http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/2/1459447/-Taking-the-public-out-of-public-education?detail=email
A lot of charter schools like to label themselves “public charter schools” to help blur the distinctions between their publicly funded but largely privatized model and actual public education that takes all students and is fully accountable to the public.
While, as they say, not all charters are like this, the lack of oversight allows shady lease deals and widespread fraud to flourish. And then there are differences like this:
107 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline policies we reviewed permit suspension or expulsion as a penalty for any of the infractions listed in the discipline policy, no matter how minor the infraction. By contrast, the New York City Department of Education’s (DOE) Discipline Code aligns infractions with penalties, limiting suspension to certain violations and prohibiting expulsion for all students under age 17 and for all students with disabilities.
82 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline policies we reviewed permit suspension or expulsion as a penalty for lateness, absence, or cutting class, in violation of state law.
133 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline policies we reviewed fail to include the right to written notice of a suspension prior to the suspension taking place, in violation of state law.this is privatizing schools whose ultimate agenda is to teach what the right wing wants your kid to know and that depends on your kids race what he receives. we have seen NC and Texas changing their curriculum in order to teach a more right wing oriented format one of right wing ideology coupled with obedience and selfishness carried over from their tea party indoctrination summer camps.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article31303106.html
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/15/246341/tea-party-summer-camp/
