Indiana lawmakers may forgive 12 million in loans to failed charter schools. Wow!

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24. I am against charter schools because they deprive public schools of money and resources....

There are some charters run by the district school boards that I might support, but overall the movement is to allow private companies to control public education. This gives taxpayer money, public money, to private companies who are not regulated.

Suddenly schools that are good schools with good teachers are being declared unfit because of test scores. The tests are developed secretly with no regulation, no oversight, and it takes a lawyer to try and get access for concerned parents. I know that because I had it happen before I retired. I monitored the test, I know what happened, and the parents had just concerns.

They are declaring public schools as failures based on iffy info so they can use the Obama/Arne turnaround system to get more charter schools more quickly.

The burden is off the shoulders of the students and parents to do well, and the blame is squarely on the teachers.

It is becoming more about profit and less about depth of learning. In the meanwhile career teachers are suffering. They are fired or laid off in spite of contracts.