Taking public money without public oversight has long been a most lucrative corporate welfare scam of the corporate reform school industry. Charter CEOs have always wanted it both ways: they are public when looking to collect from taxpayers to fund their segregated businesses, and they are always private when it comes to demanding total autonomy and zero accountability for the oppressive and abusive conditions that exist in the No Excuses chain gangs.
Yesterday the Washington State Supreme Court said No Mas!
Yesterday the Washington State Supreme Court said No Mas!
After nearly a year of deliberation, the state Supreme Court ruled 6-3 late Friday afternoon that charter schools are unconstitutional.
The ruling — believed to be one of the first of its kind in the country — overturns the law voters narrowly approved in 2012 allowing publicly funded, but privately operated, schools.
Eight new charter schools are opening in Washington this fall in addition to one that opened in Seattle last year.
It was not immediately known what would happen with charter schools that have already enrolled students. . .
