Here's just a start on some of the heat generated by the release of findings for all charter schools last month.
According to an Arizona Republic analysis of data from the state charter board, Charter operators representing 138 of the state's 538 charter schools showed financial warning signs in the 2016-17 school year.
According to an Arizona Republic analysis of data from the state charter board, Charter operators representing 138 of the state's 538 charter schools showed financial warning signs in the 2016-17 school year.
"These schools' operators failed three of four quantifiable measures reported in their financial performance dashboards, which rate charters' financial health using metrics including how much cash they have on hand and whether they made more money than they spent.
Charter holders of 62 schools failed all four measures, including 18 schools run by Edkey Inc. that lost a total of $2.6 million last year. . .
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Let's stop right there and put EdKey into a hyper-local political perspective to show you, dear readers, the close association of politicians and education here in Mesa when aspiring candidate Jerry Lewis (a good friend of John Giles) campaigned for election in 2016 to the Mesa City Council in District 3 was immediately endorsed by both the current mayor John Giles and former mayor Scott Smith at the same time he declared his candidacy - he runs Sequoia Charter Schools that are owned by EdKey). At one episode in his unsuccessful campaign, at the invitation of the mayor to appear in front of the Mesa City Council meeting, he introduced himself as "a businessman".
So too does another Mesa politician calls himself "a businessman" who's amassed a personal fortune - AZ Senator Bob Worsley, who's the champion of taxpayer-funded vouchers to pay for what's called "Parental Choice" in public education that pays for charter schools. Recently, he came out publicly as a private real estate speculator here in downtown, gambling and betting what he says is $20 million dollars at the same time holding an elected public.
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Here's more of the analysis that was published on 09 May:
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