re: Who pays for all the charter schools around BR and NOLA?

I went to a charter school; it was a public school with a district. I had to live in the district to go.

Now I don't know how it works down here but basically, we were just a good public school that was granted it. And I loved it, we didn't have to move to block scheduling like the other schools and every Wednesday was a half day for all students. So, by the time I was an SR, every Wednesday was really a quarter day since I was already on half days.

I have been several times to the three Idea schools in Baton Rouge. Mostly black kids and discipline is high. In between classes they line up and walk down the hallway and zero talking.

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Did not say ALL only SOME are doing this.

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Seems it happens quite a bit:

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Another big donor from the charter school world, giving for the first time this cycle, is from a sister company of Charter Schools USA, a Fort Lauderdale-based, for-profit charter school network, known as EduServe Inc. It has given $2,500 each to incumbents Dyason and Gaudet as well as District 1 incumbent Mark Bellue. Charter Schools USA operates South Baton Rouge Charter Academy, which is chartered through the parish school system.

That charter school and its sister school Iberville Charter Academy have come under scrutiny recently after state-hired auditors concluded that Iberville Charter has been improperly charging what amounts to tuition to students at seven remote learning pods spread across the state in addition to the per pupil funding those students receive. Representatives of the charter school have aggressively disputed the audit, saying the charges were not tuition but legitimate fees and that the audit is “of no value and should be discarded.”

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The Advocate (use bypass paywall to read if needed)

And original article concerning the auditors report: The Advocate