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SoCalDem

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20. Close that school..asap and put that money into real schools

Reply to HiPointDem (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 03:16 PM

Feb 2013

or just give those parents that $6611.34 and let them send their kids to a real school if public schools are "not good enough" for their little darlings..

and make that person reimburse the "extra" money she kept..

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Charter school principal got paid $824K; only $324K was spent on instruction. 180 students. [View all] HiPointDem Feb 2013 OP

Reinforces the notion that charter schools are simply opportunistic mechanisms mnhtnbb Feb 2013 #1

I think the opportunism is equal-opportunity. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #2

Well that's is certainly innovative. Starry Messenger Feb 2013 #3

lol. yeah, charter schools will make einsteins of us all with innovative ideas like paying the HiPointDem Feb 2013 #4

That's over twice what the President of the US makes. Starry Messenger Feb 2013 #7

Kick. Starry Messenger Feb 2013 #13

yes, it is a fresh way of thinking Enrique Feb 2013 #14

More money to administration, less to students. Starry Messenger Feb 2013 #21

Charter schools are. not. innovative. at. all. theaocp Feb 2013 #5

what? HiPointDem Feb 2013 #6

Post says charter schools are not innovative. To think that they are is incorrect. Bluenorthwest Feb 2013 #9

what? i understood what he said, just not why he seemed to think i'd made some assertion to the HiPointDem Feb 2013 #16

That should be considered fraud. Bluenorthwest Feb 2013 #8

No wonder Republicans love them NewJeffCT Feb 2013 #10

Guess we know why transparency hasn't existed wrt these schools >>>> Roland99 Feb 2013 #11

You get $300,000 for running a 180 student school? alcibiades_mystery Feb 2013 #12

what an embarrassing scam Enrique Feb 2013 #15

It's the lack of accountability that allows these abuses to continue. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #17

More executive criminals - they're everywhere it seems. Initech Feb 2013 #18

There they go again. Conservatives throwing more and more money at our problems. randome Feb 2013 #19

Close that school..asap and put that money into real schools SoCalDem Feb 2013 #20