Despite record spending (even amid falling enrollments), test scores are plummeting and absentee rates are soaring.
One of the shining lights of California’s public-education system has been its charter-school system, which allows students in underperforming public schools to choose another option. Charters, of course, are taxpayer-funded schools, so they need to conform to the highest fiscal and ethical standards. But they shouldn’t be singled out for excessive scrutiny as a means to limit their expansion.
In 2021, two men who ran a charter school in San Diego pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy charges after they were accused of having “fake students on its rolls — resulting in the state providing $400 million in revenues for nonexistent students,” according to The Bond Buyer. As a result, the courts ordered the formation of a multi-agency task force to develop audit criteria to provide better oversight of charter-school dollars.
The task force will be led by Controller Malia Cohen, which is appropriate given the controller is responsible for overseeing the disbursement of state monies. We’re concerned, however, that the state is using the rare instance of charter malfeasance to clamp down on charter schools in general. In 2021, Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell — a close ally of the anti-charter California Teachers’ Association — introduced a bill that would have imposed overly stringent oversight rules on state charters.
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