{"id":503,"date":"2006-04-09T19:18:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T23:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=503"},"modified":"2006-04-09T19:18:34","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T23:18:34","slug":"65-percent-and-charter-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"65 Percent and charter schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a thought after reading a story on high profit margins<\/a> of so-called EMOs (private companies that manage charter schools or public schools under contracts): What would the 65-percent proposal<\/a> do to private management of schools? The great irony of Florida Governor Bush’s attempt to resurrect vouchers in Florida is that attaching the requirement that 65% of funds be spent in the classroom, as the item designed to draw voter approval for whatever is attached to it (last week the lifting of cap sizes in Florida but this week Gov. Bush’s favored voucher program<\/a>), would make private management of any school virtually impossible without further stripping services.
\nAlready as it is, I suspect the 65-percent solution would easily fall in Florida, either because Florida voters generally disapprove of the vouchers<\/a> to which it’d be attached or because there are a few non-classroom expenses that parents really value (some especially in Florida): air conditioning, buses and bus drivers (hey, wait a second—don’t you need transportation to have a public-choice program?), security officers, janitors, nurses, and so forth. Imagine the first line of several radio ads this fall:<\/p>\n