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eridani

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Sat Dec 12, 2015, 04:47 AM Dec 2015

New report: Charter schools great at making money for private business, not much else

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/10/1458969/-New-report-Charter-schools-great-at-making-money-for-private-business-not-much-else

The best part? You don’t have to pay those dumb teachers jack squat!

The report also contends that labor costs at charter schools tend to be unusually top-heavy, as EMO executives conserve funds by hiring young, relatively inexpensive staff — and then add the savings to their own salaries.

“Early studies of charter schools in Pennsylvania found charter teacher annual salaries to be on average $18,000 lower than teacher salaries in district schools,” the report said. In contrast, top EMO heads can draw comfortable six-figure salaries, the report said. Eva Moskowitz, a high-profile New York charter advocate and CEO of the city’s Success Academy network of charter schools, was found in the report to earn more than $475,000 annually.

And when you consider that charter schools don’t perform better than increasingly underfunded and unsupported public schools, it’s a perfect study in evil.
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New report: Charter schools great at making money for private business, not much else (Original Post) eridani Dec 2015 OP
Is this the three millionth report about what everyone had seen coming anyway, or has it been more? merrily Dec 2015 #1
K&R Person 2713 Dec 2015 #2
Education "reform" was never about education. It's about pillaging education budgets. Scuba Dec 2015 #3
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