In honor of School Choice Week. In Kansas, we have school choice. We don’t need expansion to multiple charter authorizers that encourages the creation of charter schools that take public tax dollars without adequate protections. Here’s an example from our next door neighbor of what happens all too frequently.

“Attorney General Chris Koster said in a statement released Monday that Hope Academy ‘failed to live up to its promises in educating the children in its school.’ The suit his office filed Friday in Jackson County Circuit Court calls for the school and two former employees to account for all money received from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. It also demands ‘any relief that is just is proper…’

“The suit said the school reported a 97.9 percent attendance rate when the actual rate was closer to 30 percent. The inflated attendance boosted the school’s budget because charter schools, like traditional public schools, receive state funding based on student enrollment and attendance.”

http://www.kmbc.com/news/missouri-sues-closed-kc-charter-school-for-37m/37629082