Sucks To Be Part Of The White Hat Brigade

Because Marc Dann's bringing the strongarm of the law against charter school's this week. It's like "shut down failing charter schools" month.

From a presser:

Citing a continued failure to educate children, Attorney General Marc Dann asked the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court to declare the Moraine Community School to be a failed charitable trust and to enjoin its governing body from further operating a charter school.

The Attorney General filed similar suits against two other Dayton-area community schools, Colin Powell Leadership Academy, and New Choices Community School last week in a drive to hold the state’s publicly funded charter schools accountable for their performance.

Dann's alleging the charter failed to achieve it's purpose of establishing a "high quality program" in which "all children will achieve success."

As proof, Dann pointed to four factors: 

Met only three of the 32 applicable indicators for school performance;

Amassed persistently dismal Performance Index Scores, averaging 66.1 our a possible 120, giving it an institutional GPA or “F”;

Failed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress standards for the past four school years;

Consistently lagged behind the performance of the West Carrollton City School District on State tests. 

West Carrollton was my high school's big rival when I was in high school (go burg!). Anyways, you have to be running a pretty crappy school to run behind WC...afterall, the students had a hard time paying attention when all their buildings were mold infested. 

Also - jumping back to the Columbus Mayoral race - I'd like to point out to Bill Todd and company the Performance Index score of this charter school...66.1%. Todd loves to advocate for these charter schools (and take their money). I just think it's interesting that this is the school model he's advocating for when the Columbus School District maintains an 80+% performance index. But it's all for the kids, right?