Weekend Open Thread: A Primer on California’s Charter Ripoff

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Gulen Charter Schools in US

Here’s something for you to read about and discuss: it’s called “California’s Charter School Fiasco.”

Here’s a taste:

There was no effort here to improve education in California. It was simply greed driven corruption that used a poorly written charter law to purloin tax dollars.

College Preparatory Middle School was one of those out of district schools granted a charter by Steve Van Zant’s Mountain Empire School District. It opened with 83 uniformed students in a church in La Mesa. They now appear to be trying to execute the infamous charter school real estate scam.

The San Diego Union reported on January 31, 2016 that College Preparatory Middle School wants to build a major new facility in Spring Valley. The Union describes the financial proposal:

“Under the financial arrangement, a Utah charter school developer and a Delaware subsidiary of a real estate trust headquartered in Missouri would finance the project with millions of California education dollars. College Prep would lease the new campus from the financiers for more than $620,000 a year, or 9.5 percent of the project cost. The charter could buy the campus after five years for 125 percent of the projected $6.8 million cost of the project.”

This is not about improving education or providing choice. This is solely about profits.

Click the link and search on the word “Gulen” to see what problem OC is having right now.

This is your belated Weekend Open Thread.  Talk about that or talk about the March Madness.  Those are the only two acceptable topics, except for others that are decent and decorous.


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