{"id":180165,"date":"2017-07-04T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/04\/and-today-in-charter-school-corruption\/"},"modified":"2017-07-04T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T02:09:00","slug":"and-today-in-charter-school-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/04\/and-today-in-charter-school-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"And Today in Charter School Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kipp Schools, the star of the hagiography <i>Waiting for Superman<\/i>, has <a href=\"https:\/\/dianeravitch.net\/2017\/07\/03\/kipp-houston-rips-off-poor-parents\/\">been caught ripping off poor parents by demanding illegal fees<\/a>, and when caught they refused to refund them: <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Charter schools claim they are public schools. They are not. What public school is part of a corporate chain? What public school operates for profit? What public schools charges fees for service? <\/p>\n<p>The KIPP schools in Houston <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/education\/article\/KIPP-schools-collected-millions-in-unallowable-11257006.php\">have been charging fees to poor parents. <\/a>Now that the scam has been exposed, KIPP refuses to refund the money to parents who need the money far more than the multi-million dollar KIPP organization does. KIPP [should] ask its patron, the rightwing Walton Family Foundation, for a few more dollars, enough to reimburse the needy families that it ripped off. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Supporters of school privatization will claim that this is an aberration.&nbsp; It isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>This is a natural and foreseeable consequence of applying the for-profit business model to a public good.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about maximizing profit on while being paid by the taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>This is a feature, not a bug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kipp Schools, the star of the hagiography Waiting for Superman, has been caught ripping off poor parents by demanding illegal fees, and when caught they refused to refund them: Charter schools claim they are public schools. They are not. What public school is part of a corporate chain? What public school operates for profit? What &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[673,368,397,364,412],"class_list":["post-180165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-charter-schools","tag-corruption","tag-education","tag-evil","tag-privatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}