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Furious teachers at a recently shuttered Detroit charter school were notified Wednesday that they won't be paid thousands of dollars they earned during the last school year.
"Last Friday, Matchbook Learning became aware that the holders of MTA's outstanding bond debt are refusing to allow use of funds for any summer payroll and instead, are requiring that any available funds be used toward payment of the bond debt," Matchbook's CEO Sajan George told teachers in the email. "We are disappointed and deeply saddened by this development because this means funds will not be there for July or August payroll."
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday July 28 2017, @08:39PM
If only quality education related to test scores somehow.
Where I live the school district itself kicked out a charter school for STEM on a 5 yr contract (so they're independent until they get their feet under them, and if they fail, no renewal...) Things turned out alright and they pushed their STEM-iness into the main district. I believe they lost their charter at that point.
Its the systems idea of how to work around the bug of excessive top heavy micromanagement. Instead of being micromanaged employees try a five year contract and see if you can do better (better as defined by meaningless tests, of course).
The main school district is so toxic to vocational education (everyone must do to uni or else!) that they also chartered a highly technical hands on field (trying not to drop docs, but lets say its well paid labor vocational work). Its interesting to see even big brother sees itself as incapable of vocational education, so here's a semi-independent contract school to try it.
Also there was a school of art experiment in the 00s where I live. I guess that folded or never got off the ground.
Anyway I thought it interesting that the local district has an attitude of "can't beat em? Join em!" toward charter schools. In fact I think the district's own charters in total exceed the population of the local catholic school system.
I wonder how they handle the legendary union and work rule related issues when a public school calves off into a charter school with most of the same employees. Must be interesting.