Tuesday, October 6, 2015

With Federal Millions, “Wild West” of Charters Is about to Get Even Wilder

With Federal Millions, “Wild West” of Charters Is about to Get Even Wilder

"While eight state departments of education shared a $125-million pot of federal taxpayer money for 2015, the biggest recipient by far for this round of grants is Ohio. It landed a whopping $32.6 million grant to the dismay of public school advocates.

With its lax-to-non-existent charter school laws, and vast number of unaccountable authorizers, Ohio has long been an embarrassment even to the charter school industry."