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Here’s another example of scandals Kansas doesn’t have. “But [Ohio Auditor Dave] Yost says the rest of the findings raise serious questions. ‘I’m really kind of speechless at everything we found. It’s quite a morass.’ “Six schools had attendance discrepancies of 52 percent or worse, including one Youngstown school that claimed an enrollment of 95, but had zero students the day auditors visited. In Franklin County, Capital High School was of most concern, with a stated enrollment of 298 students. Auditors found 142- a difference of 52 percent.” http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2015/01/22/columbus-ohio-state-auditor-finds-problems-during-head-count-for-charter-schools.html...

Here’s another example of what we don’t want in Kansas. “A federal judge in Missouri has ordered a charter school operator to pay nearly $1 million to the board of Renaissance Academy in Kansas City for saddling the school with unreasonably high lease payments. “The ruling against Imagine Schools Inc. deals with the kind of relationship that existed with charter schools in St. Louis, where critics also alleged that the company benefitted at the expense of students.” http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/judge-orders-kansas-city-charter-school-operator-to-pay-nearly/article_8cff1bc9-9cbf-57d6-ae09-c25a2f82ea3a.html...