New report: Charter schools great at making money for private business, not much else [View all]

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/10/1458969/-New-report-Charter-schools-great-at-making-money-for-private-business-not-much-else

The best part? You don’t have to pay those dumb teachers jack squat!

The report also contends that labor costs at charter schools tend to be unusually top-heavy, as EMO executives conserve funds by hiring young, relatively inexpensive staff — and then add the savings to their own salaries.

“Early studies of charter schools in Pennsylvania found charter teacher annual salaries to be on average $18,000 lower than teacher salaries in district schools,” the report said. In contrast, top EMO heads can draw comfortable six-figure salaries, the report said. Eva Moskowitz, a high-profile New York charter advocate and CEO of the city’s Success Academy network of charter schools, was found in the report to earn more than $475,000 annually.

And when you consider that charter schools don’t perform better than increasingly underfunded and unsupported public schools, it’s a perfect study in evil.