With a $71 Million Grant, Ohio Has Not Fixed Charter School Issue
Ever wonder what happened to the $71 million federal grant for new, improved, innovative, high performing charters? Steve Dyer probed the matter. The charter school grant, the nation’s largest for the matter, had a rocky start and has deteriorated as attorney Dyer explains in 10th Period on August 17
In 2016 last year, the state gave out a staggeringly low $1 million of that $71 million to just three of Ohio’s about 400 charter schools. Then the state just gave back $22 million of the $71 million, saying it just didn’t have enough good oversight agencies running charter schools. A fine admission.
As Dyer says in his piece, “So after three years and constant communication with the feds, the $71 million charter grant Ohio got in 2015 amid much fanfare has been sent to 3 of Ohio’s nearly 400 charter schools for $350,000 each. And ODE still has no plan to ensure charters better serve at-risk kids or implement innovative learning, which was the whole point of the grant in the first place.”
Just give the money back to the feds. Ohio doesn’t need any more additions to the failed $11 billion charter experiment.
Chartering in Ohio has wasted billions. Stop the misuse of scarce appropriations for public education.
