Charter Schools fail to block public, ordered to reveal how they spent taxpayer money!

Charter schools are trying break free from the chains of public accountability, by claiming taxpayer money is theirs once paid, and therefore what they do is no longer public.

And conservatives complain about how our public schools and teachers aren’t accountable? Again, this is another warning, and only the start of our journey down the road to the for profit takeover.

EducationWeek: An Ohio judge has ordered a for-profit charter school company to turn over a wide range of financial documents to a group of schools it operates, ruling that "public money must be accounted for."

A collection of schools in the Cleveland and Akron area have been seeking to have the company, White Hat Management, turn over records pertaining to the management of those schools. The company has fought the schools' request for more information about its finances, arguing that the public funds the schools receive from the state are no longer public after they've been paid to White Hat as "monthly continuing fee," according to the court document.

But Franklin County Judge John F. Bender said that even though White Hat and its associated school operators are private corporate entities, they are also "public officials," in that they have received public money and been authorized to operate public schools.

 So instead of public transparency, they had to be ordered by a court. This is our educational future.