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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been saying this for over a year and everyone has ignored me.[/quote]

Just like Options and some other Charters, the oversight is lax and [b]anybody can open up a school,[/b] but then again Rhee was wholly unqualified to run a school district and the council just ran with it. Sadly, a lot of DCUM concerns that most people pay attention to are those that affect the children of those WTOP. Look at the posts that get the most hits!!![/quote]

There's a reason that a lot of these issues are cropping up at the oldest charters, those that were approved under the old Board of Education.  The BOE's chartering authority was taken away because they were doing such a poor job of approving and monitoring charters.  All of these schools got swept under the PCSB's oversight, which has improved quite a bit in the last few years.  Is it perfect?  Of course not.  But the recent changes, especially to the approval process, have helped things considerably.  It did use to kind of be that "anybody can open up a school", but that's not the case anymore- in the last few years the PCSB has only approved something like 30% of the applications.

And for those who thing this sort of thing is about charters or about DC, you really don't know your history.  This stuff has been going on in every form of government (and big business!) since time immemorial.  If you think it's tied to home rule, go take a look at Chicago politics, or Louisiana.  There is no shortage of corrupt political leaders and hangers-on anywhere in this country, or the world.[/quote]

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