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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Follow the money and you'll understand why you don't have a chance.

The schools get their money based on enrollment. More students means more money. There's a long wait list for any halfway decent school, so there's generally someone to take your spot if you leave.

Now follow where that money goes. Charter schools are non-profit, so it's all clean, right?  Sometimes.  And sometimes the non-profit pays a for-profit management company to run the school or certain aspects of it.  No big deal, right? It's just subcontracting. It makes sense sometimes. And then other times the for-profit has close ties to the non-profit, or even has the same board members. And they get paid really well.

None of that is illegal, and is not even investigated or overseen by the DCPCSB, whose members are also sometimes involved with these schemes.  It doesn't even come to light unless there's a criminal investigation that uncovers it. See, for example, the scandal at CAPCS.

Your power as a parent is little to nothing. The financial interests rule.[/quote]

The schools most parents are complaining about in this thread (LAMB, MV) do not, infact, use charter management organizations. So the above is not that relevant to their particular version of dysfunction. [/quote]

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