CHEF OF THE YEAR
MEDFORD PUBLIC ACCESS
Cooking the books at an Indiana charter schools
Posted By Max Brantley on Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Hmmmmm. Not that this could happen anywhere else, but, an AP exclusive from the New York Times:
There's compromise enough already to the accountability claims about charter schools in national studies, the New Orleans 'miracle' and abundant other evidence that charter schools put their raggedy pants on one leg at a time just like every other school.
... when it appeared an Indianapolis charter school run by a prominent Republican donor might receive a poor grade, [former Indiana School Superintendent Tony] Bennett's education team frantically overhauled his signature "A-F" school grading system to improve the school's marks.Bennett wrote that "anything less than an A" would compromise all the state's accountability work. How's that for irony.
There's compromise enough already to the accountability claims about charter schools in national studies, the New Orleans 'miracle' and abundant other evidence that charter schools put their raggedy pants on one leg at a time just like every other school.
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/07/29/cooking-the-books-at-an-indiana-charter-schools
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Cooking the Education Books?
Works of Mass Deception? (WMD) If you cook the books and hide the true number of drop outs in your high schools, it turns out you can inflate the bottom line much like Enron and some other corporations - especially if those students are your worst performers.
Eliminate the bottom of a class and test scores soar like any good Dotcom stock IPO.
The statistics are simple. The appearance of improvement is deceptive. The abandonment of children is apparent.
http://www.nochildleft.com/2003/sum03wmd.html
