Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Perspective
Chapter 2: Carpetbagging Radical Reconstruction
Chapter 3: Rise of the Petty Academies
Chapter 4: Schools for the Adults
Chapter 5: The Road to Perdition
Chapter 6: Economic Theories in Use
Chapter 7: Mind Sets About Public Schools
Chapter 8: Schooling Alone
Chapter 9: Private Ownership of Public Assets
Chapter 10: Mission Failure: Academic Results
Chapter 11: Real Choice: Debunking the Rhetoric
Chapter 12: Teachers in the Charter and Private Systems
Chapter 13: Teacher Compensation in Charters
Chapter 14: Administrative Costs versus Classroom Spending
Chapter 15: Academic Red Flags
Chapter 16: Unsustainable Debt and Financing Irregularities
Chapter 17: Failure is not an Option
Chapter 18: Following the Money
Chapter 19: Choosing Profits over Children
Chapter 20: Selective Memory
Chapter 21: Running Schools for the Adults
Chapter 22: Choosing High Administrative Costs
Chapter 23: Inside Job: Real Estate Acquisitions
Chapter 24: Charter Law in Arizona
Chapter 25: Stand and Deliver Probe Vertically, See Horizontally
Chapter 26: Ideals versus Ideology
Chapter 27: Situational Ethics Public Money
Chapter 28: Overspending of Revenues AKA Net Losses
Chapter 29: Opportunism-Local Educational Opportunities are no longer Local, A Unique Meta-Analysis of the Financial Data
Chapter 31: Behavior Can Be Regulated
Chapter 32: The Essential Questions
Chapter 33: Money Talks
Chapter 34: Conclusions and Recommendations for Action
Addendum A
Access to Source Data
Limited Bibliography
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