Low enrollment, a new computer-based school model and low test scores are concerns for Wilmington City Councilman Mike Brown, who said Gov. Jack Markell's administration made a mistake when it picked K12 Inc., a Virginia-based for-profit education company, to run the school after the state Board of Education voted to revoke a local group's control.
"That's the one the governor swore to God he was going to change things around," Brown said. "That's the one where they rode in there on their white horse and said everything was going to be all right -- we got it under control, we got handpicked people, we got people who are HQT, highly qualified teachers. We got this, we got that, we got a whole lot. So, I'm still waiting on it."
That's City Councilman Mike Brown on K12's failure to attract enough students to meet the enrollment target at Moyer. Gov. Markell and DOE brought in K12 to manage the school in 2010. It was rated commendable at the time. K12 has also failed to post the mandated financials on the school website despite two state laws that demand such transparency.
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This is huge. Markell et al blew Moyer out of the water in exchange for the bragging rights on their RtTT application. We need to hold him accountable to the collapse of this neighborhood charter.
The legislators need to step in and demand full financial exposure on this Markell / K12.inc love affair! No financial oversight committee or financial reports as required by law. No board meeting minutes and even a list of board members.
Isn't there a conflict of interest on Moyer as well? The DOE is more closely involved with the school than is typical, but they also make up the Charter School Accountability Committee which is supposed to "police" the schools. They clearly aren't enforcing the rules that other charter schools recently in the news are being held to. Smells like conflict of interest to me.
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