Here’s how charter schools are scamming the U.S. government and ripping off taxpayers

April 22, 2019 GlenAnderson Conservatism and Right Wing, Economics, Labor, Capitalism, Trade, Poverty (Also see Taxes), Examples of Parallax Views, Governmental Abuses, Local Government, Our Current Political Crisis (in addition to Trump and Trumpism), Young People 0

Conservatives keep wanting to “privatize” everything so businesses can make a lot of money by providing services that governments have been doing.  The experience has been that “privatized” services end up costing more and providing worse service.  Also, governments are accountable to voters, but businesses are not accountable.

This is true in our nation’s educational system too.  Vouchers and “charter schools” are vigorously promoted not only because they support capitalism instead of democracy, but also because they allow religious schools to grab taxpayers’ money without having to be fair to the students.  Some of these privately owned schools skim off the top and refuse to accept students with disabilities or students who are not yet proficient in English.  Some exclude LGBTQ students or students of the “wrong” religion or of no religion.

Research has proven that vouchers and “charter schools” do NOT produce better educational results.

Now new research is showing again that they rip off taxpayers and scam the government:

SEE ARTICLE AT THIS LINK.

And another article shows taxpayers have been ripped off for perhaps as much as $1 BILLION.

SEE ARTICLE AT THIS LINK.

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org