explosive breach. And, then you have the flashing lights,” he said. “And that looked straight, like, out of a movie, YOU KNOW?”"
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"He complained that Democrats had inaccurately blamed firearms for gun violence instead of movies."
“Always gun control,” Santorum said. “It is never about the violence we have in our society, it is never about what Hollywood, YOU KNOW, contribution to that.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/santorum-goes-off-the-rails-in-bonkers-rant-about-video-games-and-obama-being-to-blame-for-vegas-shooting/
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"They hadn't seen him this happy in years.>"ready to see his favorite singer, Jason Aldean, in Vegas."
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They were North Slope roughnecks, crab, fishermen, mechanics and construction workers, all local boys. None of them were as enthusiastic about country music as he was. They ribbed him about his hats, but his enthusiasm — and his coy way of guilting them to join in — usually pulled them along."
"Murfitt had a childlike way of complimenting a woman without being creepy.""He had lost his friends … and I was hanging solo, so we buddied up for a bit … and he was excited to be in Vegas for Route 91 and he liked my red hair. He was friendly and nice, and all smiles."
"He could see his friend lying alone out there. He couldn't take it. He was overcome with anger.
He ran back to Murfitt, sat cross-legged next to him, and picked up the Stetson and put it on himself. He rested his hand on his friend's chest and cried."They told MacKinnon he had to leave. "I'm not leaving!" he said.
A paramedic came up to him and said, "Do you have kids?"
He saw the faces of his girls, Miley and Carmen.
"Let me take you to your kids," she said."
"I can't see any more dead people," a COP told him.
His family in Anchorage has been trying to get it released. Alaska Airlines has offered to fly his remains home at no charge.
MacKinnon is waiting in the room Murfitt rented, grieving, unwilling to leave until he gets on the plane with his friend."
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/10/06/alaskans-brotherly-journey-to-vegas-ends-in-grief/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trevor-noahs-unscripted-off-air-gun-comments-may-make-your-day_us_59d79eb1e4b046f5ad97dc0d
DeleteSame thing as kids and tv.
Delete"It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning."
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Betsy Devos should be interviewed on a Sunday morning talk show regarding the above post.
ReplyDeleteWe warned everyone about Betsy, she started this scam in MI.
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