Federal government wasted millions of dollars on charter schools that never opened

[SummerMadness]

Federal government wasted millions of dollars on charter schools that never opened

More than 35 percent of charter schools funded by the federal Charter School Program (CSP) between 2006 and 2014 either never opened or were shut down, costing taxpayers more than half a billion dollars, according to a new report from an advocacy group that reviewed records of nearly 5,000 schools. The state with the most charter schools that never opened was Michigan, home to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

The report, titled “Still Asleep at the Wheel,” said that 537 “ghost schools” never opened but received a total of more than $45.5 million in federal start-up funding. That was more than 11 percent of all the schools that received funding from CSP, which began giving grants in 1995.

 

[Albion]

It will take 'some doing' to waste as much money on charter schools that never opened as has been wasted on the ordinary public schools that are open.

 

[A Realist]

The federal government is wasting money??

Say it ain't so!!

 

[HTacianas]

Federal government wasted millions of dollars on charter schools that never opened

Washington Post. Lowering their standards by the minute.

 

[grasping the after wind]

Federal government wasted millions of dollars on charter schools that never opened

Yet there are people that think it would be a good idea to give the federal government more power and control over even more things we desperately need to be efficiently run. The Peter principle has shown to be true of not only humans but of human institutions as well. The larger the government, the worse it will function and the less those running it will be held accountable.

 

[Hank77]

Where did the money go that was given to schools that never opened?

 

[Hammster]

Washington Post. Lowering their standards by the minute.

That’s a genetic fallacy. Ones opinion on a news source neither validates or disproves an article. Even the National Enquirer gets one right every now and again.

 

[JackRT]

Where did the money go that was given to schools that never opened?

One is left to wonder just how much got slipped into pockets along the way.