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chuckstevens

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6. The "Other" Financial Scandal

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2013, 07:28 AM

May 2013

Most people do not realize that if a students opts out of a public school to goes to a charter school, the public school loses the funding for each that student who leaves the system. However, when the students realizes the charter school was falsely advertised as to its "greatness" and they decide to go back to the public school, the public school DOES NOT GET A DIME BACK FROM THE CHARTER SCHOOL! Gee, not problem with stretching an already constrained budget!

Multiple that with the number of kids nationwide who do leave charter schools and go back to public schools and you'll see that whole thing is a freckin scam. Waiting for Superman My Ass!

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