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re: A $17m charter school built on Plank Road in NBR is officially closing after just 3 years
Posted on 1/8/25 at 6:35 am to SPEEDY
Posted on 1/8/25 at 6:35 am to SPEEDY
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A $17m charter school built on Plank Road in NBR is officially closing after just 3 years
The charter and voucher industry is a scam to steal tax dollars
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Posted on 1/8/25 at 6:37 am to dgnx6
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Your demographics are the problem. Not charter schools
Always comes back to this.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 6:50 am to The Boat
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Like a grocery store they probably stole everything from it.
They had an "excellence academy" in Monroe, too.
After the grant money us stolen there's no reason to stay open.
Ironical, it was in an old Dixie Bedding and Furniture store building.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 6:55 am to dgnx6
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Your demographics are the problem. Not charter schools.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 8:46 am to EZE Tiger Fan
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Wonder where the funds went.
To the executive management of the "non-profit".
Posted on 1/8/25 at 8:59 am to LSUFanHouston
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Privatizing government services rarely works
Government doing anything never works.
Can we shut down all the public schools in EBR not just this one? They all suck, they’re all horrible and if you teach or “administer” one you are stealing my tax dollars.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 9:52 am to SPEEDY
Can they move the buildings to St George?
Posted on 1/8/25 at 10:45 am to jeffsdad
Would it be possible to treat charter schools just like any other private business? What I mean is the ownership/investors would take all of the risks and front all of the required capital until results are proven. Investors build the school....educate the students...and only get paid by the state based upon standardized tests scores. If the students don't perform...the investors don't get paid.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 1:06 pm to Crusty
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Would it be possible to treat charter schools just like any other private business? What I mean is the ownership/investors would take all of the risks and front all of the required capital until results are proven. Investors build the school....educate the students...and only get paid by the state based upon standardized tests scores. If the students don't perform...the investors don't get paid.
Not a bad idea in theory. In practice, the private corporations likely squeeze even more budget away from teaching students to up its lobby game and pressure legislators to pass lower standards.
The logic I don't follow by many in this thread is that demographics seem to be a common excuse for why the charter schools are unsuccessful.
Wouldn't that also be a reason public schools in those areas struggle?
Areas where parents are involved in their children's educations from early ages are the same ones where public schools tend to be pretty good too.
It just seems that charter schools offer no solution at all to root issues.
In the big picture, they seem to do little more than use public dissatisfaction and legislators (along with high ranking public school administrators) that enjoy lobby perks to allow them to "fix the problem" by taking more tax money and spending less of it on addressing the problem.
It would seem cheaper for regular taxpayers and better for the overall economy etc to just focus on improving the public schools.
This post was edited on 1/8/25 at 2:11 pm
Posted on 1/8/25 at 1:10 pm to SPEEDY
Calling a HS a Learning Academy, Leadership Academy or Charter School is like trying to shine a piece of shite and pass it off as artwork.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 1:24 pm to wm72
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Wouldn't that also be a reason public schools in those areas struggle?
If you refer to this screenshot that another poster shown, the list is a combination of charter and public schools with almost all of these in the same area of Baton Rouge.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 1:48 pm to ILurkThereforeIAm
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It was revealed that IDEA officials used public dollars to purchase luxury driver services as well as $15 million to lease a private jet, just two weeks after promising TEA it would be “strictly enforcing” new fiscal responsibility policies put in place in response to ongoing investigations, as reported by San Antonio Express-News.
Yes, some people just can't be fixed.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 2:03 pm to mt1
It's true. Daughter's basketball team played at the one in Cortana last year. For being a few years old, it looked like a dump. Exactly what you would expect it to look like. There's a certain section of people that don't know how or care about taking care of anything they touch.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 2:08 pm to TBoy
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The charter and voucher industry is a scam to steal tax dollars
What is the criteria to be voucher eligible in Louisiana? And how much do you get per year?
This post was edited on 1/8/25 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 1/8/25 at 3:18 pm to KosmoCramer
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What is the criteria to be voucher eligible in Louisiana? And how much do you get per year?
I see Louisiana has an income limit at 250% poverty level (so I guess around $100K for a family of five?) and students get $2500.
Florida, which has a huge voucher program, has no income limit and students get around $8000. Florida spends around $4 billion a year on it.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 4:06 pm to wm72
Ohio has a bifurcated system:
Any student regardless of income level can get a voucher if they would go to a school building that is deemed underperforming based on the metrics.
Or
If a family has less that 450% of the Federal Poverty Level of income can get a voucher regardless what school they would go to.
The scholarship amount is $6166 for grades K–8 and $8408 for grades 9-12.
Any student regardless of income level can get a voucher if they would go to a school building that is deemed underperforming based on the metrics.
Or
If a family has less that 450% of the Federal Poverty Level of income can get a voucher regardless what school they would go to.
The scholarship amount is $6166 for grades K–8 and $8408 for grades 9-12.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 5:48 pm to DrrTiger
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It’s almost like the school isn’t the issue. Huh.
Magic Schools Theory is a lot like Magic Dirt Theory in Immigration: simply moving kids to a shiny new building isn’t going to make them good students.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 6:00 pm to SPEEDY
Who thought putting something nice on Plank Road was a good idea? 
Posted on 1/8/25 at 6:11 pm to SPEEDY
Not that it matters but curious of the demographics of the school?
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