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To: wwwedu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: BBracey@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:32:37 EDT
Subject: Re: [WWWEDU] acceptable use of students in charter schools ?

A New Way of Fund Raising for Charter Schools Two Stories

Wednesday, April 21, 2004; 3:20 PM
PENSACOLA, Fla. - A charter school has been charged with fraud for allegedly
hiring out students to work on road projects during class time and taking a
share of their wages.
Students spent only an hour a day in school but were given classroom credit
for road work the rest of each day, according to court records. State law
requires students to spend 25 hours a week in class.
The Escambia Charter School accepted up to $140,000 from one state agency to
educate 140 students with academic or behavior problems and $250,000 from
another agency for putting them to work on jobs such as cleaning rights of way, 

prosecutor Russell Edgar said Tuesday.
The state Transportation Department paid the school $16.25 per hour for each
student's labor. The school then allegedly paid the students $10 an hour and
pocketed profits of about $40,000 a year, the prosecutor said.( whole story)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31563-2004Apr21?language=printer
Pensacola school charged with fraud for hiring out students
http://www.local6.com/education/3027750/detail.html
A state prosecutor says Escambia Charter School accepted up to 140-thousand
dollars from one state agency to educate 140 at-risk students and 250-thousand
dollars from another for putting them to work on such jobs as cleaning up
alongside roads.
Court records show students spent only an hour a day in school Monday through
Thursday but were given classroom credit for road work the rest of each day.
Charter schools are privately run but get public money
Bonnie Bracey
bbracey@ aol.com

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