The Naples Daily News is doing a comprehensive piece on the failure of charter schools and this has come on the heels of the Sun Sentinel and League of Women voters studies saying the same thing.
http://interactive.sun-sentinel.com/charter-schools-unsupervised/
The evidence is both damning and mounting but it has not stopped the state board of education from continuing with their plans to make it easier for charter schools to expand.
It doesn’t make any sense but in Florida we just call that Tuesday. Another thing that flies in the face of decency is Florida is planning to make it more difficult for poor and mostly minority students to get bright futures scholarships. Not only have we cut funds to bright futures but now we are ratcheting up the requirements too.
I am happy that we are no longer paying for students who aren't college ready to attend college. Most who scored a 970 either dropped out or flunked out. I would rather they give money to districts to hire more teachers, so I don't have 34 in a classroom. It has nothing to do with poverty and race. It has everything to do with aptitude and effort.