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This book is a forensic accounting analysis of the financial effects of twenty years of charter schools and vouchers on the publics investment in public education.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Perspective
Chapter 2: Carpetbagging Radical Reconstruction
Chapter 3: Rise of the Petty Academies
Chapter 4: Schools for the Adults
Chapter 5: The Road to Perdition
Chapter 6: Economic Theories in Use
Chapter 7: Mind Sets About Public Schools
Chapter 8: Schooling Alone
Chapter 9: Private Ownership of Public Assets
Chapter 10: Mission Failure: Academic Results
Chapter 11: Real Choice: Debunking the Rhetoric
Chapter 12: Teachers in the Charter and Private Systems
Chapter 13: Teacher Compensation in Charters
Chapter 14: Administrative Costs versus Classroom Spending
Chapter 15: Academic Red Flags
Chapter 16: Unsustainable Debt and Financing Irregularities
Chapter 17: Failure is not an Option
Chapter 18: Following the Money
Chapter 19: Choosing Profits over Children
Chapter 20: Selective Memory
Chapter 21: Running Schools for the Adults
Chapter 22: Choosing High Administrative Costs
Chapter 23: Inside Job: Real Estate Acquisitions
Chapter 24: Charter Law in Arizona
Chapter 25: Stand and Deliver Probe Vertically, See Horizontally
Chapter 26: Ideals versus Ideology
Chapter 27: Situational Ethics Public Money
Chapter 28: Overspending of Revenues AKA Net Losses
Chapter 29: Opportunism-Local Educational Opportunities are no longer Local, A Unique Meta-Analysis of the Financial Data
Chapter 31: Behavior Can Be Regulated
Chapter 32: The Essential Questions
Chapter 33: Money Talks
Chapter 34: Conclusions and Recommendations for Action
Addendum A
Access to Source Data
Limited Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
Curtis J. Cardine has served as a teacher, principal, corporate officer, and superintendent in New Hampshire public schools and Arizona charter schools. He is currently a research fellow for the Grand Canyon Institute, author and a nationally recognized expert on charter and public school finances and governance.
Summary
This book is a forensic accounting analysis of the financial effects of twenty years of charter schools and vouchers on the publics investment in public education.
