[Durham INC] How to distiguish the motivation?

[Christine Chamberlain]

As long as they're successful in both situations, what does it matter?  It's free enterprise, something 
that should have been brought to the public school system decades ago.

I have to ask, have you read the news lately?  Bev says "we have no money for schools"  "I'll raise taxes to get more money for our schools"... headline after headline explaining how broke we are in regards to education.  Who in their right mind would think there was MONEY to be made running schools in NC?   Charter schools have to file lawsuits to force NC to hand over money due them.

For 15 years a check and balance has been in place, if a charter school is failing to do the job, they lose their charter.    If a franchise is making money and doing a good job, what on earth is there to complain about.  If a franchise is making money and doing a lousy job, they get closed down.  End of story.

 
Christine Chamberlain


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 From: Will Wilson <willwilsn at gmail.com>
To: Christine Chamberlain <christinebbd at yahoo.com> 
Cc: inc listserv <inc-list at durhaminc.org>; "inc-list at rtpnet.org" <inc-list at rtpnet.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Durham INC] Clarifying Melissa's clarification
 
Interesting. How does a person/community distinguish between these two 
situations: 1) a group of local citizens banding together to form a 
charter school, then seeking out a 'for-profit' firm to run it; and, 2) 
a 'for-profit' firm seeking to open franchises, and, as a part of doing 
business, seeking out a local franchisee to submit the paperwork?

In my mind these are two very different situations with very different 
primary motivations.

Thanks,
Will Wilson

On 1/31/2012 10:55 PM, Christine Chamberlain wrote:
> Hello Melissa,  It's confusing, yes.  Let me see if I can explain
> better, if you could just do a better job of reading my mind!
> (smile)
>
>
> The way the law was written, only non-profits based in NC can apply
> to to receive a contract (or "charter") from NC.
>
[snip]
>
>
> The people who are granted a "charter" get the money from the state
> to operate the school, and they choose how the school is run... they
> do it themselves or, as in the case of RTCA, they hire an outside
> business to hire/fire, etc, etc.
>
> Healthy Start Education, Inc operates Research Triangle Charter
> Academy.  They hired NHA to fulfill the charter.  You might speak
> with Liz Morey to get more information if my brief explanation hasn't
> cleared up the confusion.
>
> Christine Chamberlain
>
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