| Here is an example of how the fraud of charter schools is perpetrated in OHIO. Ravitch asks: "Where have the state watchdogs been while Imagine Charters have profited handsomely with taxpayer dollars? Where has the media been!" The Toledo Blade reports: "The charter school Imagine School for the Arts is paying rent of nearly $1 million a year on a downtown building with the education funding it gets from the state!"The state of Ohio and its oversight have been asleep at the wheel. If you look at the Imagine schools and the annual rents, they are outrageous," said Brian Rothenberg, executive director of ProgressOhio in Columbus. "These for-profit management corporations have become profiteers! ProgressOhio receives union funding, as though that changes the facts. No, it does not. " And the state won't investigate!, Read on, because the fraud is coming to your school district... |
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have additional Master' Degrees in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side Middle School, which (more...)