Repeat Offenders Make Millions of Taxpayers Through Charters

The latest story of charter operators profiting from taxpayers comes from the Los Angeles Times.  Clark and Jeanette Parker quietly siphoned off taxpayer dollars by renting their own property for charter schools and approving their own actions.  The two most striking takeaways from this story for me were:

Bullis Charter: Update

So, in an interesting twist to the Bullis charter expansion school into a new the Mountain View Whisman School district previously discussed on this blog, today, the board of Bullis Mountain View (BMV) abruptly cancelled their plans to open the school in Fall 2019.  The Superintendent was surprised to hear of the board's decision.  He had been planning on meeting with them today.  The head of school Jennifer Anderson-Rosse cited the district making too restrictive demands such as enrolling students in the school to match the demographics of the district. She argued that imposing a quota was illegal.  Racial quotas are illegal.  The district asked for representation based on income.  In other words the school had to serve low-income students not just the wealthier kids in the city.  So, Mountain View stays charter free for the moment.