[Durham INC] How to distiguish the motivation?

[Will Wilson]

Are charter schools allowed to exclude the "high-cost special needs" 
students? I'm thinking here about, say, those that might require special 
assistants or, even, those students needing free-lunches or 
free-breakfasts, or transportation to and from school? Or can charter 
schools restrict their "customers" to those that take the least expense? 
If they can restrict their client base in that way, they would be taking 
the "profitable" students that "subsidize" the higher cost students, and 
that would seem to put an unfair burden on the public schools that do 
their darndest to accommodate them, no?

Will

On 2/1/2012 1:17 PM, Christine Chamberlain wrote:
> 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
>
>
> ________________________________ From: Will
> Wilson<willwilsn at gmail.com> To: Christine
> Chamberlain<christinebbd at yahoo.com> Cc: inc
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> 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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