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May 30th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
In cities like Los Angeles, charter schools have taken over , with more than 100,000 students making up the second largest school-district in the country and calling for more than $500 million to maintain.
The problem is in a decade there is a real possibility that public school attendance will have dwindled down to non-existence, leaving charter schools as the only option for education.
Across the country, charter schools have caused “a tipping point” within school districts such as Detroit where financing isn’t available and students are moving to the alternative.
For the last twenty years, charter schools have enjoyed a steady rise in enrollment with more than 2.6 million students across the country attending the public school alternative since 2014.
In cities such as Orlando and Las Vegas, overcrowding in public schools is a problem; however charter schools are being sold to parents as a way to achieve quality education while shifting tax dollars from public to charter.
As far as the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) is concerned, if “the district is not serving the needs of their students” then district leaders should migrate funds to charters.
And while this sounds like a good idea, if public schools close down (like in Los Angeles), there is “going to be collateral damage” because charters have a habit of weeding out the “undesirables”.
Earlier this year, the Department of Education (DoE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) revealed that African American students are 4 times more likely to be suspended from a charter school than their Caucasian counterparts.
And for students with disabilities, they are suspended from charter schools 2 to 3 times more often than non-disabled students.
Whether it is a minor infraction or not, charter schools are showing a propensity toward bias – even at the preschool level.
This research was conducted by the Center for Civil Rights Remedies (CCR) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and it puts a spotlight on the “no excuses” codes for conduct and behavior associated with charter schools.
From 2011 to 2012, charter schools suspended 7.8% of their student body. Children with disabilities were suspended 15.5%; however when it comes to extremes, 235 charter schools had suspended more than 50% of their disabled students.
For perspective, 40% of high school levels were suspending more than 10% of their African American student body for 4 or more infractions.
The researchers noted: “This raises questions about whether charter schools may be violating civil rights law by not reporting the data on whom they exclude from school on disciplinary grounds. One can reasonably infer that, like noncharter schools, there are likely many effective charter schools that reserve suspension as a measure of last resort.”
In states like Indiana, charter schools are demanding more and more taxpayer funding.
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