Almost all our information are from the local newspapers. I don't know if they are tabloids, but I guess that they dont like a lawsuit.
The charter school situation in Milwaukee can be described with one word: Chaos!
On our own wiki we have three articles (they will be copied to Fornits Wiki once they are finished)
Milwaukee Leadership Training CenterRight StepLaBrew Troopers Military University SchoolWe are talking teenagers working in daylight because they cannot afford power. Several school with several cases of abuse. No requirement for licensed teachers or even oversight to ensure the quality throughout the year. Only when they after the exam shows their shortcoming they are fired. Some schools dont even have teachers because they cannot afford paying them. The students use the time to fight and the police have to close them for the day.
State orders private school out of choice program, By ALAN J. BORSUK, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Jan 28, 2005 (reprint)
Police were called Monday to one of two buildings operated by Academic Solutions, a large, one-story building at 4055 N. 34th St. with almost no windows and corrugated metal exterior walls.
The DPI order said that police were told by students that no teachers had been present all day because teachers had not been paid. In their absence, several students in a classroom began fighting.
One teacher continued to work with children while he was on trial for abuse. He was aquitted because the vitnesses dissapeared.
I know that charter school can result in fewer expenses for the city, but without regulation it will end up in Chaos. Look at Sweden. They have charter schools but they are highly regulated and it result in cheap but good quality education.
