tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post2602208096299269290..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: Newark's Superintendent Faces the Facts About Charter SchoolsDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-6271381019653103892014-11-16T15:44:06.434-08:002014-11-16T15:44:06.434-08:00I have been reading m. Shannon Hernadez' book ...I have been reading m. Shannon Hernadez' book called Breaking the Silence. Her stories from her teaching days are something to read. The kids are struggling in a failed system, the big system. Charter schools are just a piece of the issue. We need to fix the big problems first. www.myfinal40days.com is Hernandez' site, it's a good read on this.Becky Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08323991564190303494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-26989772316601687002014-11-08T11:10:42.744-08:002014-11-08T11:10:42.744-08:00Are charter schools public schools? And the follow...Are charter schools public schools? And the following story occurs in North Carolina, of all places. NC which is rabidly pro charter and anti its own public schools. <br /> From rawstory.com: North Carolina tells charter-school chain it can’t keep administrator salaries secret<br />This is the same charter-school chain, Charter Day School, Inc., that ProPublica wrote about last month. As we reported, the four charter schools channel millions in public education dollars each year to for-profit companies owned by the schools' founder, businessman Baker Mitchell. One of the for-profit companies, Roger Bacon Academy, is paid to run all the day-to-day operations of the schools. As we wrote:<br /><br /> On his blog and in earlier interviews with ProPublica, Baker Mitchell has maintained that private companies operating charter schools should not have to be transparent about their financials or publicly disclose what they pay their employees.<br />http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/north-carolina-tells-charter-school-chain-it-cant-keep-administrator-salaries-secret/comments/#disqus <br /> <br />Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-75023241987902197452014-11-08T09:58:46.002-08:002014-11-08T09:58:46.002-08:00Beware when the Devil speaks the truth, since it&#...Beware when the Devil speaks the truth, since it's most certainly done in service of an even bigger lie.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01349055478660640716noreply@blogger.com