Carpetbagging America’s Public Schools
eBook - ePub

Carpetbagging America’s Public Schools

The Radical Reconstruction of Public Education

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eBook - ePub

Carpetbagging America’s Public Schools

The Radical Reconstruction of Public Education

About this book

Carpetbagging America's Public Schools probes the financial intrigue underlying the charter school industry. This book is a forensic accounting analysis of the financial effects of twenty years of charter schools and vouchers on the publics investment in public education. Written from an insider's perspective by an early advocate for charter schools, the work exposes the underbelly of the radical deregulation of our public schools.

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. 1 Perspective
  3. 2 Carpetbagging
  4. 3 Rise of the Petty Academies
  5. 4 Schools for the Adults
  6. 5 The Road to Perdition
  7. 6 Economic Theories in Use
  8. 7 Mind-Sets about Public Schools
  9. 8 Schooling Alone
  10. 9 Private Ownership of Public Assets
  11. 10 Mission Failure: Academic Results
  12. 11 Real Choice: Debunking the Rhetoric
  13. 12 Teachers in the Charter and Private Systems
  14. 13 Teacher Compensation in Charters
  15. 14 Administrative Costs versus Classroom Spending
  16. 15 Academic Red Flags
  17. 16 Unsustainable Debt and Financing Irregularities
  18. 17 Failure Is Not an Option
  19. 18 Following the Money
  20. 19 Choosing Profits over Children
  21. 20 Selective Memory
  22. 21 Running Schools for the Adults
  23. 22 Choosing High Administrative Costs
  24. 23 Inside Job: Real Estate Acquisitions
  25. 24 Charter Law in Arizona
  26. 25 Stand and Deliver: Probe Vertically, See Horizontally
  27. 26 Ideals versus Ideology
  28. 27 Situational Ethics
  29. 28 Overspending of Revenues AKA Net Losses
  30. 29 Opportunism
  31. 30 A Unique Meta-Analysis of the Financial Data
  32. 31 Behavior Can Be Regulated
  33. 32 The Essential Questions
  34. 33 Money Talks
  35. 34 Conclusions and Recommendations for Action
  36. Addendum A Access to Source Data
  37. Limited Bibliography
  38. Index
  39. About the Author