For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In
Source: ProPublica
This story was co-published with USA Today.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — 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, students’ workstations in the storefront charter school run by for-profit EdisonLearning resembled place settings for a dinner party where most guests never arrived.
In one room, empty chairs faced 25 blank computer monitors. Just three students sat in a science lab down the hall, and nine more 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.
Some stay away even longer. ProPublica reviewed 38 days of Capital High’s records from late March to late May and found six students skipped 22 or more days straight with no excused absences. Two were gone the entire 38-day period. Under state rules, Capital should have unenrolled them after 21 consecutive unexcused absences.
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Whats really disgusting is that the head of this committee has called how many public hearings on this issue of waste, these two tea party hypocrites Foxx and Wilson, ran on a f*cking platform of government waste
https://edworkforce.house.gov/committee/subcommitteesjurisdictions.htm
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because ya know, if "charters" can't get to these uneducatable children, then no one can. 
The problem is no one wants to address the societal issues behind the dropouts (including children trying to work to support their families, in a number of cases where one or both parents are in prison or are addicts or who are trying to work several minimum-wage jobs).
When I was growing up, we were ranked either 1 or 5, I know everyone uses the past as a performance and wish it would not change, but, and I mean but, ever since these right wingers have gotten into office, from 40 years ago, this country is turning slowly into a third rate state system on education and other society issues.
When my mother graduated from school the requirement was that if you got to the eighth grade you could quit, she quit because she had to help her family, and she explained to me the reason why, this was back in the 1930-40's and when she got married she told me that all of her kids where going to go to high school, come hell or high water, to get that degree, because she said our government is giving a free education from K-12.
When we were in California back in the sixties and seventies two years of community college was free, then Reagan showed up......................
And now the department of Education is run by Christian Reformed Church member & elder at Mars Hill Bible Church:
The Christian Reformed Church, formed by Dutch immigrants settling the Midwest in the 1800s, grew out of Dutch Calvinism – splitting from the older Reformed Church in America in the 1850s. One of the churches’ disagreements was about education: The Reformed Church in America viewed schooling as the responsibility of the government, while the Christian Reformed Church viewed it as the responsibility of the family.
