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ashling

(25,771 posts) Thu Apr 23, 2015, 05:22 PM Apr 2015

FBI Raids of Charter School Operators Jump

http://www.alternet.org/education/fbi-raids-charter-school-operators-jump?page=0%2C1&akid=12145.312752.V5quO2&rd=1&src=newsletter1016127&t=21

Charter schools are such a racket, across the nation they are attracting special attention from the FBI, which is working with the Department of Education’s inspector general to look into allegations of charter-school fraud.

One target, covered in an August 12 story in The Atlantic, is the secretive Turkish cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who runs the largest charter-school chain in the United States.

The Atlantic felt compelled to note, repeatedly, that it would be xenophobic to single out the Gulen schools and their mysterious Muslim founder for lack of transparency and the misuse of public funds.

“It isn’t the Gulen movement that makes Gulen charters so secretive,” writes The Atlantic’s Scott Beauchamp, “it’s the charter movement itself.”

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“Originally, charter schools were conceived as a way to improve public education,” Buras says. “Over time, however, the charter school movement has developed into a money-making venture.”

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FBI Raids of Charter School Operators Jump (Original Post) ashling Apr 2015 OP

Never saw this coming. Baitball Blogger Apr 2015 #1

Dumbing down, traumatizing and indoctrinating for profit. What could possibly go wrong? freshwest Apr 2015 #2

Excellent! Thespian2 Apr 2015 #4

It's not privatizing, it's profitizing ... aggiesal Apr 2015 #3

Good, but private school operators have always been about the money. Trillo Apr 2015 #5

For profit education is one of the worst things to happen to this country. Initech Apr 2015 #6

Baitball Blogger

(46,769 posts)

1. Never saw this coming.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 05:43 PM

Apr 2015

Charter schools turned into a racket? Tell me it isn't so.

We should track down the idiots that hatched this idea and shove it in their faces.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

2. Dumbing down, traumatizing and indoctrinating for profit. What could possibly go wrong?

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 06:35 PM

Apr 2015

Bringing the Idiocracy© and installing the Randian Dystopia through economic apartheid, destroying communities and public education while living it up, to your neighborhood, one child at a time.

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)

4. Excellent!

Reply to freshwest (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 08:02 PM

Apr 2015

I couldn't think of anything to add to your response...you nailed it exceedingly well.

aggiesal

(8,938 posts)

3. It's not privatizing, it's profitizing ...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 07:51 PM

Apr 2015

And it's doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Trillo

(9,154 posts)

5. Good, but private school operators have always been about the money.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 08:10 PM

Apr 2015

Private schools intentionally screw some of their children over for a lifetime, but you never read about those, except in abstract statistics like the school-to-prison pipeline, a model which I believe was essentially imported from the private schools. It's essentially the expulsion model.

What likely led to the perception was carefully constructed PR campaigns of silence in regards to "negativity."

Initech

(100,108 posts)

6. For profit education is one of the worst things to happen to this country.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 10:19 PM

Apr 2015

What's that saying? "The beatings will continue until morale improves?"

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