The Oakland based Civicorps Elementary school's board announced last week that it was closing down without any warning. Despite an offer of some teachers to take a pay cut the school was facing a $100,000 budget deficit and declining enrollment. It had about 150 students enrolled.
How long would we need to wait for the proposed charter petition, written by a group with no experience in education, and plagued by poor accounting projections and flawed education and administrative plans, to turn into a defunct charter school with far fewer students?
Let's save ourselves the years of trouble, wasted resources, animosity, and broken hearts and learn from the lessons of those who almost monthly are admitting that charters are a fraud whose time should never have come.
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