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NBC4 (WCMH-TV) Investigates: Taxpayers Left Holding Bill For Charter Schools
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"$1.4 billion has been spent since 2005 through school year 2012-2013 on charter schools that have never gotten any higher grade than an F or a D," Collins said.
Charter schools in Ohio are closing at record rates, and taxpayers are being left holding the bill.
In 2013, 17 charter schools in Columbus closed, joining 150 other charter schools around Ohio. It's a failure rate of 29 percent.
Nearly $30.5 million in tax money is still uncollected.
NBC4's Duane Pohlman: "So in the end, you're trying to get a collection that is virtually uncollectable?"
Dan Tierney, spokesman for Attorney General Mike DeWine: "That's correct."
According to the Ohio Department of Education:
Approximately 400 charter schools in the state: nearly 20 closed in 2013; 12 closed in 2012; 12 closed in 2011; 23 closed in 2010; 14 closed in 2009
According to Stephen Dyer, of Innovation Ohio, a the progressive public policy think tank,:
Charter schools are exempt from approximately 270 provisions of the Ohio Revised Code
State spends about 7200 dollars a pupil in charter schools
State spends about 3500 dollars per pupil in public schools
According to a recent Stanford Study (2013), since 2009 Ohio is 1 of 4 states whose charter schools have actually lowered its performance.
According to Mike Collins, of the Ohio Board of Education:
In 1998, $10 million was spent on the initial experiment of charter schools
Only about 10 percent of charter schools can be identified as successful
$187 million has been spent on closed charter schools that has not been retrieved