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[quote=jsteele]People are anti-charter for a lot of reasons, but one of the most common reasons is the belief that charters are simply a method of siphoning off public money for private gain. The Washington Post's latest article about Kent Amos will certainly stoke such fears:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/judge-orders-dc-charter-to-stop-payments-to-company-founded-by-school-leaders/2014/10/27/83a8078c-5e1f-11e4-9f3a-7e28799e0549_story.html

"Federal tax returns show that Amos received about $1.15 million in income in 2012 from the private management company. In 2013, he received $1.38 million, including $103,000 that was paid to his wife. His stepson also earned about $167,000 that year."

Amos' private company was paid by Dorothy I. Height Community Academy Public Charter School, a charter school that Amos set up. This pattern of setting up a non-profit charter school which contracts with a for-profit management firm is not uncommon and an arrangement that definitely needs more oversight from the DCPCSB. This is exactly the sort of activity that will increase opposition to charters.
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