Two Miami-Dade charter schools lose funding

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/25/2471822/two-miami-dade-charter-schools.html


Miami-Dade school district officials say one school is not serving its special-needs students, and the other faces questions about its finances.


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The school district is withholding more than $185,000 from the Academy of Arts & Minds charter school in Coconut Grove because the school has failed to provide some services for children with special needs — a violation of state and federal law. Last month, the school, which has 460 students, was also slapped for illegally charging fees to students for basic classes.

The district also withheld $79,000 from the Balere Language Academy in South Miami Heights over questions about the school’s finances and staff. Last year, the school district found that the school, which now has 85 students, was in a “deteriorating financial condition,” requiring the school to draft a plan for recovery.

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charter schools are a racket

[mopinko]

1. a racket? more like accountable.

more like being sanctioned for failing to live up to rules that charter supporters have claimed all along that they would be held to.
i see this as a good thing.

[lindysalsagal]

2. Another scorched-earth GOP plan:

Step one: Destroy the established government program
Step two: Make alot of money quickly, even if it's unsustainable
Step three: Screw over the people you claimed to help
Step four: Obama's black. Foreign. Socialist.