[naturalauction]

The reason congress included this provision is because of the widespread misuse of public funds than comes along with for-profit contracts for charter schools. Along with the Gulen schools mentioned below, another example are BASIS schools.

"Basis contracts with Basis.ed to provide the educational services at its schools. The public school company gives 71 percent of its tax dollars to the private company, according to a Basis audit filed with the state Charter Board.

Basis.ed then pays its teachers. But it doesn't use all the Arizona money for teacher pay.

According to an agreement between Basis Schools and Basis.ed, the Blocks' private firm keeps 11.75 percent of all school revenues — state, federal and local tax dollars — for management fees." [0]

BASIS teachers were underpaid compared to otherteachers in the state.

While the schools themselves may be good (charter schools can be exceptionally selective in the students they take/don't kick out), it reeks of misappropriation of tax dollars that should be used for educating children.

[0] https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education...

[jl2718]

They have the legal right to remove problems from the school environment. That’s huge. And they aren’t beholden to ideology. That’s also huge. They can be as inefficient as they want; they can do absolutely nothing for the kids except accompany minors so their parents can work, and they’ll still achieve better outcomes than the damage done by exposure to the public school system.