Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The point of charter schools is to discriminate. It is why they exist. They may also make money, but they exist only for the purpose of discrimination.
Sometimes it is racial discrimination. Mostly it is discrimination against physically and mentally handicapped kids.
The ones into it for the money are often simple to see. They don’t offer high school. High school education is expensive. Grade schools are the “profit centers”.
Obviously charters almost never - and I mean actually never but I can’t say there are not 1 or 2 in the country that focus on providing education to physically and mentally handicapped students. Handicapped kids are very expensive to educate. God bless the schools and districts that work hard to provide as good as education as possible for those kids. It might easily be $150K a kid.
My approach would be easy: if a charter school wants public funding then they must either educate the same proportionate share of the kids with handicaps and learning disabilities as the traditional public schools in the same geographic area the charter school is located, or the charter school must pay the offsetting cost to the public school district that is educating those kids. So, for example, let’s say a charter school is located in school district “A”. And, let’s say the public high school serving in area “A” has 25% of its students qualifying in some way under IDEA. While the our hypothetical charter has 5% of its students qualifying under IDEA. Add up the direct non-federally reimbursed costs incurred by each school, and have the one pay the other 50% of the expense. Kids get needed services. Costs are appropriately shared. Obviously if the charter school takes on more handicapped kids they pay out less money.
People could argue that spending $150k of taxpayer money on one kid is discriminating against all the other kids.
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