Tag: Charter Schools

An Authoritarian Education

I saw an author describing the J curve on TV a few years back.  I couldn’t find reference to the concept in an internet search, so I cannot give appropriate credit to the original author.  The gist of it is that to move from a dysfunctional to a functional government, an authoritarian system will only take you so

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Governmental Cost Recovery

I have heard the mantra again and again “we don’t make a profit” meaning, if we charge for services it’s only on a cost recovery basis. Yet I just read that Inyo COE charges a flat 7% to its charter schools for providing business services.  If a charter school now receives significantly more funding under the Local Control Funding Formula,

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