http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/06/1428552/-This-Florida-charter-school-sounds-like-every-parent-and-teacher-s-education-nightmare?detail=email
How would you feel as a parent if a little more than one month into the school year the principal of your new charter school fired the bulk of teachers and forced others to take huge pay cuts, lose benefits to remain? That's what happened at Paramount Charter School in Broward county where stunned parents discovered their kids were sitting around and drawing all day because there were no teachers left:
"I just picked them up one day and all their teachers were gone," Brooks said, still incredulous. "I'm looking around like, 'OK, where's your teacher? Where's your teacher?' Nobody had a teacher."
And where were the teachers? Looking for new jobs. As many as 20 were fired and many more resigned:
Three now-former Paramount teachers who, fearing retaliation, spoke on condition of anonymity said about 20 teachers lost their jobs, many in a mass firing, the others resigning.
"One by one, she would call everybody in and they were getting fired, fired, fired," one teacher said.
Those who weren't fired were given a stark choice:
One said that after the mass firings, she was called into the room and told that the school wanted to keep her, but that if she wanted to keep her job she would have to take a cut in pay from $36,000 to $30,000 and that promised benefits, including health care, would be cut.
The Paramount Charter School website proudly notes how charter schools are free of those pesky regulations that drag down traditional public schools:
Charter schools are public schools that operate under a performance contract, or a “charter” which frees them from many regulations created for traditional public schools while holding them accountable for academic and financial results. The charter contract between the charter school governing board and the sponsor details the school’s mission, program, goals, students served, methods of assessment and ways to measure success. The length of time for which charters are granted varies but most are granted for five years.
The Florida Legislature, in authorizing the creation of public charter schools, established the following guiding principles: high standards of student achievement while increasing parental choice; the alignment of responsibility with accountability; and ensuring parents receive information on reading levels and learning gains of their children.
Charter schools are intended to improve student learning; increase learning opportunities with special emphasis on low performing students and reading; and measure learning outcomes. Charter schools may create innovative measurement tools; provide competition to stimulate improvement in traditional schools; expand capacity of the public school system; and mitigate the educational impact created by the development of new residential units.
product of deregulation brought about by that republican thing about returning things to states but it's be crystal clear what that really means "right wing carte blanche", they have systematically destroyed the fabric of the nations middle and poor classes, ranting freedoms being denied when again it's obvious who's freedoms are being denied and by who.
Charter schools are public schools that operate under a performance contract, or a “charter” which frees them from many regulations created for traditional public schools while holding them accountable for academic and financial results.
keep in mind the republican effort to change curriculum to be more right wing oriented and indoctrinating
creating an oligarchy gov't state that does not believe in the middle or poor we are just the reason they are feeling so imposed upon like their evangelical religious arm suppressed in the middle of their suppressing.
